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MYEJIBEK II.
NEW YORK SOCIALISTS HON
ORING THE CHICAGO
MARTYRS.
I hi' (.rainiest Demonstration l.vt r
il'M in the Metropolis -i(',i,ho
by Hugo Yoirt, Daniel DeLenn,
Alexander .lonas iiml A. (alian
Tin' Krvul utioiis.
Thirty minutes before the time ap
pointed Cur t he memorial meet ing lieli)
hy the Socialist Labor party l.-si Mon
day evening tlie large hull of Cooper
I in'. hi was tilled to o el ll iwiug, every
-eat being occupied, the ui de.s invaded,
the lobbies, corridors ami staircases
! v. cli il to still'ocation, v. bile hundreds
if belated people who could not gam
ii 1 1 in it taiiee within the walls of the I mi til
ing were standing outside or reluctantly
turning away.
The platform was impressively deco
rated with twenty four Ii.ki m-rs of trade
unions, in the middle of which the red
flag of the Socialist Labor party occu
pied a conspicuous position. Across its
entire width stretched a red strip bear
ing the motto of the International,
"Workmen of all countries, unite!"
The speakers' tahle was decked with
red and hlaek intertwined, anil helow it
was a frame containing the pictures of
the Chicago martyrs. In order to make
room for the twelve singing .societies,
whose united voices discoursed hetween
the speeches magnilieeht choral music
under the leadership of I lerr Seha- del,
ad the seats had been removed from the
plitfoim, with the exception of the
Chairman's and of those which were
occupied by a select orchestra of the
''atl ahm Club the finest, perhaps,
1 1 1 . t ever performed at the Cooper
I ' II b ill.
1'roinptly at s p. m. Comrade D-'iij. .) .
i iii tseh called the vast assembi) to order
;,iiil in a lew appropriate words staled
t he object of the meeting. lb' then in
troduced Comrade Hugo Yogi as Chair
man. (in taking tlie chair, Comrade Vogt
-aid:
"Ladies and ( .entlcmeii ! Comrades
and 1'iiends! We have mine hereto
night to discharge a solemn duty, a
luty that, we owe alike to humanity, to
ibis country and to the memory of the
mar!) is whose draped port raits look
down from thtse walls. On thellth
day of November ls7 the capitali-t
i lass, infuriated by an expression
hi discontent among its slaves, took
the blood of live nii'ii w ho vveie looked
ti ii hi as the mouthpieces of the
dis-ali -lied masses. To Iiml a pretext
fur the murder of these men, capitalism
did not hesitate to murder law and jus
tice; to tianiple upon every feeling that
is held sacred by civilized man. Ameri
can citizens ware imprisoned on mere
suspicion, their houses ransacked, their
private papers searched and used as
evidence against themselves. The jury
li-ts were lixed, witnes.-es were coerced,
tal-e testimony was manufactured.
Friends were bought to betray their
'lienils, wives to violate I he privacy of
family life. Until t he eoiisuuiuiat ion of
all these infamies Could be reached, un
til these men ended the'l' lives on the
gallon s, eighteen months elapsed It was
no; a deed committed in t he heat of pas--ioii,
in the excitement of battle. It was
a ct ld-bl led murder done by tlie
ruling class with fu.i consciousness of
lis atrocity,
"That these men did not personally
commit the crime of which they were
ai'eiisid, lias been admitted, lint it is
claimed that tl.ey were answerable for
,t, i"'c,u-e they incited to s.i h crimes
by their Anarchistic speeches and writing-.
What an atiocious principle of
law! I nderit who that ever denounced
the eiymj; and innumerable abuses of
society might not he held answerable for
every outbreak of discontent! But it is a
lal.-' pretense; these men were not prose
cuti d because they were Anarchists.
The activity for which they luought
upon their iieads the hatred of tlie capita
list class was not their Anarchist agita
tion, but it was their activity in the
jnat tight hour movement, which
aimed at a slight, but immediate and
practical betterment of the workmen's
condition; it was an activity by which
these mi called Anarchists radically de
parted from the Anarchist po.-ition and
placed themselves in line, yea, at the
le-ad of a perfectly legal and peaceful
movement. Not when they preached
anarchy, but when they took a quite
anti anarchist stand, was it that they
became daagerotis to the capitalist da.
