Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-28

! church, his little lodge, or his little Ntrade
union. As long as the plate glass WORKERS
are not affected they are likely to forget
! about the woes of the rest of man. II Car
4 negie would sign the scale to-day, 30 per
cent of the men would forget tomorrow that
there was battle-forget that there
is grinding system that still
grinds The Carnegie Company claim
that they only squeeze 1.-THE the
enough. They squeeze where the fat is the
thickest, and finally you will be all 81 %
men. If the Amalgamated Association
wins it will not be because it has defense
fund; Carnegie has q bigger one. If they
win it will be because they have the sympa-
thy of the labor world, and can get unlimit-
ed assistance, and it is not quite the right
thing for you to stand back and draw back,
asking how this movement will benefit
steel worker, while you draw sustenance
from the button-hole workers and seam
sewers of New York.
They Get Into Dispute.
Jere Dougherty replied in q spirited man
ner, and dispute was started which lasted
for about an hour, sometimes three or four
speakers trying to get recognition at once.
Delegate Saniels spoke to the point and
on the question at issue. He said: "Manu-
raw materials to the most finished product,
by their associations and their newspapers,
keep au courant with the interests of their
business, knowing it intimately in all its
ramifcations. Labor alone stays in the
dark OF course you have unions, but they
are limited to their own particular lines.
1t is for the dissemination of general knowl-
edge of this class this association is in
tended. You can, for yourselves, find out
az much as the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The latter has shown that steel can be made
cheaper here than in England; it shows that
the mining labor is paid less here than in
England, yet few of you know it It is for
this purpose that the information bureau is
intended.
"Had we this bureau in existence to-day
you would know as do what Carnegie is
doing in England just now, while his part
ner cuts the iron and steel wages here. He
is in England for the purpose of forming a
gigantic international iron trust Capital
has no country, no conscience, and is all
powerful. To this we have to oppose our
intelligence, and we should do it through
this bureau"
Arranging the Formation OF tho Bureau.
A motion was finally made "that we Or
ganize labor bureau which was opposed
by Delegate Dougherty and finally tabled.
Speeches were made by Delegates Kreimer
and Loos, after which motion was made
that a committee of five be app ointed to
formulate plan for establishing bureau
of correspondence The motion was carried,
and the following committee was named by
the Chairman: L. Saniels, Jere Dougherty,
Timothy Havy, Delegates Cahsn and Clair.
The committee will report this morning at
10 o'clock.
Delegates Griest, Greevy and Kreimer
were appointed q Committee on Resolu-
tlons, and to them was referred a resolution
offered by the German Trades Assembly of
Philadelphia in sympathy with the Home
stead people.
The most important work Of the confer
ence was left for to-day when the plan of
the committee is to be acted upon. and the
bureau to be organized.