The San Francisco call., 1896-02-17
PROMINENT FACES CONVENTION YESTERDAY.


tions in San Francisco, which held its
first session Friday night, met yesterday
morning and afternoon at 1859 Mission
street. There was a large attendance of
delegates, nearly every one of whom en-
tered into the spirit of the occasion with
enthusiasm, with the result that a plat
form was adopted as the sentiment of the
labor organizations.
The committee on resolutions submitted
its report, the secretary first reading the
cigarmakers' resolutions denouncing pri-
vate ownership of lands and tools and
containing socialistic recommendations.
a discussion arose when the convention
was asked to pass upon this document
r. 7. McIvor of the Painters and Deco
rators' Union held that the report Of the
committee on resolutions be read. and
made a motion to that effect, as n. Blum
of the cigarmakers wanted his resolution
considered forthwith by the convention.
McIvor's motion was carried.
The declaration OF principles from the
Painters Union on equalization of capital
and labor was then read, but no sooner
was the reading finished than another dis
cussion as TO what constituted the COM
mittee's report took place. The conven-
ton was not quite clear on this point,
some delegates maintaining that each res
olution should be acted on separately
while Others thought that definite report
should be offered.
LAS member of the committee on reso-
lutions," said J. J. Ryan of the Boiler
makers Union. 81 recommend that the
report OF the committee be adopted"
The manner OF proceeding has been
already settled by notion McIvor
added.
All the resolutions presented at Friday
1ierkf fr@il
NJ. McGlynn, for law to be enacted by
the next Legislature making it illegal to
bring private detectives-the Pinkertons-
into California; from Bakers Union No.
"a, to improve the sanitary condition of
bakeshops; from r. T.. McIvoT, on the
hours of labor and method of production !;
from the Typograph ical Union, that labor
unions publish papers for free distribu-
ton; from the Carpenters Union of Oak
land, protesting against the violation of
the eight-hour law and to invoke the aid
of Congress TO enforce the law. When all
were read they were taken up singly for
discussion.
First came the resolutions of the Cigar
makers Union. I. +. Burns (Cigarmak.
ers) moved that the resolutions be acce pied
as the sense of the convention and the pre-
ambe be adopted as the foundation upon
which the proposed labor organization is
10 be built. \. Blum spoke at some length
in support OF his resolution. He urged the
necessity OF workingmen taking up poll
tics IN their own behalf. The working
men, he declared, had had enough expert
ence voting for the capitalist, for now they
are beginning to see the results of their
political work in that direction. The en-
ployer. the capitalist, had at last a gun
capable of firing 400 times a minute on a
mob from police wagon.
j. J. Ryan (Boilermakers0 said prac-
tically the same thing by way of corrobora-
ton. He stated his conviction that work
ingmen should no longer vote for the cor
ner politician or the capitalist, but should
legislate for themselves As an ilIustra-
ton he said that workingmen who had
done this in Montana had raised the
minimum rate of wages in Butte CITY to
s. day and IN Anaconda to 81 90 per day.
I. f. Burns (Cigar-makersD said that
the preamble and resolutions shonld bs
considered as scientific proposition. and
hoped that the motion would prevail, for
then San Francisco would stand before the