St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-13
UNIFORM IN THE TWIN CITIES.
EVERY BRICKLAYER TO BE AC-
CEPTED ON THE PAYMENT OF
ONE DOLLAR.
Roast for a Local Newspaper-An
Address by John
Swift.

N--N AANANSA VI SoVb Aciu Oil DuI
prolonged session at Assembly halls, Sunday
afternoon. Chairman Brown called the meet
ing to order, and in the course of his remarks
stated that the meeting was called for the
purpose of settling existing difficulties and
adopting uniform scale for the bricklayers
Of both cities, and more than all else to
bring into the union every bricklayer outside
| its jurisdiction. After several present had
been recognized, Delegate Mccoy took the
floor and spoke In the interests of harmony.
There were $50 loyal members in Minneapolis
and he thought the st. Paul men should bury
all differences and begin anew. No old sores
should be reopened. but everybody should
work for harmony. The only way to secure it
was to help one another One delegate re-
marked that those who took thirty-five cents
an hour always had work. while those who
held out for forty cents walked the streets
lie was Immediately sat upon and as quickly
subsided. One Of those present objected to
the word "scab," as an unlawful term. and
the one who had used it admitted that il
was slip OF. the tongue and he withdrew
the epitaph. The Minneapolis bricklayers
present insisted that they had no sore spots
because st. Paul men worked on the armory
building. All they desired was harmony. and
that the word should commence with a cap-
1tal II. The idea that there were two cities
should be done away with. Another delegate
said there should be no dividing line, not
even Canada. Pills, and bitter ones at that.
had at times to be swallowed by trades union
lists, but there was no reason why union and
non-unlon men should not be cemented to-
gether in the same manner as bricks in
building practically become one and insep-
arabic through the use of water, lime and
sand. If the bricklayers unitedly demanded
forty cents an hour, Contractor Mcleod or
any other contractor, would grant it. The in
d1cations for work in Minneapolis were better
than last year, and he believed the situation
IN ST. Paul was on a parallel with that of
the Flour City. All that was needed here
was enthusiasm. In Illinois forty-fiye cents
an hour was paid, and he saw no reason Why
the contractors of Minnesota could not pay
1t. Mr. Powers moved that rising vote on
forty cents an hour be taken. but was met
with strong opposition, on the ground that
every one present desired 10 secure as much
as possible, and even if $40 day was asked
1or, every man present would vote in favor
OF II II he thought he could get it,
Mr. Thurber was vociferously cheered SNen
ne expressed the thought that 81 day was
not too much for eight hours work when
PROFESSIONAL men could command ten times
that amount for fve-minute speech hut
the Workfngmen would never get it until
they separated themselves from the pres-
ent political parties and instituted one of
thelr own. The chair here called Mr. Pow
ers to act. He said those in attendance
were there for the purpose of consolidating
and as member of No. l. of St. Paul he
advocated the admission of those outside the
union on the payment of 81. All profess
s1ons wanted all they could get Physi-
| clans educated themselves and their nos
terlty and the children, like the fathers
charged $3 for looking at a patients tongue
Ihe br1cklayers got less for eight and ten
hours work. In his time he had received 81
a day, but whether he got so cents or $40 he
proposed to die bricklayer. The motion
OF Mr.. Powers asking for a rising vote on 40
cents an hour was withdrawn.
AT this point proposition containing eight
sections was submitted by committee from
the non-unionists. The communication was
read, section Of which met with consider
able opposition. 1t called on the Pioneer
Press for retraction Of statement intimat
ing that those at work for 35 Gems an hour on
the armory building of the state university
were socialists. No. l. of st. Paul denied
that the reporter who wrote up the meeting
had any authority from the union to do so,
Dut 1t simply emanated from the disordered
brain OF one desirous Of gaining notoriety as
| the great scooper" of the Northwest. One
Oh tnose present accused Jack Brown of Civ
ing out the information, but the chair ruled
that Jack Brown, Jim Brown. Tom Brown or
any other Brown had no grounds for doing so.
and offered to submit the minutes of No. 1
to any one who desired to inspect them. The
matter was finally settled by No. l agreeing
to publish notice in the Pioneer Press that
the statement made out of whole cloth.
and no such action was taken by the union
of st. Paul.
The resolutions were then called for, and.
with the exception of No. {, which alone af-
fected the Minneapolis bricklayers, were
adopted by a rising vote of the ST. Paul men,
bers, the chairman of the committee present.
ing them accepting them as as acted on:
Section No. 1 to the effect that the
union would accept every bricklayer in the
city, paying 81, which would entitle him to
work without further payment until July /.
Section No. amends the local constitution
so that all time should be kept by the shop
steward, whose duty it would be to see that
no one worked for less than the regular scale
price.
Section No. provides that the ones first ap-
plying for situation shall be given first op-
portunity Of working, no favoritism to be
shown on account Of nationality, youth or age.
Section No. T. calling ON Pioneer Press for
retraction, stricken out, but Union No. 1 Of
st. Paul will disavow interview in relation
to socialists.
Section No. demands pay day every two
weeks.
Section No. s-AbolItion of sick benefit in
st. Paul No. 1.
Section No. 7 demands retention of brick
layers working armory building
Section No. calls for enforcement Of an
article submitted by executive committees of
st. Paul and Minneapolis, which makes the
scale uniform in both cities.
BY the adoption of the above, section by
section, everything is now harmonious. The
non-union men to be taken into the union
on payment Of 81, and 40 cents an hour will
hereafter be demaded by every bricklayer in
the Twin Cities.
After the adoption Of the resolutions John
Swift, OF Minneapolis, was called on for a
speech, and his remarks, at times bordering on
the eloquent, brought forth rounds of ap-
plause.
One Of the delegates present announced
that there was a reporter in the hail. Chair
man Brown said he was glad of it. An ami
mated discussion ensued, and when it was an
nounced by T. L. Hughes, of the carpenters
uniOn that the rennrfnr ,,,aubor