The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-19
BARTENDBRS And WATERS
NEW ENGLAND UNIONS MEET IN
CONVENTION.

Delegates Representing SO Local
Unions Present-A Number of COM
mittees ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Tonight
The convention of the delegates Of
the Bartenders' and Walters unions OF
New England was called together by
the president at 2:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and the first business trans
acted was the appointment Of COM
mittee on credentials, as follows:
Chairman. NJ. J. Connolly of No. 81,
Springfield, Mass; John C. Hickey,
No. sc. Lynn; John j. Murphy, No. 200,
Hartford; Joseph Smith. No. II. Bos-
ton, and Michael Duffy, No. 2S5, Provi-
dence, r. l. This committee reported
1OS delegates present, representing thir-
ty-six locals.
The report of the president was then
read, an extract of which follows:
PRESIDENT GRIFFIN'S ADDRESS.
Fellow Delegates: Our declared pur-
poses of a, year ago in the city of Wor-
cester remains to-day unchanged. Our
New England branch is one Of the five
hundred units of the International or
ganization, and it is through these
units that every local within the dis
trict ought to be united with this as
ISOLATION. 1t could not then be said by
any officer or member of any local
within the district however remote,
that they stand alone and uncared for.
1t Is for the weaker locals that we
have anxious thoughts, and exercise
special care. These are they for whom
dicytT. Hat hYa
need the fellowship of the strong and
the counsel of the experienced. They
have limitations and peculiar discour
agements which should keep them close
to the original plan Of sympathetic and
helpful contact with their sister locals.
The New England states is relative
ly small territory, easily and quickly
transversed, yet measured by the re-
quirements of our work, is larger than
all the states west Of the Mississippi
river. The wonderful growth of our
brotherhood in the past year is mar
velous We are no longer a weakling,
nor cramped by the narrow limits that
formerly controlled our power, but are
growing to be G powerful trades or
ganization, and the system we have
lived under previously must necessarily
be changed in some instances, in order
to cope with the rapid progress being
made by our international. The execu-
tive board in whose hands you have
placed your interests have at heart
your welfare, and our earnest hope is
to strengthen our ranks by placing our
organization in a position that we will
forever cease to be supplcants for aid
from others. and our organization so
constructed that we can act independ-
emily /: necessary.
With this object in view, the matter
of insurance benefits was injected into
our international constitution at the
Louisville convention by member Of
your executive board, Brother Sullivan
of Hartford. The delegates at that
convention who were disclaiming'
against the New England branch have
awakened to the fact that we are a
strong supplement to the parent or
ganization, instead Of an incumbrance.
Our organization through it's execu-
tive board and other officers, have been
dligent in preparing the soil so that
it will produce the best fruit, though
the result of their service may be hid
den from the general membership We
have been severely handicapped for
want of funds to secure more assist
ance in our work, and have on many
occasions been forced to avoid oppor-
tunties that we knW would have been
vast advantage to us.
The executive board have held four
meetings during the year in Hartford,
Providence, Greenfield and New Haven,
respectively. At those conferences
many matters of importance have been
discussed. The question of the better
ment of the liquor interest through leg
islation has been prominent in the dis
cussions of the committee. Such recog-
milton of the interests of our employer,
the public, seem to accord and it ar
cues a moral support on the part Of
our proprietors that, wisely led, will
contribute to the intelligent solution Of
any differences that might confront us.
The time has come when some action
must be taken that would place us on
a permanently financial basis, that will
insure our stability as hona-fide Or
ganization. AS we exist to-day we
have no protective fund, and no means
of creating one under our present finan-
cial system. All organizations that do
good work have ideals at which they
aim, and hope to accomplish its full
achievement cannot at all times be eX-
pected for to fall short Of our expeCta-
tons is not defeat nor failure, The
ideal cannot be set too high, and then
any progress toward it is a victory, and
the labor is not barren Of results.
Proceeding President Griffin in a CO.
gent way urged the establishment of a
home for INDECENT members, and sug-
gested the purchase of one Of New
Englands many deserted farms which
could be had at small outlay. On
this tn home could be erected and it
would be supported at cost to each
member of five cents a week
He also suggested an assessment of
ten cents on each member at the death
of a member. This would yield $500 to
the family Of the deceased.
He also advised neutrality in politics
for the associa ton, in order that the
beneficial purposes of the cause of
the crafts elevation be not imperlled
The principle Of equal pay OF equal
work irrespective Of sex should be
maintained Demand the union Label
on all articles you buy.
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