The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-07-28
COOPERATION.
To Affiliate and Demand Re. ad ust-
ment Of Wages May I, 1895.

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The American Railway Union and the
American Labor Union--The Latter Con-
sist Of Every Glass of Labor Outside
OF the Railways--Debs' Idea.
CnfcAao, July 23.--The Herald prints
. long article giving in detail the plans
of the American Railway union to abb
sorb the older railway brotherhoods,
and the recently organized American
Labor union, to take every class Of
labor except railway employees, the
two organizations to affiliate and be
prepared by May 1, 1896, to demand a
readjustment of wages to the basis ex-
isting prior to the panic and hard times,
and in the event of refusal to order a
general walkout.
The articles continues:
"Some broad statements in this con.
nection were made by officials of the
American Railway union headquarters.
as follows: That on or about January
Is, 1896. there would be held in Chicago
a convention composed of representa-
tive men of the American Railway
union, the United Mine Workers Of
North America, the knights of Labor
and American Labor union; the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the old
railway brotherhoods would not be rep.
resented in this convention; that at this
convention all branches of labor repre-
sented would be called on to present a
succinct report as to the then existing
wage scales, and how much they have
been cut in 1892, 1893 and 1894; that
these wage scales should then be formu-
lated, and be presented to the corpora
tions and railroads, with the demand
that they be readjusted to the basis
existing prior to the panic and hard
times, and that if this demand was not
granted general wallsout should fol
low May 1, 1885,
Gas one officer of the A. r. U. put it:
The present strike will never be de.
clared off by Mr.. Debs, and we expect
If the Chicago switchmen remain firm,
that the Chicago roads will eventually
compromise on basis satisfactory tc
all. The present strike not being de-
clared off, a convention of the charac'
ter described will be entirely in place
and will bring together at that time
the strongest labor organization in
the world. There will be full
analysis of wage scales before any
demand is made on capital for d
change, and the east will be as strongly
represented in the new labor organiza.
lions then as the west is now. The
movement of May 1, 1896, then, will be
only reinforcement of the strike be
gun on June &c, 1894
"In this plan much is expected of the
new American labor union, whose
membership is now claimed to be 1000
and has opened it's ranks to every class
of labor except railroad employees.
"Those behind the plan for the Jan
uary convention expect the acquittal
Of Debs by the courts, and that follow
Ing this, he will make a tour of the
east, delivering speeches and organic
ing branches of his order, while cam
paigners from the American Labor
union will follow him to make inroads
into the ranks of the Gompers follow
ers. They argue that the time wa!
never better for the establishment of +,
labor union to control all the labor fac
lions outside of railroad work.
"The A. r. U. officials point to the
ruin of the Mutual Aid association O.
the switchmen, and the fact that tn,
American Railway union has alread,
absorbed half of its membership, ant
| will have the rest as soon as it provides
an insurance department for death ant
a beneficiary for accidents.
NAc fn tho R,.ofh orh0n1 pf
tive Engineers, the union officials re
gard that as practically officially dead
They cite the dissolution of lodges O
this order at Champaign, Danville
Terre Haute and in all parts of tn,
country but the east, as evidence tina
the engineers either wish to be indie
pendent of or are ripe for new organ
ization. Given, therefore, the switch
men and engineers, with what the,
have already, the A. r. U. official
count on convention in January o
two thousand delegates, representing
every branch of labor from a newsbo.
to a railroad engineer, and with Mr.
Debs presiding.
"The statement was made broadly a
A. r. U. headquarters that Presiden
Sovereign would not interpose singl'
objection to the total absorption o
the Knights Of Labor by the American
Labor union, and that since the fiasc,
in his attempt to call them out on
strike when, except in scattered local.
ties, there were few to call out, he ha
recognized the coming new powers
and only desires not to be left entirel
out. On the other hand, General Sec
retary John w. Hayes is reported to b
decidedly averse to sacrificing the iden
tity of the knights, preferring to pre-
serve the fiction of an organization t
q complete surrender. Those VIII
spoke of the coming convention are S
close to Debs that it was inferred thei
desires were but a reflection of tn
next move he intends to make"
| They Arbitrated.
| DULUTH, Mimi, July 23.-Mrs. Ann
Shager, of this city, short time ag
brought a contest against Amos Carr
over some pine lands near Elephan
lake, northwest of Duluth. The COZ
teA growing somewhat bitter and e,
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