The morning times., 1895-11-12
IN SPARKLING SPEECHES
Electrical Workers Begin Their
Annual Convention.
HELD AN OPEN MEETING
Pleasant Addresses Made by Mem
bcrs OF the Local Assembly and
the Visiting Delegates Standing
Committees Appointed. TO Arrange
for the Working Sessions.

Tie fourth annual convention of the
National brotherhood OF Electrical Workers
was opened last evening with q public
meeting at the headquarters OF local 26,
No. S21 Seventh street northwest.
Previous 10 the holding OF ihe open meet
ing an informal meeting of The delegates
was held a Hotel Yendone at which the
following committees were appointed:
Ruies-Geo. a. Neal, Philadelphia. chair
man; Henry HIATT, Philadelphia: J. II. Ma
loney, San Antonia, Texas: i. +. Mctzler,
local 26, ID. c.; j. c. MCGUIRE, Rochester,
y. Y.
Lave. L. White, Chicago, chairman;
Geo. A. Neal, J. c. MoGuire, John NJ. Berger,
local 26, ID. c.; Henry HIATT
Credentials-Chas. Dougherty, st. Louis;
+. II. WissenGer, Baltimore; c. L. White,
Harry Fisher, Indianapolis; and j. A. Cald-
well, Boston, Mass
These committees will report at the OPEN
ing session, which Will he convened at
Typographical Hall this morning.
The meeting at headquarters Of local
&c, was presided over by Grand President
Henry w Sherman of Rochester. y. Y.
ADDRESS OF THE CHAIRMAN.
ON taking the chair President Sherman
said lie was always glad to be with his
brothers, the electrical workers, and
would go anywhere TO meet them, but still
It was to him 4 greater pleasure TO meet
here, the home of his bOyhood.
Tie electrical workers, though only
organized four or five years ago, had, lie
said, made phenomenal prog ress- They
had seen many ups and downs, passed
through the panic of 1874 and were stiil
alive. So lie did not think that at this time
they had anything to complain OF.
The people Of this country are rapidly
finding out. said he, that brain does not
exist solely beneath plug hat or is borne
only by polished shoes. Worktngnien
do not know their own strength, but they
are fast becoming educated. and as soon as
they do this they organize, for in organ
izatiOn they find strength. protection and
individual and general betternIent-
Mr.. sherman, in concluding. referred to
several great strikes, especially that OF the
garment cutters in Rochester, n. Y. all
of which had been won by the strikers, as
examples of the influence and power OF
organized labor.
The next speaker was Nationa! Organizer
C. L. White of Chicago. He had been
over the greater part Of tie United States
and found the electrical workers doing
| fairly we'll but he thought that local 26
! had a little the best of it with any other in
| the brotherh ood.
OTHER CHEERING WORDS.
Mr.. George \. Neal OF Philadelphia spoke
| of the great " ork which would claim the at
| tention of the delegates at this convention
and hoped they would be thorough and con-
servative in their action.
| Mr. p II. Messenger of Baltimore said
| every man had a hobby anu his was that
every man should do good work. II
| was not the quantity, but the quality oil
! work, that was telling nowadays, ana II
| was the only means the workingman hau oil
making his Importance felt.
Mr. Henry Miller, an old Washingtonian
j aud one OF the charter members OF loca
%, but now a resident of Chicago. was
the next speaker. He advised closer ar
| riliation between the electrical workers
aud the great labor Organizations OF th'
country. He then complained OF the wage
paid the workers aud compared them witt
| that of the bricklayers in Baltimore. whC
receive 81 per day. while au electrical
worker only gets $3.50.
Some men are like Grover Cleveland
| he said, they think their places cannot b'
| filled but they are wTou@, as We vii
show him IN 1886. He advised electrical
| workers to educate themselves up to The
| highest standard as the only way TO mak'
their positions permanent
Grand Secretary and Treasurer J. T
Kelly and ]. II. Maloney also made shor
| addresses.
At the close of the meeting Mr.. Georg'
| Niles was introduced and on behalf o.
Mr. Thomas Walsh invited the delegate
TO an oyster roast tomorrow evening a
his saloon. on ID street, between Ninth an'
Tenth streets.