St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-11
TAILORS TALK TRADE.
LARGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC MASS
MEETING AT MARKET HALL.
UNION GOSPEL is PREACHED.

Addresses Delivered by Many of
the Leading Lights of the
Delegates Present-A Business
Meeting at Which Mileage,
Printing and Voting Are Dis
cussed at Length.
An interesting mass meeting of the
tailors was held last night at Market
hall, which was attended by the dele
gates of the national organization, as
well as by the many journeymen tailors
of this city. A number of addresses
were delivered that were greeted with
applause and created enthusiasm. K.
j. Beckjord, president of the st. Paul
union, presided.
August Bierman. of Omaha, the state
organizer of Nebraska, was called upon
for the first address. He said that the
tailors are oppressed for no other rea-
son than their own neglect of duty.
They let other industries organize and
they themselves diSorganiZe and let
trade run down. The time has come
among labor people to see that
there is no use to hate each
other because of nationality. They
now meet in local unions and
confer with each other. They have
found that wrongs have been legislated
upon them and they cannot retain their
footing without looking after interests,
realizing that we are in this world to
do our duty to society and to the state
as well as working for living. He
spoke of the good accomplished by
church organization and urged the craft
TO follow this example.
The Benefits of Organization.
John B. Lennon, of New York, spoke
eloquently of the good of labor organi-
cations. He declared that what they
have accomplished is enough to justify
the expenditure made for the OrgdniZa-
ton and education of the laburing
people. He declared that unionism
should be a religion and should be
regarded with the same fidelity menu
Der gives TO his church, and patriotism
equal TO that he has for his country. He
advocated taking trade unionism into
the family discussions as we'll as abroad,
and let everybody see that that men be-
lieve in unions. Mr.. Lennon asserted
that the work of the union is not
to pull down, but to build up.
In speaking of the tenement house
and sweating system he said it was not
introduced by the employer, but by the
journeymen themselves. who sought to
gain an advantage by working at home.
He declared it to be the purpose
of the union to eliminate the ten
ement house and sweating process.
The tailors were eXhorted to do all III
their power to eliminate these features,
and help to improve the social and edu-
catlonal CONDITION in the craft. The be-
lief was expressed that the tailOrS'
union can bring about an eight-hour
system, and dispense with the
home working, and also the
crowding of the season of work
into four months of the year.
man and think only of himself" said
Mr.. Lennen. Continuing. lie said he
could not understand why any tailor
should stay out of the union. 1t had
been his experience that the union man
gets better wages than a non-union
man, who is isolated and standing at
the mercy of the greed OF his employer.
General Discussions.
E. P. Jensen, of Chicago. the local
organizer of that city, was called upon
and declared that he believed unionism
lis the question OF the hour. He makes
it "a practice to talk union to everybody.
He said he once had a preju-
dice against unionism. but he has
learned that the union is for the good of
the members, and results in education
that is not only advantageous to him
self. but to his family also. He spoke
In favor of shorter hours, and advised
tailors to restrain their desire for money
by sticking to regular hours and free
work shops.
j. O'Mara, of Jackson, Mich, a state
organizer, spoke of the advantages of
education among the coming generation