The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

union having adopted a label has
set of specific rules under which these
labels are granted They regulate
wages, hours and conditions of labor
and signify and guarantee that the
product has been made under sanitary
and cleanly conditions. Every philan-
throp1st, every lover Of his kind, every
sympathizer with the hopes and aspira-
lions Of the toiling masses should give
whatever support they can to the
movement to recognize union labor by
union-labeled goods
In his address delivered on the open
ing of the convention at Evansville
last week, President H. P Miller. of
the Journeymen BARRIERS international
Union, says: I'VE must teach our
members that it is right and Just that
they should aim to better their own
individual condition, but we must
teach them also that in order to sue
coed in that purpose they must as
Sist one another like true brothers,
reaching out the helping hand to those
IN need of sympathy and assistance.
No organization can or will prosper
whose members only seek to further
their own selfish interests. No organ
izatiOn can prosper in which the help
ing hand is not offered to a brother in
distress, and where jealousy and envy
exist"
The so-called barber schools are
characterized as Infamous institutions
which were more effective in dragging
the craft beneath the level of respect
ability than any other factor; thous-
ands of young men and women leav-
ing these schools annually to enter
into competition with skilled workmen
when any one of ordinary perception
must see that it is impossible to teach
the secrets of the profession in the
brief period of time which is held out
as an inducement by them to those de-
string to learn the trade.
Mr. Miller urged the necessity of
general and active agitation through
out the land for the licensing of bar
bers, setting forth that the realization
of this object would do away with
class of incompetent workmen who are
now enabled to conduct unclean and
unhealthy holes under the miSnOmer
Of barber shops.
Mr.. Miller was reelected to the
presidency of the organization. The
headquarters have been removed from
Syracuse N. Y, to Memphis, Tenn.
The third annual conference of the
Federated Metal Trades of America
will be held at the Dennison Hotel.
Cincinnati, beginning Oct. 20. The
metal trades now affiliated with the
federation are: The international AS
ISOLATION of Machinists, International
Molders' Union of North America.
brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron
Ship Builders of America, Metal Pol
ishers Buffers, Platers and Brass
Workers Union of North America. In
ternational Brotherhood Of Black
smiths and the Pattern Makers Ma
tional League of North America
President Lee Johnson reports that
No nf "a
constitution, a number Of local coun
ellis have been organized in various
cities and that in consequence q close
cooperation obtained between the
metal trades than had been hitherto
possible.
No so-called pure and simple trades
unionist has ever said that the pres
ent condition of the working masses
is what it should be. Neither have
they defended such conditions, and the
alleged advanced thinker who accuses
the trades-unionist with being content
with present conditions is deliberate
falsifier and in nine cases out of ten
is lying for a purpose and in the one
exception he knows no better.-The
Tailor.
The convention to form a national
musicians union which will affiliate
with the American Federation of Labor
and for which a call was issued by the
latter body, will commence tomorrow
morning at Indianapolis. After reciting
the numerous difficulties which unions
in various cities have become involved
in. owing entirely to the divided state
the musicians were in, the call states:
Every effort has been made to bring
about a better state Of feeling, every
overture has been made, every courtesy
extended e8ery right conceded to the
National League of Musicians to be-
come aff1ffatAd with the American