Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-22
Resolutions Adopted.


Ruler of the universe to remove from
our midst out esteemed brother, Mich
ael O'Connor; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Trades and Labor
Assembly that we extend to his fam
kind husband and loving father; and,
further, be it
Resolved, that Ottumwa has lost a
good citizen and the labor unions a
faithful worker and upright man.
Signed:
j. ]. Byrne,
]. H. Boyd.
H. o. McCarrel,
Committee.
The Mouiders' Union.
The Trades and Labor Assembly |
has endorsed the benefit dance to be
given by the Moulders' union for the |
benefit of the striking Cleveland
moulders. All union met are urged
to purchase tickets for the benefit.
Speaking of the striking moulders
at Cleveland, President Gompers, in
an editorial in the American Fedora
zionist says: "The Cleveland mould
ers asked ten cents per day increase.
They made the aforesaid modest de-
mand, and the Cleveland founders re-
fused to grant it, therefore strike
was ordered by the Moulders union.
The founders tried to put new men in
the vacated places, but could not find
them. Now, on every principle OF
economic expediency, and business
sense, the founders were bound to &C
knowledge that the mounders had
pressed their claims to the advance.
{r,f l.,,r, ~
supply and demand-which all en-
ployers are anxious to have labor OBJ
serve and accept-the controversy af-
forded an instance of its perfect OPP
Grafton. There were no unemployed
in the founding industry. The supply
of labor was equal to the demand,
perhaps, but it was not greater. The
employers were thus in position to
enforce a reasonable request, and GER
tainly cessation of work, which was
legal and moral way of doing this.
Prudent and fairminded employers
would have gracefully yielded to the
victorious strikers, but the Cleveland
founders were not in mood for any
such rational action. They were de-
termined to defeat the moulders by
hook or crook, by foul or uneconomic
hausted. They appealed to the Ma
tional Founders association, which
represents some $200,0O0,0OO of CAPT
tai and succeeded in getting a resolu-
ton adopted for the levying of an as
sessment on all members, towards
the establishment of fund for the
payment of a bonus or bride to nom
union moulders taking the places of
the Cleveland strikers, and of this
fund bonus of 81 per day above the
days wages was offered to every man
ready and willing to work for the
Cleveland founders. The offer was
too attractive to some to be resisted,
and some men were secured thru it..
The founders were willingto spend $500
day to destroy the union and score
an ignoble triumph over. men asking
for fair days wages for more than
fair days work, but they were not
willing to raise the rate of pay to a
degree involving an additional eXpen-
diture of but $50 per day. To the hon
or of the union moulders be it said
that in their seven months contest
not one has been lured by bribery nor
coerced by brute force from his feal-
ity and loyalty to his brother mould
erS.
In Cleveland every union moulder
is hero"
The Ottumwa union moulders are to
give ball for the benefit of these de-
serving men in the Armony, Tuesday
evening, January 81.
Miners Union No. 1852.
Miners union, No. 1872, met in Labor
hall last night in regular session and
voted an assessment on all members
to help defray the expenses of enter
tanning the state miners convention
I There was large attendance and the
I meeting was very enthusiastic.
The TaiIors' Union.
By force of circumstances this is 6
!. dull season with the Tailors' union
and the members are taking advan
tage of the enforced idleness by
booming their union label. There
need be no idle tailors at any season
of the year in this city, if every MAI
, who wears custom made clothing
: would adhere to the principle of pat
ronizing home industries instead o
patronizing the sweat shops of the lar
ger cities.
} Hart Times in England.
The British fraternal delegates tt
) the recent convention of the American
|. Federation of Labor in their ad
dresses before the assembled dele
1 gates, stated that altho there is mucl
prosperity in the industrial field o
England at the present time, Their
= were unmistakable signs of a coming
depression, which they deplored from
D the tact that it will bring much suffer
ing to the laboring classes.
The Bartenders' League.
e AS an example of what benefit it i
! to man to belong to union, a mem
i Der of the local Bartenders' League
h who took trip thru Kentucky an
: Ohio, told of his experiences during