The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-07

wait on Manager Hays, Of the Grand
Opera house, relative to e. scale OF
wages asked for by the union.
Members Of the Trades and Labor
assembly organization committee were
kept busily engaged last week visiting
the different unions. They were every
where courteously treated and with but
one exception were assured of hearty
cooperation and financial aid. The
work of calling on the organizations
affiliated with the assembly will be
continued during the present week un-
til Friday evening, when a report Of
the amount contributed by the different
uriOrs 10 assist in securing speakers,
etc, for the mass meeting, will be sub
mitted to the assembly. If the dele
gates in attendance so decide, the
unions meeting the next week will be
visited, and if the required sum is
pledged immediate steps will be taken
to secure the attendance of some of
the ablest labor orators in the country.
Jacob Amos and Henry Bergenkrue-
ger, members OF the local cigarmakers'
union, committed suicide last Satur-
day afternoon by jumping from the
highest point on the Smith avenue
bridge to the river below, a distance
of f01 feet. The reason for the rash
act still remains a mystery. Amos was
we'll known in organized labor circles,
was treasurer of the local union at the
time of his death, and at different times
had represented that organization be-
fore the trades and labor assembly and
at the conventions Of the State Fedora
ton of Labor. He was of a bright,
sunny disposition, well liked and gen
erous to q fault. If he had an enemy
it was himself Mrs. Amos and her
two fatherless children have the heart
felt sympathy of organized labor in st.
Paul in their bereavement. Bergen
kruger was but little known in labor
circles, and from what could be ascer-
tanned has no relatives in this coun-
try.
e. j. Smith, of Evansville, Ind, one
Of the general organizers of the Inter
national Cigarmakers' union, addressed
an open meeting of the local union at
Assembly hall Thursday evening. In
reviewing the history Of the working
people, Mr.. Smith went back nearly
200 years, showing the condition of the
workers at that time up to the present.
and proved conclUsiVely to the salts
faction of all present that organiza-
ton WGh s,One responsible for the i'm
proved condition of the working classes
at the present time over what it was
when the individual employee and his
employer adjusted the wage problem.
Mr. Smith has been making a tour
through the numbering districts Of
Northern Michigan in the interests OF
| the label Of the cigarmakers, and goes
from here to Indiana and Ohio, where
he will attempt to convince the miners
| that the blue label cigars are the only
safe ones to smoke, if one would avoid
| the diseases generated by smoking ten
ement- house and Chinese-made goods.
Under instructions from the execu-
tive board of the international Typo
graphical union, Organizer Franklin
left for West Superior, Wis, last even
ing. From there he will go to Huron,
Aberdeen and Winnipeg.
Complimentaries are acknowledged
to attend the social hops of the book
binders union, of Minneapolis, and the
coopers', -boilermakers, and bookbind-
ers unions, of St Paul.
The tin, sheet iron and cornice work.
ers' union met Wednesday evening
A large number Of the members are
at present employed in adjoining
towns, owing to dullness in the home
| trade. Letters were received from
several of them to the effect that bust
ness was good where they were en-
| ployed, but they expected to return to
ST. Paul in the near future.
The grievance committee of the Trades and