The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-09
Labor Reform-~-Great Convention o.
worEingmen near Boston.


BosroS, July 5.-One Of the largest and
most successful conventions OF workinSmen
ever held in this State took place to-day
under the auspices of the New England La
bor Reform League, in Harmony Grove, n
short distance from South birmingham.
The following resolutions were oiierea Dy
the president of the New England REFORM
League:
Pesoired, That since classes, like races,
of men are made Of one blood, children OF
tho same beneticent Creator, who Is no re,
specter Of persons, to regard poverty ana
crime among willing workers as necessai.
evils is a reassertion Of the old lnhaeity 10
right which declared chattel bondage the
natural condition of weaker race, ana the
same spirit which made negroes slaves ny
law at the South enforccs the poverty ana
degradation of labor by class Legislation III
New England.
Resolrcd. That labor creates all values
equitably vendible, and property as an orr
cinal force earns nothing; that the claim TO
own and sell what another does not earn OF
receive as the free gift OF anotherS service
the power. through usury, rents, dividends,
and profits, to wrest from others large
values for little or no equivalent return mas
become Il vast scheme OF organized theit-
lcheersl -which centraliZes wealth lnto a
few cunning but unproductiye hands, WINE
Tie great UiiSScS -
always poor. [Great cheers.J
Resolued, That an exclusive currency
whether Of gold or paper, enables the PRIV,
legged few in control to make interest ana
prices high, wages low, and failures ire
Uient, to suit their speculative purposes
and We therefore, by remonstrance, pc.l-
ton, and the ballot. earnestly second the &c
mand of the National Labor Union ior tne
immediate withdrawal Of the notes OF the
National Banks, to be replaced by Treasury
certificates Of service, receivable Tor taxes,
and bearing no interest, and the provision
Of free banking associations, whereby money
based on commodities may be furnished any
where ut cost. [Applause.l
Resolved. That if government rests on
consent, all men who continue 10 RUE
women against their will are tyrants lgreat
checrsl: and since the presence OF diSlrli-
ch.sed class in the shop, the factory, or hcld,
dcprades labor, we put women's declaration
of independence, her right to vote, side by
side with the claim of labor 10 its earnings.
Enthusiastic cheers.]
Resolred. That, in the language OF AmaSa
Walker. no great national debt was ever
paid or otherwise discharged, except by re-
pudiation, and the present war policy OF
government makes national debts permanent
institutions, (Science Of Wealth, PIP. 362 ana
2G3), that as James Buchanan, i'll buying up
II lew In0ltSaflu uepTOcS uiluti"liN w " ~
or DESTROYED, would not have satisfied the
claims of emancipation, so Secretary Bout
well, in his bond policy, is trifing with JUS
tice and public welfare [cheers] and since
dissenting men were shot down, drafted into
battle, while disloyal wealth was allowed to
remain at home with increased liberty 10 lat.
len on the public distress: since the illll
amount originally loaned the Government
will soon (as INTEREST," have been more than
paid, we renew, with increased emphasis,
our demand made at the origin OF this
League, for the immediate and uncondi-
tional payment of the war debt by assess
ment upon the whole property of the nation,
including government bonds. [Checrs and
Rcsolped, That IN denying the ballot to
women, in advancing interest on money, IN
aiding great railroad usurpation to plumber
the public, in refusing, while granting end
less privileges to chartering capitalists, to
INCORPORATE workingmen for the beneticent
purposes of cooperation, the Massachusetts,
Legislature is guilty of high treason against
freedom and honesty which, next Novem-
Der, must be rebuked Overwhelmingly mt
the polls. Loud and long cheering.l
4 number of addresses We're delivered !:
among them one by Miss Jennie Collins.