St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-06


civillze the forces that tend 10 bar
barism.
Electrical Workers Union No. %,
will give ball at Labor hall Friday
evening that promises to be interesting
and unique. A splendid electrical dis
play will be a leading feature. The
affair is in the hands of q capable COM
mittee, and is bound TO be a success.
The police also believe In the potency
OF organization. During the past week
the st. Paul police met at Arion hall
and completed the organization of the
st. Paul Police Mutual Aid association.
The association will federate with
similar bodies now being organized in
other cities. and will work during the
coming legislative session for police
pension Legislation. The association
promises to he of considerable value to
the police, both In social and material
way.
AT the regular meeting of the Retail
Clerks association to be held WedneS-
day evening the new officers Will be
installed. The next entertainment will
be held Jan. "a.
When the working people have
learned how to control themselves they
Will not ask some political party con-
trolled by capitalists to do something
for them. They will then do for themo
selyes-as the capitalists do now
The cooperative hall board of the
trades and labor assembly meets To-Day.
The state labor commissioner has
prepared table tor his annual report
showing the number OF employees, males
and females, and those under and over
sixteen years OF age, in the factories ill.,
spected. Number of factories inspect
ed, 1,3SS; males under sixteen, SGT:
adult males, 33,S60; females under
sixteen. 253; adult females, 4, III; total,
IS, S57.
The mallers' union elected officers
Thursday as follows: President, Joseph
HouSke; secretary. E. II. Rodine.
The Eien who really rule the world
are limited in number. They own the
gold and have kings and queens and
governments at their call. When new
loan is wanted they make their con-
ditlons. The minor details of govern
ment are left to take care of themselves.
and the people adjust themselves to
these conditions as they can. Values 90
up Or values 20 down as suits the inter
ests of the moneybags. They are the
arbiters Of peace and War, aud of the
fate of nations.
During the past week several unions
Tod old flaa hnh Aaf.
fund, and more will do likewise during
the next mouth. The response to the
call for aid has been hearty and liberal,
and there is every likelihood that there
will be ample funds to carry the appeal
to the supreme court.
Look now to legislative halls for re-
forms tending TO iabor'S relief.
Urge the appearance Of the union
label upon all honest productions.
Help all classes of Workingmen to In
crease membership in their unions.
There is no court in the world can
make you buy a scab cigar if you don't
want to buy it.
The allied printing trades council
held regular meeting last Sunday, and
elected the following officers: President,
Frank Pampusch; vice president, f.
O'Rourke; secretary treasurer, Charles
Hillman; label committee, f. Atwood,
Joseph HOnske and +. Lang. A COM
mittee was appointed to request the va
rious unions having labels and shop
cards to interest themselves in amend
ing the preSen state label law so as to
give better protection TO union labels.
The arbitration bill drafted by Labor
Commissioner Wright. which has been
placed in the hands of the labor CONF
mittee of congress, Is likely to meet
with early consideration. The bill is
an important one, and its passage will
give labor unions new and significant
relation TO trade and commerce, as pro-
vision is made for their incorporation,
thus giving them ii legal status. HE
title of the bill is "a bill concerning
carriers engaged in Interstate commerce
and their employees" 1t is modelled
after the interstate commerce act, as
that act has received judicial cOnStruc-
ton in every section 1t provides for
the appointment by the president of
commission consisting of five persons,
to be known as the United States board
of Cancellation and arbitration. The
bill provides that the system of arbitra-
ton and cancellation shall apply to CON-
mon carriers engaged in the trsnsporta-
ton between the states of passengers
and property, by railway and by water,
and to all persons and corporations leas-
ing cars used for such transportation
and to all the employees; that the wages
paid in such transportation and haud-
ling, and the rules and regulations. shall
be reasonable and just; not, however,
taking away the right to make contracts.
During The tendency of an arbitration
it is not lawful for an employer to dis
charge All employe nor for such en-
ploye or association to aid or abet-
strikes, nor to quit employment with
out thirty days notice. 1t Is further
made miSdemeanor for any officer or
employer to require employees to enter
into an agreement not to become a
member of labor organization, or to
threaten an emplOye with loss of en-
pioyment or discrimination because of
such membership, or to require such
employees to become a member of BEN
eiicial Urgani Zatlon. Messrs. Sargent,
Arthur and other chiefs of labor organ
izatiOns have been consulted concern
ing the bill.
The pressfeeders will nominate Of
ficers at their next regular meeting.
al am satisfied that the veal of the
wage Garner must come in the collective
enjoyment of tho fruits of collective
effort. That the principle is recognized
is best attested by the existence of labor
organizations. Collective effort is the
very basis of every organization. 1t is
for that its members combine. Does it
not seem foolish then that they stop at
co mbining? If we combine for mutual
benefit our combination is in vain if wa
have no definite aim. and at present our
aim seems to consist chiefly in warding
off starvation. A noble occupation that!
| doubt ii you could find thorough
bred Sybarite in the ranks of labor,
we're SO easily pleased, and this should
make 1t the easier to bridge our diff
culties. We have no segregated inter.
ests, no class hobbies to foster. Our
greatest welfare lies in the welfare of
the community and our greatest enemy
-monopoiy--is equally the enemy of
the community.-Co in Ty-
biographical Journal.