Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-09-23
The Ejsht. Hour Law Controversy.

WASHINGTON, ID. G., Sept. %, Is5s-Editor of
ne Star Sir: In your issue Of last evening
appears q commute ltion from the s.Self.ap-
pointed Committe" en- the Carey whaIey-
EoTds Tearet b ss Is 10 tor few
sonal character. II IL not my Intention TO reply
FOR the Committee of the Workingme1's As
semby, preferring 10 leave that duty TO its
Chairman, the proper organ OF the Committee,
now absent from the city IS dele ate to the l. \.
Dor Congress IN session at New York, IL not
according with my sense OF light 10 sttach the
81 oner Ss 70 onX without
tribe that needs reply IRON me is the patti
q aph that states that am opposed to the
eight-hour law. II the dles Of your paper
corld be overhauled the proof would b pat mt
that the assertion thus publicly made is a false
hood. If so. why was sent out the mouth.
ale He Of the As. emily TO address the Working.
men OF the Navy Yard, the Seventh Ward,
was cho-en 10 eddrrss the mss mai.
ing At the Park, when Members of Con.
gre7s, who bad prom'se to be there, were
miss Did the leaders Of the movement So.
lect man oppo-ed to the shortening the bours
of labor to advocate the caasel The very meu.
ton of the facts is sufhcient to convince II
whose minds are not biased by a determina.
ton 10 do their fellow workman a wrong AZ
% the EIGHT hour law of the Tvpo.ra phic 4
Society the s'self-3ppointed Comnitt7e' have
peryer.ed facts 1he PRIMERS had an eight
all offices outside the Government Offen, q nd
were successful. Everything had come out
right IN all the private ofiices. bat the ha IDS a.
the Government Office showed the white faat her
and tcorl d ten hours und'r protest f. ei1h hours
pcy, snd kept on WORKING UNDER pro ~st put I
they got 30 deep in the mire, and then repealed
the trUt Thus tHking away IRON those of rs
who bad siruck and 0ained one point all the
vantage ground we nd securcd. When the
next eight hour law was proposed, il CINE
alone, not having its n-sistnr with il, viz /:
an increase per 1U0O ems to the pipce-hands 10
pu nal iZp no ri NIL A
give Government employees ~ inc-o? of
wagcs. il beng we'll 'own that duri,g the
wiuter months, 1.-THE only time the law wa ia
forceJ every man- or ned~ly every MAI IL tha
Cover meni Ollce would be nceted Tor 10
hours, and some Of them II hours, thus in.
crossing their wagrs 20 per cent, but not one
cent extra for piece ha'ds. Against this one
sided, rpjust measrre ! did yo =, nd wor d
do o again. 1t is not pr eight hour law but a
miserable subterfuge. proposed a amer DINE nt
making 1t niue hours the yea- around, but hat
did net az sver the prrpose OF the Cover Jmept
employees, ard W; yot"d down The so-caJled
',eight.hour law was D sScd and a day al
apaI. on which 1t shorld go in eBcct. The
bands OF every pIiva'r ONCE in the eli y stonped
at ~ m. the employers baviug met end q, er.
m ned TO rcsist-(tbey bad gained S rep%:h ,ou
the conduct OF The 'sprotast workers; of tJe
Government ofire.) but though Mr.. Wepdsu's
n,me, as Superintendent OF Public y, 10 y
was on the agreement to resist. al o'clock n
m. every hand went 10 work at the Govern.
ment office, as serting II Oh yig,E, aud upon
me = q ement OF MT. Wen0ell o iie tDPn~e
hours being asked for II was .ounl % DE ms
ing-it Rad not been oJtdinsdf Further, /. was
not secured until every employer IN the CT '
had wIiud avn his pame from the agr-en NJ
TO re- ist, and had. addition sign &c his n ne
TO an agreement 10 pay full ways for eIrht
bours' work. What part look in The secur az
OF tbs end leave 10 others to say-lnyhoW
was no hide d-go-seek part.
MI. Editor, so AIR as my I" Radical proclivi.
ties PIE concerned, scoTn 10 reply. NV reco d
is oder here than be oldest scarpeL-nogcers
on rue self-appoiUted Committees memo v of
events in Washing ton will Gerry him. Wien
ii was Oar gerous 10 be anti-slayery man.
both here and in o'her cities, / was then known
rs an "aboI;ionist," aud have never thai I
know of either spo .en word or thoryht q
thought IN favor of a1ything else True nv
radica lism differs from that of " Brock, RoSs,
Flynn d Co.." IS il does not lead me 20 20
into rhe despicabIe business of ruiuing i,l.
low.cratt man because his political opinions
differ with mire.
As 10 the position have the honor TO FIJI n
the PstabiishrIert that employs me. / wonld
simply say that il matters not in what posi- on
Tm, am still u p...lter, proud of my profe,
sion, snd only sorry that among Its members
may De found men so utterly devoid of pro-
fessiC na, honor as TO attempt to draw tfouble
on the heads of their compeers by mn ecessariiy
luggiBg in the names of employers in a case q
which they can have nothiug 10 do.
With respect for yourself. sir, but inter cod
tempt for the self.appointed,' remain, &C.,
(Signeu) JOHN q. JUDD