St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-21
MINNEAPOLIS COMMENT.
Labor Organizations in Connec-
ton With the Strike.

ton With the Strike.
Industrial agitation has been wide
spread for the last ten days. The strike
of street. railway employees and the con-
sequent SkirmiShes on different lines
have filled the newspaper columns and
public sympathy is aroused to an extent
that has hitherto been deemed impoSsi-
BILE III this conservative city; but its eff
feet upon organized labor has been
equally startling, although not so APP
parent to the casual observer.
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The ladies are ardent champions of the
employees. Last Monday evening delegates
met representing more than five hundred
sewing girls employed in factories and shops.
The girls had no ready money at hand, but
passed resolutions expressing their hearty
sympathy and an earnest determination to
walk as long and as much as might be neces
sary before the matter is settled. This resell
ution is a forcible one when it is considered
that nearly all of these girls have to walk
long distances and work hard in order to
average $3.50 per week. Every day at noon
the sewing girls have put i'll their spare time
endeavoring TO persuade the new men to
leave the cars, and if fund for employees is
started are willing to contribute all they can
spare from their meager wages.
The Ladies' Protective association held a
large meeting on Wednesday evening" and
contributed a check for 500 to aid the
strikers. Some of the members of this as
ISOLATION were concerned in the Shotwell
Clerihew IL Lothman strike of year ago,
and now seized the first opportunity of re-
paying their debt of gratitude for the money
and assistance rendered TO them by labor
organizations at that time. This 500 was
accumulated from entertainments and sup
J pers given by the ladies during the winter,
but it was freely contributed, and will prob
| ably be followed by more should it be needed.
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The ladies of North Minneapolis have sym
! pathized with the strikers in a manner some
| times forcibe rather than artistic but they
| are in earnest and are raising an assistance
| fund by voluntary contributions. 1t was in
| tended to hold an open air meeting Friday
| afternoon SO that these ladies could pass res
| olutions and give tangible form to the feel
/ ings which stirred them. but Chief Bracket
| was of the opinion that such apparently in
nocent action might cause riot so the mat
| ter was dropDed. However, the ladies have
| decided to form an ASSOCIATION, and will
| meet at the G. A. Il. hall, Twentieth avenue
north and Washington Monday evening.
! All who take an interest in such matters are
| invited to be present. Amusical progra mme
will be presented and good speakers will be
| in attendance.
The Ladies' Protective association have a
| pretty dining room with a kitchen and range
| attached. whlchlthey have generously allowed
| to be utilized as restaurant for those nom
| union men who were induced to leave cars.
| The favor is appreciated by the street railway
boys, and will not be forgotten.
~
The plumbers and gasfitters' association
| also voted 500, and promise every dollar in
| their treasury to aid the street railway en-
| ployes. This is generous action i'll itself,
| but appears still more so when one reflects
! that the plumbers are only recently organ
necessarily
| portunities for raising FUNDS than older or
i CARNATIONS, and the gift is fully appreciated.
The North Star Labor club on Thursday
| evening contributed $50 and the promise OF
as much more as might be necessary to carry
| on the struggle.
| The members of Typographical Union No
% are practical people, and think the estab.
| lishment of a line or herdics will be power
| full competitor of scab street car service. Mr.
| Tiff explains that ''herdic" is conveyance
similar to a bus, only more comfortable and
| easier to keep in repair. The committee ap
| pointed last Thursday evening are working
| hard to form a stock company on a sound
financial basis, in order to start this line
| within few weeks. An inquiry among diff
| ferent organizations shows that the plan i:
popular, and will be aided by them. Thi:
ladies, the sewing girls, and others who may
want to boycott the cars. All opportunity tt
show their devotion to principle withou
polishing the asbestine pavement with shoe
leather.
The social science institute last Sunday
evening discussed the street railway fran
chise from every conceivable standpoint
! The trades unioniSt the Il. of l.. man, the
university student, individualist. socialist, re
tired merchant, single tax enthusiast anC
| every other shade of thought was represent
| ed; consequently no definite conclusion wa
reached. The discussion, to put it mildly
was animated. Next Sunday evening another
meeting will be held.
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Mrs. Marietta NJ. Bones, of Webster OAK,
prominent member of the National Associa
ton of Women Suffragists, came to Mime
apolis last Thursday to attend to private
business. Her attention was necessaril.
called to the street Car strike. She impair
tally interviewed scabs and policemen
wherever found, and on Friday afternoon
! came down to the Labor Temple and deliv
cred stirring address to number of EN-
ploycs who happened TO be present Her re
marks were well received, and the boys wer
| only sorry that the lady couldn't stay to ad
dress mass meeting in the evening.
| ~
Mrs. Bones is brunette, of medium heigh
| and plump figure. Her brown eyes have thu
| alert expression of one who has seen man,
types of human nature. The lady has hus
band and family to whom she is devOtedly
| attached. But she still finds time to stud!
the economic and social condition of man!
of her sex, and any injustice to working
| man or woman is passport to her sympath.
| and assistance.
TRADES AND LABOR.