The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-30

! PROCTOR is more tnan railroad
village where giant engines are torn
down and rebuilt again; it is more
than a town Of cars and roundhouses
and dirt and grease and smoke-it is
thriving community Of honest
| laboring men, spotless homes and
healthy children. It is beginning to
be what the oldest old timer hoped
it would be many years ago, a good
place in which to live and educate
| his children.
Probably the most powerful Or
ganization in Proctor today is the
! Trades and Labor Assembly, organ
! lied March 16. Backed by the good
will Of the citizens OF Proctor, with a.
membership Of approximately $500
workers, this organization already has
| done much to improve conditions in
the village. and indications are that
1t will become one Of the most power
full labor organizations in the north
west.
Newman Assembly Head.
! w. A. Newman, machinist, is
president Of the assembly. Fred
Spearman, an engineer, is vice presi-
dent and Harry w. Dart, trainman,
is secretary and treasurer. Meetings
are held on the second Sunday of
each month in the village hal. There
are 10 organizations affiliated with
the assembly.
Proctor is 80 per cent trade union.
and all of the organizations in the as
semb]y are working in perfect har-
mony.
In addition to the assembly, the
six mechanical shop crafts have been
federated into system federation,
known as the D. M. & N. Federation
No. II, chartered under the Railway
Employees department, A. F. of L.
Three members from each Of the six
crafts constitute the advisory board
which meets the second Thursday Of
each month at the village hall. The
federation acts upon questions Of
special interest to shop craft work.
! ers.
Believing that their interests can
be best protected by electing a Labor
man to the state legislature, organ
lied labor in Proctor in cooperation
with the business men Of the railroa d
village have named a legislative COM
nittee, to obtain the election of a
union labor candidate to the state
! legislative body from the Proctor
district. r. K. WEIGH is chairman of
the committee.
The village council, elected on a
LABOR ticket. has already made rapid
strides toward the Improvement Of
the village. and is working on plans
to make Proctor an ideal community.
The laboring men of Proctor are
for and behind the minnesota Daily
STAR and every other good labor
organ. subscription committee will
be appointed to obtain subscriptions
for the Star. Each organization af-
| 1iliated with the assembly will be rem
resented on the committee.
Boost Home Building.
The assembly and the local unions
are boosting the home building
movement There is a shortage Of
homes in Proctor today, according to
one of the prominent officers of the
assembly, and everything possible is
being done to remecy this condition.
Some of the workers, he said, are
forced to live in Proctor without their
families, SO great is the shortage of
I houses.
| Hundreds Of workers in Proctor
own their own homes. They are not
the kind of homes either that the
; average man would expect to find in
a railroad town. There is grease,
dust and smoke in Proctor. but a Wis
, itor finds none of these in the cozy
! homes Of the workers.
1t is an impressive sight to watch
the boilermakers and machinists at
work IN the noisy shops, where one
! has to shout to make himself heard,