The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-14
STRIKE DISCUSSED
 BY r. u M 'NULTY Trades Council Hears Head of
 Electrical Workers MANY DELEGATES PRESENT John Craft of Mobile Advocates Work ing State ConvIots on County
 Roads-Blg Labor Day
 Celebration.
MANY DELEGATES PRESENT

c. c. Houston. press agent for the Bir-
 mingham Trades Council. furnishes the
 following account of the proceedings of
 that body yesterday;
 Grand President r. J. NfcNulty of the
 International Brotherhood of Electrical
 workers, who Is in the south on official
 business in connection with the strike
 of the linennen employed by the Southern
 Bell Telephone and Telegraph company
 attended the semi-monthly meeting of
 the Birmingham Trades Council yesterday
 afternoon and delivered an address on
 the conditions of the members of his or
 ganization as he finds them. He says
 the work of the hnemen is the most
 hazardous calling and the poorest paid
 of any class of skilled labor in this sec
 tion of the country
 He said that records at headquarters of
 the brotherhood showed an average or
 twelve lives a month were paid as O
 penalty of employment as linemen. MT.
 McNulty said the strike would continue
 until a fair agreement could be reach
 ed" On motion of Delegate Houston
 the council pledged itself and organized
 labor in the Birmingham district to lend
 every reasonable assistance to Electrical
 Workers Union No 227, of this city, about 75 members of which are on strike.
 President MeNulty will be in this city for several days.
 MT. Craft Speaks. By invitation of the council, John Craft
 of Mobile, president of the Alabama branch and vice president of the National Good Roads association, was present and made an interesting talk in advocacy of
 placing all the convicts of the state at
 work upon the public roads. He called
 upon members of organized labor to re- fuse to vote for ang state or legislative
 candidate for office who did not pledge himself to support a measure of this character. A more rigid law against
 child labor in mills and factories was
 urged, and at the conclusion of his re-
 marks, which were warmly applauded, MT Craft was given a rising vote of thanks.
 movement was inaugurated for the greatest Labor Day celebration on Mon ", l, A committee of six was named from the
 Trades Council to begin preparations for this event at once
 This committee consists of c. c. Hous- ton, J. E. Jacob, l.. K. Scherry, Andy Marx, John Horan and J. B. Drake. the | last named being made treasurer. Each | union in this city and district is request l ed to appoint or elect one member to I act on this general Labor Day commit l tee. and as soon as they have done so l a meeting will be held to arrange all the details of the celebration. It is expect ed that at least one labor orator of na-
 tional reputation will be here on that day to address the people.
 Recent Conventions. The committee on entertainment of the delegates to the recent convention of the Alabama Federation of Labor in this city reported that the money to defray this expense was raised within the ranks ] of organized labor several outside dona- tions being declined, and after all bills were paid there remained a balance of
 s11 to cover into the council treasury. This committee was honorably discharged with a rousing vote of thanks This commit- tee is said to have established new precedent.
 Chairman Andy Marx reported that quite a sum had been contributed by various unions to pay off the indebted ness on the late Delegate Harry Mar keys home and wanted delegates to urge this matter before their unions at once. so that the necessary amount, about s4oO would be forthcoming. For many wears Mir Markey was one of the most nrominent men in the local labor move ment and was a member of the Brick l layers union
 letter was read from President Sam l uel Gompers of the American Federation I of Labor urging donations for the San Francisco sufferers. AS the council had l taken this action at the previous meet | ing and local unions are contributing | tbrough their national organizations, the l communication was received as informa- 1 tion
 | Under the reports of delegates It was shown that trade conditions in Birming- | ham are very good at present. It was l stated that the Alabama Supply com pany, which had been employing non | union labor, had decided to unionize their ] establishment.
 Delegates Received. | Credentials were presented and the fol- | lowing new delegates were seated: 1 Hoisting Steam Engineers-R. D. An | drews, P. G. Alexander, John Mckewen, | S. c. Hix, J. w. Kennedy. | Printing Pressmen-R. E. Carlisle, D. S. l Funckenburk Hubbard Stamps, Thomas Martin, Ed Shiver.
 | Paper Hangers-L W. Cornell, Nor | ris Higgins. w. K. Wilson. J. L. Hig- | gins.
 Pattern Makers-E. D. Mcconnell to fill | vacancy.
 More than one hundred delegates were present, and it was one of the most in- teresting meetings of the council ever