Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-07
LABOR FEDERATION.
What Was Done by the BODY a, Gal.
veston.
PRESIDENT coIDEN's ADDRESS
Eight Hours for n:Day's Work, Mil
lions for Public Work and Free
schools of Manual Training, some
Things Advocated by Him.

C WESTON, Tex, Sept, o.-Cspc-
eir n Texas Federation Of Labor.
Y o., ,o41, gu In secret session here
70. "Sl 81, % days concluded IT'S
laborA st I'm address Of President
Golden ~, N "cs growth and pur-
poses of tht ''ts "a WAS read at to-
days meeting approved.
To tile Officers ad Members of the
State Federation Of Labor Of Texas,
Greeting:
As your chief executive officer ii is
my duty 10 report at your annual meet
ing the progress and purposes of the
order. This is the fifth annual gather
inc since the foundation OF the order IN
this state, July 4. 1850. IA the city Of
Dallas. can congratulate You upou
the fact that the rapid Increase of add
herents is unparalleled 10 the growth Of
industrial reform movements. You, rs
a body Of DELEGATES, represent con
stiuency having majority OF voting
power of the state, and upon your ac-
ton here largely depends whether the
reforms which lave called The various
organization, comprising the federation
into bcing shall 60 forward and be crys-
talized into legislation or he halted,
stopped and disarmed on the highway
OF their full creation and achievements.
There were many neiSrms we sought IN
the last legislature, some of which that
honorable body enacted and tEey are
now laws. of which your legislative
committe wlh report a true republic,
upholdng the Industries ON which the
greatness aud pefpetuity OF the nation
must intciigently, safely and securely
he founded, must comprise hcneheent
system of education for the masses. Inc
IL NfrHa "a
branches of education should be founded
IN the school system, and ! earnestly be
lieye as far rs practicable should he
instituted 10 inculcato intelligent industry
In connection with the arts and sciences
of the primary school, and through me
years of common school experience ana
I'm lining thus the merely mpntally edu-
Gated drone would, in time, be superseded
by active, energetic, well'eluipped young
men and women.
The great industries Of our state soon
to pass into the hands of the rising gen,
Grafton stretch out in vast fields ot
products together with the building up
of cities, manufactures and conn'rcee.
How feeble the preparation for such
responsibilities, II the weak and mex
periencel. limited 10 the narrow. confines
Of wretched little elihce are intrusted
with the most 81 sred of all duties that
of educating the Young Let the cult
waited strong and experienced be EN-
~ p',,,, u ,i.o,,,ntn bo,rs In I'D 6ald work
enu riie' 1,,,o,,', ,,,,s MI ,'enfsI AMI
~ .iu ni,,,,, nav % hand In hand
In thnt education. But few dollars per
yelr is expended per capita for the cdn'
cation of the chill lren ~ the common
zen n, AZ, "a, do1ond for their services
s'e.''' ",,urt tsi,, ,ge 60 uudar.
~ i.,,', ~ ,hn rnircr.
sI,v ar oce5c,nv where hundrpds of
JnHors ~. an, IN, arc sne,,t me many
mn to I,r consiIersI and cared for in
Az, S',,''',,.S, H.. ,,,,,,,,,or s,hnnls of the
wv uei''' M ssi,ris a., ~ m,sses
S'i.I1'i H., g.. 80 H. ,,s,dcn,y and fhe
, nniu1r IN 'SopIJ M snstninri by and
p thn,r 'or ny '''e SVEN ~" ""' '"''''''''
oraot noe1 ~ our lime IL n system
of tsrt banls embracing the essential
n,,'ri,s ,,,J .rt NJ industr5aI education.
ash,... .be,,iJ N, ,,r,.,a,,.d 6nr the sehooIs
H. ,shiei Nc r,asscs ~ mo rising rener-
10 ~, hei,,, trsincJ Ear the fesponsi.
itii,t.. - agti,.. iiSa TN vnrth a. Tay.
~ sb6nid he Guarded arni,st ignor.
onca which h IN truth the great poverty
Onr psaple should moi forget 10 keep con
80, H. E.enr, Thor, mo idna thai heaven
49, man ,hese s,.bn mostly holm tbefn.
lives
The nrlnciple that has haen inculcated
t,ta mn order since its incorporation
Il IN n,,nlrrc al. home as far as possible
al. III. eoniforts of life. This Is neces-
sarv 10 our indtpendrnce and prosperity.
NJ mis- end we should cultivate more
fri.nJiy intercourse between the laborer
~ the citv and those who cultivate the
saii inotinc To- the mutual patronage and
| interhange OF products. that preference
fnr thp goods Of organized labor may
fciio,e aims establishing system Of
c,,'nr,,.raiion that must benefit the agri-
cnltiITaI and the mechanical foiers. The
111rkinq MASSES everywhere are unwit.
| tineiy Sustaining trusts and syndlcates,
mi knowing that the goods they are
,,nsnminr each day enriches the mOnop-
olies which are wholly unworthy OF sup
NM
Ia apable the thousands Of working
men aud women who are today deprived
of I'M lust and reasonable reward of
their labor. thereby entaillng on them
and their children all the evils and in
conveniences u abject poverty by The
etrforccineat OF an unjust financial nnd
commercial system that demands high
profits to capital, thereby eniailing upon
/ iilsor long hours and enforced idlenesa,
believing thai a shortening Of the hours
1 III labor to a lrc-alllc,-llye length
would 1--WE employment 10 alb increase
| ~, no,Te.s ~ go. s,tinpfiou aud produc-