The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-14
F. 4 AND |. U. DEPT.

The committee appointed Dy the r. "A.
and I. U. convention as fraternal dele
. gates to meet with the Federation of
Labor last winter, and consisting of G.
P. Aldrich, St. Paul; T. J. Meighan, Of
Forrestville, and ex-President J. I. Yer
milyea, of Dover, are making arrange
ments to attend the Federation Of Labor
convention at St. Cloud early in May.
The purpose is to cement into closer
and more fraternal bonds the two great
organizations of Producers and Con-
sumers.
The F. A. and I. u were fortunate in
securing committee who are such suit
able men and such staunch advocates
of the F. A. and l. U. We bespeax for
them the courtesies Of the Federation
of Labor to be extended to them with
the same fraternal spirit which greeted
the fraternal delegates from the FEEDER
alton of Labor at our convention on Jan.
6 in this city by the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union Of this state
The sentiment advocated by the F. A.
and L. U. and agitated by the daily and
weekly appearance of articles upon the
subject in the reform papers of this and
neighbOring states, has already begun
to bear fruit We find that in the city
of Winona, st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth, a movement is on foot to bend
all energies and enlist the cooperation
of the citizens of those localities to pat
ronize home industries and consume
home made goods. In Winona the mer-
chants and working people have entered
into close compact, rs the following
clipping will Indicate:
WILL BUY AT HOME.
Special to the Dispatch.
Winona, Mimi, March 5-Winonians
will after this buy home made flour, if
the efforts of the Trades and Labor
Council and Business Mems association
succeed, to the exclusion of that made
elsewhere. The Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil inaugurated this movement and the
Business Mems association has agreed
to stand by them
to commence systematic and deter
| mined effort to reorganize every alliance
of the 1,431 organizations on the books
of the state secretary after the farmers
are through with their seeding and
planting, deserves the hearty co-opera-
ton of every old Alliance man in the
state, whether there is an organization
in their locality or not
The efforts of President L. C. Long
and State Lecturer Hamlin V. Poore TO
secure Mrs. Diggs. the cooperative
Wonder" to come into this state and
give the whole summer to organization
deserves the organizations most earnest
appreciation. 1t now becomes the duty
of each old Alliance president and Sec
rotary to get together and call a meet
ing of the old Alliance, and take action
whether they will organize or reorgan-
lze, and report at once to the state
president, L. c. Long, Magnolia Mimi.
who will arrange a system of county
and district demonstrations and meet
lngs, at which prominent speakers will
accompany President Long, National
Lecturer Poore, and Mrs. Diggs. These
meetings can be made the occasion of =
whole county turnout, wherein a dozen
or more Alliances can be reorganized
and Initiated at the one time. The
friends of the movement should see TO
1t at once, to take the preliminary steps
to secure the services of those earnest
and eloquent advocates of the principles
our organization teaches We should
have one hundred days work already
dated ahead when they will be ready to
start, which will be about June 1. Get a
move on your friends.