St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-05
FOURTH FOR THE A. R. U.
LARGE MASS MEETING AT MARKE
HALL YESTERDAY
SPEECHES lNDoRsING STRIKE.

Labor Commissioner Powers
Hopes 1t Will Win-The Globe
and Pioneer Press Come in
for q Roast Debs Has Not
Played His Limit, but Prom
Uses to Cali Out More People
Wrong to Call Out the Troops.
At the meeting held at Market hall
| under the auspices of the A. K. D.,
about 1000 women and men assembled
to hear the speeches of the afternoon.
G. A. Mclean, of Local Union No.214,
being made up of N. p. employees. pre-
| sided at the meeting and used great tact
in preserving good order and holding
the crowd through the long meeting. A
few moments after O'clock Labor
| Commissioner Powers was introduced
as the first speaker OF the afternoon.
Mr.. Powers spoke for three-quarters
! of an hour in conventional tone, and
was listened to with careful attention.
| He began at once TO discuss the strike
| question, and gave expression to his
views In a concise way. He made three
classitjcations or persons in their atti
tude OH the strike. He found some 10
| be i'll favor or the strike whether right
or wrong; Others wanted the railroads
to win whether right or wrong, and the
| third class said: Let the strike end at
once because of the effect it has upon
upon public interests" As for
himself, he would not say
that aborers should win whether
right or not, but that they should win
only with the right OH their side. In
his view it is not question of dollars
and cents alone, but the welfare of all
the people that should be considered.
| The first thing to consider should be
| justice to all, and justice and right to
the working people should not be lost
sightof While the country is spend
| ing money to protect society from the
offenders against law he wanted to see
| the laws giving protection to the humb-
lest of laborers. In saying that the la
boring people should win when in the
! right he desired to be understood as
saying that the strikers are asking moth
ing that is not right.
| The Pullman question is not the only
| one at stake. he trouble is not alone
centered at the city of Pullman, but
principle is at stake that goes beyond
that. He suggested that the men be al
| ways ready TO confer with the railroads
as they had always been ready in the
past. He spoke of their efforts to arbl-
trate when the Pullman trouble first
arose and advised an adherepce to such
course. The men were reminded that
the failure Of the miners strike was
due to resort to violence ana when vio-
lent means were begun the prospect for
success dwindled. The question OF
wages he believed to be of less impor-
lance than good order, and the men
| should remember that their conduct
| will have greater influence If no vio-
lence is used. In this view he urged
| that good order be preserved. and that
violence be prevented by outside people
if possible. He had no fears that the
union men would preserve order If
possible.
Ralph O'Hara spoke at some length,
following Mr.. Powers.
He roasted the Globe and the Pho
neer Press, which papers he said are
run by men who are not gentlemen.
Speaking of cartoon I'm one of the
papers which represented President
Debs as a car, he said he wished
Russia had a Debs and if the United
States had car they would hang him
in fifteen minu es. He spoke of BUSH
ness man who had been made prosper
Gus by the laboring people and being
who had been quoted as ready to boy
colt the strikers and suggested that 1t
might be well to retaliate.
Mr.. O'Hara said il was morally wrong
| to pool issues for a fight. but when 1t
| was found that the railroads were
! pooled. laboring people had to fight
them with the devil as the only means
| at hand. He believed that within three
| years not only the railroads but the
telegraph lines. the timber lands and the
minerals and coal will be owned by the
| government and operated in the interest
of the people.
q. Ii. Richards, Chicago Great
Westerd engineer, was introduced to
/ speak as representative of President
| Debs. The speech was short but
pointed. He urged the men to use
every care TO prevent violence. as that
would result in bringing out the troops.
/ Officers at ChicrgO. he said. had tele-
graphed Attorney General Olney thatit
| WAS WIOuk " Gail Out luo tIOOpS. as llle
| tendency was to incite riot, so that an
excuse would be given to shoot
down the strikers, who are peace
able, simply because they would not
work for lower wages He approved of
| what had been said about the Pioneer
| Press. He hoped no laboring man
would soil his bands with that paper.
1t had said that Debs is crazy. He be-
lieved him crazy enough to be president
Of the United States some time. He
wished for more men like him and
wished he had his head. He advised
the men to keep cool, 80 that when the
strike is ended, as it will be in few
days, there will be no regrets, He
told the men that the clouds are break
ing. They were told not to be afraid
of the troops as they will not hurt those
who tend to their business and don't get
excited. He then read two kilograms
from Mr.. Debs which stated that the
situation is extremely encouraging and
that the strike will be won. The infor-
nation was given that the strike had
reached New York and Connecticut.
Continuing his speech Mr.. Richards
said that the engineers are with the men
and If 1t becomes necessary President
Debs will call out not only all the men
OH railroads but on the ships.
At this point Chicago paper, the or.
gan of the A. r. u, was brought into
The hall and leave given to sell it. Some
newsboys carrying the Penny Press
were ordered out of the hall and told
that they could sell that paper on the
street, but that union men did not
want it.
Z. S. Rouse, of Minneapolis, was the
next speaker. He advised the working
people to concentrate their forces to
meet like concentration by the can't
tallsts. He said that the time had come
for laborers to use their minds and they
could solve any problem. His advice
was not to boycott the press, but to
patrQnize such papers as are favorable
to the laborers,
Mr.. Stackpole. of the Chicago Great
| Western road. made q stirring sneech