In the eyts of tlie capitalists every trade
unionist, every t-ocialist, every lalmr
man w ho tine-rely and effectively aids
in securing to labor a larger share of its
own product and thereby reducing the
lion's portion of the capitalist, is an
Anarchist, is a criminal. Spies and
Parsons and Field and Neebe were not
singled out because they were more
radical than the rest, but because they
were considered the most etfecti c work
ers in I he movement, and also because
they were looked upon as its most
courageous advocates. The police
was sent to break up t he 1 lay market
meeting and the subsequent prosecu: ion
of Spies and bis comrades was not di
rected against Anarchism, hut against
the eight-hour movement in partieul ir.
and again.-t the organized labor move
meiit of eveiy phasis in general. It was
planned and cairied out with this end in
view, by a reign of terror ami a deed of
honor, to brutalize and intimidate the
rebellions wage workers into submis
sion, to ileunrralize organized labor
through fear. The capitalists had begun
to be alarmed for the permanence of
thtir pmvei; to rid themselves ot the
labor movement, was for tiiem a ques
tion of to be or no! to be. And it was
because they thought so desperate was
their condition that all must he gained
or all be lost, that tht-y did not stop at
auj on rage, hut wit h tiei ce deterinin.t
tii in carried out their desperate' plan
unto the end.
"We have assembled year after year
and are hire to-night, to tell t hem t hat
their plan has failed, that they have
soiled their conscience with this inno
cent blood, without accomplishing their
infamous purpose Thty may kill some
of us leaders, out this movement will
go mi and grow until it sweeps away all
oppression and injustice.
"We are not here to threaten revenge.
This movement is above rev enge. Put
we are here to remember that we have
engaged in a serious struggle and that
we have to contend against a heaitless
anil brulal enemy, who stops not at
taking our bread, our liberty and our
lives; an enemy against whom no ap
ptal to sentiment or reason and nothing
will avail hut power. And the only
power that, is within Labor's reach is
the power of organization. And we
are here to vow that we will spare no
effort to build up that power and or
ganize our class for its final emancipa
tion. Prolonged applause.
"1 will now give way to the speakers
and trust that you w ill follow their ad
dresses and t he proceedings of this ev cu
ing with the dignity which becomes the
occasion
Daniel DiLeotl was then introduced
and on coming forward to t he speakers'
desk was received with enthusiastic ap
plause, lie wild that he regretted the
invitation to speak on that evening had
come (o him only in the at ternoon. The
lime was thereby made looshorl for him
to put d vvn in w riting w hat he had to
say, and bring a notary public and wit
ness to guaid against bis life being
sworn away, on some future occasion, by
some detective whose business it was
to put. into the mouths of speakers
words which they had never used, lie
had no apology to oll'er for being t here;
he did not even feel called upon to ap
peal from the laws of the land to that
higher law to which John Urown felt
forced to appeal. On the contrary he
was wrapping hiuisell in tlie constitu
tion and hues of the laud and, thusar
mored, joined the immense audience in
protesting against the judicial murder
of Chicago.
"So broadcast had the plutocratic press
spread its misrepresentations of the case,
that a statement, of I lit Socialist position
was requisite. With men who talk dy
namite, bombs, blood and thunder, So
cialists had no sympathy. No good man
would dwell with calmness, upon blood
shed, and many of those wi o did so,
when the occasion came, would surely
be the lirst to show a clean pair of
he. Is.
" hi the other
said a general ion :
the lield equipped
its time; hence
hand, as L.iss.dle had
ig i. Socialism entered
with all the science of
Sociah-ts knew that
fori e. at its time
and place, was an es-
sent nil hand maid to justice. I iluntsciiii.
one of tlie most distinmiished jurists of
the day, who-e expressions are well
nigh axiomatic, put it that Force,
tlnough its exercise of Might, ai led the
advent of Ivight. This principle the
speaker had learned in Universities as a.
student, and in his turn taught it to his
pupils w hen he became an instructor in
the most reactionary college in this city.
