St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-14
SAINT PAUL.
PRIsoN-CUT STONE.
Stirs Up the Trades Assembly
Scathiu9 Resolutions.

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The trade and labor assembly met
last night with every union fully rep
resented. J. P. O'Donnell and J. Well
leux were admitted as new delegates,
The newly elected officers were duly
installed and the assembly settled down
to business. The reports showed PLAIN
ly that this is the season of the year
when there is general dizziness in
trade. The following report was made:
printers, fair; cigarmakerS, steady; tin,
cornice and sheet iron workers, dull;
clerks, fair; painters, dull; carpenters,
dull; bakers, dull; tailors, dull; walters,
fair; bricklayers, dnll; horSeShoerS,
fair; stonecutters, slow; machine and
wood workers. fair; wood carveTs, fair;
BARRIERS, good; paper hangers, fair;
plasterers. dull; photographers, good.
The st. Cloud reformatory was the
subject of an animated discussion. The
delegates from tine st. Cloud assembly
stated that the granite industry Is vet
in its infancy, but Is In fair way to be
entirely destroyed. Outside capitalists
refuse to invest their money while the
state of Minnesota invests its money in
the business. The stone from the re-
formatory is sold at any price Supt.
Myers can get. The plan not only takes
away opportunities for labor from free
men and citizens, but Is endangering
the business interests of st. Cloud as
well. The citizens of that city would be
willing to have stone cut there to be
used in building prisons and reforma-
tories in the state. Then other classes
of work could be introduced without
iniuring free labor in the state. The
following resolutions were adopted
unanimously:
Whereas. The present system of dispOsing
of the products of the st. Cloud reformatory
is causing an injustice to the free labor OF
the state. inasmueh as the management en-
deavors to dispose of stone cut at the reform
atory to contractors at prices below those at
which free labor can compete. be Ii resolved,
that the trade aud labor assembly of st. Paul
heartily endorses the bill now before the leg
islature providing that no stone quarried at
the ST. Cloud reformatoFy shall be sold In the
open market, and that sandstone shall only
be used OIL public buildings built by the state.
Resolved, further That we would respect
fully call the attention of the proper authorI-
ties to the fact that the labor organizations
of st. Paul have never given their endorse
ment to any system of competition with free
labor, as indicated in the report of the sup
erintendent of the St. Cloud reformatory,
and, also
Resolved. That we do not concur with the
conclusion arrived at in the report as relat-
ing to the filing of our penal institutions as
solution of the convict question
The following standing committees
were appointed: Organization, Cas-
serIy, Charboneau. Gallagher, Doyle
and Riley; grievance, Nalesh, Cassells,
Fraser, Warwick and Wilbrandt; press
and council. Ives. Whipple, Churchill,
Kluge and Aleman; agitation, Johnson,
Kenny. Woerner, DaemerS and Burton.
nE In I'm, lie
trades assembly asked an Endorsement
of mild single-tax idea. now pending
before the legislature. The following
resolution was PASSED:
, Resolved, That we favor the passage of
bill submitting to the people constitutional
amendment giving the different counties the
right of leyying their taxes upon such classes
Of property as they choose.
Frank Valesh, president of the State
Federation of Labor, has been inyeSti-
eating the railway employees clubs"
and offered the following resolution,
which was readily adopted:
Whereas, The railway employees club is
again In the midst of an active cam paign
lobbying in the interest of the railroad cor
porations. and is carrying on this work in
their behalf The club is being chaperoned
by the high-salaried officers and attorneys of
the railroads.
w uETete, ulS Clup GuNcdNOlo " poSC NC
fore the legislators as powerful organiza-
ton of labor; while it in reality has little or
no membership outside of few officials and
clerks: be it
Resolved, That the trade ana labor assem-
blv enters an emphatic protest against this
attempt 10 palm off this alleged railway en-
ployes' club as an honest or legitimate or
ganization of workingmen.
The assembly wouldn't think of adj
journing until it had discussed the man
agement of municipal affairs. One del
egate remarked that an officer recently
was sentenced to six years in the peni-
Tertiary. and perhaps some others de-
served vacation Of the SAME sort, but
the majority of the delegates were lit
tie more conservative. and inclined to
the idea that all city 1fficeholders arc