The age-herald., 1899-05-15
WILL NOT BUY NON-
 UNION MADE GOODS
Trades Council Takes Action on
 Labor Question.
BOYCOTT NON-UNI0N STORES
Agreed Not to Trade Where Any But Union Clerks Are Employed-Mc- Gruder Addressed Meetingin
 Interest of Organization.

Probably the most important business transacted at the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Birmingham Trades coun- cl yesterday afternoon was the passage of a resolution to the effect that none of the organizations connected with the Trades council would use any brand of goods not made by urrtUr labor and that they would not patronize any store in the city that did not employ union clerks.
 A committee consisting of Secretary J. J. Feagin, w. H. Hammond and Ed. Ebert was appointed to investigate what goods now on the market were union made and which non-union, and also to find out what stores employed union clerks and those that did not. The committee will render a full report to the council at it's next meeting, and at that time prepara- tions will be made for putting it in print and distributing it among all the working people of the district.
 Stonecuttcrs and Carpenters
 The credentials of the five representa- lives of the Carpenters association and five representatives of the stonecutterS, both of which have been organized only a short while, were received, and the rep resentatives were qualified.
 A communication was received from the Central Labor league of the District of Columbia, asking cooperation of the Bir- mingham Trades council in having Claude M. Johnson, director of the bureau of printing and engraving, removed from gov ernment service. It is claimed that he is wholly unfit for the position and is not a friend to the working people.
 
 and the secretary was instructed to notify the Washington league accordingly.
 Several other communications were re- ceived and referred to the proper commit tees.
 The following committee on tickets was appointed to take charge of the Auditorium on the night MT. Debs speaks, May N, and also to sell tickets beforehand: President J. H. Leath, : hn J. Meade, P. A. Par kerson, Gus Luschipski, J. R. Kelly, M. Cushings, A. Ebert, J. Johnson and Geo. Lee.
 The following committee was appointed to take charge of the monster picnic which is to be given jointly by all the labor or ganizations of the district on July 4: J. H. Leath. John S. Stein and J. J. Feagin. McGruder on Organized Labor
 T. l.. McGruder one of the general or ganizers travelling through the south in the interest of the American Federation of Labor, was present at the meeting yester- day. and made most interesting talk on the line of organized labor He told of the success he was meeting with in his trav- els through the south, and of the unusual interest which was being taken by labor ore in now orpa,1iza tione
 Since he has been in Birmingham MT. McGruder has been actively engaged in organizing the carpenters and stonecutters, and will continue this work during the week. Tonight he will address the clerks of the city in Bricklayers' hail, in Twen- tieth street, between Second and Third av- enues. The clerks already have an organ ization, but it needs strengthening. It was largely for this purpose that the resolution about the union goods and organized clerks referred to above was passed. A meeting of the painters, decorators and paper hangers has been called for Wednesday night, at which time MT. Mo Gruder will address them, and organiza- tions will be perfected