The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-30
ATTENDANCE AT THE ST. LOUIS La
Dor CONVENTION PROMISES TO
BE DISAPPOINTING.
SOVEREIGN EARLY ON HAND
WITH SOVEREIGN REMEDIES FOR
ALL OF LABOR'S SUPPOSED
TROUBLES.
WORK is ALREADY CUT OUT.
Meeting This Morning to Approve
the Plan of Action Arranged
by the Leaders.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Aug. 29.-The attend
ance of labor leaders upon tomorrow's
labor convention is tonight considera-
BILE of a disappointment to the local
committee on arrangements, but they
hope that tomorrow mornings arrivals
will materially increase the list of those
expected. The most important arri-
walls of the day were ]. r. Sovereign,
grand master workman of the knights
of Labor; w. c. Pearce, secretary and
treasurer of the United Mine Workers
of America; r. ASkew, secretary of the
National Miners association, and Syl-
vester Kelliher, formerly secretary of
the A. r. u, and at present publisher
of the Social Democrat, Chicago.
cit is simply impossible to forecast
what this conference will do Mr.. Sow
ereign said tonight. Nobody can tell
what it's outcome will be. It seems to
me, however" he continued, that all
labor organizations realize that the
time has come for them to put aside
all petty jealousies and form one grand
amalgamation. Whether TINS organiza-
ton will be effected here I cannot even
surmise. If the miners do not win, it
is the last strike 1 will ever go into on
these lines" What new plan of action
Mr.. Sovereign had, he declined to say.
The other arrivals of the day were
G.. G. Clemens, of Topeka, Kan, who
bears credentials from the state chair
man of the Populist state committee of
Kansas; A. N. Clayborn, Of Springfield,
Mo-. E. B. Webster, national chairman
of the Patriots of America; Frank Ste
vens, the national single tax advocate
Of Philadelphia, and ]. R. Finn, of Chi
cago. James M. Carson, president of
the United Mine Workers of Illinois,
has been here since Friday.
The local committee on arrange
ments tonight, after a consultation
with all delegates now in the city,
called a meeting of all labor repre-
sentatives for 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning at Masonic hall to organize
and to appoint a committee on Gre
dentials.
Grant Luce. chairman of the COM
mittee on arrangements, said tonight
that he had been advised that MessrS.
Ratchford and GomperS and one or two
others had met in Columbus and ar
ranged a plan of action for the con-
ference which they will present at to-
morroW's conference. President Dolan,
of the Pennsylvania miners, is also eX-
pected, but Messrs Sergeant, of the
Brotherhood of Firemen and Ramsey,
of the Telegraphers, have wired that
they will be unable to attend. E. V.
Debs will arrive in the morning.
The object of tomorrow's conference
! as far as can be ascertained from the
various opinions given out by the To-
cal committee, are to devise some
means for the relief of the striking
miners of the country and to protest
against government by injunction"
or in the words of the call itself, "the
object of the convention will be not
merely to protest against the usurpa-
ton and tyranny of the courts, but to
formulate plans to compel return to
the principles of free government and
put such plans into practical opera
ton"