The history of the country itself showed
its recognition of the principle and its
esteem for the men who led at such
crises. Washington, Andrew Jackson,
Zacharit Taylor, IJ. S. Orant were each
it) turn raised to the highest office in the
gift of the people. While rejecting (be
use of force out of season. Socialists
therefore recognized its necessity in
season.
" W ith the economic and social tenets
of the Chicago martyrs the speaker had
no concern; it was of no ruort impor
tance to the i-slie whether they believed
il n-cessary to manufacture bombs, find
hold themselves ready for the cotidict
w hi. Ii they saw capitalism was speedily
to provoke, than to consider whether
they were Calvini.-ts, Anabaptists or
whatnot: the reason thereof U-ing that
the penal code of Illinois did not provide
the sentence of death for such offences,
but a much lighter punishment. A
man indicted for theft could not be
convicted of forgery; the man indicted
for stealing a certain horse could not be
indicted for stealing another horse; and
the indictment for one offense might
hold good for a lesser one implied in it
but could not be extended t i a graver
one. The martyr) of Chicago were sen
tenced for murder; the private manu
facturing of d) nainile w as not murder
by the laws of Illinois. What then was
proven against them to justify their suf
fering':" The speaker then revi wed the well
known circumstances under which a
bomb, thrown by an unknown person,
exploded ill 1 he midst of a body of po
lice w ho, contrary to all law, were
breaking up a peaceful meeting and
marching with pointed pistols upon the
dispersing crow d,
"The in in who threw the bomb was
never caught; his connection with I lie
Chicago martyrs was never shown, ami
it was furthermore conclusively proved
t hill none of them did throw the bomb.
Upon the law and the facts the only
criminals, were the police; the C!iieagi
martyrs were as innocent as the speaker
himself. No truthful man could ques
tion this statement of facts; no self
respecting lawyer could dispute the con- J
elusion ot law.
'"If, Ihen, the Chicago marl) rs were
innocent, why were they executed':
There was the rub. They were executed
by a murderous plutocracy be :ause they
were felt to he the championsof ihe out
raged proletariat, because by their
words they threatened to prevent the
capitalist conspiracy from cowing the
workiag people and keeping them in
tame subjection grinding out prolits and
vo ing like cattle for the Democratic and
Republican parlies the parties of their
exploiters.
"It was for that reason that Un
thankful proletariat now commemo
rated the death of their champions; and
for the further reason that, ow ing to the
manhood, the abnegation, the fortitude
of those champions in their great trial,
the gnat labor movement, so far from
having been nipped in the bud in ac
cordance with the plan of capitalism,
had received a tremendous impetus, to
the extent that to day we find the rock
bed of the two capitalistic partus rent
beyond recovery, and here, in tlie Slate
of New York more than lO.lillll vot. h had
been cast a, few days ago for the Social
ist Lab t party. ( rival applause.
"Honor to such menus were judicially
murdered at Chicago was hut just and
natural. Though 1 am ma a prophet,
or the son of a prophet, yet, my reading
of history shows to me that the day must
siitelv come when the monument raised
in Chicago to the law breaking police
men four years ago will be torn down,
ju-t as the statue of (ieorge III. on
Howling l J reen was torn down by the
yeomanry of America, a hundred )e;us
ago. And in its stead a colossal mon
ument w ill be raised by the genius of
the Co-operative, Commonwealth, to
commemorate the names of those who
did not falter in their duty, even in the
daikest hour of their holy cause." Pro
longed applause.
