The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-15
ASSEMBLY HALLS BULLETIN.
Meetings to Be Held by Organized
Labor This Week

Hack and Cabmen's .......To Today
a. H. y, zi4 Monday
stage employees ..-................Tu tuesday
1aIpenteFs 49,. ...'..-........'...I uesoay
aarnessmakers ...... .........-........ Tuesday
brlchlayerS 80. THURSDAY
Garment Workers ................. Thursday
Boot and Shoe Workers ............. Friday
Lithographers ......... ........-..... Saturday
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor held three
day session the latter part of the past
month at which the following repre-
sentatives of the railway brotherhoods
were in attendance: Grand Chief Nor
rissey, of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen; Secretary Arnold, of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen,
and Grand Chief Clark, of the Order of
Railway Conductors. The immediate
purpose of the conference was to secure
a unanimity Of sentiment among the
several elements of organized labor to-
ward the so-called injunction
tempt" and the railway arbitration
bills introduced in the last congress.
The representatives of the railway or
ders expressed themselves as being
fayorably disposed toward both of the
proposed measures and the council
pledged its cooperation to secure the
passage of the first mentioned while
the second was referred to the coming
convention. The t'injunction-contem pt"
bill inSures the accused a trial by Jury
and an appeal to the supreme court.
The railway arbitration bill applies to
railway transportation wholly on land
or partly by water. 1t is not compul-
sorry, as it is expressly stated arbitra-
ton may be had, upon request of both
parties concerned, the railroads and
the labor organizations. IT also stinu-
Iates that the status existing prior to
disagreement must be maintained not
that occurring after and no nerson
snail De punished as for contempt of
court. The arbitrators are to be select
co. one by the railroad one by the
unions, the third by both; or. falling
TO 90 so, the commissioner of the de-
partment of labor at Washington shall
act Any person dissatisfied with the
award shall not. by reason of such dis
satisfaction, quit work before the ex
piration Of three months, without CIV
Ing thirty days notice; but such person
Is not prevented from quitting because
OF any other reason. The same applies
to the railroads. All organizations are
not bound by the decision. only those
agreeing to arbitrate
Grand Chief Clark was invited nv
the council to attend the convention of
the Federation in December.
Samuel Woods and John MalIinson
are the fraternal delegates selected nv
the British Trade Union congress to
represent it in the sixteenth annual
convention OF the American Federation
n NV do, =
years of age and has been member Of
parliament. He is g. vice president of
the miners federation of Great Britain
and took an active part in the great
coal strike Of 1893. He is a teetotaIer.
a musician, an educationaIst and a
beptlst, IN the latter capacity being a
lay preacher, frequently occupying the
pulpit on Sundays Mr.. Mallinson is a
shoemaker thirty-s seven years of age
He is a member of the Edinburgh city
council and secretary of the trades
council of that city. He was three
tunes delegate to the national con-
gress and served as chairman Of the
Edinburgh sessions in September last
The extent to which child and woman
labor can demOralize wages is remark
ably evidenced in the wood working in
dustry In his report to the convention
of the Amalgan1ated Woodworkers' In
ternational union at Detroit last-nonth
the general secretary says:
"Woodworkers' wages are steadily decreas-
Ing In Cincinnati, one of the large furni-
ture factories pays seven cents an hour to
cabinet makers, and in San Francisco some
OF the employees of one of the largest estab-
make 50 and $3.50 per week"
He urged the convention to formulate a
plan whereby statistics on woodworkers'
wages, and the system Of woman and child
labor that obtains in our Northwestern states
could be gathered and published. In 1892 the
minimum wage Of woodworkers in the North
western lumber states was eight cents an
hour; then 1t went down gradually until it
reached five cents hour At the conven-
ton, a Wisconsin delegate stated that he had
been offered employment at four cents an
hour by one of the wealthiest corporatins in
the state Quite number of men are now
employed by this concern who receive only
40 for a weeks work.
The general council, elected for the next
two years, is: President, D. D. Mulcahy,
Detroit; secretary, Thes. I. Kidd, Chicago ;
treasurer Henry Engelkins. Chicago; Chas.
Chance Minneapolis; j. W. Goggins, St.
Louis; w. J. Wolfe, Toronto.
Hereafter all business will be transacted
through the referendum, the regular eonven-
tons being abolished, and the officers win
be elected by popular vote.
During the past year the American Fedora
ton of Labor has gained 6S, 292 members In
the last seven months 1S7 charters were issued
of which six were to national unions; twenty
one to central labor bodies and two to state
unions.
National unions of butchers coremakers
and bicycle workers will be formed during
the third week in December in Cincinnati.
National Trades Council 35. knights OF
Labor, composed of brewery workers, has
been dissolved, and thus the connection of
the National Brewery Workers union with
the K. of L., which has been a bar to COM
posite recognition by the American Federation
of Labor of the former and its union label,
has been brught to an end.
Louis KalIen has been elected president of
the United Garment Workers of America,
vice Charles Reichers, resigned. Ex-Presi-
dent Reichers has gone into business. Mr..
who visited this city about year ago as
organizer
Kansas City unions are worked up over the
formation of a military organization in the
high school, known as the cadets. The board
Of education has sanctioned the move and
the unions think IT Is q scheme to increase
the military at the expense OF the taxpayers.
teachers pension bill has been prepared,
which it is the intention to introduce at the
coming session of the Minnesota legislature.
The bill provides generally for a Withholding
Ct 1 per cent of the teachers monthly SAL
airy for pension fund, applicable to teach
ers who have taught for twenty years, fifteen
OF which must be in one place. It is argued
for teachers who have done good work and
who have grown gray IN the service of the
schools. One effect of the pension would be
to prevent the migration of teachers, now 50
detrimental to the schools of the state.
Saws local daily: "It now seems clear
that all Of the proposed constitutional amend
ments were adopted by vote Of the people at
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