The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1864-09-17
THE TIMES" AND TRIBUNE"
PUBLICLY DENOUNCED.
Their Bogus Philanthropy" Exposed.
SPIRITED SPEECHES AND
RESOLUTIONS.
Another Meeting to be held next
Saturday Night.

House Square last Saturday night Notwith-
standing that the notice converting the meeting
not as thoroughly advertised as ii should
have been there were A. least one thousand ire
hundred hard-fsted Workngmen present, and
we have every confidence that the sentiments
there and then endorsed, are the sentiments
and honest feelings of the entire Working
population OF Chicago The Lahoring masses
have at last opened their eyes to the fact that
they must and riA drop all their political air
ferences TO establish and maintain the dignity
of Labor against the grasping and overreaching
exactions Of the Capitalists 81 the country.
The day has gone by when Capitalists can use
the reiudices Of Laboring men TO fatten and
enrich themselves. The Capitals, papers Of
this city have made, and are still making, war
against our Benevolent and Protective Labor
Societies, and are determined to carry their
war TO the bitter end. Lei there be more
demonstrations like the one reported below, and
show those sweat and blood-suckers what they
may expect from the honest workingmen Of
Chicago. As the Capitalists are the aggressors,
let us meet them with determined war, and
God will help those that help themselves.
Mr.. g, X. Hazlitt, President of the Trades
Assembly, said il was the first time since their
organization that they were called together 10
protect a body of workmen likely TO be op-
pressed by the old, oft-repeated story of Capt.
tai vs.. Labor. The Illionis Central Railroad
Company first commenced this war. The
Government had appropriated several millions
of acres Of land, which they donated to the |.
G. r. r. Co. for the benefit Of the people--the
people, who, par exceiieRce, are the workingmen.
This company has grown rich on that land but
how do they act to the laboring classes
Through tool they s,ut TO Belgium and obtain
ed machinists, whom they bound TO work for
$3.50 a day-a sum much less than was de-
handed by every native machinist. The COM
pany took advantage Of the ignorance Of the
Belgians, and made them work for less than
they should do or they could do. This action
will stamp the company with a black and eter-
nal stamp of infamy The Moulders. the
Bakers and the Brotherhood Of the Footboard
we're similarly treated: in each case the city
papers went against the workingmen. and
showed that they are the property of capital
But he would refer 10 the matter in hand. the
subject for which the meeting had been called
together. The Chicago Typographical Union
was body of men which hitherto had stood
united for the protection and support Of the
craft. They had not struck for higher wages,
and they were not getting 20 much as il given
in many other metropolitan cities Still the
employers of these men have for some time
been opposed to paying them fair remunera-
ton for their services. The proprietors Of the
morning papers in this city had spent several
thousand dollars in educating females in the
art Of type setting, for the avOwed purpose Of
breaking up the TypograT hieal Union and
in the end to degrade both female and male
labor. On Wednesday morning last the pro-
prietors Of the Chicago Tsrnes introduced into
their Office some Of these girls. who with
few "rats,' still continue TO labor on that
paper. He then read from q circular issued
by the Typographical Union the names of those
depraved sneaks who violated their pledges to
the Printers Union, at the head of whom was
one George ATKINS, the who would stand
by Storey any how. They had thought the
Tunes was friend TO the workingmen. but now
the mask had fallen from Storeys face and
showed MIN to be " hoary headed old villain. /"
In the name of the Workingmen of Chicago
he denounced Wilbur =. Storey a. a traitor 10
his country, to his God, and to the Working
man Cheers.
Mr. Albert Griffin, Of the Typographical
Union, was then introduced to the meeting.
and spoke as follows;
Mr.. President, and Gentlemen Among the
many evidences Of progress which meet ~ on
every hand none are more significant than the
rapid enlargement Of ideas in relation to the
wages that labOring men should receive. The
time vas when rulers believed that the pros
perity of nation was enhanced in proportion
to the reduction Of the wages of labor, and the
statesman is yet alive who sighed for the time
when laboring men should receive but ten cents
day. Capitalists thought that penny day
deducted from workman's WAGES, was penny
a day added to their own wealth. And the Ia
boring men, themselves, even, were deceived
with the plausible statement, 8" If your wages
are raised other things viii raise too, SO that
although you receive more, you viii have to
pay out more, and consequently be no better
off" To-day the statesman realizes. that the
welfare Of the country requires that all classes
should receive something more than bare sup
port that each man should be able to lay up
something against times Of adversely; that he
should be able to educate his children: that it
should be in his power to buy Bancroft and
Hildreth, so as to become acquainted with the
past history Of his country, and to take the
periodicals Of the day so as to keep posted upon
current events. Applause. To-day the rich
men acknowledge that their carriage 60 none
the eaiser for rolling over the sharpened faces
of the poverty-pinche1 poor; that their hap
piness is not increased oy keeping the poor in
huts and rags, and filing the streets with beg
CarR and the aim hnusee with naunarQ. that