The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-01
TRADES ASSEMBLY
Held MEETING
FARGO TRADES & LABOR ASSEM-
BLY, HELD PROFITABLE GATH.
ER!NG LAST WEEk-NEW OFF.
GERS WERE IN THEIR PLACES
CONDITIONS REPORTED GOOD.

North Dakota Advocates: That was
some meeting of the Fargo Trades
& Labor assembly last Friday
evening in Assembly hall. The
new officers were in their places and
the proceedings were very harmonious.
The officers for 1913 are as follows:
President-J. J.. Gillian.
Vice President-A. W. Bowman.
Secretary-Walter r. Lee.
Sergeant-at-arms-A. e. Booth.
Board of Directors-D. Logan. NJ. A.
Johnson, Ben Du Val, E. S. Elliott,
Jack Johnson.
Steve Sandie of the carpenters, c..
Larger and r. B. Wing of the plumb
ers were new delegates admitted at he
meeting.
The carpenters reported that they
had advanced their scale to As cents
an hour. They expected no opposition
from the employers as notice was given
long before estimates were made for
work the coming spring.
Some of the reports of the different
unions showed business good, notably
in the printing trades line, a majority
of the carpenters are busy, but with
the plumbers and painters, business is
somewhat dull.
The BARRIERS delegates were present
and requested all union men to look
for the unlon card when getting work
done. There are three shops on each
side of the river and it was the n
of the assembly that all union men
should patronize only these shops.
The cigarmakers are becoming few
er each meeting date as the campaign
for Fargo made goods gathers head
way. Attention was called to the
double crossing by these ~so-called
boosters who urge the citizens of Far
go to %patronize home institutions and
use tobacco trust goods themselves TO
the exclusion of those made in Fargo.
The secretary was authorized to call
the attention of the secretary of the
commercial club to this fact.
To an unbiased man it would appear
that this booster movement is intend
ed only for what is usually known as
the common people-the ultimate con
| sumner. 1t was the sense of the assem-
bly, that a big improvement could be
made in the commercial club and If the
members could get down to business
| and practice what they preach one
half as loud as the yell when they
want the common people to come II
and leave their coin, it could make q
grand success of this movement.
Discussion of proposed legislation al
Bismarck developed the fact that there
was absolutely nothing doing by the
representatives at the capital in the IN,
~terests of labor and that the proposed
amendments to H. B. POI, were elthel
worthless or Indifferent.
The question of putting a representa-
tive workman on the school board wal
| discussed and a request made for thu
different unions to hand in the names
of suitable men for such a position OF
which all laboring men can unite.
The plumbers delegates reported
that their proposed ordinance was no
yet buried and that the ordinance com
1 mittee and the committee from thet
union would get together in the nea'
future for the consideration Of TIT
measure.
1t is reported that efforts to organ
ize the ~streetcar workers are comint
slowly as the men inform the organ
izers that signing their names to al
organization paper would be ~equivalen'
to a resignation. The company eVl'
IDENTIFY has the boys badly buffaloed ant
the wages received by the men are no
nearly what they should be. We az
not want to class the Transportation
company Of our city in the same class
as the steel trust, but there are many
| family resemblanCes.
Organizer Bowman has been yer!
busy for some time back with the eff
fort of breaking into the city council il
| Moorhead and he received a heart!
ovation at the hands Of his fellow
members that evening. He gave thu
boys a practical talk on how to breal
into office and the advantages to b'
gained and it is more than probable
that a few good men can be induced Il
follow his example this spring.