The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
LABOR UNIONS
FAVOR HOSPITAL
WILL JOIN IN FIGHT AGAINST
TUBERCULOSIS.
Trades Assembly Appoints Committee
to Consider Plans Of Establishing a
Tuberculosis Insurance Society
Would Go Further and Secure a Hos
pital Near the Twin Cities.

F. C. Hebron, representative of the
Trades Assembly in the Antitubercu
losis society of Minneapolis, introduced
resolution Wednesday evening that
the assembly appoint a committee to
consider the plan of establishing a
be confined to union men. Should the
project receive favorable action by the
assembly, it is the intention of the pro-
motors to go still further and make
an effort to secure the establishment
of a sanatorium in the vicinity of the
twin cities, where victims of consump-
ton could receive treatment while the
disease is in it's first stages. Such a
society would insure all that could be
desired in the way of combating the
disease, and at small cost.
Absolute rest Of both body and mind
is one of the essentials in the success
full treatment of tuberculosis, and this,
could be guaranteed under the proposed
plan. Owing to the nature of the work
and the peculiar conditions surround
ing the same, workmen in some trades
are especially subject to the disease.
This is more particularly true of the
clgarmakers, printers, glassworkers,
metal polishers, brassw orkers and men
employed as puddlers in the large iron
plants. The cigarmakers have been try
ing for several years to devise plan
for the establishment of home for
their consumptive members, but have
not been able to present plan accept
able to the general membership. The
printers have one of the finest institll-
lions in the world of this character
supported entirely by a labor union,
and experience has proven that it is
one of the best investments that organ
lzatiOn has made.
to the assembly taking the matter up,
which would indicate that it will have
the unanimous support of the local. Ia
Dor unions. The committee is made
up of F. G. Heffron, chairman; G. w.
Deacon and E. G. Hall. This commit
tee will confer with representatives Of
the Antituberculosis society, some Of
the members of which are familiar with
the workings Of similar societies and
institutions in foreign countries, and
will lend their aid in starting the pro-
ject. Those who have the Society in
hand say the dues will be so low that
no one will be debarred from member
ship.
At the next meeting of the assem-
bly, the committee will present report,
together with constitution and by.
laws. for the approval Of the delegates
There is no doubt as to the earnestness
Oh the un1On1SCS' IN the work, as IS evil.
denced by the following resolutions, in,
troduced and carried unanimously at
Wednesday night 8 session.:
Whereas, The consensus of modern
| medical authority is that the ravages O.
| tuberculosis can, in the great majority
Of cases, be abated if proper prevertiv,
measures are taken or correct medica
| treatment is : employed in the initia
| stages Of the disease; and it also be
ing apparent that to obtain this desir
able end public interest in this subjec
must be aroused; therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Trades and Labor as
sembly Of Minneapolis, That the boar
OF education Of this city and the superin
tendent Of schools are requested to brin
the subject Of the prevention and cure G
tuberculosis before the attendants of tn
public schools, either by direct instruc
ton on the subject or by the organizatio
Of societies among the scholars which wi
disseminate information and awaken pub
lie interest in this important matter; an
be it further
| Resolved, That we believe that in tt
: interest of the health and physical welfa1
of the scholars and of the general publi
that the schools should have a proper me(
ical inspection as to contagious and infet
tious diseases among the scholars and ,
the sanitary condition of the schoolhouse