The morning times., 1895-11-19
BY THE MASTER WORKMAN.
Mr. Sovereign and Others Addressed
the Open Meeting.

Mr.. Sovereign and Others Addressed
the Open Meeting.
General Master Workman Sovereign and
several of the delegates TO the General As
senbIy of K. OF l.. addressed large meet
ing last evening at Society Temple corner
OF Fifth and G streets northwest
Tie meeting was held under the aus
pices of Carpenters Council, and was at
tended by nearly every member of the craft
in the city. Besides these there were
present representatives OF every other
trade.
Tie meeting was called to order by Mr.
W F. Moran, master workman OF Carpen-
ters' Association ro. 174S, K. of l., who
requested Mr.. w. II. G. Simmons, master
workman D. A. So, TO preside.
The speech of the evening was by Master
Workman Sovereign Though not car
penIef he said, lie was born under car
penter's bench and could therefore pre-
sumo to talk to carpenters BY trace he was
a stone cutter. a builder of monuments for
the dead and he intended, he said, 10 stay
in the business until he had erected a tomb
stone over ayarice, cupidity, and capitalism
He then referred to the arrest of four
men at Los Angeles. CAL because one
OF them spoke to the engineer OF passing
train. This he denounced as even greater
outrage If such a thing were possible, than
the incarceration of Dehs.
These Men were sentenced TO eighteen
mouths Imprisonment and the worst fea-
ture of 1t all Is that Justice Brewer. OF
the Supreme Court, has Just banded down
an order confirming the opinion Of the
lower court But this was necessary. he
said. for capital demanded it.
The great misfortune to the laboring
classes is. he said that they spent too
much time and money in efforts to arrange
the question OF wages This is expending
force in the wrong direction. for they all
should know that the fundamental principle
of the order is to abolish the wage system
altogether and institute cooperative
plan for the laboring classes what ad-
vantage would 1t be, he asked, for the
wages to be increased twice or treble
what they are if the cost OF all the neces-
stiles of life were proportionately in
creased. None at all. So it could easily be
seen that that should not be the end aimed
at.
II dou't know what your wages are, nor
do | want to know. l do know that as
civilization advances so do the arts ana
sciences, and with them the necessities
OF society increase. So ft is that as tue
years advance your needs and wants ac-
cumulate. Hence the necessity Tor more
money to provide them. ="
Mr. Z. j. Liuhoim of Chicago said that
the Kuights of Labor had done more TO
increase wages and shorten hours OF labor
in the United States than all other IN
fluences combined, but that was not their
ambition There was another feature, the
education OF the masses, which they were
striving for, and would not cease until they
got it,
MIR. j. N. Kenny of New York, men,
Der of the national executive board OF the
X. of L., spoke OF the displacement OF
workingmen by the introduction or ma
chinery in all branches of trade.
'.Fhe question which confronts Us then
is how is this to be counteracted: Will
it be by 10 Dor Underbidding labor? No, L
hope not The only hope for satisfactory
solution of this question is in the success
of the funda mental principles OF the h. or
l.. the cooperative system, by which the
Iaborer can get the benefit of all his labor
produces.
Machinery. while IL is a child OF the
brain, it will be noticed that IL Is the
child of the workingman's brain. for you
have never heard Of an invention by any
of the 400 or that class"
Short speeches were also made by
Thomas McCracken. y. T. A., No. 2S3.
New York: Henry Carlsss. No. 10, New
York: Frank Kelly. No. 40. New York, and
Mr.. Paul T. Bowen.