The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-19
Az. OF |. OPEN HOUSE
Instructive and Witty Speeches Made
By the Members.
AN ABLE TALK BY Mr.. RYAN
The Gentleman Is a Fluent Orator
and His Words Struck the Spot
-Other Addresses by Flo
quent Speakers.

The American Federation Of Labor
kept open house last evening for their
friends and the delegates to the con-
vention. They had a very sociable
time of 1t. President Sorenson pre-
sided
During the evening refreshments
were served of a liquid and more sub
stantial nature. Addresses were made
by every one who caught the chair
mans eye or who had a friend in the
audience and was called upon. The
ball was set rolling by addresses from
President Ferguson of the council and
President Calderhead of the late In
dustrial conference. Secretary eau
field also made a few remarks. T. s.
Hogan made a neat little speech in
behalf of Morley assembly.
William Strauss of Detroit, said that
consolidation of the state conference
and the council was a good thing and
a most important step in the history
of labor. In union there Is strength,
and hasten the day when all trades
shall combine in one magnificent cable
with power to move the earth.
]. ]. Ryan of Kalispell. was called
out and spoke very pleasantly and to
the point for about 10 minutes.
Many people to-day have ar idea."
said he, that the cause Of labor aims
solely at the advancement of wages.
This is mistake OF serious character
The cause of labor is the cause of civil
ization.
I'm days gone by the swineherds of
England wore a collar, inscribed Slave
to Sir Dick, the Saxon Here in this
audience tonight are men descendants
of the swineherd, but they are not
slaves. The cities. the grand institu-
tions of to-day are monuments to the
cause of labor.
Some men profess to think that la
Dor organizations are hostile to all
capital; that union men carry dyna-
mite In their pockets, that when their
meetings are raped to order by the
president, he uses the thigh bone Of
banker for a gavel. Such ideas are
wrong, 1t Is useless to say.
I'm this audience tonight I see an ar
ray of intelligent faces. The words
spoken are those Of thoughtfulness-
earnest and patriotic. No party con-
vention in Montana has been able to
boast of a higher standard of intelh-
gence than that here represented in
this convention.
Labor is only in its early morning,
and it's cause will progress as the day
comes. noiselessly and transformations
ly.
We have found fault with the courts,
but II these are corrupt who have we
to blame but ourselves. In this great
commonwealth of Montana the voters
are supreme, and the voters are the
workingmen. Our ballots are those
which elect our judges, our ballots
make our lawmakers; then why COM
plain. If there are evils. we are the
men to adjust them"
He illustrated his points by funny
stories which added interest to his talk
and ne was frequently applauded.
4 ot-1o
ably on Home Industry" The pat
ronage Of home products, he said. is
the first proposition that organized la
Dor has advanced which received i'm
mediate endorsement by the associat-
ed press. From the experience of the
unions and the Anaconda public, he
could endorse the idea. Where once
800 Cinnamon were harbored in this
city, there are now but IL of the Mon
golians. Last year the money paid to
white cooks and walters amounted to
s65,000. A steam laundry employing %
beside many women are now making
comfortable Ivings by washing. Home
industry pays wherever it Is enforced,
and IL non-union or foreign-made
goods are sold the purchasers and con-
eumers alone are to blame. Merchants
will sell what their customers de-
mand.
Editor H. M. Beadle Of the Helena
News spoke In a sarcastic vein of the
politician whom, he said, must be all
right, because the laboring people al
ways followed them on election day.
the friends of the dear people. The
duty of to-day Is to educate, not only
ourselves, but our children. II we fail
ed to get proper schooling, don't neg
lect the children. The great trouble
with this worlds civilization is that IL
has refrigerated instead of going for
ward. About 600 years ago men only
worked eight hours a day; a mechanic
could earn enough in from three to six
months to keep his family the rest of
the year; but II Is different now.
M. w. Stills was called upon and
spoke eloquently and well on the prob
lens of the day. and predicted a bril-
liant future. congratulating the con-
vention upon the consolidation effected
during the afternoon.
The session lasted until after mid
night. and when everyone had said his
say and been fed, the meeting adjourn
ed, with many words of appreciation
for the hospitality OF the A. F. of L.