North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-11-25
To the workingmen Of Iowa.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Room OF THE NATIoNALl
LABOR UNION FOR THE STATE OF Iowa. I
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To the workingmen Of Iowa.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Room OF THE NArroSALl
LABOR UNION FOR THE STATE OF Iowa. !
McGeEGoR, Nov. %, 1868. %,
Having been appointed the Iowa men,
Der of the National Executive Committee
of the Labor Union of the United States,
it is my duty to call upon you to organize
in your several wards, cities, towns and
counties throughout our State. Go to
work a. once, and organize Labor Union.
Send an application for charter, and 5
dollars, to VIM. IL. Sylvis, P. 0. Box 1857,
Philadelphia. Pa, signed by the President
and Secretary, and at least four other
members of your proposed Union.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
We, the undersigned, residents of -,
in the State of Iowa, do petition the Ma
tional Labor Union to grant us Charter
to open Labor Union in the --, to be
known as Labor Union, No. -, of the
State of Iowa, and we do pledge ourselves
to be governed by the constitution, laws
and rules of the National Labor Union,
and to support the platform Of said Union.
1t is my immediate duty to appoint a
State Executive Committee of FIVE, and
report their names to President Sylvis.
Workingmen in every part of the State,
please send me at once the names Of earn
est labor reformers so that such commit
tee may be well chosen.
Workingwomen, organize labor unions;
demand the same pay for the same quality
and quantity Of work that men get. De-
mand higher wages in every department
of industry.
Farmers, Mechanics, Laborcrs and Dea-
lers, demand higher prices, pay higher
prices, combine and keep up prices; thus
will you tax capitalists, instead of per-
hitting them to over-tax you by reduction
of prices, through the false plea of search
ty of money, or by return to specie pay
ments. Where is the money? We are
worth 20 billions. Let cents on the
dollar of this value be in circulation to do
business with, and the "money power"
cannot lower prices.
Workingmen, you constitute 4 Of the
sovereign voting power. Use it for ycur
own good-your country's good. AT your
next charter election, your next town
election, your next state election, your
next congressional election, your next
presidential election, place your own can
didates in the field and sustain them with
your whole power. In the meantime,
organize, discuss, read and circulate finan-
cial and labor. reform books and papers /;
and, if we fail to win the government in
1872, in four years after we will have .
glorious '76.
On the LIST of December I will have
ready blank hour petitions to the Legis-
lature Of Iowa, the Platform of the Ma
tional Labor Reform Party, and President
Sylvis' address to the workirgmen and
women of the United States. Send for
them with money or without, and you
shall have them. Write your address dis
tinctly and in full.
After Jan. LIST, 1869, I will be ready to
lecture to the people of Iowa on Labor
Reform,s showing its world wide ramifca-
tons, its international power to end all
war, and its mighty influences for good
upon the destinies of our State, Nation,
and the World.
Fathers, as you love your children, and
the well-being of your children's children,
help on this great reform. =
Young men, enter into the work with
all your young life's yigor. Resolve that
your State shall be the better because you
have lived. Remember that there can be
no patriotism, no true advancement, where
4 the toiling producers of all wealth, are
not designed to be elevated to competence,
virtue and learning.
GEORGE PRINDLE.