Hartford labor., 1894-10-20
tion No. 15 by President Prescott, was


 considered. It proposed new article to the constitution, providing that after July 1, 1895, any contributing member in good standing shall be entitled to an out-of- work benefit of 8 per week for six weeks, commencing with the second week of his idleness, on being deprived of employment from any cause except on account of strike. lockout, illness, debauchery. in temperance or other immoral conduct. Rejected-63 to S3.
 The next question was an amendment to section 51 General Laws, ''No local union shall sign contract guaranteeing its members to work for any proprietor, firm or corporation, unless such contract is sanctioned by the Allied Trades. Council
 The amendment was adopted.
 The placing of the Government Printing rules was referred.
 r Among recommendations by the Com mittee on Laws concurred in were those to continue investigations of the copy right laws and the appointment of a com nittee to encourage the movement to erect a monument to the late George w. Childs.
 The following officers were elected: President, W. B. Prescott, Toronto; First Vice President, Theodore Perry, Nash vile; Second Vice President, Frank G.. Boyle, St. Paul; Third Vice President, Charles B. Lahn, Chicago; Secretary Treasurer A. G. Wines, St. Louis.
 The following delegates to the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, to be held at Denver, were chosen: Wm. M. Higgins, Louisville; August McGrath, Boston; and John w. Bramwood, Denver.
 For trustees of Childs-Drexel fund James J. Daley, of Philadelphia; Alex ander Duguid, of Cincinnati; Henry B. Dorsey, Dallas. Tex, and l.. c. Shepard, Grand Rapids, Mich., were chosen.
 Colorado Springs was selected as the place for holding the next meeting.
 The question of the convention declar- ing itself on the silver question came up, and the resolution in favor of a 16 to 1 standard was defeated by decisive vote.
 A resolution passed requesting ev- cry printer to contribute 50 cents before May 12, 1895, the money so contributed to be used in the erection of a monument to the memory of George w. Childs, which is to be given to Union No. of Philadelphia.
 KANSAS CITY, MO. TO HELP THE BREWERs-To the members of Organized Labor in the State of Missouri:
 Brothers-It is a fact now generally known that the brewery employees of St. Louis have been waging war against that giant combination of English capitalists known as the British Syndicate While our brethren of St. Louis have fought nob1y for nearly year. 1t must be confessed that the odds against them have been very great. It is, therefore, the purpose of the Missouri State Fedora ton of Labor in issuing this address to render that aid so essential in bringing this Syndicate to terms with it's former employees as soon as possible.
 The following resolutions, presented at our late convention, held in this city, were unanimously adopted. It is to be hoped that all workingmen, organized and unorganized, who believe in fair play and just remuneration for their labor will use every endeavor to bring to sat isfactory termination this protracted struggle by enforcing a rigid boycott against the products of the breweries listed in the appended resolutions:
 Whereas, The union employees of the British Syndicate breweries in St. Louis have been locked out by the president of the Syndicate and his allies because they refused to bandon their union; and
 Whereas The brewery employees have made noble fight for the rights of Or ganized Labor during the last eleven months; and
 Whereas, A victory of the brewery workers means a victory for all Organ ized Labor; therefore be it
 Resolved By the Missouri State Feder- alton of Labor, in convention assembled. that we pledge ourselves to render all possible moral and financial aid to our fellow workers in St, Louis.
 Resolved, That we earnestly appeal to all workingmen and justice-loving citi- zens to boycott all St. Louis beer manu- TaCrureQ Dy the IOllOWluS 0yhoiSdtS di1o allied breweries until they grant the just demands of their former employees:
 Wainwright's, Lafayette (Brinkwirth- Nolker), Anthony & Kuhn's, Stifel, Cher okee, Klausmann, Helm, East St. Louis; Liberty, Choteau (Schnefder's), Colum- bia Louis Obert, National (Griesedieck's), Hyde Park, Bremen, Excelsior. Green Tree, Grone, Phoenix, American, Home.
 Let the watchword be Boycott all St. Louis beer with the exception of Anheus- er-Busch and Wm. J. Lemp."
 J. J. CASSIDY, Secretary-Treasurer Missouri State Fed
 eration of Labor.
 PUEBLO, COL.