The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-18
Eighteenth Annual Session
Of Trades Federation
Well Attended.
MAYOR YARDS APOLOGY
Workingmen Declare for the Elec-
lion Of All Public officers
BY Popular Vote.
Speeial to the Jerseu Citp NeuA

Chamber at the State House. j. r. NC
Donnell of Paterson read the report OF
the Executive Board, which was practi-
cally a of the work of the Fed
for the past year. Trentons labor
| organizations were conspicuous by their
failure to have representatives. Owing
to the hard times the was
not large, and the principal representa-
ton came from Hudson, Essex and Pas
sale county organizations. The conven-
ton was notable for its harmony, there
being no heated discussions or wrangles
of any kind.
President William Yeull. of Newark
| called the Congress to order at eleven
o'clock. Mayor Yard of Trenton in an
address explained his presence in an out
ing shirt by saying tina he had forgotten
about the convention until it was too
late to make a change. He had come
from the shore in the morning and he
made the explanation to counteract any
suspicious that he had SO appeared for
any purpose Of effect. The Mayor stated
further that he was a w-orkingman and
that he had worked many years in a
blacksmith shop. He regretted that his
observations and readings forced the
conclusion that labor and capital were
getting farther and farther apart. He adj
vised the delegates to give careful atten-
ton to the matters which would come up
before them, and said that in the dispo-
sition of matters in dispute between
capital and labor there should be an APP
plicationdsof the Golden Rule, which re-
quires us TO do unto others as we would
have them do unto us. He was pleased,
he said, to be present at a representative
labor meeting, and expressed his thanks
for the compliment which had been paid
him.
Secretary R. E. Buero, of New Bruins
wick, of the State Federation, was made
Secretary of the Congress, and James
geant-at-Arms.
The President said he did rot deem it
necessary to make an address. He adj
vised the Congress to give its %ttentio
largely towards some method or scheme
by which the various labor organizations
Of the State could be strengthened. He
thought it wise to leave legislative mat
ters alone until the trades unions had be-
come sufficiently strong in numbers to
warrant their making a demand ON the
grant their request. The committees
were then announced.
An invitstion having been extended to
S4f9i ~ oiillI1CLilIdD, NIlC1 VI lI6
State Bureau of Labor Statistics, he adj
q W9ak Of 'n the e0f Burea@a e we pf eaaesns
We're constantly arising for the Bureau
to solve, and the demand for the statis-
teal information was constantly on the in
crease. The Bureau is simply an edu-
cational work, he said. L gives the facts
problems must be solved. Attention has
been g ana 6 to nearly n every phase gs Of he
reau has facts and figures that have never
been gwen bafo or meyer at Sstempted to be
ton of the State Labor and Statistical
Bureau held in Albany recently, it was
resolved that next year all of the Bne
neanS aGn owns nvsIf,g az ra ahe RFeolsm Of
gaslight. street railways, etc. Each Bn-
reau will report upon the subject of
publication the total result throughout
the country. This year the Bureau is
getting returns Of manufacturers which
material used for their Industry, the num-
Der of men employed and the number re-
ceiyin.g from s. a week up. in each es-
tieating the oyster question. which it con-
siders one Of the most important of New
Jerseys industries.
tention had been given to the question of
free employment Bureaus. He denounced
the present employment offices as being
working people. The State could estab-
lish the offices where everybody out of
employment could register free of expense
r%eeister at a cost of not over $1,000 an
officer per annum. AT present. he con-
tinued; IN Newark. Camden and Trenton
900 to over s23. 900 for his service. Some
thing in this line should be lone. he said.
as a matter of right to the unrortunates
who are ont of employment.
The afternoon session was called TO on
der at WI O'Clock and the minutes of tre
last annual session were read. It took
Secretary Buero exactly one and one
half hours to read the minutes. The min
utes were adopted without debate.
The Committee on Resolutions presented
the Executive Board to cooperate with
the Bakers Union of the State to secure
the enactment of two amendments to the
bakeshop inspection law passed at the
last session of the Legislature. so that
the law will prohibit employees from work
ing more han sixty hours a week, and
providing for two additional Deputy Fac
tory Inspectors to enforce sha law. con-
dentning the action of several unscrupn-
louS employers. who, seeking to impose
upon their employees an object lesson, pay
them in foreign coin; urging the defeat
of the proposed Constitutional amend
ments, especially those providing for the
extension of the terms of Office of the
Governor, State Senators and Assembly,
men; recommending a Constitutional con-
ventson and demanding the election Of all
public officers from the president of the
United States 10 Tax Assessor by popu-
lar vote.
officers for the ensuing year were elect
ed as follows;-President, William Yeull,
Newark; rst vsea-preSidetn., William
Marburger, Newark; second vice-presi-
Robert E. Buero. New Brunswick; assist
ant secretary, Frank Mooney, Jersey
City; treasurer, J. Howell Reeves. Bridge
Newark.
j. P. Mcdonnell, chairman of the Exc