Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-07
URGE LABOR BODY
To COVER COUNTY
Building Trades Convention
Also Considers Restriction
of immigration.

Labor men attending the tenth annua
convention of the New Jersey State
Building Trades Council in session a
Eagles Hall. Cone street, Orange, today
were urged for the betterment OF trade
condition to form a general organization
TO cover the entire county of Essex, or,
as some delegates favored. two bodies,
one to include Newark and all munich
palities adjoining this city, extending to
the easterly line of the Oranges, the
second to take In the Oranges aud other
communities to the west. The matter
occupied most of the morning and the
convention In committee of the whole
authorized the incoming executive board
to formulate one of the plans suggested.
Another matter that was favored was
a recommendation by Secretary Jesse
w. Davis that u universal membership
card for all parts of New Jersey be is
sued, instead of the various cards used
by different bodies. A resolution was
also adopted this morning calling for
quizzing of congressman on means to
effectively restrict immigration SO as to
avoid the eventual destruction of the
present American workmen standards
and the pauperizing of labor folk, as
the convention deemed inevitable under
the present flooding of the country with
undesirables.
The next executive board will also seek
10 have the thirty locals of the brick
layers and masons affiliated with the
ctato Eodu and alo, ,,rna 1af1u. ttn
State body of this craft legislation for
women and children in other trades. The
Newark Industrial Exposition was unani.
mously recommended and all workmen
were advised TO lend their aid to the
Newark enterprise.
The following officers will be reflect
ed this afternoon: job f. Cosgrove,
OF FL afttb. president: !. Z. Holland. OF
Jersey City, vice-president; Mr.. Davis,
of Perth Amboy, secretary, and Eugene
v. Lorton, of Plainfield. treasurer. The
reports of the secretary and treasurer
showed substantial gains for the year.
Following the election of officers for
the ensuing year and the appointment
of new committees, the visiting delegates
will be taken on a tour of inspection
through Orange and the outlying sub
urbs by the local members of the asso-
citation.
Asreeably to a recommendation made
by President John r. Cosgrovc, of Eliza
beth, In his annua report, the convention
yesterday discussed plans that will be of
benefit in aiding boys in the New Jersey
Reformatory at Railway to shape their
futures In the building trades. Some plar.
of an industrial training for public schoo.
pupils Is also to be favored
Mr.. Cosgrove urged Industrial schools
for pupils, the instruction to be given by
competent teachers, under guidance of an
official board of managers, working in
conjunction with the Boards of Educa
ton aud manned by practical builders.
Various committee reports are to be
passed upon at today's sessions of the
convention, and the problem of chilo
labor is also to receive attention.
At yesterdays sessions it was pointed
out that actual ~hardships are visited
upon the lads in the Railway institution,
as the necessarily brief courses of in
struction in the trades, ranging In time
as they are sentenced for offenses, unit
the lads for the requirements of the
trades employers as well as union regula
lions, and the unfortunate boys are really
in n worse predicament with what was
called yesterday a "half-baked" instruc-
ton than If they were not given any at
all.
The report will be given careful analy-
sis today.
Arthur Quinn, International first vice
president of the Brotherhood of Carpen,
tiers, gave an interesting address at yes
terday afternoons session. He urged bet
ter organization among the crafts, so as
to aid the elaborate plans for uplifting
the general labor movement; more salts
factory conditions for the women and
children employed, and the elimination of
child labor.