The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-11
VERY WARM MEETING
TRADES ASSEMBLY HAS 4 PEP
perry SPEECH GATHERING.
Wholesale street Hallway Dig"
for the Men Was Representations
Member in Favor of the Anti
Laundry Workers-Other Matters.

At the regular meeting of the trades
| assembly last evening the delegates from
the Street Railway Employees union were
asked to make Il statement of the differ
| erces existing between the company and
| the discharged union men. The delegates
reported that II motormen and conductors
had been discharged in the past three
days. They were given to understand
that they We're good men while on duty
! but were aGitators while off duty and
their services were undesirable. The del
egates We're of the opinion that their dis
charge was due entirely to their member
ship in the union. No action in the street
ca" trouble was taken except that there
was an informal expression of sympathy
for the discharged employees. The anti
boycott bill and the boycott on the Acme
laundry were the only other features OF
the meeting.
Mr.. Laybourn's bill providing for an in
spector of mines was brought before the
assembly for endorsement. By Il unanl-
nous vote action on it was postponed in
definitely. The reason for this action was
said to be because Mr.. Laybourn was not
a friend of organized labor.
Delegate r. +. Patterson, OF the Engl-
neers' union, created considerable stir by
announcing himself in favor Of the anti
boycott bill now before the legislat u:e
and expressing a desire TO have the
trades assembly endorse it. He said that
he and Assemblyman O'Nelll of Big Stone
county, were good friends and that he had
ccrresponded freely with the father of the
house bill on the subject. He also said
that he had two reliable lawyers go over
the bill, and had their opinion that it
would not effect organized labor to any
great extent, and that ii was not constitu
tional. He said, however, that there WAS
one thing in connection with the bill tina
he did not like and that was that the
representative from Big Stone had been
brought to Duluth, taken TO Mrs. Fish's
restaurant and fed and then asked to en-
gil eer the bill through the lower house.
He said that the Duluth delegation lacked
the stamina to back the bill up. 1t was
that the fight on the bill should
be continued and efforts made to pigeon
hole it in the house.
Vice President John McMurc,hey startled
a. discussion on the loyalty or rather dis
loyalty Of union men toward each other
BY reporting that the Laundry Workers
union had not been properly supported In
the Acme boycott. Delegate
Walter Thomson inferred from the 1e-
marks of Mr.. McMurchey that the boy
colt was not a success and moved that
the assembly withdraw It's endorsement.
President Kriz ruled the motion out of Or
der. Mr.. McMurchey then rehearsed the
the boycott, and as the discussion grew
more intense, the position Of the business
men generally as against the unions was
brought in the discussion. President
Kriz referred TO a recent visit made the
assembly by a prominent business man In
was Disgusting himself as friend Of la
Tor, but was In reality striking an under
hand blow. He ended by calling the man
in question a ':stiff.' Delegate Walter
of the Wood Workers union,
called on the president to prove what nc
a man a stiff unless he was prepared. to
prove it. Delegate Walter Thomson said
that in his opinion the president was not
fulfilling the duties for which he was
elected and should confine his remarks
within reason. President Krix remarked
he was member of the assembly and the
discussion ended. 1t was decided to re.
new the fight on the Acme laundry