The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
sEGARS AND LABORING MEN.
The Yellow LabeI friumphs Over the
Blue in the Trades Assembly.

The Yellow LabeI Griumphs Over the
Blue in the Trades Assembly.
The session of the Central Trades As
sembly last night was not as harmonious
as it might have been. The old fight be-
tween the Knights aud the Trades Union
lists, which, it was hoped, had been laidto
rest for good, broke out again with re-
newed vigor. Cigars caused the wrang-
ling, and there was a knight of Labor
cigarmaker in the chair.
j. Knerr, of the Pocahontas Assembly,
opened hostilities by moving that the
members of the Trades Assembly pledge
themselves to patronize no merchant
dealing in cigars unless the yellow
Knight of Labor label is attached.
The recording and putting OF this reso-
luton brought the printers delegates to
their feet, and Edwin Dickson. OF Typo
graphical Union No. "a, moved that the
delegates pledge themselves to patronize
only places where the blue label or K. of
L. yellow seal cigars are sold.
Joseph Hamilton preferred to smoke a
blue label cigar, because the Information
al Cigarmakers had always helped the
printers. while the Knights had never
rendered them any assistance.
James Bowling believed that this cigar
matter was simply q local fight between
two rival organizations.
Il. klerT SdlQ tDdL Liz ~. Vi L.. Cl&dI-
makers did not want fight, but justice.
| Since the institution of the Pocahontas
| Assembly they had advanced prices ten
| per cent. and they wanted TO keep those
prices up.
Adolph Zoller said hat if the Assembly
| did not want to stand by its friends the
sooner it disbanded the better. The pres
ent price list of the K. of l.. cigarmakers
in the city was the biggest. and If the
prises were anything to go by, the Inter
nationals were the "scabs."
John McManus believed it vas only
fair to give the K. of l.. cigarmakers their
undivided support at the present time, as
luternationals would not lend their u
sci or support to the Assembly.
! Richard j. Allen charged the lnterna-
| tionals with being more disruptionists
| than anything else, while the knights of
Labor by their acts had proven them
selves the best unionists
Henry C. Gruber reviewed the connec-
ton Of the Internat!onals with the
Assembly and then went On to
Stow that the Knights had helped the
| printers. In Washington they had Sc
| cureQ higher wages tor the plate printers
and helpers in the Bureau OF Printing
and Engraving ana J issuing Mutuat
Aad THE JERSEY CITY NEWS had been
placed upon the customs list as a union
Office, and that, 100. without any solicita-
| ton on the part Of the printers.
INFAYoR OF K. OF L.
After a good deal more talk the ques-
! ton was put to the vote. ana resulted IN
| the defeat OF the substitute to the motion,
! only four delegates voting in favor OF it,
while a number refrained from voting.
Thus the Assembly declared itself in
favor of X. o. l.. cigars only
Joseph Fullem offered a melton which
was adopted, asking the Board Of Street
and Water Commissioners-to award their
z1-rraofc "a rNnfrHRfn~a WIN, Gn1niNVPd
! union laborers, and paid them at least
81 a day for ten hours work. and that
union PAYERS be employed when needed
at union rates.
John Mccain moved to ask the Legis-
lature TO appropriate sulnclent sum OF
money to establish a night school in chs
city for young men and women who labor
during the day
This motion was seconded and carried,
and Messrs. Mccain, Downing and Stuart
were appointed n committee to draw up
q resolution on the subject for presenta-
ton to the State Legislature.
SOME WITHDRAWALS.
Notices of withdrawal from the Assem-
b,y were read from the Building Trades
Council and the Tin and Sheet Iron
Workers. Action OF these was deferred
till the next meeting.
The report of the committee appointed
TO draw up the friendly employers circu
lar was not received with unailoyed sat
isfaction. it WAS embodied in the form
of a Jersey City edition OF h MNtiial
did Register, a paper issued under the
the auspices Of the X. of L Cooperative
Board, in Newark. TIE JERSEY CITY
NEWS has q place on its united customs
list rs Il union pr.ntery, and as such :
recommended to the patrons Of organized
labor.
Mrs. Frances b. Norris, who is well
known rs a temperance lecturer, viii
give a lecture at Humbolt Hall on New
ark avenue. tomorrow night. The sub
iect is Contrasts The admission fee
will be fifteen cents.
McGinty at ii again. Christie's Grand
Royal and Pointers Cigars bring him up ano
give him life.