Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-12
LOOKING TOWARD UNION.
National Officers of Labor Organise
tions I'm Session I'm st. Louis.

National Officers of Labor Organise.
tions I'm Session I'm st. Louis.
A confer sace Of national officers Of labor
organizations assembled at St. Louis yes.
terday. called by the general executive
board of the knights OF Labor, vita q
view to bringing about unity Of work
among all labor organizations. and to re-
port back to the next meetings OF all such
national bodies.
When the conference was called to order
by General Master Workman Sovereign,
there were present nearly. all the well.
known representatives OF labor. including J.
r. Sovereign. John w. Hayes. Samuel Com.
pers, i. J. MCGUIRE, S. s. Wilkinson. H.
Eckhart, A. b. Mcguire and others. The
conference organized with Grand Master
Workman Sovereign OF the Knights OF
Labor as Chairman. and Il. j. MCGUIRE,
head Of the Brotherhood OF Carpenters OF
the American Federation OF Labor. as Sec
rotary.
Executive sessions were voted for and O
committee on law created TO form a plan OF
agreement for the consideration OF the con-
ference. Everything was conducted In .
perfectly harmonious manner, and the dis
cussions went 10 show that the delegates
were In favor OF adopting some plan where
by the various organizations would become
more closely allied TO one another than they
were at present.
AT the afternoon session a document was
submitted to the conference by the repre-
sentatives of the knights of Labor. The
contents OF this document were kept secret,
ana committee, consisting OF Samuel
Gompers, NJ. J. Bishop and Charles W.
Maier, were appointed TO act upon It and
make report at the opening OF the con-
fererce toaay. The meeting was then adj
journed until today.
Chairman Sovereign was seen at the close
OF the afternoon session, and stated posi-
lively that there had been no talk whatever
OF any consolidation OF the various organic
cations. Addresses We're made by many OF
The labor leaders in attendance on the
conference.
Hayes Resolution.
Labor circles were considerably agitated
yesterday over the news that when Secre-
tary-Trcasurer John W. Hayes and General
Worthy Foreman Bishop of the knights OF
Labor left Philadelphia Saturday to attend
the big labor conference in 81. Louis they
carried with them a typewriter COPY OF a
resolution calling upon the members OF ala
labor organizations TO cease work until the
| miners strike is settled or until Congress
takes action TO settle IL.
telegram from a delegate at ST. LoU.s
received yesterday afternoon stated that
unless some radical change made in
the program the resolution would be pre-
scented and ardently advocated today by
General Master Workman Sovereign OF the
knights OF Labor. and that unless the tenn
per Of the conference changed il would pass
with possibly but the three dissenting votes
OF the Locomotive Engineers.
The resolution. which contemplates the
most audacious and far-reaching move ever
made by organized labor. reads as follows:
Believing, as We do. that the present
conditions Of organized labor are such as
require that all organizations should put
their shoulders TO the wheel and assist one
another, ana whereas the United Miners OF
| America are now making a tremendous
| struggle against starvation wages that calls
Tor all the sympathy Of all right-thinking
people: therefore be IL resolved BY the OFF,
q ~ DTrva nj gaff lafaa
| herein represented, that We deem IL advisa-
bic To recommend to the executive boards
of ali labor organizations Of America to is
sue an order within the next three days 10
all their members. from the Atlantic TO the
| PACING, and from the gulf to the lakes, to
| refuse unitedly to do more labor until the
miners strike as settled
| Resolved, That We mean by this that
the locomotive engineer the shoemaker.
| the blacksmi;h.car driver. brakeman, train
man. skilled mechanic, the carpenter. skill
cd and unskilled labor of every kind SHAH
cease TO work until their brothers in dts
tress have been accorded justice, or until
the United States government takes such
| steps will bring about the Nationalist
| ton OF the coal mines Of America
Resolved, That this document when is
sued, be under the seal and with the sigma
ture Of every national and international
labor organization represented in this con-
ference
At the conference yesterday were three
representatives each from the knights Of
bEOlnernOO0 OF Locomotive Engl-
neers. Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firefnen,
| Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen, Bro-h-
erhood Of Railway Conductors American
Federation Of Labor, Union OF Green Bottle
Blowers, American Railway Union, Broth
erhood OF Railway Telegraphers, Masons
| and Bricklayers' International Union and
the Farmers Alliance. The knights Of La
Dor wera represented by General Master
Workman Sovereign. Secretary Treasurer
| Hayes and General Worthy Foreman Bish-
op, and the other organizations by equally
prominent members.