The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-05
COASTLABOR COUNCIL
Second Annual Meeting to Con-
vene in Seattle Today.
FORTY THOUSAND REPRESENTED
E3orts 70 Ne Made 60 Obtain Labor
Liquidation. 90 Enforce the Geary
Law ana End Labor Troubles.

The second an nual meeting Of the Pa
cific Coast Council of Trades and Labor
declarations will convene in hall No. 5 at
labor headquarters. in this city. at 10
o'clock this morning, and remain in ses-
sion several days. This meeting Of the
council has been postponed from last
September and it will be called to order
by President w. g. Armstrong. Of this
city. who will preside until the new OFF,
GERS arc elected. The retiring secretary,
w. b. Souls. Of Alameda, CAL, will not be
present.
The Jurisdiction Of the council en-
braces all the central labor bodies on this
Coast from San Diego TO the Alaskan line.
and west Of the Rocky mountains. Some
OF the bodies in this territory have not yet
affiliated with the council, but all those Of
California, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and
Nanaimo, B. c., will be represented at the
present meeting here. IL is estimated
that the number of laboring men repre-
sented will be about 10000 although the
number Of delegates will be very small.
compared with the previous convention
held in San Francisco in September. 1891,
when 40 delegates had seats OH the floor.
This large attendance was due to the fact
that the meeting was held in California in
close proximity to several large central
labor organizations. All of the Caiifor-
nian bodies will be represented in the
present convention by two men. W. Nc
Arthur, Of San Francisco. and Richard
Coverly, Of Sacramento, who will repre-
sent the bodies of San Francisco, San
Jose. Alameda, Sacramento, Los An.
geles and San Diego. Each delegate
in the convention has a right to
cast one vote for every 100 men which he
represents. and Mr.. Macarthur will have
at least 100 votes. The six delegates from
Seattle will cast seventeen votes. as the
to be affiliated with the Western Central
Labor Union is Zoo, with one organizes
ton not heard from. During the conven-
ton it is expected that some central bodies
from Idaho will be admitted to seats.
The sessions of the convention will not
be secret. but executive sessions can be
ordered II desired. The work to be done
embraces several subjects. the principal
object being to formulate plan for focus
ing the work of the various central lanor
bodies in one direction, in order to obtain
legislation in behalf Of labor. The Geary
law will also form one of tho topics Of
discussion and the convention will take
what steps are deemed necessary to obtain
an enforcement of the Law. Resolutions
will also be submitted calling for an en-
forcement by Secretary Carlisle Of the
eight-hour law in Tuscaloosa, Ala, and
the postoffice at Washington City. The
convention will also do what they can to
end the troubles of the brewery workmen
and cigarmakers in California and the
sailors up and down the Coast.
It is not expected that more than fifteen
or twenty delegates will be present, and
they will be sumptuousiy entertained dur
ing their stay in Seattle. The entertain
ment committee has arranged to show the
delegates the city, give them an excursion
on Lake Washington, and the session will
be terminated by q banquet The dates
for these festivities have not yet been set,
Is much will depend on the pressure of
business to be transacted.