St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-25
A Symposium on the Eight-Hour Day to
be Published in the Globe
Next Sunday.
.winton, George, Jarrett, Hale, Adams,
O'Eeill, Scott and Kelley Among
the Contributors.
Minneapolis Laboring Men Indorse
the Short-Day Accommodation
City Notes.
ST. Paul Contractors Favor the Ten
Hour Day--Several Timely
Communications.
symposium OH the Eisht-Hour Day

Will be published in the GLOBE on Sunday,
Maya The symposium consists of:
history of the eight-hour movement
f-or the beginning; by Samuel Gompers,
president of the Federation of Organized
llaces and Labor unions for the promotion
of the eight-hour day; Richard J. Hinton,
late special agent National Bureau of Labor,
and journalist; also Mariner J. Kent State
StatiStician.
Snort articles (from one-fourth column to
one column in lengthy, by such writers as,
John Swinton, who has made a special
study of the labor problem during the last
thirty years.
Henry George, author of Progress and
Poverty, recognized as an able writer ION
both sides of the Atlantic.
John Jarrett, eX-presldent Amalgamated
Iron and Steel Workers, the strongest labor
organization in the United States. One of the
ablest writer's On the tariff, and is reported to
have combined with Andrew Carnegie to in
augurate an immense system of diStributiye
cooperation.
Joseph Gruenhut. author of Communism
or Anarchism, recorder of statistics, health
department, Chicago, Ill.
George Gunton, regarded aa being the COM
ing political economist; author of an article
on the eight-hour movement in April Forum.
Richard J. Hinton, late special agent ma
tonal bureau of labor; journalist.
Mariner j. Kent, statistician.
James Redpath, now managing editor North
American Review.
Edward Everett Hale. Mr.. Hale's article
was written in 1879. He holds the same views
to-day and wished this article TO be presented
in the symposium.
w. 7. Harris of Concord, Mass, formerly
editor of the Journal of Speculative Philoso-
ply in st. Louis, and well known in connec-
ton with the philosophical movements of the
past twenty years,
Henry c. Adams, professor of political
economy in Ann Arbor and Cornell universe
ties.
Hon. Henry NJ. Teller, Uuited States senator
from Colorado. Formerly secretary of the
interior
Hon. Frank Lawler, member house of rep
reSentatives, from Chicago, Illinois; at one
time president of the Ship Carpenters and Ship
Caulkers association; closely identified with
various labor movements.
Hon. J. b. Weaver, congressman from
Iowa. Candidate for the presidency of the
Greenback labor party six years ago.
Hon. Leland Stanford, United States sena-
tor from California.
Hon. c. c. Comstock. farmer, lumberman
and manufacturer; congressman from Mich
igan.
Hon ]. ]. O'Neil, of Missouri. Chairman
labor committee, house of representatives.
Hon. William D. Kelley, congressman from
Philadelphia, Pa, the ''NeStor' OF the United
States congress.
Hon. w. L. Scott, congressman from Penn
sylvania, is one of the largest employers in
the United States. He is an officer, or con-
nected with the management, as director, of
more miles of railroad than any man in the
world; he is a large owner and operator of
coal mines, owns rolling mills and is inter-
esued in other manufacturing establishments,
has vessels on the lakes, agricultural aud
stock farms, and is engaged in various other
extensive enterprises, requiring the labor of
thousands OF men. And many other
members of congress; also expressions of
opinion from leading manufacturers in New
England, New York, Pennsylvania Illinois,
etc. Besides the list given above there will
be many others prominent in labor matters,
leading thinkers and public men generally,
who will contribute in time for publication.