The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-05-08
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LABOR MEETING
IS UNDER WAY
Convention Opened Sunday in
Patterson's Hall With 100
Delegates Here
MASS MEETING HELD
Various Phases of Labor Move
MASS MEETING HELD
Various Phases of Labor Move
ment Touched on in Public
Meeting at Auditorium

The second day of the convention ol
the State Federation of Labor got un.
der way here today with about 100
delegates and labor men present from
other cities in the state. The cOnven.
ton continues through tomorrow.
Welcome to the city was given by
Mayor A. P. Lenhart when the con.
vention opened its sessions Sunday
morning in Patterson hall. Response
was made on behalf Of the federation
and there were informal talks. Lee
Brundage, of Minot, president of tho
federation, presided.
Meetings were held yesterday after
noon and evening and sessions will
be held today and tomorrow. Meet
ings are open to the public, it is an
lounced.
A mass meeting was held in the city
Auditorium last night, to which the
public was invited. Several hundred
people were present. President Brund
age, introducing the speakers, thank
I'D the city commission for use of the
Auditorium and the people of Bis
narck for cOurtesies extended.
Mass Meeting Held n.
Stephen Ely, president of the Mon
ANA Federation of Labor, Z. G. Hall,
of the Minnesota federation and Paul
Smith, of Illinois, representing Pre-
,ident Gompers of the American Fed
grafton of Labor, were the speakers.
Mr.. Ely spoke Of the movement in
general and OF the nationwide mine
strike now in progress in particular.
He declared the mine strike was JUS
lifted because the mine owners want
I'D the union to surrender fair wage
and asserted that the wage scale the
miners asked was declared by impair
tial investigators to be such that the
income would be sufficient to pro-
perly maintain family of five. He
said the miners were accused of seek
ing to preserve an inflated war scale,
but asserted that the mine wage scale
signed in 1919 prevailed during 1920
when prices rose to the peak point
and the wages were inadequate to
meet the rise in the cost of living.
Mr.. Hall, who said he made cigars
in Bismarck in 1889, spoke of the
union label and its Importance to the
trade unionists, and Mr.. Smith spoke
Of the labor movement from the aspect
of the American Federation. Mr.. Ely
denounced the American plan" of
open shop operation and declared that
since the close of the war there had
been gigantic war waged upon the
trade unions. f..
Explains Compensation Law
Yesterday afternoon Richard Jones
of Kansas City, representing the
United States employment service,
spoke of the work of the service. j.
A. Kitchen, ex-officio of the Workmen g
Compensation Commission, talked
briefly on the work of the bureau and
was followed by S. S. Mcdonald, who
went into detail as to the operation
of the bureau. Mr.. Mcdonald asserted
the compensation act was much mis-
understood. He referred to the com
pensation act of the province OF On.
tario, Canada. He said it was foot.
ball of politics there for several years
but now is accepted by all parties.
Mr.. Mcdonald declared that the
majority Of employers are not against
the law. He said that during his ser.
vice as member of the bureau some OF
the biggest employers in the state
had become his very good friends, and
that some of them had assisted the
bureau materially in carrying out the
law. He said there is compensation
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