L. Sanial then read the following reso
lutions, which were unanimously adopt
ed by a rising vote:
1!i:soi.itions:
Whkkkas, On the lllh day of Novem
ber. 1T, in the prostituted name of
justice, upon the testimony of suborned
perjureis, and for the avowed purpose
of lerrilytng the wage-workers of
America into abject submission to an j
oppressive and criminal plutocracy, live j
innocent men were hanged in Chicago .
and three cast into jail virtually for j
life; and
Whi-.kKas, This appalling crime, in- :
stead of etTecting the object of the con
spirators who carried it. out. has only
served to spread and intensify, not in I
this country aione, but throughout the ;
civilized wirld, tlie class struggle be
tween the despoiled and the dcspoilers;
and
W iikkkas. In their mildness at the
growing and irrepressible indignation
of the I overs of freedom, the stiptn
diariesof the plutocracy have lately, in
various cities of (his so called free Re
public, trampled upon the constitutional
right of free speech, prevented or dis
persed lawful meetings, arrented peace
ful citizens, and have even, in the dis
graced city of Newark, incarcerati d
Lucy 1'arsi ,ns, ti
as tie- faithful
of one of the
ir the only reason that,
tnd Courageous widow
Chicago martvrs, she
stands a living reproach to the guilty
conscience of the plutocratic clas-;
Tin I'efoie lie it
y.'.'so.'c, , That we, free men Mid
women of New York City, in mass
meet in i a.sseiidil-'d, protest against the-.--tup.
iidoiw outrages, reiterate our un
dying remembrance of t tie crime com
mitte.l in Chicago, and declare our un
alterable purpose of avenging it by
abolishing wage-shivery and .-ubsti
tutmg the Co-operative Comnionweaitii
for the economic and political despoti-m
i f the plutocracy.
The next tqieaktr was our veteran
comrade Alexander Jonas, whose ap
pearance was greeted with the gr-.tie-t
enthusiasm. H' referred in pathetic lan
guage to the imposing lieinon-t ration of
the working people o New York three
years wgo when, with furled trade ban
ners draped in crape, they marched in ,
procession through the 'tr-ets a few
j hums before Ihe judicial murder of
Cm go was perpetrated He cave an
ace, , nut of ihe trial and t he execitt ion.
. and of the ghoulish glee I . h which the
pohe, men who manned the prison at
! the lime of the exieuttoii viewed with
delk'ht and applause t he coin oil ions of
I the expiring Chicago martyrs, lie iv
j viewed the law and the Constitution of
! the I'nited States; aroused alternately
j the I. .lighter and the ind gnat ion ot the
I audience ;it the manner in which t lies.
! were administered and how class law-
was enacted and dispensed by the ruling
class against their wage slaves. He
point, d out the s' milicance of l he mis
dee I ol Chicago a ; the re.-ultof the ap
ple! h ii-ions of men w ho w ei e making il
clear to the proletariat that it had
nothing to expect from capitalism hut
fetters, and tied its only hope lay in
union and conci it c, I union, l'le speaker
closed with an exhortation to lake this
lesson to heart, tiiat brought down the
house w ith a storm of cheers
( 'oinrado A. ( 'ahull then addressed the
meeting in Jeish. The niimeioiis
seals of those who left at the close of
Jonas' speech were immediately taken
by people w ho had long stood up in t he
spacious corridors of the Cooper I'nion,
patiently waiting. Still, many were
standing up in the aisles and in the rear
of the hall, and there was no pi rceplible
decrease in the vast audi. nee. It was
11 o'clock when the tiiei ting nd journed.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR.
List ul 1 ill port , i nt (IihsI inns ti lie An
swered liy 1 lie I niiiiis On in- liefer.'
iv emlii'i- IK.
New York, November ."id. IMin.
Vo tin- OjJ'u-i-rs of the Trade mid Labor
I ' IIIDII. 1 i' .-IllieWl'ff :
1 1 11 .itini J : Fellow-Workmen Your
attention has already been called to the
10l.li annual convention of the American
Federal ion of Labor to lie held in Detroit ,
Mich., December H, l-SyO, and it is my
purpose to be in a position to bring to
that holy a comprehensive .statistical
statement upon the various questions
ihut most intimately affect the wage
woikers in the struggle for reform and
improved conditions.
