Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-10
RESOLUTIONS, SPEECHES, AND PETITION

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We condense the following from the New
York World of Friday morning: iil
An immense mass meeting of between
fifteen and twenty thousand people, com
prising representatives from nearly all the
trades of working men in the city, was held
yesterday in Tompkins square, to protest
against the passage of the bill now before
the Legislature, brought forward by Mr..
Hastings, making the act of striking for
higher wages oil the part of working men
unlawful and subject of penalty. BY pre-
concerted action, every mechanic and work.
ing man in this city, and q large portion of
the Brooklyn mechanics, stopped work at
noon, and hurried to their places of meet
ing, whence they proceeded in a body to
the square. The following societies thus
turned out EN- masse:
Dry Goods Clerks Early. Closing Associa-
| ton; Marble Polishers and Rubbers; Horse
Collar Makers; Fresco Painters; Metropoli-
tan Coach Trimmers; The Longshore Ship
Painters; Silver Gilders; United Coopers
No. /; United Coopers No. 2; United Coop
ers No. 3; United Coopers No. 4; United
Coopers No. 5; Carriage Painters, Trunk
and Bag Makers, German Varnishers and
Polishers, English-speaking Varnishers and
Polishers, The Bricklayers' Protective and
Benevolent Union, Tin Plate and Sheet
Iron Workers Nos. ], 2 and 3, Practical
Painters of Dry Dock, New York House
Painters, Gilders Protective Union, Piano
Forte Makers, Cabinet Makers Union, Sc
gar Makers, Segar Packers, Upholsterers,
Carpenters Union Nos. 1, and 5, Car
Drivers, Spar Makers Union, Machinists
Journeymen Plumbers, Machinists' Associ-
alton No. l, Tailors' Protective Union, Shop
Tailors' Union, Ship Joiners, Twine Spin
ners, Morocco Dressers, Blacksmiths of
Brooklyn, Sash and Blind Makers Union,
Clothing Cutters Blank Book Binders Pa
per Hangers, Plasterers, Iron Moulders of
Spuyten Duyvel Iron Moulders of New
York, New York Masons, Furriers, Labor
ers' Unions Nos. and 4, Wheelwrights',
Blacksmiths' Unions Nos. l and 8, Wire
Drawers, Cordwainers, Team Shoemakers,
making in all sixty societies, numbering
from fifty to four hundred members each.
A large number of these turned out in
professions, with banners and music, and
made very imposing appearance. There
were three platforms erected on the square,
in front of each of which by three o'clock
were assembled audiences numbering sever
al thousand each. The platforms were built
around the fountain, and faced different
ways. ,U
". Platform No. 1.
The meeting here was called to order by
Mr.. =. Ready, of the Housepainters' Asso-
citation, and Mr.. Harding, of the New York
Coachpainters' Association, was appointed
chairman. Mr.. Harding, on taking the
chair, was greeted with three chreers, and
made brief speech, after which Mr.. John
I. Fisher of the Housepainters' Association
read the following resolutions, which were
subsequently unanimously adopted:
RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, 1t is self-evident that the pres
ent distracted condition of our country has
brought upon our people the .calamities in
cidcntal to such strife. In the arrangement
which is but the natural concomitant of
such state of things, we assert that, those
who are obliged to earn q subsistence for
their families, cannot justly be pointed at
as the creator of those causes which have
produced the high and extravagant prices
which are being exacted for all the neces-
saries of life as the evil of expanding prices
can be traced to the speculative classes, ever
ready to thriyeeither over or under the for
tunes of their country. Why is 1t. we en-
phatically demand, that these, the chief and
first operators in advancing the articles of
living, are thus passed in order to infiict
injuries upon those who, for self-preserva-
ton, have been made to swell the amount
of the cost OF production, SO that they would
be thereby enabledsto meet the additional
claims made on their labor.
Whereas, ATperson. in the capacity Of a
representative from small portion of one
of the districts of this State, saw fit to in
troduce a bill, with the intention, and for
the purpose of inficting upon Its mechan-
les, and laboring men, an oppressive, un-
equal, and unjust law, and as said bill was
f,iyorably received, and referred to the Ju-
dietary committee, and through their action
brought before the Senate for its consider
alton and Endorsements we therefore, upon
the part of the aggrieved, do now and here
by protest against the passage of such law;
we protest against the creation of such law,
because we are sensible that the regulating
or affixing the rate of wages, or the hours
of labor, doesnot come properly within the
supervision or control of the legislation,
conceiving that, if such power be exercised,
the extent of such usurpation could be
usedsto place a value upon the products of
the agriculturist or the wares of the mer-
chant, with that of the limitation and di-
reetion of the amount which professional
men are TO demand for their services. , II
First. We protest against the enactment
of the law, because, while its originators
have buried its sting In the sweetness OF
the material in which they have dipped it,
yet we nevertheless detect in the redOlence
of its surroundings the fumes of a lethargic
and dangerous poison. "a 81. %
Second. We protest for the reason that the
institution Of such an edict is calculated and
meant to produce endless litigation. We
object to 1t, because Its contrivance is so ar
ranged as to harrass and involve the labor
ing man In expenses which he can but
plxTn n f,rd .