St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-17

and disease CT tenement and pr1sonN
made goods. for union men insist upon
proper sanitary conditions in their
workshops. Business men should ap-
preciate that the patronage of union
made goods means the employment OF
men who make good ctt1zenS-nen VINO
are able to buy a good snare OF nef-
chandise and give value to real estate
The patronage of union-made goods
is, logically, self-support for all classes
of citizens. Think this proposition
over.
Representative Phillips, of .Pennsyf-
vania of the congressional committee
on labor. has prepared a report to ac~
company the house bill providing for
the appointment of a commission to
consider and recommend legislation
on the labor question. Among the rea-
sons urged by the committee on labor
for the passage of the bill are in
Guided the widespread dissatisfaction
with laws governing labor, as shown
by discomfort, strikes and violence;
because of the discomfort among
farmers. as evidenced by their various
organiZa tons. their protests against
unequal burdens and taxation, dis
eliminating charges in transportation,
and eXorbitant charges by middle1
men in disposing of their cOmmodi-
ties The report continues with the
following pertinent and thoughtful re-
marks:
New conditions confront us on
every hand in the maSSing of labor
and capital. The modes of manufac>
turing. transportation, travel and in
ter-communication have all been revo-
luUlOnlZed within a generation. Ten
thousand men are burning midnight
oil inventing labor-saving machines
and devices of all kinds. until we have
changed the whole order of Industrial
pursuits. but we have offered no pre-
lon
ating the altered condition of labor
tablished no commission to bring up
our laws to meet these new conditions;
hence there is friction. discomfort and
violence. destroying peace, property
and life"
Efforts are being made to revive the
SWitchmen's Mutual Aid association,
which dtsbanded in August last after
it's annual convention at Evansville.
There are thirty lodges in various
parts of the country that have signi-
fed a willingness to join the new
union. 1t will include in it's objects
the care of widows and orphans and
death benefits for members. The in
suTance- feature will be dropped, for
time at least The new organization
viii be called the Switchmen's Ma
tional Union of America, and gives
promise of being highly successful.
There seems to be disposition at
all times on the part of certain papers
to take a crack" at what they term
labor leaders" The Dispatch during
the week drew attention to the profit
able nature of the professional agi-
tator' business by stating that Debs
drew salary of $4,000 a year as editor
of the Ffremen'S Magazine and So 600
as president of the A. r. u. The facts
are that Debs is not now editor of the
F'iremen's Magazine, nor has he been
since the creation of the A. r. T., and
his salary as president of the A R. U
is less than $4,000, although at the last
session a salary of $1,000 a year was
voted him as president, making it the
same as President Arthur, of the IAo-
connective engineers, but he refused the
complimentary raise, saying that he
could get along very nicely on the sal
airy he was receiving. Debs seems to
have the enmfty of all the monopolies
and their newspaper representa- ives,
and is therefore a. pretty good stan
ch1on for the laboring men to tie to.
the solIc1tude of the Dispatch over
the TACT that these high salaries come
from the pockets of men who can i'll
afford 1t is amuSfng-nothing more
unless the inference is intended that
the members of labor organizations
are fools, and need to be told SO by
their friends the Dispatches of the
country.
The International Actors union is
an organization of recent date, and it
is making rapid Roadway. Boston,
New York and Chicago will possess
the principal unions, but all towns in
which a number of actors reside will
be organized, This union, in coniunc-
ton with the stage employees union,
will bring about improved conditions
tt1 the thea tricai business, so far as
the workers are concerned. The con-
tention Of both of the Above-named or
ga9izattohs Is that the public pays lib.
orally fov its ahalsSfaenS and there