The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-23

mp to the LIST OF the month, and at five O'Clock he
paid them the baance-flrteen days pay--and In
formed them that they were all discharged. Mr..
Rucher the General Superintendent, to be the
person who ordered this discharge, and he Is, con-
sequently very unpopular with the men.
Yesterday morning delegates arrived here from
Bufralo, Susquehanna and Port Jervis for the pur-
pose OF inducing the Jersey City men TO join the pre-
sent srike, aud
was therefore ordered to take place at hafpast five
p. N. at engine house No. Z. Accordingly at half
past i've O'Clock the engine house was crowded by
about half the workingmen OF Jersey City.
Mr.. Finley, from Buffalo, and two gentlemen from
Susquehanna addressed the meeting, urging them
20 JOIN the strike and help their comrades who had
stood BY them aud were now suffering. Constde-
rabe enthusiasm was manifested, ana when the
motion was put whether to stop work or nOt-the
ayes to 60 on the right the noes the left side of
she speaker-eyery man present went TO the right
SIDE, thus pedglnR themselves to Join the strike.
one enthusiastic member cried out to have each
man sign roll and swear to support the strike.
The number Of strikers all along the ROAD is esi.
mated az 500. Eighty men Of Port Jervis and thirty
men at Jersey City nave been discharged Till these
have been reinstated no member or the union win
The following are the proceedings OF the meeting
SPEECH OF MR.. JAMES FINDLAY OF BUFFALO,
Mr. JAMES FINDLAY, Of the Aachinists' Union, Of
Buffalo, being formally introduced by the chairman,
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN-I do feel very
great pleasure In meeting SO many OF you here
tonight with your black and dirty clothes; but
1t would have given me much greater pleasure to
nave met you In your sunday go to-meetng clothes
and with your faces washed for seeing 1t otherwise
~ evidence Of the present sad circumstances under
which you are placed as wOrkingmen. But do not
blame You Of Jersey City for any part OF the sad
line. You have been mised by the false representa-
LIONS telegraphed by the railroad company. II yon
had not been deceived know you would not have
been AZ work In the shops to-day. Susquehanna was
have now mended the matter by stopping
you II you win take the noble stand which has been
taken by the Susquehanna men. Let their example
70 ~ sso ,e os steps You
Of mechanics OF Buffalo, 10 try and induce fellow
mechanics all along the line to consider the suffer-
have been thrown out OF employment with their
helpless families upon their banda and means Of
many Of your fellow mechanics, for fault OF their
own, thus deprived OF the means OF livingS These
have 1t know you have been duped ana deceived
BY the kilograms that were sent stating that Buffalo
ma gone 70 WORK. That statement was an internal
Question from the audience-Didn't you so TO
work at all In Bufaiof
No. never single mothers son of them. They
did no such thing; and what Is more the Association
In BufYao have resolved they Win sell their real
estate to sustain the movement before they Will
strike LICK OF work unless the Port Jervis men are
restored. VIII you, OF Jersey City, act with us2
was told that it would be as Impossible to bring the
Susquehanna men out as II would be to ny. But the
company see now their mistake. As soon as these
men found how the matter really stood they stopped
they would not until 70 tae of you Iervs
men are restored. We have come to this
determination, notwithstanding the threats that
nave been made by the authorities Of the road that
NO striker shall ever be employed in their shops
again BY such threats and the false representation
that Bualo had gone TO work they drove the men OF
SuSQuehAnHa and this place into the ShODS
Susquehanna would to-day give anything II they
could undo their folly Of going to work again.
and they told me TO say to you that no such fatal
blunder would ever take place their part again.
AZ to your own action, must say you were to blame
not walt long enough TO See what Mr.. Fisk would
ao am sorry ySG asked Tor Hopkins ms
out a. Buffalo did Port Jervis would to-day have
been all right, and would have been spared the
disagreeable business In which am at present en-.
gagged. We relied too much upon the telegraph, and
forgot that we had not AZ good right TO the wires
We're mstaHen Our we're
and detained, and the only means Of commnnica-
ton we had was by letter through the mail. This
NJ. President know this Is an uniavoraSIs
majority Of the worsmen mere We oass to nave
another meeting. | win not speak longer now.
!voice NJ s. On, 60 on. would Ike to know
see now you were deceived by the statements from
BuffalO. ] nave no doubt when you have suffici-
with But we want meeting a.
seasonabe hour. II 1t had not been for the
prompt action Of the presidents Of our asso-
citation IN Buralo we, too, might have been DIS
cOuraged His boldness In this matter has caused
US to nickname him SHERIDAN Now, gentlemen,
IN appealing to Jon In behalf Of the Port Jervis men,
let me state to you how they came to be thrown out
Of employment. I want you all-Mr President
gentlemen and reporters..to understand this. They
are out because they did just what they agreed to
do and because Mr.. Fisk did not do what he agreed
70 DO NOW, we associate ourselves into society
We want no terms-simpy what is ri right.
Mr. Flax promised to pay the men at Port Jervis ON
paid they would cease work on the 10th. MI. Fisk
failed to perform his PROMISE; and the! men met
Their engagement BY refusing to 60 to work on the
she 10th, and would have gone to work, but were
told by the superintendent OF the shops that they
men do anything wrongY tCries OF mo, no.'') No,
she public sustains them, the press sustains them;
and now, gentlemen. will you 60 back on themS
The speaker then proposed to reply to any ques.
lions that might be propounded to him. Several
course OF the Bufralo mechanics Mr. Binday relte-
rated his statement tnat nothing had been further
from the Buffalo men than any notion Of resumlng
work In the shops, and now, II the movement was
promptly sustained by the Jersey City men, the VIC.
tory would be complete. The only fault he had to
did not have patience pia' a. BuiiaIo did 70 wait.
Mr. SIMMONS OF Susquehanna, boss workman,
WAS then introduced, and addressed the audience
nrleny. He urged prompt and decisive action now.
II the present struggle was lost, all was lost. All
along the line Of the Erie Railroad the machinists
we're waiting to hear from Jersey City. What would
inc response bef Would the men present assert
You may rest assured gentlemen, the speaker con-
unued. II al 10 made right now by the prompt,
d1gnined ana decisive action OF the mechanics
at ai the points along the line ali viii
remain right. We win not have occasion
for such action In the future. When the authorities
Of TINS company see that worklngmen are deter
mined to stand BY each other rights VIII DO re-
spected. We will no longer be treated with scorn
and contempt "A we have been. man who Will not
stand up for his own rights and the rights OF his fell
lnu rkpSor 70 hoxx~