St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-13
THE FIGHT AGAINST CAPITAL Is
TALKED OF BY LABOR LEAD
ERS FROM ABROAD.
SOCIALISTS CAN ASSIST.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE w.
O. Il. U. AT THE A. +. l..
CONVENTION.
THE LADIES MAKE SPEECHES
Resolution Against Constitution ms
That Restrict the Liberty of
the People.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Among the
miscellaneous business introduced
today at the Federation of Labor
convention was the approval of
proposition to appoint a conciliation
or arbitration committee for the pur-
pose of bringing about a settlement
of the labor union differences in
Chicago. 1t was announced that an
agreement had been effected between
the Boot and Shoe Workers Ma
tional union and the American Boot
and Shoe Workers union, of Chica-
go, whereby the latter will use the
label. This means in all probability
that the two will be combined as
one.
President Mcbride stated that four
ladies, representing the National
Woman's Christian Temperance
union, were present and would ad-
dress the convention. He then in
troduced Mrs. Mary Burt, president
Of the W. G. T. U. She said she
came to bring the greeting of Miss
Frances E. Willard, president of the
National Christian Temperance
union, who, through the delegation.
took the members of the convention
by the hand in kindly sympathy.
This greeting came from the world.
inasmuch as Miss Willard is presi-
dent of the national union. The
Federation of Labor and the w. C.
T. U. had many purposes in COM
mon, and through the we'll directed
efforts of the federation this coun-
try would take first rank in the in
dustrial world. Mrs. Burt spoke of
the serious results of liquor among
the working classes, and the fedora
ton should seriously consider it.
Mrs. j. H. w. Stuckenberg, nation
al superintendent of the department
of temperance and labor of the w. C.
L. u, of Cambride, Mass, spoke at
some length of the questions of her
society. She said the laboring peo-
pie had much to do to look after the
liquor question Mrs. Emile D. Mar
tin, national superintendent of the
department of purity in literature
and art, and Mrs. Frances K.
Barnes, national superintendent of
young women's work of the w. C.
7. o., spoke on similar subjects. 1t
was voted to have the speeches of
the first two representative printed
in the official organ of the fedora
ton.
UNITED AGAINST CAPITAL.
E. ]. Convey, the English repre-
sentative of the miners union, was
then called to the platform. He
said he had good news for the peo-
pie, and that was that a big strike
of shipbuilders in Scotland had at
last been settled, and the capitalists
had failed. The terms are an in
crease of wages now and again in
February. Mr.. Convey said he be-
1ieved in unions, and because of it
he was here. He had fought in his
country for years, and as a result
he is satisfied that unionism is the
only logical conclusion man can
ing, he said:
81 hope the time will come when the
English-speaking people shall become
united on the one common ground
against our enemy-capital."
]. Mawdsley, the other representative,
and who comes from the mule spin
ners' union of Manchester, Eng, was
introduced. He said he would not talk
on sentimentals, as there had been
enough of that so far this week. He
felt pretty sure that if he were
capitalist he would be as wicked as
the other capitalists; and every other
man in the hall, he thought, would
be the same. The men who work for
their own betterment should work in