To assert a fact, to uphold a theory is
one thing, lo demonstrate its truthful
ness by actual conditions is another;
and it should be our purpose to continu
ally endeavor to arrive at. the exact,
truth, at least so far n our movement
and progress are concerned.
The questions propounded are of the
greatest importance and will no doubt
give all opportunity to the dclegaies at
the convention to intelligently legislate
upon the great questions w hieh will
unquestionably di maud their earnest,
attention. Hence I most r. spc ctf idly
request the ollieers of all trade a- d labor
oi ganizations to till out ! he aooonipaii) -ing
blank as fully and completely as
possible an I forward ihe same to the
undersigned al the earliest possible
moment, not later than November Hth.
Fraternally ) ours,
.-iAM'i, ( b i.VU'KKS,
I'n x,di id Aiin'i iran J-'nlrral ion
of Lahar.
.d'KSTIoNS,
1 1'OSI ottiC'
Name seat an
r !
organization.
Dale Oi gam.at ion was formed.
Number of local branches October 1st,
lssn.
Number of local branches October 1st,
1 !W.
Number of members let. 1. 1MI.
Total available funds of organizations
Oei. 1st, 11)
Total available funds of organizations
Oct. 1st, ls;n).
Average hours of labor in the trade (I- t.
1st, 1SMJ.
Average hours of labor in the trade Oct.
1st, is'jn.
Average wages in trade ()e(. 1st, ss(i.
Average vv age.-in trade ( let, Dt, ls;iu.
Have iuiprov einenbs in the condition of
employment taken place in your trade
Once Ud. 1st, lMl': If so. stale them.
1 low many strikes oceui red among your
orgeliizatioiis bilweeli Oct. 1st, 1-s;
and Oct. l-t, l-'JU-llow
many were sue; cssf ul':
How many were unsueces ul ':
1 low many w ere cmpi -,ini-. d :
W. re the co i promises g. net ally in f i r
ol your men i bers":
Number of strikes -nice ( ) -t. 1st, lss;,
1 For increase of wa-:
" Against i e, I u' t ion m wage.-.-.'.
For reduction in hours ot labor':
1 Again-t increase in hours of labor':
" -To uphold L iu 'iiisiii :
What is the Iota reduced number of
hours of lab .r tha' your organ zi'ions
have secured lor their members since
Oct. 1st, 1 .!.
'A hat is 'be total increase in wages that
)ni;r i.rganiz itioii- hive secured fur
their in. mo ers since ( let. 1st, l-'.l'
1 low many trade disputes were settled,
if any, w it Inmt resort mg to "ti ikes ':
Lioes jour organ iz i1 ion or any of its
branches contemplate making a de
maud t) reduce hours of labor or in
crea.se wages in the near future? If so,
-tale them and to what extent.
; , , , . xiirpi. i . tli
( ) ( , ) LAHOR.
WEEKLY MEETING OF THE
CENTRAL LABOR FEDERA
TION. Mr. (Jumpers Hi ies Aunllicr Letter -j
The Delegate of the ('. L. I'. In
the Detroit t'oiivenliou is ln
slrncli'il -Tj pographi i No. ; is
I Admitleil .Many Trade Mull ers
Disposed of The Manager ul Turn
Hall will he Taught a Lesson hy
j Organized Labor.
! Delegate iSinmii O om pcrs, of t he I loot
and Shoe Workers, wan Chairman, w bib
I delegate lleckerof the Custom Varnish-
eis aim i misiiers w as icc-cliairmuu ;
the last meeting of the i '. L, 1-,
Credentials were received from ihe
Hakels' Union No. !l"i, Hoot and Shoe
Workers, l'lush-cap-makcrs, A rehiiccl
ural Iron Workers and one additional
Union, Typopraphiu No. 7.
'ei. ,1 i ... . .
i ney were an ininiiiied with the ex
ception of the Architectural Iron Work
ers, a protest against their delegate being
entered by the I leak .makers' Union, in
consequence of which the matter was
laid over one w eek.
