The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-12
NAT. F. A. AND |. u. DEPT.
Edited by j. c. Hanley, State secre-
tary.
At st. Paul Mr.. j. C. Hanley will re-
ceive subscriptions for The Representa-
tive at his office, 200 Washburn bldg.

I have received within the past few
weeks an inquiry for place whore
cooper shops can obtain white ash
slaves and headings; also split unshav-
en- ash hoop poles. Hoop poles need not
be white ash; also where cooper's tools
can be bought.
The creamery business in this state is
beginning to expand under the influence
of the cooperative plan since this de-
partment in the Representative was
started Already we find the coopers
trade receiving an impetus that bids fair
in the near future to put all the idle
coopers at work. We would ask the
creameries of the state to correspond
with us with the view of establishing
cooper shops in your locality on small
scale who can supply the creameries
with their butter tubs in whole county
or more according to the demands Of
the place. Nearly all the tubs used by
creameries are made in prisons, or some
nOn-uniOn factory. Give the idle union
workman a chance to earn living by
seeing to it that you use tubs with the
Industrial Union label upon it, Remem-
Der the compact made last winter when
we met with the Federation of Labor
we extended our hand of good fellow
ship to our city brothers of toll pledging
them that as far as consistent and our
ability would permit we would use none
but union made goods, if they could be
found. The Industrial Union end of the
compact is doing nobly and we find that
the demand for the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union brands of flour
has been SO great that we have been en-
abled to start up thirty idle flour mills
in this state alone. Now brother farm
ers and creamery men see if by your
cooperation with us we can not estab-
lished so small cooper shops throughout
the state and put our idle brother work.
men of the city to work. 1t can be done
alton covering the above matter will be
thankfully received.
I have also received an inquiry ask
ing where 100000 railroad ties can be
bought. Anyone capable of giving in
formation on this subject will do well
to put themselves in correspondence on
the matter with us, as we may put you
in a position where you can dispose Of
your stock.
There seems to be a growing ten
dency and desire on the part of St. Paul
merchants to take up the Representative
as an advertising medium, but on ac-
count of the paper being published in
Minneapolis the local jealousy is of suf-
ficient magnitude to keep the merchants
of our leading houses this week and
received very cordial welcome. On ac-
count of Mr.. Donnelly's attitude towards
the department stores in the last legis-
lature, one of the leading houses offered
to give a written guaranty that he
would secure double the advertising pat
ronage from st. Paul houses that is now
given it by Minneapolis advertisers if
we could induce Mr.. Donnelly to move
over and publish the Representative in
st. Paul. We hope to have Mr.. DON
nelly seriously consider this proposition
as we believe we can secure for the pa
per permanent and substantial adver-
Using patronage, that in these hard
times are the life of paper.
Mr.. E. A. Twitchell of St. Cloud, edi-
tor of the Emancipator and author of
the we'll known and widely read book,
Bond and Industrial Slavery" has re-
ported for duty, and is making final ar
rangements to take the stump for the
purpose of reorganizing the F. A. and I.
U. Alliances in Stearns, Benton, Shcr-
burne, Morrison, Todd, Kandiyohi and
Wright are requested to communicate
with Mr.. Twitchell, who will arrange his
own dates in those counties. Mr..
Twitchell is an earnest and eloouent
worker and we hope that he will re-
ceive every encouragement in his dis
trict. Are there any further volunteers ?
Let us hear from you.