St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-05
The Majority of the Working
mems Organizations De-
q clare That Way.
Resolutions Indorsing His
Manly Stand on Their
Platform.
The Second Danz Concert Sc
ries Has an Auspicious
Opening.
A Man in Custody Who Poses
as a Jim the PEN
man.

At labor headquarters yesterday aft
ernoon the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. club
met. and discussed matters in relation
to the coming municipal contest. Every
trade was represented. The club is the
OutgrOWth of the split i'll the Working
mems Municipal Reform association.
1t was decided that each member act as
a committee of one to look after the in
terests of the labor candidates, and to
use all honorable means to elect them.
Messrs. Quincy, O'Toole and Fitzgerald
were appointed committee to confer
with Mr.. Bott, candidate for alderman
in the Second ward. and assure him that
the club will lend him all the aid and
support in its power. This is also true
of the other candidates.
Messrs. Hinkens and Leithauser, can
didates for aldermen in the Ninth and
Second wards respectively. were then
severely roasted. One member stated
that Henry Hinkins compelled men
under his employ in the Manitoba shops
to trade at his store, and if they re-
fused they were discharged. He is
also charged with keeping n0n-uni0n
ClSdIS NillC HG OStCIiSlUly pUoCS do VIC
friend of organized labor. 1t was also
stated by several members who are en-
ployed in the Manitoba shops that Nels
Thorbus, who runs Fire No. 6, was
busily engaged in distributing kegs of
beer to the Scandinavian voters in the
Ninth ward in the interest of HinkenS.
Mr.. Gleason. who is employed in the
Northern Pacific shops, stated that Mr..
Stillman, foreman of the shops,
threatened to discharge him (Glea-
SOM if he voted for Gehan or
Bob Smith. This statement was
bers present. Mr.. Gleason also stated
that StiIIman's bluff wouldn't prevent
HIM from casting his vote for both
Smith and Gehan. no matter whether
he was discharged or not.
The club, after discussing other
matters, adopted resolutions censuling
the boilers of the Workingmen's Mu-
nicipal Reform association for indOrsing
such men az LeithauSer and HinkenS,
and commencing Mayor Smith for the
manly stand he took on the platform
adopted by the So-called workingmen' S
association. The resolutions are as fol-
lows:
Whereas, A minority of the Workingmen's
without just cause to Withdraw from said
ASSOCIATION, and to indorse such men as
Henry Hinkens and Matt Leithauser, who
are known to be the avowed enemies OF Or
ganized labor, therefore be it
Resolved. That we, the members of the
McNamee- Fisher Bot club. denounce the
boilers of said Workingmen's Municipal Re-
form association as unworthy of any consid-
Grafton at the hands of organized labor, in
indorsing ''scab'' employers.
Resolved further, That while we deem it
mex pedient and unwise to lndorse any can
didate for the Office of mayor, we cannot but
feel proud at the manly stand taken by
Mayor Smith i'll refusing to sanction the
fourth plank of said Workingmen's Munic-
ipal Reform association platform, and after
carefully considering the mayors letter, we
deem it but proper to say that it meets with
our hearty appreciation, containing as ii does
the sentiments of an honest and upright
citizen, which any laboring man who has
the welfare OF the city at heart can 1ndorse.
The club then adjourned, subject to
the call of the president and secretary.