St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-08
A Final Rally Will Be Ma de
by the Coopers To-
Day.
Both County and City Kick
ing Against Retrenehment
and Reform.
The County Commissioners
GpoWl About the Tax Re-
bate System,
And the Board of Trade Pro-
tests Against the Ward
Fund System.

The coopers held their meeting yes
terday morning and there was but little
fight left in them. The 'jours'' were
impatient About fifteen of them had
gone to work in the Hardwood shop, but
the rest attended the meeting to see
what the others would do. A call of
the shops showed that the Hennipin
and the North Star were but poorly
represented. Then there were all
sorts of rumors and there was all
sorts of talk. 1t was reported
that Pillsbury had offered the Henne-
pin and the North Star shops 3315 cents,
come what might: that the offer had
been accepted, and that those shops
lad deserted the union. The OrganiZa-
ton seemed to be dropping to pieces.
The report OF the committee Satur-
day to the effect that they could not
come to an agreement with all the mill
els showed that the Jig was up" Moth
ing could be done by them, and the
men seemed to have lost all hope. A
few Warm-blooded coopers from the
Hardwood company wanted a commit
tee appointed to call on the North Star
men and demand an explanation
why they were not represented at the
meeting, but wiser cOunSelS prevailed.
There was some talk OF the charges
against the committee, several OF the
members of which wanted to resign,
but the men would have nothing of it,
and the report of the committee made
Saturday was accepted. One man sug-
geSted that he did not think the men
had struck, and he believed that a
strike should be put off until there was
an opportunity, be it one month or one
year hence. He did not find much
favor, however, and hOthead proposed
that every shop in the city be shut
down, and every man called out, and he
was cheered for it.
p R. Champion then arose and eX-
planned the situation as he saw it. He
said that Mr. Pillsbury had, probably,
Internationally injured the coopers by
proposing compromise. MillerS said
that they would pay the price if every
other miller would, but when one OF
them refused to do that it spoiled every
thing. This was precisely what had
been done in the case of the Minneapo-
lis Mill company. The men are now in
the same place as when they quit work.
He wanted the men to do something, he
cared little what, and then stick to it.
He was cheered for these sentiments,
DuG SOOo dCol vi olNloiOh
among the men on almost every
thing was still observable. Finally
Champion brought matters to crisis
by introducing resolution pledglng
every man who had voted for it to stay
out until the millerS had signed all iron
clad contract to pay 80 cents-7, 10 and
10 cents for making them-and the con-
tract to last for year. He made an
impassioned speech In support of 1t, de-
claring that hungry children demand
that this be done. He was wildly
cheered at the close. All was then con-
fusion. Men talked excitedly of the
strike of 1884, and when the meeting
adjourned, few moments later there
was a pronounced sentiment in favor OF
staying out and making bold stand Or
acknowledging defeat.
In the afternoon the committee went
to the North Star shop, but every man
had quit work before their arrival there.
Nothing of consequence came out of it:
The coopers have decided to let the
IS cent matter go for the present; they
are determined, however, to force the
S5-cent question harder than ever.
Champions resolution struck the right
spot. A meeting of the coopers has
been called for this morning at O'Clock,
and it will be held at the North
Star shop to insure the presence of the
men from that shop. An iron-clad,
three-cornered contract will be pre-
sented for the approval of the meeting,
and, if adopted, will be taken to the
millers and bosses, and a hard fight
made for its adoption. This contract
will bind the millers to pay 80 cents for
barrels, the bosses to pay the men z, 10
and Is cents for the making, and the
men to work for those prices for year.