The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-04-04
UNION LABOR Or STATE
TO CONVENE: At. W|hI0 \
Call Issued for Annual ,Conven-
ton of Minnesota State Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
All Trade and Craft Organizations
in Regular Standing entitled
to Representation.

of the Minnesota State. Federation of
Labor, have this week issued the call
for the twenty sixth convention Of
that organization, to be held in the
city of Winona beginning Monday,
June 8. 1908
The call is issued to- all state craft
organizations, city central bodies,
building trades councils, Allied trades
councils, allied printing trades coun-
ellis, local trades unions, federal labor
unions, union label leagues, women's
label leagues and kindred labor organ
izations, and gives in detail number
of facts bearing on the necessity of
each union sending it's full quota Of
delegates, and reads as follows:
Convention Call.
In conformity with the constitu-
tion you are hereby notified that the
twenty sixth convention of the Min
nesota State Federation of Labor will
be held in the City of Winona, Min
nesota, beginning at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning, June s, 1908, and will
continue in session from day to day
until the business of the convention
has been completed
Basis of Representation.
All trades assemblies, building
trades councils, union label leagues
and delegate craft organizations will
each be entitled to five delegates.
Local unions, paying into the Fed
GRAFTON on per capita tax basis will
each be entitled to one delegate for
every twenty five members or major
fraction thereof, but no organization
will be entitled to a greater number
than five delegates
Organizations that have seeded
from national and INTERNATIONAL bodies
given recognition.
The revenue of the Federation is
derived from an utilization fee of $780,
payable on entrance and a per capita
tax Of 2 cents per month for each
member Of the organization affiliated,
the per capita to be paid at the be-
ginning of each quarter, at the call
of the Secretary. The dues of the
central labor bodies are $1.OO per
delegate. The per capita tax is ap-
portioned equally into two funds: the
organization and the general. The
organization fund is used exclusively
for organization purposes.
Entertainment of Delegates.
Hotels at Winona: Accommodation
can be Obtained at the hotels named
below at the prices indicated: "
Winona HOTEL at. 5000 and $3.50
Park Hotel, at. $500
Merchants Hotel, at. 81 single; $3.50
Northwestern Hotel, at......... $500
Schlitz Hotel. ..... soc, 75c and $1.00
ITO at
City Hotel, at. .................. ST. 90
Burmeister Hotel, at. :.s.......:. Isl. 90
|. Davenport House, at. .,,....... .$1OD
Koeller House, at 49,. 81 90
Scandinavian House, at. ....... $1.00
The headquarters of the officers will
be at the /Winona Hotel. -
Delegates desiring advance accom-
mOdatiOns should write to P. J. War
rem, chairman of arrangements COM
mittee, 757 Indiana Avenue, Winona
MINI.
Full Representation Desired.
The past year has demonstrated
l. that the State Federation of Labor is
most useful factor in the growth
and development of the labor move
ment in Minnesota. Were there no
state central body the movement
would scarsely extend beyond the
limits of the three large cities in
the state
The foundation has been laid for
a strong and healthy growth through
out the state, and it is absolutely ne
| cessary that each union should elect
it's most able and best qualified mem.
bers, to the end that the most salts
factory results may be attained by
| the convention.
Disseminate Labor Principles.
The treatment of labor measures
by the State Legislatures in the past
has clearly established the need of
greater vigilance on the part of or
ganized labor. An educational cam
paign should be prosecuted with en-
| ergy in theo rural districts of the state
so that the agricultural producing
! classes will recognize the justice Of
| our position and the righteousness of
! our cause. Antagonist to labor mea"
| sures has unwittingly emanated from
! the representatives Of the rural dis
tricts, thus allying themselves with
interests as much opposed to their
! welfare as to ours. 1t becomes our
imperative duty to remedy this state
Of affairs, and cause the principles
Of trade unionism to be clearly COM
pretended by the producing classes
of every avocation.
| Refute Enemy's FaIsehoods.
! The extent of the plutocratic bitter
ness of certain class against the
laudable efforts of our movement is
evidenced by the war now waged
! against organized labor by a certain
association of manufacturers which is
"Nationap' in nothing but the name.
It is our bounden duty not only to
defeat their Vaccinations but en- .
Tighten them that they may see the
error and futility of their ways. The
State Federation of Labor is in a
position to cooperate actively with
local organizations for the mainte-
nance in all their integrity of trades
union principles;. and the refutation
Of the sophistries and falsehoods OF
the paid hirelings of the so-called
association of manufacturers
A word to the wise should be SUI
J. ficient. Without dwelling further up-