The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-02-18
PROMINENT SPEAKERS COMING
Local Trades and Labor Council Makes
Plan for Four Big Meetings for the
Advancement of the Cause of Labor
Unionism in Kenosha.

Kenosha men who wear the button of
"Unionism" are to have part in the
"Labor Forward Movement" which is
now being pushed all over the country
and during the next ten days promin-
emit labor speakers from all over the
country will come to Kenosha to de-
liver addresses and seek to build up a
stronger sentiment in favor of the
Union label. -Four big public meetings
have been planned as Kenosha IS part
in the Forward movement. Three of
these meetings will be held at Carpen-
ter's hall and the last meeting, which
will be in the nature of mass meeting
for all men interested in the advance
ment Of labor, will be held at the Rhode
Opera House. The first Of the meet
ings will be held on February 18th, and
others will follow on the 10Th and 22nd
with the grand roundup on the 23rd.
'This is not a movement for Nom
bers of the various unions,' said Will
liam e. Stephenson, secretary of the
Trades and Labor Council, "but a
movement to show the people Of Ke-
nosha what Union labor has done and is
doing to benefit the people at large.
We want the people to know the re-
forms that have been brought about
through the efforts of men who have
been united under the union label and
we want them to learn that the union
label is a protection to the consumer
as well as to the laborer All over the
country this big movement is being
carried forward and the local trades
and labor council has sought to secure
men as speakers for these meetings who
will be able to present intelligently the
big questions which the laboring men
of the country are meeting today
This is not an effort to secure members
for any particular union, burt move
ment to show to the people the value
Of trade unionism to the laboring man
and to the people who buy the fruits
of his labor The local leaders feel
that the people of Kenosha are vitality
interested in the big questions of the
laboring men and that the series of
meetings planned will be largely at
tended"
At the first meeting on February
18th the speakers will be Charles If
land Of Chicago, secretary of the Bak-
ers and Confectioners' International
Union. He will speak on the subject,
"The Union Label On the same
evening there will be an address by
James Henderson of Detroit, general
organizer of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists He will speak on
the subject "Henry Ford, the HUI
manitarian. On the following even
( ing j. j. Handley of Milwaukee, secre-
tary of the Wisconsin State, Federation
of Labor, will discuss the labor laws Of
Wisconsin. On the evening of Febru-
airy 22nd, Charles Brown of Indianapo-
lis, one of the officials of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, will share
the platform with Joshua Brady of St.
Louis, general organizer of the Bar
tenders international League of
America. At the final meeting of the
series George w. Perkins of New York,
president of the international Cigar
makers Union, will be the speaker.
Mr.. Perkins is rated as one of the most
eloquent men now working in the
ranke of Trade Unionism.