Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-01-24


passing TRANCE tou chat hum
dreds Of the working classes viii remain
insthe large eastern cities and starye for.
want Of employment; while ia almost ev=.
cry county town in The Union there is .
demand for all kinds Of mechanics and la
borers. There is room in this town alonefor
500 mechanics and laborers, of all kinds
and both sexes, who if industrious and
economical, could make comfortable in
living and lay up something
for rainy day. In order to give our
readers some idea Of the state Of destitu-
ton apsong the labgring classes of New
York, we copy the following
Memorial of the Workingmeng of New.
i,s5 York.,c1stt Z
A committee appointed at mass mee-
ting of the workingmen ofNew York, pre-
sented aimemorial to the mayor and city
councils of that city, on, Friday evening"
asking for some efficient centralized action;
whereby the laboring classes may realize
prevent and permanent relief. After CALI
the memorislists direct attention to the
following alleged facts, which, they say,
are within their cognizance: =
l. That there are now inithis city go, :
900 able-bodied men ont of employment.
e. That $4,000 women, accustomed to
earn their own livelihood, and in many ins
stances to support families Thy their uni
ted efforts, are ont of employment.
4. That 10000 persons, men women
and children, aged and infrm relativesi
mostly of respectable standing, are now
chiefly, if not altogether, dependent upon
the 10000 unemployed residents of this
city, thus forming an aggregate of 1885,.
900 members of our common humanity,
all of whom are thus for the most part de-
prived of their daily bread.
s. That these 10000 persons have
now, in the purchase of food, chiefly, if
not entirely, at ruinous sacrifice, dis.
posed Of what available means they had
accumulated in more prosperous times,
and We regret to say that the savings
bank robbers have not passed by the 'poor
mans lamb S
8. That to supply these 1876, 600 per-
sons with essential food, at the present
prices, at least ten cents per day to each
individual is required; the aggregate of this
is $40. 500 per day, $3.50, 500 per week.
Z. The public duty and private bene-
violence have up to this time been totally
inadequate to supply the vital wants of
the suffering classes in this city; and now
deep murmurings are heard all around
the heart-stOnes of proud, stern-h hearted
men, who would prefer death to the
crouching suPplications of repulsed beg
gary; and your memorialists respectfully
and most earnestly representa- your hon
orabIe body, in view Of the passage of
some measures Of extended relief, had
been met in many quarters by deep, de-
spairing curses. and we regret to be COM
PEELED to add. that confidence in the in
tegrity of your honorable body in the as.
sumed intention Of supplying efficient naea-
sure OF immediate reliefis now largely inn.
paired; and in view OF this state of feeling,
We, AS the central committee of the work
ing men of New York, will be directly
compelled. unless prompt reliefis afforded,
to throw off all responsibility as to the re-.
suits now looming, like the dense precur-
sor OF hurricane of death over this un-
happy city. We therefore. do most Gar.
nesLly and entreaIingly urge the immedi-
ate passage Of an Apriatition for the i'm.
provement OF the public domain, or,some
equally Available measure OF relief for our
desPalring and starving fellow-citizens.