Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-26

is to increase his wages. Some talk
of education, but we cannot get educa-
ton or anything else without good
wages, and nothing but the labor Or
CARNATIONS can do the laboring man
good.
Organize in Other Lines.
81 am surprised when / see business
men fight labor organizations. They |
have their organizations. The COM
mercial men organize, the lawyers or
game, the doctors organize, and the
business men are banded together all
along the line. They are not organ
1 lied for the good of any community,
but for themselves. | am surprised
/ when they line up against the labor
organizations. When a laboring man
gets 10 per cent raise it helps the
community in which he lives. He has
that much more money to spend in
that community. His betterment
means the uetterment of the whole
community.
Benefits of Labor Organization.
$50 let me say again and again that
the only organization in the United
States which seeks to better the condi-
ton of the laboring man is the labor
union, and as you join this union and
stay with it SO will your conditions
improve. When you lay it aside you
become slaves. Some of you realize
that what say is true, and that where
there are no labor organizations the
laboring man is a slave, but when
there is organization you see the la
boring man enjoying all the privileges
to which he is entitled by the consti-
tuition of the United States. The on
: ly thing you need to do is to join the
union and stay with it"
Scale Committee.
Mr. Boston's speech was applauded
heartily, and it was easy to see hat
he expressed the sentiment of the
miners, that strikes are thing of the
, past ana that arbitration has taken
: the place of labor troubles. After his
address the convention turned its at
+. tention to business matters. The
| members of the scale committees from
the various sub-districts, which shall
; make up the convention scale commit
| tee. were named, as follows:
+ First Observation-Disclosures White, HI.
3 G. Street, Ed McNuly.
5 Second sub-district = John F.
Ream. James Fisher, e. Holland.
Third sub-district-J. @. Staley,
i, David Jones. Charles Carlson.
. Fourth Observation-Disclosures Green, g.
. H. Kennedy, w. H. Anderson.
) viii Have No Badges.
n A motion to empower the officers
L to get badges was made and lost, as it
I was the sense OF the convention that
the badges would be useless articles.
Report of Committee on Reports.
. J. W. Hargus chairman of the com
i mittee on officers reports. read the re,
y port of that committee which concur
q red in the reports of the officers ex
9 cept as to the points which came I'm,
= der the jurisdiction of the constitution
!, and scale committees, to which these
: points were referred by the conven
= ton. This report was adopted by the
convention.
l. Committee on Resolutions.
/ The report of the committee on reso
- lutions was not forthcoming this morn
Is ing, as the chairman was reported te
u be i'll, and the committee expects tt
y report tomorrow morning. A motion
T was carried to the effect that no reso
lnllClS Cttil ne lidiluGu w IllC lCoOAu
y. ton committee after O'Clock thi
y evening without the consent of thu
y, convention.
y No Appeals or Grievances.
"a The report of the committee on ap
peals and grievances was called for
but the chairman announced tina
there was no report to make.
~ Politics Turned Down."
=. The sense of the convention wa
q, very plainly shown yesterday after
70 noon. when, just before adjournment
- communication was read from sc
- cialistic leader in this city, asking TO
~, a hearing before the delegates. TIL
-. hearty manner in which the reques
- was refused, however, proved concll
-. 20 sively that the miners are here 70
~ the purpose of considering question
~ pertaining to labor, and that the
q have not convened as political bod,
~ This is spoken of as one of the ind
~ cations of the sincere and intelliger
d. desire of the men that they perforl
az the work of the union for those whol
as they represent in businesslike an
nc practical manner, and do not let pol
tics enter into any of their consider
tions, as they realize that the labo
MT ing man and the politician have tw
to separate and distinct fields.
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