New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-15

/ portant resolutions were introduced
and referred to various committees.
i One OF these asked that Washburn-
Crosby flour and the products of the
National Biscuit company be placed
on the unfair list, = and another that
$3.50 be appropriated toward the fund
for the assistance of the Minneapolis
mill workers now on strike. A third
/ Endorsed the Woman's Label League.
/ Secretary McEWen offered one to in
crease the per capita tax fund from one
to two cents monthly and the Brainerd
Trades and Labor council had a
measure in the interest of humanity.
TO guard against ptomaine poisoning
which might result from the decom-
/ position of vegetables, fruits or foods
preserved in tin cans, it would COM
pei manufacturers to stamp the tins
with the month and year in which the
goods were prepared.
Garfield Morrison introduced a
resolution to alter the manner of
i choosing the members of the FEEDER
alton council. At present there are
three in Minneapolis, three in st. Paul
! and one in Saltwater. but the smaller
towns of the state petitioned for repre-
sentation by requesting that cities
having ten unions affiliated with the
Federation be allowed one member
and those having twenty five unions
be entitled to three.
4 At 8o'clock Monday evening the dele
gates formed in line in front of the
Dakota House and led by the Second
Regiment band marched to Turner
Park. There the band dispensed mu-
sic while the various classes of the
Turnverein went through drills and
gymnastic exercises. furnishing an en-
tertainment which was highly praised
by the laborites.
/ Resolutions of various kinds occu-
pied the attention of the convention at
yesterday mornings session. One was
introduced to increase the salary of
the secretary to $50 per month and
then the committee on resolutions sub
mitted a report recommending the
adoption of a batch of five. The Wo-
mans Label League was indorsed,
the products of the American Buiscuit
company boycotted and Federation
members were Instructed to insist upon
union labels on their bread The
Brainerd canned-food resolution went
through and the delegates voted to
boycott the goods manufactured by
Robitshek, Frank & Heller of Mime
.apolis, at the same time volunteering
support to the cooperative factory es-
tablished by the Garment Workers
i Union Of the same city, in retaliation
for the lookout order issued by the
firm.
The committee on resolutions recon-
mended that the proposed ''contribu-
tory negligence law be referred to the
Federation council with instructions
to use all legitimate means 10 secure
its passage by the legislature. A
lengthy discussion followed but the
convention ultimately adopted the re-
port and went on record as favoring
ing the placing on employers of re-
sponsibility for accidental injuries
sustained by workmen.
Instructions were issued to organic
ers to enlist railway laborers in the
| labor movement and Sec. McEwen in
troduced a resolution censuring Sen
ator Clapp for evading the vote on the
eight-hour working law.
Sympathy for the striking -four mill
employees of Minneapolis was mani
tested by the labor delegates yester-
day afternoon in a forceful manner.
The incident came about through the
recommendation of the finance COM
mittee that $3.50 be paid into the strik-
ers' fund. John Swift of Minneapolis,
one of the founders of the Federation,
took the floor in defense of the mill
owners, saying that they had shown a
disposition to be just, that he consid-
cred the strike hasty and ill-advised
and that the flour packers and leaders
really had no grievance. Several
speakers took issue with him on these
contentious and when submitted to a
vote the appropri alton was given a
unanimous passage amid the greatest
enthusiasm.
The Federation further committed
itself by adopting a resolution con-
demning the action of the bakers
union of Minneapolis in furnishing
food to the scabs engaged to break
the strike, but went to the other ex-
IRENE by decreeing that henceforth
/ labor unions affiliated with it must
consult the Federation officers before
ordering their members out.