The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-04
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delegates.
The state of trade was reported by
unions as follows:
Coopers, dull; clerks, dull; tailors,
fair; street railway employees, dull;
brewery workers, fair; BARRIERS, alb
sent; packers and naflers, dull; pion-
eer federal, dull; lanndryworkers, abb
sent; butchers, poor; plumbers, good;
longshoremen No. 81, dull; steamfit-
tiers, good; cigarmakers, fair; typo
graphical, poor; boilermakers and
iron shipbuilders, dull; stageworkers,
dull; drayowners, absent; -four mill
laborers, fair.
No committe reports we're received
except from the committee appointed
to investigate child labor. This COM
mittee was continued.
The following resolution was adopt
ed:
Whereas, the Superior Rapid Tran
sit Co., of Superior, Douglas County,
Wis, has of late employed men who
either from carelessness or incompe-
tence in handling street railway cars,
run said company's cars in such a
careless and reckless manner as to en-
danger the lives and persons of its
patrons and others, who in the ordi-
nary pursuits of life have business on
the streets traversed by said COM
pany's cars, and
Whereas, it has come to our knowl-
edge that within the last three months
an unusual number of accidents have
been the result of the reckless, I'M
skilled and careless running and
handling of said company's cars.
Therefore, be it resolved, that we
believe it the duty of the mayor and
common council of the city of Supe-
rior to protect the lives and persons
of its citizens by restraining said COM
pany from employing men who are
careless, incompetent or unskilled in
the running and operating of street
railway cars.
And be it also resolved, that we ex-
tend all the moral and material aid in
our power to persons who have been
injured by the careless, reckless or I'M
skilled handling. or running of the
cars of the Superior Rapid Transit
Co.
Be it also resolved, that the secre-
tary of the Trades Assembly be in
structed to forward copy of these
resolutions to the secretary of all un-
ions affiliated with this assembly for
their consideration.
The secretary was instructed to
notify senators and assemblymen that
this assembly endorses senate bill No.
313 S.
The following resolution was also
endorsed:
|. Whereas, there are business men and
merchants and keepers of shops and
stores representing the different
branches of the retail trade and in
dustries of this city who pay fair
wages, employ home labor, close their
respective business places at fair
hour in the evening, keep them closed
on Sundays and public holidays and
always treat their employees in fair
and honorable manner,
And whereas, there are others who
pay only such wages as cannot be con-
sidered fair or reasonable, and some
who deduct from the already small
pay of their employees sometimes
large and often small amounts) with
no better excuse for doing SO than a
sneak thief has fo1 stealing. And
some who keep their respective bust
ness places open on Sundays and pub
lie holidays and at an unfair hour III
the evening. And some who employ
labor from other cities, sometimes
hundreds of miles away when compe-
tent men whose homes are in this city
could be had, thus often causing wives
and mothers and their children to suf-
fer from want of ordinary necessities
of life, because the father, husband
or brother was thus unfairly thrown
out of employment.
Therefore, be it resolved, that we
the members of this assembly pleage
ourselves to patronize only such bust
ness men and merchants and keepers
of shops and stores and other places
of business as pay fair wages, employ
home labor, close at fair hour in the
evening, keep closed ON Sundays and
public holidays, and always treat
their employees in fair and honor
able manner. And we also pledge
ourselves to do all in our power to in
fluence the members of the respective
unions which we have the honor to
represent land all other persons) to
patronize men, keepers of shops and
stores and other nlaces of husiness.