The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-04-10
WOrklngmen In CeuK IA.
GRAND MASS MEETING IN cooPER-s NsTs.
rUrE, NEW YORK.
REVOLUTIONS ADOPTED.

The workingmen Of New York, met IN
council pursuant TO announcement, at Coo-
per's Institute, on Tuesday evening, March
23d The attendance was very large and
the enthusiasm unbounded. The Printers,
Tailors, Cabinet Makers and Clothing Cut
tiers, headed by bands Of music, marched In
PROCESSION to the bali, and presented very
ine appearance. The following are q few
Of the notices carried on the occasion:
Our ninth week, and good for ninety more.
Our scale-no sliding
Let US be tried by our own ectiona
The workingmen's sch0ol-Trades Union.
Necessity 10 powerful weapon.
No party but the workiDgman's.
The union, our first and last love.
Let them hate, provided they fear.
We claim the right to fix the price Of our own
labor.
Our sister orgsnizations-we will sustain
them.
As our correspondent has referred q
length to the speakers, we omit any reference
to them. The following resolutions prese ssed
by the Secretary, Mr.. A. p. McDermot,
were unanimously adopted:
RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, The delegates from the Trade So
cieties represent ed in the w orkingr EMS Union
being now, as ever, impressed with the impor-
lance Of a just and wise solution. Of vexed
problem Of the relations between labor and
capital; and
WHEREAS, Those statesmen and political
economists who undertook the taak, and Who
were confidingIy trusted 70 solve and haEmonise
these relations. having most deplorably failed
their attempts thus far being only in favor OF
capital, or in making the rich richer and ihe
poor poorer and
WHERxAs, The time ought TO have arrived
when q cheap philosophy, q mock philanthropy
and mere empty lauding of labor should no
longer mislead the toilers and producers OF
atoms wealth TO their own SOCIAL and political
enslsyement; and
WHEREAS, In the tendency Of property every
where throughout the and to accumulate In
fewer hands-the larger industries swallowing
up the smaller ones-the smaller factories, hith-
erto owned and worked by single proprietor,
giving way to huge corporations, and in our o.
ties even the small traders are being supersed-
ed by the heavy capitalists, who are their own
importers and jobbers add to these the crea-
tivn in our midst OF distinctively laboring cass
aud its rapid augmentation, and the fact mast
receive its just and equitable share of the Joint
profits of capital and labor. and that every dry
iIs share is growing relatively less; and
WHEkEAs, Convinced that 20 escape the evils
which must inevitably follow in the wake OF
this centralizing, social and one-sided political
system--a system which ID sacrificing the labor
and lives Of the many for the profit Of the few
the working classes must themselves awake 70
q more lively sense OF their dangers, and more
comprehensive intelligence Of tue best means
TO avert them therefore be il
Resolved, That We hold it a7necessity and of
primary Importance, that the artisan, the me-
chanic, and hard wrought labOrer, whstevsr The
nature AID character OF his employment, shoald
join il combustion" with bis fellow work
men, after the manner Of trades unions, q .
first step TO obtain fAir days wages and 4 fair
days work
Resolved, That the next step toward obtain>
ing for labor fair share Of les own pFoducsious
il the adoption, especially in the mechaniczl
departments, OF wise and stringent apprentice
law, that viii equally bind the boy 70 hin en-
ployer and the employer TO his boy Q given
number Of years, sufficient to acquire and in
part prscfacAl knowledge Of the trade, sd
thus prevent the tradts being glutsed with IN
skilled, incompetent hands; and b. thus piec-
ing barrier 70 thoss WHO BY natuFs aFs uuAfaod