Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-12

concurred in the resolution. and it was
adopted unanimously by the conven-
ton.
The brutal and tnhurnan methods
used by those attempting to Kill VIZ
strike Of the Colorado miners and q
/ message of sympathy, cheer and hope
was embodied in the resolution present
| ed by j. W. kitto of Ottumwa. Ii de-
! nounceS the efforts of the autlNri ties
disrupt the unions. as a conspiracy,
ANA condemns the practiees and meth
DDS used. The committee concurred in
the resolution, and Il passed without a
dissenting vote.
In the resolution of j. II. FenWiek,
of Oskaloosa, in which the committee
concur.ed and which was adopted, il
was recommended THAT efforts be made
! by the building trades 10 bring about
a better understanding, for their nu-
tual benefit, in localities where they
/ had already formed Il building trades
alliance.
After being lost the resolution OF
| Daniel F. Tieruey Cedar Rapids, and
| Theodore Christensen, of Clinton, CALI
ling for an effort 10 be made 10 put forth
| to secure a clause in all contracts for
| the erection or repair of public build-
lings should be done by union labor ami
union material should be used and thaf
/ central bodies should their influence 10
! bring this about. Was recalled ana III :.
ter a long discussion was adopted.
Much % the discussion brought out the
belief that contracts containing uhls
clause would work a hardship on con-
tractors The committee failed to con-
cur in the resolution, but ii was adopted
over its head.
The session opened with the reading
OF the report of President j. p. White,
of the United Mine Workers, of District
Is. who was a delegate to the annual
convention OF the A. II. and A. l.. at
Boston. 1t was read by Edwin Perry,
of oskaloosa, secretary OF the Gstrlct,
owing 10 the fact that Mr.. White was
unable to be present.
The convention gave over an hour or
its time to the presentation OF the cause
Of the woman suffrage in Iowa which
was presented by Mrs. L. l. Robinson,
OF Des Moines.
Meeting at the Odoon.
The evening meeting; at the Odeon
was well attende ! but the audience fell
considerably short of filling the build
ing. John p. White. who had eX-
pected to be- here to deliver his address.
wired that he could not come, and Joh.i
+. Ream. of Oskaloosst, member oil
the executive board of the United Mine
Workers of America, supplied In his
stead. After the Fifiy-third infantry
band had given a short. concert OF I'VE
numbers, President Joseph III. Mohr,
of the Trades and Labor Assembly.
introduced Mr.. Ream, who spoke TO-
half an hour. He traced the history
of organized labor briefly. and cited
the circumstances which made neces-
sary the banding of men together IN
labor unions for their own projections.
Labor unions. he said, existed and
were formed because contest OF the
individual laborer for better pay, bet
ter circumstances and improved con-
dittons against the corporation was
an unequal struggle. After labor had
organized it had brought about in
creased pay, shorter hours better Ia
borin.s conditions, enactment OF legis-
latio.i favoring IL and ant-chiid Labor
laws He deplored ard admitted that
labor organizations We're not perfect,
for the reason that no combinattoE
formed Of men is perfect, and is no
more so than the majority of Its indi-
vidual members. The strike, he hela
to be the laborers only weapon OF de
Tense, his only means Of warfare, ar
was often used when the laborers
knew that it was hopeless cause. He
believed in most cases that strikers are
driven to it, but expressed hopeful
feeling that employers. as well as the
employed. are beginning to see that
strikes are detrimental to all concerned,
and are casting about for other means
of settling their difficulties. The un-
ion, he said was an educator. Espec-
tally was this the case in the anthra.-
cite regions OF the east, where the
workers Of every nation mingle to-
gether and where formerly factional
strife fueds and trouble We're con-
stantly going on. Thu, union there. ne
held, has done for the men and womer.
what the public schools has done TO.
their children. 1t has been an educator
and q means of producing good Amer |
lean citizens Mr.. lReam. while not
an orator. is a speaker. of force. He was
several times by applause
Mckee Rings il, Socialism.
Altho cautioned by the local COM
mittee in charge to forget socialism |
for one evening, Harry NJ. Mckee, ma |
tional organizer OF the northern dis |
trict Of California, who follow MIR. !
Ream, drifted from the subject OF |
union labor at times into the field OF
argument where he is wont to wander. +
He arrayed class against class, labor |
against capital, and said therein lay
the secret of the organization OF labor
Unions, and made their existence nee.
essary for their own survival. He said
the struggle between the HAYES and
the have nots," between capital and
labor, was and always had been be
cause labor received the minimum por-
ton of the share of it's profits. That,
to him, was the cause of the strike,
the lockout, the militia, the black list
Bnd the boycott. The machine prob
lem, he said, was another, which While
the product OF labor itself, was d.;
it's producers from it's gains.
On one side, he said, was arrayed or
ganized labor. which was accomplish
ing that which the individual could not
10, and on the other the trust. the le
gitimate fruit of the capitalistic tree.
To solve labor's troubles he said there
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