Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-28
FORMING A BUREAU.
Labor Unions Arranging for a System
Of Correspondence
BETWEEN ALL AMERICAN CITIES
The Organization to Be Similar to the
Associated Press.
PIrTSBURG TO BE THE HEADQUARTERS

Delegations from nearly all the labo
Organizations of the United States convene'
yesterday in Saller's Hall, at Smithfiel,
ard Diamond streets, for the purpose o
establishing an International Bureau o
Labor Correspondence. The bureau, actin!
In conjunction with the labor organization:
of Europe, is to establish Offices, or sub
bureaus, of information in the cities through
put the world. The headquarters for tn
United States will probably be at Pittsburg
The first session was opened at 10 O'Clock
a. NJ, by Lucian Sauiels, delegate from the
Socialistic Labor party of New York, who
made a brief address on the objects of the
meeting aud rea the following call, which
was iseued by tie International Labor Con
gress in session in Brussels, Belgium, il
August, 1891.
Tho Call for the Convention.
By special resolution, the Internationa
Labor Congress, held at Brussels last year
urged the worker ito establish IN every
country National Correspondence Com
mittee, through which they may be
promptly informed of any conflict that may
occur In any trade, anywhere and at any
time, between capital and labor"
In compliance with this resolution
National Correspondence Committees have
hlready been esta blished in England, France
Belgium, Switzerland and other countries,
and their work is proving of the highest
Vulue. The Information which they i'm
part to each other could not otherwise be
obtained, and the workers of each country
are thus enabled to take more effective
steps in the light cast upon the situation oI
their respective trades everywhere and
upon the operations, local, national and
international, of their common exploiters.
The reasons for similar institution in
the United States not only are obvious, but
force to the Industrial conditions and eco
nomic developments on this side of the At
lantic.
An immense immigration, inadequacy of
legislation to prevent the Importation of
contract labor, the powerful organization OF
American capital, the concentration of pro-
ductive agencies into trusts and syndicates,
the vast interests acquired by foreign capi-
talists in our soil ana industries, are feat
ures either special to this country or no
where else developed to the same extent,
and involving international questions of
the highest practical import TO American
labor, the intelligent consideration of which
evidently requires constantly closer alli-
hnce of the American workmen with their
fellow toilers of the Old World.
In order to establish an international cor
respondence bureau for the United States
on OASIS Wnlcn Will enaDle IL TO 1ulull ELL
cfently its important functions, it is neces-
eary that every phase of the labor move
ment should be represented in its organiza-
tion and interested in its maintenance.
The American labor organizations repre-
eented at the Brussels Congress, upon whom
rested the initiative in this matter, have de-
cided, therefore, to invite the cooperation
OF all national and central trade and labor
bureau
To this end this call is issued for labor
conference. to be held at Pittsburg, Pa, on
July q, 1892, at 10 o'clock A. N.
The Org anization of the Meeting.
When Mr.. Saniels had concluded his re-
marks, Louis Pichel, representative of the
International Typographical Union, of
Pittsburg, was elected temporary chairman,
and n. l. Griest was made secretary. A
Committee on Credentials was appointed to
report after recess The report of the COM
mittee showed that 81 delegates were pres
ent, whose names follow:
Patrick Mcbride, President Of the United
Mime Workers OF American George H.
Meray. of the Central Labor Federation of
Now 1 ork, and President OF tho United
Piano Makers of America; Wilford Spohn, OF
the Federation OF Labor, Washington, D. c.;
Otto Roth, Socialist Labor party, Philadel.
phia; Isaac Greulich, H. Henriott and Her
man kreiner, of the United German Trades
Union. OF Phiiadclphia; Robert Daraby,
Luke Greevy and Julius Pichel, of the Inter-
America; Frank S. Rtst, OF the Cincinnati
Central Labor Union, candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor on the Peoples party ticket
last fall; John Kiel, George A. Kambach and
Tim Havey, OF the Green Bottle Blowers
of the United States and Canada; j. c.
Kngallon and w. l. Carney, of the ANAL
gamated Association; Emil Gurwang, Con-
stantfne Waldvogel OF the United Brewery
Workmen of the United States; Z. Kurzen-
knabe, Secretary of the United Brewery
Workingmens Association of the United
st. Louis; Emmett Bohn, Secretary or the
Central Labor Federation OF New York and
August Waldinger, Financial Secretary of
the same organization; Henry Siess, or the
Brooklyn Central Labor Federation; Charles
1bsen, of the Socialist Labor Party, OF Pitts
burg; Abraham Cahan, of the United Hebrew
Trades Union, editor of the Arbeter Zeitasng,
official organ Of the Socialist Labor Party IN
the United States; William d. Loos, of the
Trades Council of Streator, ILL.,: William j.
Clare, J. F. Mueller and Thomas O'MaIley,
OF the American Flint Glass Workers.
The Different Committees Appointed,
The report of the Committee on Creden-
tials having been received, permanent or
ganization was formed, with Milton Spohp.
OF Washington, as President, and Frank N
Rist, OF Cincinnati, as Secretary After a
Committee on Correspondence had been ap-
pointed the meeting adjourned to meet at
o'clock.
When the afternoon session opened, Lu-
clan Saniels, who had been delegate to the
Brussels Conference, again took the floor
and continued his remarks on the necessity
OF a bureau of correspondence. In the opin-
ion of the speaker, the news of the daily
press cannot always be depended upon when
labor is concerned The surplus labor of the
world must be looked after, for it is this
which capital uses to fight labor The
amount of unemployed labor should be
known in every trade
1t was raining outside. and the loud, deep
crash of thunder almost drowned the speak
er's voice. He paused a second, and turn
ing toward the window said: ''Oh, if that
were only the rumble of the great labor
movement
Jere Dougherty, of the Amalgamated As
sociation, presented his credentials and was
received as delegste, his name swelling
the list to 50.
Abraham Cahan, of the United Jewish
Council of New York, addressed the meet
ing, urging that American labor should
join hands with European labor; that the
labor fight is not a local struggle, and that
its field is not hemmed by State lines or the
lines that bound nations.
ORGANIZED Like the Associated Press.
Secretary Rist thought the proposed
bureau would be able to furnish trustwor-
thy information for the labor press; that it