The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-05-22

/ meeting of the state federation
! tune 10 at St. Cloud. The dues
i*of the Central and West
( Duluth sawmill workers. unions
1 we're RENTED for the winter
/ months, during which those organ
5slzations were alternating.
/ The comittees to aid the firemen
land to investigate the pumphouse
walls made their final reports. The
former stirred up considerable
discussion by bringing to the
front the criticisms involved in the
! protest of the tailors' union.
Messrs. Schultz, Saxine and Savard
were appointed to see the adver-
Users on this side of the bay who
patronize the non-union Superior
Leader. The settlement of the boy
lzcott on Brenton & Bleck was
officially announced, and the COM
i-tnittee appointed to see the hotel
proprietors in the interest of the
walters union was continued.
Announcement was made that the
La Crosse brewery proprietors
were arresting union men for dis
tributing boycott literature, and
Duluth workingmen were urged to
leave their product religiously
| alone.
It was announced that the boiler
makers helpers and holders-on
were ready to organize. And from
Superior came request that the
iron moulders of that city and Du-
iuth be organized conformity.
! A vigorous kick was registered
by the boiler-makers' union against
the quality of the work being done
i'm putting together the water pipe
on the Carrol-Porter corr ract. The
quality the pipe cannot now be
determined as the stuff is covered
with heavy coat of paint, but the
contractors are scab firm, and in
putting the pipe together at the
trenches, although there are plenty
of qualified workmen in Duluth,
are employing outsiders, and in
stead of first-class craftsmen, have
hired incompetents who know little
about the work. "In fact" one man
qualified to render an opinion de-
clares, there is not a competent
boiler maker employed on the job"
IA special committee was appointed
''sto see the council and call their
attention to the necessity Of having
the work done by qualified work
men. In this connection it was
also brought out that on another
contract for about three miles of
pipe the lowest bidder is also
scab firm, this time located at
Minneapolis.
Mr.. James Wood, organizer of
the international cigarmakers'
union, was present and made
strong appeal for the patronage of
fair made goods. He emphasized
particularly the advantages to the
business interests of fair wages for
labor, and dwelt at some length on
the special claims of the cigar
makers union. Among other
things he recited how 80 cases of
leprosy had been found in one scab
cigar factory in California.
Another spirited discussion
arose over the school board. Dele
gate Cobb started the muss by an
explanation of his utilization with
the Denfeld faction. Delegate
Baker from the carpenters. took
issue with Mr.. Cobb and claimed.
that Directors Hugo and Brearly
were not friends of organized
labor. Then Hayes and Findley
got mixed up in the discussion; the
former in the evident fued between
Cobb a I'D Baker, and the latter by
airing his views on the distortion
Of science and history INDUCED in
by the writer's of school text books,
especially those connected with
the Rockefeller (Chicago) Univer-
sity, in the interest of the people
who profit by class Legislation. He
| also referred to the misrepresenta-
| tons in the class rooms of every
day facts in connection with trades
unions, and while it was not right
that we force our destructive
principles on the schools, it
was the duty of organized labor
20 see to it that the teachings
therein on economic matters should
keep strictly within scientific
limits, For this reason the coming
school election was of the utmost
importance to workingmen and
we should all take the liveliest in
terest therein.