Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-03
CENTRAL LABOR UNION MEETS
Visiting Leaders Address the Body on
Labor Topics and Committees
Are Named.

c. .. Pratt Of Chicago. chairman Of the
international board OF the Amalgamated
ASSOCIATE of Street and Electrical Rail
way Employees of America and Coils
Lovely of st. Louis, president of the In
ternatlonal Boot and Shoe Workers union.
delivered brief addresses before the Omaha
Central Labor union Friday evening on
topics pertaining to their respective crafts.
Mr.. Pratt said the organization of street
railway men is very prosperous throughout
the country and that he is very much en-
couraged by the outlook for more effec-
tive organization at Omaha and Council
Bluffs
The subject of convict labor and how
vitality it comes into competition with our
labor throughout the entire country was
the theme OF Mr. Lovely's talk. The
speaker has been making a careful investi
cation Of the convict labor conditions
throughout the south. the eastern and mid
die western states and gave a comparative
illustration of the methods adopted in the
several localities. He favored a duplica-
ton Of the convict labor law of New York.
which had been in successful operation for
, ten years past and provides that prison
made goods in that state should not come
in competition with products made outside
the prison and that only such goods as are
used by the state should be made in the
prisons. lie urged as an effective means of
multiplying convict-made goods to refuse to
purchase any manufactured article not
made by union labor.
The following delegates were admitted as
members OF the central body: +. w. Les
sentin. w. II. Adkins, sr., Grin Stanhcld
from Omaha Musical union. Cope, Pam
ocky. Schrotner from Omaha Printing
Pressmen's union, John Hagestrom, Jour
neymen horse shoers' union
The special committee appointed to visit
the city council in connection with the bids
for city printing before that body
was ordered continued.
: The following standing committees were
announced for the ensuing year
Lava Ellis, typographical union,
chairman; F. r. Baum, BARRIERS union;
Christman, stationary engineers union;
Young, plumbers union; Hall, blacksmiths'
union.
Home Industry and Union I.abel-Cogan,
horseshoers' union; Baker, BARRIERS union;
Press-Griffith, typographical union:
Pechta, pressmen's union; Miller, coopers'
union.
union Ianahan street railway employees
union Rupert, carpenters union.
EducaonRlHanseH FeGsTal Labor
electrical workers union; Drake, hack
mems union; Martin, painters union.
! bitration-Wardlaw, laundry workers
/ union: Nicholson, street railway employees
I union; J. Anderson, structural iron work.
! e-s' Uc!cp.
Sanitation-G. Jones. brewery workers
| union: Getschman, cigar makers union
| Mckay, machinists union; Bushey, stage
| employees union; Shirley. stationary fire
| mems union.
| A communication was received from the
| Brooklyn. y. Y, Federation of Labor ask
ing that the Omaha Central Labor union
| contribute to the fund for the purchase of
a burial plot and monument to the late
| John Swinton, whose body has lain I'M
buried for four years past in the vault in
| Greenwood cemetery. Brooklyn, The COM
munication was laid over until another
| meeting.