Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-13

ano commemorative OF the cigar Makers
union. Chris Evans, of the United Mine !
Workers: John B. Lemon, of the Tailors'
and Cutters union; p. j. Mcclure, gen
eral secretary of the Brotherhood OF
Carpenters. will be present. The coun- !
Gil has heretofore met IN New YORK
While the usual business will be trans
acted at this meeting the real OBJECT IN
calling the council together IN TINS place
ia to consider the Homestead strike.
In discussing this subject, Mr. carney
said: "a boycott on Carnegie material
is to be considered, and interested IN
that are 81, 900 carpenters, lO0,OoO per
sons engaged in bridge building, and the
onaratives in ship Yards where armor
Mate is used. We are willing to bring
about any kind of honorable settlement
If II is possible, but if Messrs. Lovejoy
and Frfck, and associates, are deter
mined on manifesting nothing else but
am aggressive disposition towards us
| there Is no alternative left us after hav-
| inc recourse to every honorable method
TO bring about a fair and honorable ad-
iustment of the difficulty but TO meet
Them with their own weapons, teellng
confident that with the resources behind
MS. we most assuredly will come out
victorious"
"What are the resources?" asked the
United Press representative.
"Now that q satisfactory adjustment
of the bar iron scale has been obtained
we shall have large source OF income
TO prosecute the Homestead fight, for
many thousand Amalgamated men 10
90 to work in the near future, ana every
one has intimated his intention OF vol
unfairly subscribing 10 per cent. OF ms
q al. Ts1Q
wages, irrespective OF whether IL Is Si;oV
or $40 per day In the aggregate thls
would mean 500, 900 every TWO Weehs'
= and | feel that am UNDERSTANDING the
t amount for i'll the hrst or flUtspurs
1ivision there are 5000 members; In the
tbir1 or Mahoning and Ohio valleys; {, 600
in the fourth, or Chicago and Wisconsin
district: 5000 and in the fifth or st;
A I,onis and Alabama district 5000, steel
= and iron workers.
Y "In addition to this will come the as
= sistance of the American Federation o.
Labor and the Knights of Labor, which
9 has already demonstrated its co-opera
ton. not by resolutions, but by checks
h The laws of the American Federauol
4 provide that two cents per week on. al
/ members affiliated can be levied for TIL
a. neriod of five weeks for the assistance .
- any union engaged in a legalized con
~ hict This assessment is subject to re
N newal at the discretion of the preslden
NJ of the American Federation OF Labor
N This means ten cents per week over nv
1 weeks on almost one million men at an.
As rate.
10 Advisory Committee Meeting.
le Not until after 10 o'clock Thursda,
night did the advisory committee ao
ie iourn. Hugh O'Donnell, who returne
i: Thursday, was present and reporte
e. what he had done while in the east
" The report was most tlattering and wa
re received with much enthusiasm, and
re- resolution endorsing O'Donnel wa
ne adopted. Speaking of his visit, O'Dol
nell said:
at wherever | went | was met by rel
lie resentatiye labor leaders and many bus
he ness men. Not few of the latter we
disappointed, probably because they hs
been led to expect burly man IN re
shirt. locking like an anarchist. II
er labor officials were all very solcltous
showing their sympathy for the HON
I'm stead men by financial aid. and much
va | had been led to expect support nu
~ confess | was agreeably surprised:
u came back more than ever convinced
IN: the ultimate victory for our side. -,
ed MIR. ODonnell was indignant over Z
for utterances of w. T. Roberts. IN Broo
to lyn, that he (O'DonnelD had no autht
mt ity to go into the east. 81 went WI
ION the knowledge and sanction OF the