The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-11
MEETING OF TIE WE4PL0YEl
The Gatherings In TompkinS Square
and City Hall Park.
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SPEECHES OF THE WORkMEN.
nElAWMAT0aY RARANGUES IN THE AFTERNOON.
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The National Buildings in Charge
81 United States Marines.
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WALL STREET UNDER ARMS.
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aKN. SCOTT AMONG THE BROKERS
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Preparations Of the City Authorities for
any Emergency.
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ene TAs0sand Hen to be Empssyed On tAe
Central Park.
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AFFAIRS AT THH ALM0HOU4a
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INCREASE OF INMATES.
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oRDER AND QUlETNESS LAST MIGHT,
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AFFAIRS AT raH ALnGsHoUsH
INCREASE OF INMATES.
eRDER AND QUleTNESS LAST NIGHT,
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TIE woRKuGnEN IN roMPxISs SQUARE.

Another Mass NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at the
Central Park Observation-Disclosures
ef the Names Of the Unempl0yed-Pr0-
nnlscs ON the Part OF the WOrkingmens
Comnaittec 70 Give Empioyment-A Lady
On the Rostrum-She Makes . Speech
sad Offers 70 Give Concerts and go Shares
with the Poor-Spcechcs OF Mesns. Mcclure,
BOwles, Smith and Others-No Police on the
Ground, and all Pcaceablc and Orderly.
Tue committee appointed by the unemployed working
men ast represent their necessities TO the Com
Council, and 10 urge that body the proprety of a
fordhg much assistance under the circumstances as
no prosecution Of the various public works o
Me city would enable them 10 do, arranged
b have q public meeting at Tompkins square at
n O'Clock yesterday morning. Accordingly the unem
ployed poor assembled there at the hour designated in
considerable numbers. The condition Of that fine square
Of itself standing reproach TO the city. Three of its
sdes entirely destitute of fence palng there not
bench scrap Of grass within the area; and the basin
That perpared for fountain and jet deaa some few
years immense expense nothing but recepta
che Of mud and place for pigs TO walo~ In 1t would
require expenditure Of fifteen twenty thousand dol
hrs to put the square into anything like respectable
boxing condition; aud In that way alone employment
might be given many tradesmen and aborers for the
next few months 70
Well, IN Tompkins square, such as II is there col
cted, between ten and eleven O'Clock yesterday
ing, some six eight hundred men and boys. These
for the part gathered INTO groups and around
No basin in the centre Of the square talking about the times
about the action Of the Common Council Monday
hg and about their chances Of getting work They
cd generally 10 labor under the impression that they
could demand work as part of their legal and consu.
tonAl rights and that would be unlawful and unconsti
tuxonal not 70 provide for them. With these curious
ideas they have been led, many Of them by their recol
Iecton Of the public works system provided IN ireland
ls4o-1 and many because demagosues have been
preaching TO them II never seemed TO occur to the
ehst the city government could, at best provide work
suiy for masons brcknyers, bod carriers and borers
and that only " very limited extent; and that II they
coah insist in such work being provided for them as
their right aors and shoemakers and segar manufactu
rom, and hat makers, and ship carpenters, and men
q every other trade would have the right 10
Suire work pro vided for them In their different nee
sf business The shirt sewers bookfoers and the many
thousands Of poor women and girls who unem-
poycd would also have the right 10 call upon the
sity for employment And thr fact s that of
e aborng Of the city (hose who live by their day
hbor, earning dollar or ninc shings day) there arc
ka unemployed In proportion 10 their numbers than
there OF the artisan caes But yet they talked and
nyrucd with another the false assumption that the
cry bound 70 furnish them with employment at remu
neratve wages The fact OF the Common Council having
n length done what II required 70 do month ago
made appropriation Of $3.50 900 TO enable the Central
RAIk Commissioners 20 continue employment on that
vcrkwas hailed result OF the attitude assumed by
e unemployed poor, and something OF an exceptional
natnre for which they might thank themselves
On the rim OF the basin facing 81 Bridgets church.
avenue B. some " the leaders of the movement
grouped together and here OF course the larger proper
Ton of tho crowd gathered. A chair procured
ehe accommodation oi speakers. There but ban.
diss iaycd, and that bore the harmless motto of