The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-12-06
ASSEMBLY T. A ! ] ( J.
up LOCAL CHILD
/ LABOR CAMPAIGN:
Appoints Committee to Cooper
ate-.NationIaI: Child Labor.
Committee Is Endorsed.

The Federated Trades assembly was
not long in getting behind. the Ma
tional Child Labor committee, fol-
lowing strong and appealing speech
delivered to the delegates by Miss j. J.
Eschenbrenper, membership secretary
of the committee, who is in Duluth
launching a campaign for member
ship.
Miss Eschenbrenner speaks by the
board. She is a factory worker. who:
spent her childhood at hard labor in
New York canning factories. A drive
will be put on here for $4,000 and a
child labor pageant. entitled "Sun-
shine and Shadow" will be put on
here at the Armory, Dec. IS. The as
sembly was asked to appoint COM
mittee to cooperate. In the course Of
her speech Miss Eschenbrenner said:
"Two million children are not get
ting the square deal' for which the
Kiwanis club stands" Miss Eschen-
brenner told the clubmen. I'm New
York, for instance, it has been fund
! that child labor laws are neutralized
by the practice Of allowing children
to do work for big factories in their
! homes, in the tenements.
! Child labor and illiteracy go hand
| in hand, and illiteracy does not make
| for good citizenship. We are work.
| ing for the passage Of federal school
laws and mothers pension laws which
will alleviate cnditions In Minnesota
the laws are very good; in some states,
especially in the south, they are very
bad.
'If democracy means anything it
means giving the children chance. I
want to ask the Trades Assembly to
appoint a. committee of three or more
to assist us and other organizations,
! including the Commercial club and
probably the Rotary club. in staging a
pageant at the Armory Dec. 49,"
! Miss Eschenbrenner was given an
ovation at the conclsion Of her pseech
after which Delegate Joel Lichten
moved that the Assembly endorse the
plan and that $40 be appropriated to
assist in the work of the committee.
The chair appointed W. E. McEwen,
Filing Munkeby and w. J. butcher as
committee to work with like COM
mittees from other organizations.
John E. Jensen, president at the
meeting after an absence of several
weeks. There was a. good attendance
of delegates. Axel Swanson and Ed.
! Schommer were seated as fraternal
! DELEGATES from the Superior Trades
and Labor Assembly President John
E. Jensen and Henry Pereault will be
the return delegates to Superior.
i A number of unions reported as
having made contributions to the
striking steel workers, among them
the railway carmen, painters, brew
ers, shipbuilders and operating cleo
trical workers. A report was made on
the arrest of G. Richards, employ
ment agent, for hiring men as strike
breakers without notifying them that
a strike existed.
The Labor Temple committee re-
ported that a call had been issued to
every local union in the city to select
a delegate to attend a meeting to be
held on the third Sunday in Deem
Der at Owls hall for the purpose Of
organizing a Labor Temple associa-
. ton.
1t was brought out in the meeting
that the railroad labor organizations
were still continuing their fight for
the acceptance of the Plumb plan for
. ! the control and operation Of the rail-
road and there was no truth in the
rumor that the brotherhoods had
abandoned the plan.
Delegate Schommer from the Supe-
rior Trades and Labor assembly gave
a neat little speech on the strength
Of the movement in our sister city and
invited the Duluth body to send fra
ternal delegates to Superior