The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-29
Coliseum Committees Will
Visit Business Houses in
Interest of Cause
LABOR UNIONS RECORD
A1-eady 10000 Members of Organ
lied Bodies Have Responded to
the Call for One Days Earn
ings-More Committees.

In preparation for the concerted move
ment to be made upon the business houses
tCday by the canyassing committees of
the Coliseum association, a meeting of the
beard Of directors with the members of
these commi tees was held last evening in
the parlor of the Commercial club. Ow-
ing possibly to the fact that the meeting
took place in the evening and perhaps in
some measure to increased interest, the
attendance was large and much business
like enthusiasm was shown. The purpose
Of the meeting was to hear reports from
the committeeman as to the progress thus
far made to map out the work still to
be done and to strengthen such commit
tees as bad found the work allotted to
them unexpectedIy2diff1c
Some. of the committees were not rep
resented at all, but verbal reports more
or less in detail were received from q
greater proportion Of them, and taken as
a whole the character of the reports was
such as to indicate that while there had
been a great dead of work accomplished,
there still remained much to be done.
Members who had volunteered their ser
vices were added to committees who had
found their work more difficult than had
been expected, and members of the board
Of directors agreed to accompany some of
the committees today.
Start on Secret Societies.
Judge Grier M Orr, chairman of the
committee appointed to present the Coli
scum project to the secret societies and
secure subscriptions among those organi-
cations, made a most encOurag ing report.
He said that his committee had found
there were 40 different societies in the
city, and had begun it's work by sending
notices to the officers asking to be inform
ed as to what time the committee could
appear before the respective bodies. Since
then and almost every night for the past
three weeks he with other members of the
committee had appeared before some
lodge or society to talk about the Coli
scum, and some nights. they had attended
as many as five different meetings. Before
coming to this meeting he had attended
two meetings five miles apart. Judge Orr
said the committee had been treated very
courteously in it's work and had found
much enthusiasm among the members of
the secret orders. In some cases the men,
bers had questioned him very closely as
to the details of the project, and this he
regarded as an evidence of interest. In
some of the organizations every member
had signed the subscription list.
Labor Has Done NObIy.
George Shaw. president of the Trades
and Labor Assembly, who has had
charge of the work among the labor
organizations of the city; spoke of the
necessity of systematic and determined
effort on the part of the canvassing COM
mittees generally. He thought that the
plans for canvassing should be so thor
oughly systematized that every citizen
of st. Paul, no matter what his business
or calling, might be reached in some
way, and none could escape. He said
that his work thus far among the labor
organizations has resulted in 1000 sub
Mr. no
would greatly help the movement if ev-
cry policeman, street railway employee
fireman and mail carrier in the city were
wearing a Coliseum button every day.
and he believed that measures should be
taken at once to circulate subscription
papers in those departments at once
Chester r. Smith, Ike Lederer and Will
bur Tibbls were appointed committee
to see Chief O'Connor as to the circu-
lation Of the subscription lists among the
members of the police department, and
within a half hour from that time the
chief had assured the committee that
today every policeman in the city would
be wearing a button. Provision will also
be made for work among the mail car
riers and fremen and the street railway
employees.
Travellers Are Interested.
The secretary of the Commercial Trav-
eltfS union announced that MS Organi-
cation had Voluntarily taken the Colise-
UNI matter un and had sent out notices
to its members and others, with the re-
suit that a large number of assurances
of subscriptions had been received The
number of notices out he stated, was
1000, and hef felt sure that all would
give something, and some would give
literally.
No work at all has as yet been done
among the business houses of the West
side, and a eommittee of which M. A.
Gedney is chairman was appointed to
begin operations in that part of the city
today. -Fhe other members of that com
mittee are R. A. Hoyt. F. B. Lynch, J.
E. Kenny w. Mitchell, c. w Kehler,
G. M. Crowley, Nv. NJ Carlson R. H
Seng, c. B. Bowlby and Edward Yam
ish. The committee will start out at
o'clock this morning, and 2:3O this aft
ernoon, and expects to finish its work
today.
c. R. Smith suggested that it would
be well to appoint a committee to at
tend the political meetings to be held
In the different wards of the city from
from now until election day, and with
the permission of those in charge of the
meetings to represent the Coliseum pro-
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