The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-25
WOOD AND COAL YARD
On n Cooperative Basis LabOr's
Latest Local Venture.


The committee appointed at the recent meet,
ing of the organized unemployed has Issued
the following address:
In all ages we see statesmen concerning
themselves with the question; What snail
be done with surplus labor?' From remote
antiquity down to the present time the In
variable answer was, "Colonize it. But now
there are no more free lands whiting reach OF
people without capital and the question must
now be considered in a new light. AS
partial solution of the problem we believe
that in the cooperation msthcd or Doing Ddsl-
ness more people will be employed at better
wages than under the present system. There
will be no profits to enrich the few and i'm
poverish the many; 1t will put an end TO
forcing down prices abnormally.
Since poverty has been c0eyal with c1Vlllza-
ton and the solution of the difficulty has
baffied the greatest minds. we are not SO
assuming as to claim cooperation as pan
acea for all evils. but we do believe that 1t
is departure toward crystall1zlng 1unda-
mental principles of government; that 1t WI
raise the standard of morals in that It VIII
do away with private and public charity.
so-calIed; that it will do away with the neces-
sty of concentrating troops and the building
of fcrtresses in our large industrial ceniefs.
Thus it will act as a powerful antldote 10
overcome the dangers of civil war and STRIFE
We recognize that charity is wasted CAPT
tal and burden to tax payers; That IL de-
moralizes and debases manhood. 1t was
charity that coined the word tramp" We
hold that 1t is better for all citizens to pre-
duce instead of half of them remaining Idle,
living upon Wnal Iue OluSI udll NlSobC'
1t must be apparent to all that such
condition of affairs, which prevails in this
country today, cannot endure long. We 90
not believe labor is responsible for the pres
ent hard times, governed as 1t is by laws
framed with Draconian severity, thus oe-
priving the working people of their ina len
able rights as promulgated in the Deciara-
ton of Independence.
AS beginning are about to put into
operation a cooperative wood and coal yard
the profits being divided among the workers;
Members of the society must be of good moral
character Ten per cent of the profits win
be used as a contingent fund: The DOCKS
of the association will always be opened for
inspection to all parties concerned. 1t IS
proposed that every safeguard will be taken
TO conduct the association upon scrupulous-
ly honest basis. Funds are needed. The
finance committee is duly authorized to re-
ceiye loans in the following manner, until
SIPS is paid into the hands of the treasurer:
Certificates Of the association for 50 Will be
sold to be paid in wood or coal one week
after said yard is opened for business, or
three weeks after date certificate is issued.
The money shall be paid directly into the
hands of the treasurer. L. A. St George and
the refunding of the same, per agreement.
shall be guaranteed by his bondsmen.
We therefore appeal to the citizens oil st:
Paul to aid the association to the extent that
every unemployed man In st. Paul shall be
-Adolphe Paradis. President.
F. R. Hays Secretary.