The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-01

Anu-Csnvfct Acknowledgements MectanG,
An ssiournsd meeting OF the ssgar uAksra end 81
csAe opposed the Learning Of trades 6sAse Prsens
ws held thursday evening 81 Union Budhgs, Bow9y,
To- purposs Of hearing the report OF the committee
nom sing Sing
Amer . few remaSks from the Chairman, . gentleman
In Ii. audience read letter from John ]. Reilly, mem
Der OF Inc Assembly who has introduced bill for the
purpose n regulating c,nvtos labor In which he states
tha tbs oct Of 1s42 prohibits the learning or trades BY
any coavict.
Section ays that no convict who shall hereafter be
sentenced 70 imprisonment In either Of the State prisons
Of this State sha In such prison be permitted 10 wors
sde than that which sh appear By the certificate Of
the Clerk Of the Court In which, he was convicted such
ros in the making manufacturing Of articles FOR
which The chief supply for the consumption Of the country
Be imported from without the United States.
In conclusion he sah that the mechanics OF this city
nsh. res, assured that all h influence would be sxesd
AoOmnitsse Of eve appointed for the purpose Of
interesting the different trades the city in the subject
OF ant convict abos and also make tor
Mr.. WOODBURY., one Of the members Of the com uit.es
wno visited Sing sing reported that they visited the State
p son and were kindly received by the keeper. They
saw - was reported In the public papers, that segsr
making actually existed Thirty-6vs persons we're Al
work IN that branch Of trade about half dozen STRIP ,nr
The leaf AID two Ii, punching the segars con
tract sos I've years commenced in September which
mon 40 cents per day
NJ NAT observed that the keepers as Sing Sing gave
HE commit ZEE TO Understood that II there were
goods imported than manofaotured they had right to
nansiAcsure segars The arrangements TO
dinercnt articles were perfectly systematic. Everything
Wa done by machinery he Witnessed quite . fsts-
Damey, hat bound In sixteen seconds. The interests
a. ths mechanic interfered with by extensive
neohaacai arrangements, and they suffered more than
ahy other class. The farmers not taxed
N supporting the prisons, and a. long -
ehs prisoners are not producers OF their articles
1hey are perfectly sa.sded
Ths President added that the keepers Of the
0eAAe prison aid the ebjeot which the committee
had In view, namely, the prevention Of carrying
o mechanical trades In prisons, would be fruit
sm. But he Of the opinion that those persons
interested IN the oonrscts contractors divide the
spols with them. About niue hundred convicts were
oagAged IN mechanical labor 1t present in Sing Sing
gentleman In the audience said the mechanics Of this
nty would not accomplish their desire they did not
permanently organize.
Another individual observed that the inspectors Of the
prisons controlled them exclusively and the rights Of
che boaegt working men were sacrificed BY them.
Sl another gentleman stated that Mr. Reilly thought
the most eectus way remedy this evil was to get up
ture, and that genuem,n promised to see that was
acted upon.
0her speeches were made against the present system
OF convict labor In which IT. effect upon the ton
OF the working ass forciby exhibited