The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-20
THE LABOR CONGRESS-.

CQpntinuaiOn Of the Session Yesterday Afternoon
The following additional business was trans
acted yesterday afternoon by the Labor Con-
gress:-
The Committee on Organization, through its
chairman, Mr.. Walls, of Pa, reported us follows:
ReSOlUed |. That the President, at his earliest
convenience, appoint an executive officer in each
State.
2. ReSolced, That each executive officer,
as soon as possible, shall, after receiving
ssto ss oPP0ntmsnt e00Heafan proceed to eal
forming State unions, and until such unions
are formed charters will be issued from the
United States Union by the president to local
unions: but as soon rs State organization is COM
plete the charter shall come direct from the
State union.
3. ReSolrcd, That the President of the L. S.
Union be and hereby authorized to issue chap
ter to State organizations whenever the applica-
ton made is reported by delegates from at least
five local trade labor cooperative organizations,
which meet at the call of the Executive Com
mittcC.
4. Resolved, That each State Labor Union is
entitled to be represented in the L. 5. Union aS
follows-One delegate to each State, irraspec-
tive of its number of members enrolled in the
local Unions and one delegate for each and
every twenty thousand or fractional part thereof.
5. ReSOlCed That each State Labor Union
shall make such laws and regulations for its own
guidance and support may to it appear most
effective; provided that such laws do not in any
way conflict with the Constitution of the U. s.
Union.
6. ReSolUed, That the L. S. Union pay the
mileage of delegates thereto by the nearest and
most direct route from and to the organizations
they represent.
Z. ReSolUed, That the revenue of the U. S.
Union be divided as folows:-Each State or
ganizatiOn SHALL at specified time, report to
the President of the l. S. Union the number of
! members represented in their State organization,
and the President shall levy tax equal to five
cents on each member reported.
On motion it was agreed that the resolutions
| should be taken up by sections and acted upon.
| The motion was agreed to- and considerable de-
| bate ensued.
1t was proposed that the following should be
! attached as an amendment to the first section:-
| Except where State organizations now exist:
| in such case the State organization shall appoint
| its own executive
On motion of Mr.. Mclean, of Massachusetts.
| after considerable debate the whole matter was
! recommitted to the committee, the following
| being added thereto:-Messrs Wynn, of Cali
| fomia; Jessup, of New York; and Cummings.
| of Massachusetts.
The following special committees were ap-
| pointed on Peter CoOpers resOlution:-MessTs.
! Puett, Wynn, Isaac c. Wier, James Beatty VI.
| Heany, W. H. Stewart W. Shuck, Miss Susan
| b. Anthony
Cooperative Association Committee-J. w.
| Blissert, of New York, and Mr.. Heany of
| Michigan.
The Committee on Lands, through its chair
| man, Il. w. Eunn presented the followng:-A
| careful survey of the field of operations pro-
posed by the National Labor Union induces your
| committee to declare that OF all the reforms
| proposed by that body, none is more funda-
| mental and important to the well-being of all
| the labor interests of the community than that
| which asserts that the only righteous title by
| which land should be held is that of successful
labor thereupon. For when that position is
established it will reduce the cost of everything
| we eat, drink, wear, or use, the prices of which
are now advanced to double and in some in
IN trnll hain Y.n1, liz,
| quence of fictitious money addition placed bv
the arbitrary fiat of Government acting as agents
of interested individuals upon the lands.
Inc land question also, in the opinion of your
committee, underlies the money question and
careful search proves that it will be difficult If
not impossible, to permanently establish the
latter on proper basis until the land is free
1t also must materially enter into the labor
question, for ii is certain that in all civilized
countries the condition of artisans and me-
chanics has been dependent largely upon the
condition OF the agriculturists, and il is ques-
u0naDle whether the solution of the problem,
How to secure to the producer the proceeds
OF his toll? will not be found when the full
measure OF the crops which are put into the
earth are produced to the hands by which they
nave been sown or planted. Such being the
case your committee endorse the wisdom
and the economy of the Mosaic laws on the sub
Ject, which sustained the rights of every indi-
Vldual IN the Jewish community to his or her
snare OF the soil, and forbade the permanent
lhSlCOli ilsOs DCtuuSe INC institution
OF laws sanctioning the purchase and sale of
land create aristocracies as in Europe, and, if
not abrogated here must eventually prove the
destruction of our republic, because neither
governments nor even the adult people by which
such are created, are righteously in power to
ordaln the permanent alienation of the soil to
individuals, for the children of all communities
nave rights in the land which forbid the aliena-
tion of the common estate.
Because the dismal effects of the permanent
alienation of land from the cultivators thereof
may be seen in Great Britain, and also in our
Southern States, where the condition of the most
numerous and necessary body of our laborers
viz 1.-THE tillers of the soil, are legally robbed
OF the proceeds of their toll. Because the de-
plOrable condition of the ma jority of the wealth
producers of the country is attributable TO the
division which formerly existed between its mil
lions of agriculturalists and artifcers, and that
in the union of these industries we shall soon
obtain victory.
For the foregoing reasons your committee
have nothing to add to or abstract from the reso-
luton come TO on the land question by the Chi
cago Congress, which declared that 'the plac-
| ING money value on the gifts of the Deity,
specifying the lands, mines, and water courses,
was saerilege," or 10 the statement OF the former