The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-18
In LABOR'S KINGDOM
The Meeting Of the Trades and Labor
Council Last Evening.
SPEECHES BY DELEGATES
To the State Convention. Which
Meets To-Day-The Session
Opens at O'Clock In
Foskett's Hall.

The Trades & Labor council. which
meets every SUNDAY evening In Fos-
kett's hall. struck a bonanza last night
in the way of speakers. which have
been a scarce article in meetings here
fofore. The delegates to the state
convention were. many OF them, on
hand, and as many as possible were
called upon to get out and say word
or two to the audience.
President Ferguson made brief re-
marks He said that he was glad to
see so much unionism as there Is In
Anaconda. He had seen enough en-
thusiasm in the meeting already to
convince him that there is enough OF
the union idea in this city to fill the
state with organized labor.
Secretary Caufield of Great Falls
was very glad when he found that
there was a meeting of the local coun-
Gil to attend. From the reports he
had received as secretary from all
parts of the state he believed the con-
vention to-day would be a success and
would result in much good to the cause
of labor In Montana and perhaps In
the Northwest.
Delegate Bruins of Missoula made a
very neat little talk In which he recog-
nized labor as the foundation of the
republic and as important factor In
the government as capital. He favored
education of the laboring classes as a
most Important feature in moyepents
for the aid of unionism
Editor Beadle of the Helena News
lodged making a speech by calling out
President william Strauss of the De-
troit Cigarmakers' union No. p, as a
man who was making a tour OF the
country and who had lots to say OF In
terest to the council.
President Strauss said he had been
almost all over the East and now he
was on his wav to the coast I'm the in
terest of the blue label cigar. He said
when he told his friends he was COM
ing to Montana they thought he was
going among the Indians. Yet, since
he was in the state ne now stood be-
fore as intelligent an audience OF saw
ages as he had met anywhere on his
travels. He also observed that the saw
ages aforesaid were exceedingly well
posted on labor problems. The boy
colt, he said is labor's strongest weap-
on and Is capable of most effectual use.
He asked laboring men not to wait for
committees to report when boycott
Is ordered. but to act for themselves in
the purchase OF their necessities, where
they knew that the principles or union
ism were violated.
f. T. Low of the Helena Typographi-
cal union made few remarks and said
there was not very much going on In
his home town. They were agitating
the blue label cigar patronage, but he
did not know of more than three union
cigarmakers in town. The prospects
for any excitement or stir there in Ia
Dor circles. he said. were not fiatter-
ing, for between the Chinese and other
people thew could not do very much.
The railroad men were represented
by Tim Slatterv. who made long and
fervent talk in behalf of the million
of railroad employees West of the Mis-
sissippi they are unorganized and at
the mercy of the magnates who control
transcontinental roads. He spoke, ask
ing the council in every way possible
TO extend sympathy and aid to the rail-
road men. The only malice which he
ever had IN his heart Is toward a scab
and had men who professed to be la
boring men and union men been true
to their principles. the great struggle
of last year would have had a different
ending.
John Haunsman. Jerry Connolly, w.
r. Rogers and others addressed the
meeting briefly.