The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-17

day and Was Well Attended-Ad-
dresses Were Made by Number
Of the officers Of Labor Unions.
Make Up of the D., L. & w. Board
for Today--A New York View OF
the New Coal Deal--other Inter
esting Trade Notes.
Music hall was comfortably filled yes.
terday afternoon by local members OF
the trades and labor Unions VINO at-
tended the first of a series of punl,c
mass meetings which will be held dur
ing the winter In point of numbers
the miners OF the valley were greatly in
advance of their fellow workers ana by
far the greater percentage of men IN
the audience were members of the
mine workers unions.
An address by National Organizer
Frederick Dilcher, of the United Mine
Workers Of America. was the feature
OF the afternoon. and several other very
Interesting talks were given. The meet
ing was opened at 80 O'Clock, When
there filed upon the stage Organizer
Dilcher: National Officer Reevcs,o of De-
troit, of the Street Car Mems union:
Secretary John Dempsey. of the Mine
Workers. President Martin ID. Flaherty.
of the Central Labor union: q. w. baS-
ter of the Mine Workers: John collins
and p. j. Shea. of the Street Car Mems
union: President John Devine. OF the
Clerks association: Fred Hamms. or
the Stonecutters' union. and Joseph
Schontield. of the clerks They We're
greeted by Il burst OF applause from
the audience. ........
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
President Martin y. Flaherty. OF the
Central Labor union, opened the meet
ing with an address of welcome. He
declared that the gathering inaugur-
ated series to be held during the Win
ter, for disseminating the meaning and
purpose of the union label He intro
duced John Devine, of the Clerks asso-
citation, as chairman of the meeting.
The latter gave a brief talk regarding
the necessity Of concentrated effort IN
labor organization. after which he IN
troduced National Executive Officer
Reeves. of the Street Car Mems union.
Mr.. Reeves declared that as a ma
tional officer he deemed it his duty to
do what he could to advance the con-
ditions of all classes of labor. Through
the persistence and efforts of President
w. d. Mahon, Of Detroit. Mich. he
said, the Street Car Mems union had
achieved great success. ana II was as
Il representative of that branch OF
labor that he addressed this meeting of
fellow workers.
In the course of his address he urged
the necessity of the union label, which
~, inn a
non-union products CAS- a trades
unonist." he said Il believe in stand
ing by the efforts of my fellow labor
unionists and am a thorough advocate
of a concentrated movement Of the
labor forces.
National Organizer Frederick Dill
cher, of the United Mine Workers OF
America, was the next speaker and he
was greeted with hearty applause.
Trades Unionism'' was his subject,
and he began his address by severely
scoring the Clerks association for the
meagre numbers it turned out at the
meeting.
MUST SHOW INTEREST,"
"You must show yourselves to be in
terested in your own welfare, before we
will do anything for YOU. he exclaimed
warmly, and then resumed: with our
own organization We expect to put
six hours workday before the miners
within a few years. The United Mine
Workers of America is not an organ
ization created to call strikes. Regard
ing the rumored strike which it is said
will begin April l, | want to say right
here that there will be no strike II the
operators will be as fair with us as we
are with them. While our purpose is
not for the calling of strikes. yet we
control every state in the union where
n pound of coal is mined, and our power
is supreme.
1--WE propose to soon start a woman's
auxiliary to our association. That will
mean that 175 900 women going to stores
on shopping tours will demand first to
see the clerks union label, before
making q purchase. 1t will mean that
we will have over 100000 women en-
rolled before the end of the year.
1--WE recognize the fact that the or
ganization Is doing nicely in this CITY.
Business men, recognizing the fairness
of our demands. extend friendly aid.
Only yesterday President Charles Rob-
inson, of the Central Brewing COM
pany, signed the union scale for his
breweries and henceforth you can drink
nniOn beer, and we nave l,O0O more
union men in the county.
Nov, regarding our wives. We mus.
educate them so that they will patron
ize none but union tradesmen. All that
we ask you to do in return for our
assistance with trades unions, is that
YOU refuse to buy any Acoal mined by
u non-unionist
BIG CONVENTION COMING.
"Before leave your city next We'd
nesday, ] hope to bring together the
Trades Council and the Carpenters.
Next year Scranton will be the meet
ing place of the American Federation
of Labor. and on this event you are to
be congratulated.
"All branches Of Scranton labor are
now being organized. The miners
street ear men, draymen, cabmen, tex
tile workers and clerks are all organ
ized, and now we have had an appli-
cation from the female domestics of the
city, and in the future YOU will have to
pay good wages to the women who
wash your dishes"
Effect of the Big Deal.
Concerning the purchase of the Penn