The following letter was then read
and tiled:
HliOOKlAN, N. '., Nov. S, FS'.IO,
7 b tin- Central I. atmr Federal urn tf AV'ic
) n k, !).V) Haiei rij, A'. 1'.
( 1 ent I KM UN: We have at hand yours
of the 5 1 1 1 hist., and in reply are pleased
to state that: all promises given by our
selves will be fulfilled.
Trusting that, same will be satisfac
tory, we remain,
Very truly,
Imha Wii.sui- niiKu iMi Company.
The letter was tiled.
lleiijaiiiin J. (iretsch, National Secre
tary of the S. L I'., requested the en
dorsement of the National Fair in aid of
the Wokkmkn's Anvue.viii, w Inch wan
giiitifed.
A Committee of Furniture Workers'
No. T desired complete and trustworthy
infoi ination concerning the clubbing of
the Italian Mosaic Workers Iroiuoll'a
building by Ihe Hoard of Walking
Delegates'. The story, as published in
the V(ii:kmi:n'h Ahvucatk a week ago,
was re-told and the Secretary instructed
to remit, the same to No. 7 in writing,
A resolution was also adopted, recog
nizing the Italian Mosaic Workers as a
hiiiia jidi' Union, to be piolecled by all
unions represeti'ed in the ( '. ., ',
Copies of this resolution will he sent to
Furniture Workers' No, 7 and the Amor.
Fed. of Labor.
The Non Intercourse CnmmiMcc re
ported in favor of the following circular
and the same w as adopted :
"Mr. Loins Kramer, manager of the
New York Turn llali, li l I i. Ith street ,
has steadfastly refus.id to make his hall
and saloon a union place, although re
quested to do so by committees of (he
Central Labor Fedei al ion, liiew eis,
( 'igar-makers and Waiters, lie al-o de
clined that the members of the Tinn
Society and olhi r vi-itms never a-k for
'union" beer, cigars or bread and do not
insist upon union help being employed.
Now, therefore, we request ad meiuheis
of Organized Labor, and especially those
v ho belong to (he Turn Societies, lo do
their duty and to compel this Manager
Kramer to recognize the just demands
of Organized Labor. We also reiuind
I he Turners of the fact that al their last
National Convent ion it. w a.s decided that
it was the duty of the said Tin ncis to
support the cniseof Organized j.ahor."
The Jewish l'asseiiienl id s' Union re.
quested that the Organization Commit
tee reorganize the defunct I'asseinen
tieis' Union. The request was granted.
lour oi. lock having arrived, the
special order, "Instructions to the Dele-gat.-",
was taken up.
The following letter from President
Ooiiipets was fust, read by the Corre
sponding Secretary :
Ntvv VuiiK. Nov. 7, Is'.ie,
Fluent Hultiil, Sn'y (', I,. '.
Dr .vit Sin:-lu reply to ) our favor of
Oct s"l, inquiring w hat U came of your
application for a charter, nrimt me to
say that it has been my intention to p. r
s on ally visit one of your meetings and
explain the matter, but taking into cm
sideration the fact that your organiza
tion was so largely interested in th- re
cent political campaign 1 deemed it to
the interest of your movement to post
pone any visit (,r communication, in
order to avoid a discussion which might
h ivo :i tendenc) to embarrass you or
diminish the votes fur ) our candidates,
until aider ele. tion. Inasmuch, how
ever, as v.mr uit etings Ur the past few
weeks have been I he stumping ground
for a tirade of abuse and attack upon
me. both personally and ollicially, and
having om,. o the trouble of giving
them piihliciiy in t. ,1 , w,,ekly
papers , f this ci'y, y,,u have rendered
it impossible for me to attend your meet
ing tor this purpose with any degree of
self I. sped,
'I he Central Labor Federation of New
Voi k applied for a charier, and among
the orgaiiiza' ions composing it is the
Auieric:ii Section of I he Socialist Labor
I'arty of Nt w York Cnv. I have ex
pressed the opinion that as a political
part) the Am. Mean Section ol the So
ciahst Labor Party ; lioiild not lie en
tilled to repieseiuation in a Trade I'nion
body.
