Evening star., 1869-12-08

The National Labor Convention Of
COlored Men.
This Convention reassembled at one O'Clock
yesterday afternoon.
Secretary Douglass offered petition Of the
Engineers Protective Union Of Brooklyn, New
York, setting forth the low condt ion OF the col
ored race, and asking the Convention to encour-
age equal rights; that they be admitted into
work shops ON the same terms as white men.
Referred to the business Committee.
Prof A. NJ. Green asked the attention of the
convention to newspaper article, which he
read, in relation to the purposes of this organi-
Zatlon. In which hope was expressed that the
coiored men would avoid the mistake made by
the white mems conventions held at Chicago and
New York. In view of these suggestions he Of
fered resolution "that committee Of five be
appointed, in connection with the Secretary, to
secure the publication OF authentic reports of
the convention in one or more Of our city jour-
nails, and that said committee are hereby in
structed to negotiate with the publishers of these
70 retain such matter as can be thrown into cir
cular form for distribution Immediately on the
rise OF the Convention, and that the following
gentlemen be designated the committee: j. NJ.
LangstoR, j. r. w. Leonard, Geo. T. Downing,
Cornelius Clark, and L. g. Barbados" The
resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Jones, of ID. c., offered a resolution that
it is expedient that We should use our best en-
deavors to procure four millions Of acres of our
public domain for our humble poor for agricul-
Union. Referred to same Committee.
Mr.. w. I. j. Hay, of N. c., offered resolu-
ton that committee be appointed at large, by
this Convention, to memoralize Congress to
pass national school bill, looking to the estab-
lshment Of such educational institutions as the
wants of our people require and rapid advance
OF our youths seems to justify, SAID institutions
to be endowed, and common schools to be sup
ported in part by the fund created by dues un-
paid to colored soldiers. Referred.
The Committee on Business offered a resolu-
ton authorizing the Chair TO appoint Commit
tee on Public Meetings, who shall solicit mate
rial AID to deiray the expenses of this Conyen-
ton.
MIR. Scott, of Fla, had paid his dollar, and he
desired to know what more was wanted. The
Char stated that there were parties out
side who were willing to help US, and this Com
mittee was to collect from such parties. A
thousand dollars was wanted for the purposes of
this Convention. The resolution was adopted.
The Chair announced the standing committees
on the following business of the Convention
On Education, Address, Platform, Constitution
and Organization, Female Labor, Temperance,
Printing, Cooperative Labor, Public Lands
Railroads and Travel, and Bank Savings.
J. NJ. Simms, of Ga, offered resolution
indOrsing the Presidents message in relation to
the State Of Georgia and the political condition
of that State. Adopted.
Mr.. Hays, Of N. c., introduced a resolution
that the cOlOred people sustain the new organ of
the colored people to be published in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, to be called the "New Era.r
Referred to Business Committee.
The Committee on Addresses was enlarged so
as to embrace one from each State and Terri
tory.
MIR. Myers, of Md, from the Committee on
Platform, reported substantially-That labor
was instituted by Almighty God as a means of
revealing the endowments oil inanimate creation
to be used by man, and Is duty common to,
and the heritage of, the human family, all hav-
g amG right 70 labor h ed Of In
laws of political economy; that capital is an
agent used by labor for its support, and labor is
an agent used by capital for its enhancement,
and that harmony between them should PREVAIL
that cooperation for the purpose of protection
OF labor is a safe method, and tends to lift the
workingman to higher positions in society; that
American family, producing vice, crime
should exist; that EDUCATION ' is pVaas ons
of the strongest safeguards of the Re-
publican party-a defence against the inva-
sion Of the rights Of man; that all should enjoy
its blessings; that educated labor is more pro-
ductive, is worth and commands higher rates of
should be a liberal free school system in all the
States for the benefit Of all; that the Govern
ment should enact no laws to the advantage OF
one class and against the interests of the other,
but should be for the benefit of all the people;
that we feel it to be a.duty We owe to ourselves,
10 society, and to our country, to encour-
age industrial habits among our PeO-
regarding the labor Of the country the common
property Of the people that no portion should be
excluded therefrom because Of a geographical
division of the globe in which they or their fore
fathers were born, or on account of statutes or
color, but that every man or woman should re-
ceive employment according to his ability to
perform the labor required, without any other
test; that the exclusicnOf cOlOred men and APP
prentices from the right to labor in any depart
mens or industry or workshops I'm any Of the
States and Territories Of the United States, by
what is known as Grades Unions" is an insult
to God and injury to us and disgrace to hui
manity; while we extend a free and welcome
and fn t-rQn trrNy,, LII.
tionalities, We emphatcally deem imported
contract COOlie labor to be a positive injury to
the working people of the United States, it is but
a. system . OF slavery in new form and we appeal
enforce the act Of 1862 prohibiting Coolie impor-
tatiOn, and to enact such other laws as will best
protect and free American labor against
this or any other similar form of slavery;
that We do not regard capital as the
natural enemy of labor, each being dependent
on the other; that we regard cooperation as the
as aprotection against the aggressons of capital;
that We regard the use of intoxicating liquors as
the most damaging and damnable habit of the
human family; that we denounce the infamous
practice Of planters in drenching their employ
ers with this poison, which stupefes their brain,
and rObs them of their senses; that we appeal to
our people to dscountenance its use; that we
regard education as one of the greatest blessings
that the human family enjoys; that the thanks
Of the cOlored people are due the Congress Of the
United States for the establishment of the
Commissioner, Rev. j. w. Alvord and John M
LangstOn, general inspectors, for their labOrs i'm
the establishment OF hundreds Of schools in the
Southern States.
Signed BY Isaac Myers, Henry Lee, Harry s.
Harmon, Jos. p. Evans.
The Convention then adjourned at O'Clock
to meet at Z 80.
The Convention reassembled in the evening,
and after prayer by Bishop Logan, Of New
York, Mr.. Douglass offered the following:
,aS hssotred, That special committee of five, COM