The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-12

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ranToad. organizations to send represen-
+ tatfyes TO cur conventions Is to be re-
-greI1cd, las is also their refusai after
repeated Invitations to- send delegates to
our central labor bodies No valid
reason, to my knowledge. has ever been
presented as an excuse for their not do
ing so, but their continued silence to our
courteous invitations lends currency to
the rumor so often heard that they are
not organized altogether for their own
protection.
COMMUNICATIONS, CIRCULARS, ETC.
Following closely upon the Labor day
festivities of last September l sent a.
communication to every central labor
body In the state, urging their commit
tees on organization to renewed activity
at the same time stating that the or
ganizers for the state Federation of Labor
We're doing everything possible to build
up the movement.
On March II, 1899, I issued the fol-
lowing circular letter and forwarded the
same to representatives of the federation
and other organizations outside of st.
PAU where there was trades union:
Important-Off1ce of President State
Federation of Labor, st. Paul, Mimi,
! March II, l899.-To Organized Labor of
ers: The passage by the lower house of
the legislature on Tuesday, March a. of
II r. 43l, more generally known as the
oNeill Anti-Boycott Measure" if it be-
comes alaw, strikes at the very founda-
ton of trades unionism, and If allowed to
pass the senate without our earnest pro-
test, we deserve no better fate than that
we shall be legislated out of existence.
1t is measure which could only have
been conceived by the mother of iniuuity
sired by Satan and introduced by an
combinations DESTROYS of seeing the
cpiored slave of former days supp1anted
Dy.the white slave. If 1t becomes a law
twill be introduced in every legislature
throughout liberty-loving America. it's
adoption to be followed by others pre-
venting strikes, walkouts, assemblages of
working men and women, and last but
no less Important, the formation of
trades organizations not under the direct
supervision of employers themselves II
means that the wage earners shall In
publication instead of collectively as now.
It means lower wages, poverty and I'M
happy wives and children, tenement
place of health
Fellow workmen, / believe we still
nave 1t in our power to prevent this most
lthlQuitous measure from becoming a law.
Action must be taken at once, however.
and 1 earnestly advise that special meet
1ngs of your organizations be called that
you adopt strongly worded resolutions
protesting against the passage of house
HE All by the senate, and that petitions,
signed by every member of your unions
pc forwarded to your representatives In
the senate protesting against the passage.
OF the bill. would also suggest that YOU
request Gov. Lind to veto the bill If 1t
should come to him for his signature.
Hoplng that you Will take immediate
action, as delay is dangerous, and that
success will crown our efforts, 1 am,
F'raternally yours, C C. Collins.
Resolutions and petitions to members of
the senate followed the issuance of this
circular, and l believe were the principal
cause Of the defeat of the obnoxious
measure.
accompanied by Second Vice President
Giese John Swift, of the federation coun-
ell, and representatives of the Trades and
Labor assembly Of st. Paul, 1 appeared
before the committee on labor legislation
of the house In advocacy of the passage
of the bin in the interest of the electric
railway motormen. 1 also addressed the
committee on labor of the senate In OPP
position to the passage of the anti-boycott
measure.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
'First-As representatives to the con-
vention of the National Farmers Al
lance and Industrial Union of Minnesota,
pointed Brothers A. W. Field, of Mime
apolis, and A. e. Donaldson, of the for
mer city. After careful consideration Of
the matter, 1 have arrived at the con-
clusion that the benefits derived from
adequate and recommehd that the prac-
tice, of sending them to that body be dis
continued.
interests of the Federation 1 would rec
ommend that the first and second vice
presidents be made ex-officio members of
the federation council. As the constitu-
ton now reads. unless the ONCE OF pres