You and I diller up: n that, and I have
concluded to refer the e n 1 1 ie mailer to
l be convention ol the American Federa
tion . I Labor, ti
be held at Detroit,
Mich., I ec. IS'.IO.
It .seems to lue
at men in the labor
movement can honestly diller with each
other without finding it necessarv to in
dulge iu abuse, and cannot for the life
ol me understand why an expression of
opinion should call forth the spleen
manifested by you in your ollicial jour
nals, and which was given out ollicially
by you for publication in the public
press.
If you care to semi a representative of
your organization lo the eouveniiou of
the American Federation of Labor for
the purpose of defending your position
in the matter, I am satisfied all cour
tesies will be extended to him for the
pmpose of presenting his case.
Very respectfully yours,
SAMI.KI, (loMI'KIIS,
1'iexideiii Amer. Jd. of Labor,
After a short but lively discussion, in
the course of which Mr. (lumpers' letter
was variously conimeiiied upon by the
speakers, the said document was re
ceived ami lilcil. Successive motions
were then made, discussed anil adopted,
which, taken together, constitute the
following Loily of instructions:
1ln case of his admission to the
Convention of the American Federation
of Laoor, lo lie In Id in Detroit on the
sih of December, I MM, the delegate of
IheC. L. F. shall urge the necessity of
nieiginginto one comprehensive move
ment the economic and political forces
of labor, upon the ground that political
power is neces-nry lo ihe accomplish,
incut, of Hie objects contemplated by
the labor movement,
? That he shall inquire why the
President of the American Federation
of Labor hits not carried out the prin
ciple laid dow n by the various conven
tions of that body, to wit: that the open
trades unions should he suppoilcd
against the attacks of the Knights of
Labor,
1! That he shall act in conjunction
with Mich other delegates as may be
sent to the Detroit Convent ion by orga
nizations alliliated with the Central La
bor Federation.
I 'I hat he shall request, the Conven
tion lo act. in conjunction with the
labor movement of the rest, of the world,
by sentliiigdelegates tolhe International
Labor C'ongies.i, which will be held in
I'.russelrt on August 111, 1MH, and to so
instruct those delegates that 1 hey will
urge Ihe endorsement, by Ihe Hru-ncis
Congress, of the International Labor
Congress which it, is intended to hold m
Chicago in P'Je.
(i-That in case he in not ndmitled
to the Detroit Convention, the delegate
of the C. L. )'. shidl cell a mass meeting
in ine sain city oi Detroit, at winch he
w ill publicly state the position of tin:
'enl.ral Labor Federation.
This matter having been disposed of,
in executive .session was held, at which
the following res-oliil ions were adonted:
Wiikrcvs, It has b. en fullv demon
strated by experience t hat Tv pographi
cal I'nion No. Ii has iu every conceiv
able way retarded Ihe nrogrt ss of Or-
ganiz. d Labor by its duplicity; and
W ill hl.As, Her actions M1 the case of
the t ' rmati edition of t he Mar nitty Jour
nal iliim Muriji ii Journal) has added one
more iiiHiii io the injury already in
dicted by the said No. 0 on Organized
Labor; I hen fore be if.
laxiilrtd. That we Delegates of the
various bodies that constitute the Cen
tral Labor Federation of New Yolk eity
ainl vicinity, do most einphaticall) con
demn the treachery ol No ii in usurping
the rights of Tvpograpliia No. Tin the
composing r.-om of 'i.s- Morien Journal
by an unjust ilu d attack directed against
lu r eight-hours work day and scale of
price-; aed we re-p.-etf ully eall upon
! nt kinguieti throughout the country
to do I'kewfse.
The piano Vainisliers reported that
their slide f.r nine hours was in a lair
way and that two more tinus had
granted tle ii d'-maud
They also reined that the Custom
Yarm-heis ih nau d them f j". The Ita
lian Mosaic Workers lo; au 1 Furniture
Workers N... 7 n.
All the Unions were asked to send
Vvntinmd vn fvurth jt'je.)