St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-05-01
And the Official Organ of the Trades Assembly
at That Time Marked
Them Well.
He introduced a Resolution to Pay Men SI.2o
Day in the Trenches of
This City.

The campaign Of slander inaugurated
by the Doran shouters with the in
tention of injuring the candidacy Of
Mr.. Cullen is reacting with telling ef-
feet For the last two weeks the
henchmen Of Mr.. Doran have been cir
culating typewriter circulars setting
forth that Doran had always been the
friend of the laboring man, while Mr..
Cullen was not. This was malicious
lie, but it was in keeping with the 9TH
er tactics which the Republicans have
adopted. Investigation shows that Mr.
Doran, while in the assembly, instead
of being a friend Of the wage Garner
was directly the opposite of what h
and his friends have claimed. Th
proof of Doran's hy .ocrisy, and thf
fact that he Is only now posing as
friend of the laboring man to secure
votes, cannot be denied. The records o.
the common council given below arc
sufficient to prove this. If furthe.
proof is needed that is also furnished
by the official organ of the labor or
ganizations, which spoke in no uncer-
tain terms of the action of this hot
and cold friend of the wage Garner
Read the facts published below and
be convinced.
On May 25, 1893, the assembly voted
for a resolution fixing the wages of
unskilled labor on the streets at 1871
cents for each hour worked. This
resolution was voted for by Aid. Cullen
and all the members of the board of
aldermen. The only member of the
council who opposed the adoption of
the resolution was Assemblyman Light
ner. The resolution was approved by
the mayor on May 27, 1893, and went
into effect at once. That there may
be no dispute on this question, the fol-
lowing is taken from page 11S of the
official council proceedings of 1893:
Bd F No. 2239-By AID Jensen
Resolved, That the pay of the unskilled
laborers on the street force of the city of
St. Paul be, and the same is hereby fixed at
the sum Of eighteen and three-quarter cents
Q8%) for each and every hour of work.
Resolved, further, that pay of a driver and
double team on said street force be, and the
same is hereby fixed at the sum Of thirty
seven and one-half (371a) cents for each and
every hour of work.
Resolved, further, That all resolutions and
parts of resolutions inconsistent with the
provisions hereof are hereby. repealed.
Adopted by the board Of aldermen May 16,
1898.
Yeas-Ald. conley, Cullen, Dorniden, Frank
lin Hickman Jensen, Montgomery Warren,
Zimmerman, Mr.. President-10.
NayS-0.
Adopted by the assembly May 25, 1893.
Yeas-Messrs. Doran, DAILY, johnson, Rear
don, sandell, Schuette, Van Slyke. Mr.. Pres
ident-S.
Nays-Mr. Lightner-1.
Approved May 27 1893
So far, so good. Mr.. Doran at this
particular time was as good a friend
of the laboring man as any other MEM
ber of the council, and nothing more.
He voted for the resolution, and SO did
Mr.. Cullen.
On Oct. 2, 1893, Mr.. Doran introduced
in the assembly the following fesolu-
tion, which is copied from the original
document now on file in the city clerks
office. The resolution reads as follows:
A'y F No. 1527-By Mr.. Doran-
Resolved, That hereafter the city engineer
and all committees of the city of st. Paul,
or committees appointed under resolutions of
the common council, be instructed to pay
for manual labor on the streets or on the
sewers not to exceed l5 cents per hour.
Adopted by the assembly Oct. 2, 1893
Yeas-Messrs. DORAN, Reardon johnson,
Schuette, MIR. Presidents.
Nays-Messrs. Daily, Van Slyke-2.
On Oct. 8, 1893, the next night, the
board of aldermen held meeting, and
the account of what took place at the
meeting regarding this matter is quot
ed from the Pioneer Press columns Of
the following day, Oct. 4, 1S93 This
account is published in order that there
can be no question about the correct
ness of the proceedings, and that there
can be no charge Of political bias:
Extract from the Pioneer Press Oct 4. 1ss3.)
The resolutions introduced by. Assembly
man Doran at the meeting of the assembly
Monday. fixing the rate of wages to be paid
manual laborers at Is cents an hour. ELECTED
considerable discussion Aid. Franklin was
decidedly opposed to it and moved that it
he indefinitely postponed. When the city, :"
he said, "gets so poor that it cannot afford
to pay its laborers more. than 15 cents an
hour it should go into bankruptcy. The
adoption of this resolution would be wiring
ing the life blood from the worthy poor.
The men who have been working on the
streets have not had employment steadily.
but only one week out OF three or four. The
council passed a resolution short time ago
fixing $l.50 as the price for days labor,
and don't think it should go back on its
Aid. Cullen was opposed to commencing