Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-15
For the DAILY Empirel
The working Mems Meeting
Last Night at DlckeI's Halt.

In pursuance Of call addressed TO the
Working Men of the City Of Dayton, large
crowd assembled at Dickey's Hall, on last
evening, to hear lecture on the Rights of
Labor, from gentleman from the East,
named Swintou. The audience were very
we'll satisfied with the matter and manner of
the Lecturer, and at It's close, in pursuance OF
his accommodation, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted by the meeting:
Resolped, That, as Working Men, we will
not support any party, nor any man of any
party, who is not at least professeGly, in
favor of lessenng the hours of labor, and
generally ameliorating the condition Of the
laboring classes.
After the resolution was adopted aud things
were seemingly taking business like turn,
the kid.gloved candidate in this county, of
the Abolition party, for the Legislature, and
who was in the Hall, in pursuance no doubt
OF all arrangement with the Employers Com
bination Association Of this city, was called
upon by one of that body for speech. But
who ever before saw this "sprig OF the Dayton
Aristocracy" at a Working Mems meeting in
Dayton2 His presence at this meeting is
easily accounted for. He was there, no
doubt, as we before stated, in the interest of
the Employers Combination Association,
which owns the capital aud controls the polit.
ical machinery of the Abolition party in this
city and county, and the objects of which
organization are to crush out the rights OF
labor, and organize o modified system Of
slavery in our midst The Employers Com
bination Association is organized by the per.
sona and political friends of Edward Parrot
and we are credibly informed that its mem
bers are prohibited from giving employment
to any man who quits his ace for higher
wages without permission from his last EN-
ployer.
One of the gentlemen of this association
IN pursuance OF the cut and dried arraLge
ment to break down the labor movement,
proposed Parrot for speech, knowing that
little politics would be the very thing 10
accomplish that result,
Parrott then addressed the meeting in lh &
usual non committal style of the demagogue
-suogizng labor That he had not studied
the subject-that he would If placed in Ger
tain position, give it his attention, &c
taking good care all the time to dodge the
, resolution just passed by the meeting Ant
for such an evasive strain of balderdash, be
/. was loudly cheered by his partisans, who had
e but moment before voted for the resolution
0 pledging themselves to support no man fol
O the Legislature, unless he came out squArely
. in favor of the eight hour system. We ash
the working men Of Dayton, in all candor, il
they believe that any man running for politi-
cal Office would have said less than Parrot
did no matter how opposite his views may
6 be from theirs2 The correct way to test 4
a mans sincerity on this or any other question
. is to examine into his Rntecedents And we
n ask, judging Parrott in that way, Il he hai
been known to have a sympathy, or entertain
sentiment, 10 common with the working
masses in all his life2
Is it any wonder, then, that the labor move
ment has had, so far, no more encouraging
results, when scion and associate OF the
: capitalists Of Dayton can by political sophis
: try, compel men to swallow, in effect "a Teso
> luton adopted by them in ten minutes after
4 and before the ink 10y which it was written
T was fairly dry2
9 At the close of PARROTS remarks, the lee
turer (who satisfied many, ii not ALL those
pressut, by the style Of his afterpiece, thai
, he is regular swine-nest indeed) got up anC
!, recommended Parrott to the consideration o.
e the meeting, as a suitable candidate for tn,
8 Legislature, which course, we believe wal
n sincerely regretted and severely oondOmnet
by more than twO,thirds OF the people present