The herald., 1895-08-12
FOR A HIGHER EDUCATION
Labor Takes Another Step in the
Right Direction
IMPORTANT MEETING HELD
A New Organization Formed on very
Liberal Lines
MEETING HELD
Tenporary Officers Elected and Fair H.m-
bersh.. EnroIIed-Labor Day Ce'e-
bration-Soclallsts Repressed

| A meeting was held in Maccabee tenn
ple. on Main street, between First and
Second streets, yesterday afternoon to ar
range for the proper celebration Of Labor
day, Monday, Septem ber 2. The call,
signed "Committee. setting forth the
object of the meeting, concluded "Union,
non-union aud those whose hearts beat
in sympathy with the cause of labor. are
all cordially invited"
Two o'clock was the hour set for the
meeting, but at that time only about
twenty-five men were in the hall. TIE
audience, however, slowly increased by
twos and threes, until 2:30 o'clock, when
it numbered probably $50. at which time
/ r. J. Morris took the chair and called the
assemblage to order. at tie same time in
viting those present to come forward and
| take the front seats. He then called for
nominations for chairman and A. j..
J Oliver and S. Il. Fulton were named, the
latter being selected.
| Mr. Fulton briefly outlined the objects
of tile meeting and called for nomina- :
| tons for secretary. r. J. Morris and A..
J. Oliver were named, the latter being Sc
| lected.
| Mr.. Oliver stated that he had no report
| to make nor com munications to read,
| when the chair announced that he was
| ready to hear from any uf those present.
| The meeting. he said. was thoroughly
democratic, and he hoped that there
would be full and free discussion along
the lines as indcaed ut the preliminary
meeting. The first matter to be settled
was whether steps should be taken to
effect permanent organization at once
or whether they should proceed to ar
range for the Labor day parade, as set
iortn in the printed circular. The chair
| man favored q permanent organization.
saying that if labor would elevate herself
she must do it herself; there was no
guardian who would look out for the in
| terests of labor. He thought that some
organization was needed to take care of
the thousands OF men who were not in
cluded in the various trades unions, and
if they could be organized they would be
able to make grand demonstration on
Labor day.
Mr.. Knapp, gentleman with lux
uriant whisker ana an aggressive man.
ner, wanted to know whether the pro-
posed celebration WAS to be of the usual
character, W1tu S0VeTdl plutOCTdtlC COLI
| gressmen or other plutocrats in carriages
| to address them. If this was the case
| he did not want to have anything to do
| with it.
On motion the chair was asked to draw
| up preamble, and ne presented the fol-
titled Slaves and Cowards, by Eugene v.
DE bs. whom he designated as one of the
| greatest men in the world:
| For the purpose of educating and
I uniting iaboring men. the organization
/ known as the International La bor Asso-
| rs We do, that in unity there rs siren 9Th,
lsit must follow that if men are un tied In
! thought they will be in action. Know
ing as we do that education is the< only
safe and sure guide along the lines of
progress, it pehooves us as laboring men
| to be truly educated; otherwise we will
fall in the ditch. 1t must not be under
| stood that this is an organization in the
sense OF the leader and led; but rather
an association OF laboring mon for the
purpose of educating eacn and all to do
their own thinking along the lines of
politics. which is the science of govern
ment, the science OF human life. Real
| izing that in the ranks of labor there are
many men who never have affiliated with
any organization that there ars quite
| q number of vocations which are not or
| saniZed, and that in those ranks and vO-
cations we find grand and noble men. it
behooves those thus situated TO associate
together for mutual benefit. Under
standing the evils of the narrowness OF
many organizations, we recognize the
fact that an association based upon broad
and liberal principles must admit mon Of
any. all. OF no creed that he who tolls is
our brother; that an injury to one is the
| concern of all. No state or national line
should be barrier to the progress of
this movement. We must. as producers.
realize that in wage slavery there is no
hope. We must realize that the producer
| should be the owner. Ownership i'm
| plies control.
"In our ranks let us have mono who
seek to gain renown and build themselves
up by tearing others down. Let US edu-
cate TO change the system from competi-
tion to mutual co-OperatiOn."
| Quite a discussion followed. when, on
motion. the word "educationar' was in
serted in the name of the organization.
making it the International Educational
Labor association. and as so amended the
| preamble was accepted as the outline OF
| the organization.
! Another lengthy debate followed, in
which Mr.. Knapp got in another crack at
the plutocrats. which finally resulted in
determining to form an organization TO
take part in the Labor day parade, and
that all Ia boring men not identified with
other trade and labor organizations be in
| vlted to march with them.
| Those present we're then invited to en-
roll themselves as mem bers, which many
of them did. and collection was laken
up to defray the Expenses of the meeting.
| A general talk followed, participated
| in by the chairman. Messrs. Spinks,
Hutchinson amt others. during which a
| fierce little man with feroclous mus
tache created a diversion by insisting on
discussing Socialism and urging the as
sem blage to declare themselves Socialists.
but he was. finally suppressed and quiet
| was restored.
On motion of MIR. Myers the chair ap-
pointed the following q committee On ar
rangements for the Labor day parade:
Messrs. Morris. Knapp, Wolff. Miller and
| Whalen.
Messrs. Morris. Fulton and Depew were
| appointed a comm ttee, to secure hall for
another meeting next Sunday afternoon.
On motion of Mr.. Morris, Messrs.
Knapp, Leach and Clifford were ap-
pointed committee to complete the pre-
arnble resolutions and laws, to report
at the meeting Sunday next.
| After some further fgeneral talk the
| m meeting adjourned to meet next Sunday