The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-01-11

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Having been placed in possession Of one
number u your worthy paper Of Saturday,
December 81, By friend Of mine, Judge
Gollins, Who requested me TO look over it,
and BY doing % end ssid papsr the most
readable one ever cav. and believing
that this city, as least under the present cir
eamatsnsee would be bspsltted BY having
such . papsrs TO rod, therefore, am tax
Ing the liberty 10 send you few lines, and
hope before long We viii also be Organiz-
cd into one or several clnbs. under the name
and title Of the Worknan's League, as there
are quite . nuInber here who have offered
their assistance IN the work Of organising.
At the present moment We are still under a
stata quo, not knowing who 10 the manager
and everything il upset. The principal
thing Is our city currency question, which
aas come down as Low a. 20 per cent. dis
count for grsepbaeks, and in vain, up to
this time, we have mot succeei in convincing
the Commanding General Hancock 70 do
do something to relieve the poor working
Glasses. ~ the last mass meeting VIC had
Of this kind, from eight to ten thousand Of
our citizens were in attendance. Resolutions
were adopted urging Immediate action in the
matter, and o. committee was apr inted to
wait upon he commanding general and to
urge upon him the necessity Of immediate
acction for the poor working people. The
cOmmit.se waited on Gen. Hancock last Sa-
turday, when-hs said that his time was 80
much taken up M investigatipg. the bread
riots, elections, conventions and other mat
tiers, including the pay Of the state officers,
who have received no money for the last
seven or eight months, that he had uninten-
tioually overlooked many important matters
which shall promptly be attended 20.
Several fascinating suits have been com
menced here lately, and about seventy OF
our police have been dismissed from duty on
aecount Of such conduct An examina-
ton is now going on against one W. Baker,
. street. commissioner, which has already
lasted three days without coming TO an end,
- there is invariably something new turns
up against him. sH rf
Gov. Flanders resigned yesterday--cause
not known--but 1t looks ss though he did
not feel very comfortable in the negro wig
Wam, for they ara the men ruling ~ present,
and the man who. does not believe in full
equalization with them is nobody, and must
be turned out s ss ~ss.r4
Our constitutions Ss4ss~kiap. which con
sists ssestiy Of new made citiEsnss black,
brown, yellow, &C., will soon give US new
constitution, masterpiece Of home manu-
facture, uader which all and every one Of
them will have the right to enter and asset
afs IN all public. placess theatres. soaefs
houses, balls, coffee housess steamboef ux n
cling, &c. H r--Ss1 " 4. N
Then the good time Will come, and cur
city and state viii become an Eldorado for
these new citizens and supposed he'll for all
Others.
Then the time viii not bs,fsf Of that such
viii do more service than is ever would sod
could nave done.
What has Prussia say in the last few
years, in which al labor has been collected
BY single man, such Is &chulzs Delitsch
not only for the support OF their fellow
friends, bat also fer the supposst OF the AZ
fairs of state. And 90 We wish for IA yrrsn'
er who shsuld travel in the different state
while coed and permanent orgAnizap5n
has taken place. Hoping We soon whi nave
. preliminary mssting and let you know
about IL.
Trade 1t present issdull. and We may ex-
pect very little under jthe present manage
ment Of sfairs, ~ thets ID 10 confidence in
- ietsration. and thousands
1g for work, bat in vain,
i mis- city are daily occupied
y hundreds Of people who Ask for place
to sleep during night.
Our theatres are moi doing much with the
exception of the st. Charles, in the piece Of
the Black Crook. which 10 played nightly.
The veathergis 1t present warm with the
exception % the two last days Ct December
and the frat Of January, which h > good
thing for the poor, - they will net need TO
spend skheir last cent for coal or wood
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