The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-06-17
REPORT or STATE FEE
DERATION OF LABOR,
Continued from page one.


should not let the INSCRIPTIONS take
advantage of their differences. They
have forces enough to work both sides
of the street, control the primaries,
select men for office on both tickets
who will carry out practical reforms
for lettering the conditions Of the
| masses.
Education and organization has
been the watchword, and it is the first
step, or should be-, toward the intelli-
gent use of the ballot.
The greatest obstacle to these
movements is the jealous feeling
one of their number advancing, or
getting a little prominence, they are
apt to pull him down, anxious to get
his place. This proves that the work.
ingmen themselves are the worst enc
mics to their cause. They will not
trust their own class. If one happens
to secure office, they say he is out for
Doodle. They would rather elect a
skin-heel politician whom they know
to be a boodler than one of their own
members, for fear he might turn out to
be one.
with all these contentious, trades
! unions have, by agitation and persist
ent work, managed to have placed up
on the statute books nearly all the
laws which exist favorable to wage
earners
Enemies Of Working Class.
Labor as well as capital should re-
ceive the benefits of all labor saving
Inventions, by a corresponding reduc-
ton in the hours Of the work day, and
to secure this result we'll directed ef-
fort must be made along clearly de-
| fined lines that promise results.
What would be the effect on the
workfhgmen il the congress of the
United States should be persuaded to
enact law compelling all trades or
CARNATIONS to disband? 1t would ap-
pear that that is the main purpose Of
those lately in convention who styled
themselves the Manufacturers Asso-
| citation of the United States and Can
| ada These enemies of the working
| classes seem to think that such TRADES
| as they made will have the effect Of
terrorizing the wage earners into sub
hitting to what they in their impu-
| dence would throw to those seeking
their dollars. How impudent little
| money makes some persons. OF them
selves what would they amount to?
Who gave them their standing? Why,
the organized workingmen, whom they
would crush If they had the power.
appear, is concentrated on just such
sentiments by the capitalist class as
came from the mouth of the presiding
officer of the Manufacturers associa-
ton. Now those are the sentiments
| entertained by all tyrants who wish to
crush the aspirations of the wage
Garner regardless Of locality. Such
persons brook no interference: on the
part of the wage Garner but thanks
to this enlightened age such persons
are not numerous, and can be reached
and effectively silenced when they at
tempt to carry the same into effect.
Abuse never made or kept a friend.
Conciliatory methods are not the
gain a point. The wage earners'
| methods are his only weapons. He
is urged to surrender them to those
who are not willing to give him his
just rights in this busy world, because
they think they hold the purse strings,
| made so possible by the skill displayed
| by those they so freely denounce and
try to defame upon every occasion.
Where were those people a few
years ago, and where will they be a
few years from now? They came from
nothing, and their end will be the
| same. They would have the business
| wisdom, and anyone calling them into
| question is treading on sacred ground,
| and must be crushed to earth as dis
turbers of the public peace of the
| country. These are the people who
would import help from foreign coun-
| tries to crush out the independent
spirit of the wage Garner. They are
| the ones petitioning the congress of
the United States to open the gates of
the country much wider so that they
may reap larger profits upon their in
vestments. They are the free traders
In the matter Of the hiring of help, but
staunch protecticnists as to their bust
ness enterprises, and are continually
crying out for more protection for
themselves, and are urging the up
roofing Of everything that smacks of
| trades unionism. These tyrants will
not down the trades union spirit of the
wage earners. It will only have the
effect of making him more solid in his
purposes, that is, to see that he has
more Of what he creates and 4 more
| equitable division all around.
| I'm conclusion, desire to extend my
appreciation to the membership at
large, to the volunteer organizers, the
eFderation Council, and to Secretary
| Treasurer McEwen. Mr.. McEwen,
since his incumbency Of the office, has
disbursed hundreds Of dollars and not
a breath Of suspicion has ever attached
to him. He has brought to his office
| the practical knowledge gained in his
intercourse of business during his in
cumbency of many minor positions he
held in his union. He has solved many
| questions arising during his term OF
office, and his knowledge and BUSINESS
ability have placed him high in the
estimateion of organized labor in his
| state.
I'm closing. will state that sin
cerely hope that the deliberations. OF
this convention will be for the best in
! terest of all toilers and that the COM
ing years will be bright and prosper
Gus, and that the course of the FEEDER
alton will always be upward and on
ward"
The delegates attending the meeting
follow:
nneapolis-Bakers' union, Leslie
Sintom; bindery girls union Jennie
Lent; Building trades council, c. F.
Frye. G. w. Bongy; carpenters union
No. Z; Phil Carlin. w. 1. Green, Elmer