The labor world., 1899-05-20

At an open meeting Of the Socialist
Labor panty Thursday night Pres l<riz
Of the trades and labor assembly made
a stirring address setting forth the pur-
poses Of that party and incidentally
touched on pertinent questions in Duluth
today, illustrative Of his statements.
In connection with the street railway
strike, he said that the union would not
stand today, defeated, if the mayor and
city council had been true to the inter-
ests of the laboring man. The effect OF
the strike will be felt for some time, how
ever, he said, for all the unions of the
city will boycott the Duluth-Superior
bridge and the street cars all summer.
political parties of today said Mr..
Kriz ''gets the A. P. AS and Hbernians
and all factions in existence warning at
the polls. The benefits of all this strife
are reaped by capital. The only party
that it does not control is the Social
Labor party.
"They tell us today that the wage
Garner is a free man. If he dislikes his
job he can quit and go elsewhere. If that
is so why can this street railway find
'scabs' so easily. There is always a great
supply of them to supercede the strikers.
The differences between the wage-slave
and the former colored slave is that the
negro, when work was scarce could sit
down and play his bango. The food came
just the same but not so with the wage
slave.
zone thing the latter has the power to
do, however, and that is to rectify these
conditions with his vote. Yet you talk to
them and they say go on, you want to
bust our union Look at the outcome of
the street railway strike. The boys fought
well but the company gradually got its
cars to running. The unions will boycott
them and the bridge all summer, but
don't know how it will end.
IF our mayor and council had been
honest it would not have been thus. They
could have had a special meeting the very
day of the strike if necessary and COM
PEELED the company to come to terms, but
they wern't with us. They were afraid it
would hurt business to aid the strikers.
Mr.. Kriz then spoke a good word for
the ladies, a number of whom were pres
ent 1.-The day will come,'' he said, when
they will vote and even now they are the
ones who educate the coming voters.
When the days of woman's suffrage come
we will vote on principles no. for party"
The women are good agitators too, he
said.
The street car strikers have adopted
the boycott. At meeting held yesterday
the following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted by the strikers:
"Whereas We, the organized street
railway employees of the city of Duluth
have, through the obstinacy of the Off
cials of the Duluth Street Railway COM
pany, become involved in a controversy
that we have so far been una BILE to set
tie, and
'Whereas our city officials have 81
conducted themselves as to manage to
keep astraddle of the fence in that they
refused to take a decided stand in regard
to this controversy, and
"Whereas, the agreement entered into
between tine two delegations that went
to St. Paul has been broken by the repre-
sent tves of the business element of our
city, therefore, be it
"Resolved, that We, in defense of our
rights as American citizens, having ex-
hausted all other legitimate means to OBJ
tain an honorable settlement of our diff
ferences,
eve now declare a boycott on the Pa
viiion at Seventh avenue west and on the
Duluth-Superior bridge, and that we also
boycott any and all business men that
patronize the same.
COMMITTEE, STREET RAILWAY
EMPLOYEES UNION"
This resolution will be taken up and
acted on by. the trades assembly at a
special meeting called for the purpose.
Much depends on the action that the as
sembly takes for should it endorse the
boycott all the affiliated unions will join
in the movement and the city will have
one of the largest boycotts in force that
il ever before eXperienced