Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-01-12
Assaults on Women.
The Boston Transcript has this

The Boston Transcript has this
item:
"At about halfpast nine o'clock last
Tuesday evening, a man was seen
walking down School street on the
north side, followed at a little dis
tance by young woman. When alb
out opposite the Parker house the
man turned suddenly, enraged, it is
supposed, at something the woman
said to him, and struck her in the face.
She fell instantly, and he crossed the
street and entered Parker's. The wo-
man was taken to station two, and
from there to the city hospital. 1t
was found that the blow was on the
right side of the lower portion of the
face, and had broken the jaw In two
places. Her condition was most pit
liable, as the nature of the injury pre-
vented the successful use of ether, and
she was compelled to endure the ag-
ony of the operation Of setting the frac-
lures in full consciousness. The man
was not found"
The Workingmen's Union of New
York publishes the following resolu-
tions:
All members of the German Cigar
making Union, No, 80, are hereby in
formed that. by a resolution of the
Union, adopted Oct. 18th, members
are strictly prohibited from working
in a shop where females are employed
in wrapping or otherwise making ci-
gars.
CONRAD KUHN, President.
ALBERT KAMPRAD, Sec.
The Cigar-maker's Union of West
field, Mass, put forth recently, an ut
terance which reads as follows:
Resolved, That we maintain those
men who struck in Harrison & Car
penter's shop against the women.
Resolved, That Harrison d Carpen-
ter's shop be closed against all new
comers.
No workingman can read the first
paragraph without Indignation tow
ards the ruffian who cowardly and
brutally assaulted a woman, and yet
there are hundreds of workingmen
connected with Trades Unions who
will read with appreciation the reso-
lutions prohibiting women from work
ing in cigar factories, although the
prohibition is far more injurious as
Sault upon them than a blow. The
assault of the School street trough"
broke one woman's jaw, the assault
Of the Westfield and the German ci-
gar makers prevents women from
earning the means of supporting their
families.
The facts of the oeoo, ao VIC gather
them from the Springfield Republi-
can, are these: Harrison & Carpen-
ter, cigar manufacturers of Westfeld,
employed a number of workingmen
and one woman, a poor widow, on
whom depended an aged mother and
a fatherless boy. The members of
the Union" demanded her dismissal,
which demand the firm refused, and
the men therefore left the shop, and
engaged in a "Strike" against one wo-
man earning her daily bread. Their
action was endorsed by the Cigar
makers Union, and all new comcrs
were warned not to enter the shop
which permitted widow to earn the
means of supporting herself and fami-
ly. Harrison & Carpenter obtained
non-union men, but these were driven
from the town by acts of personal Vi
olence. Conscious that they were
right, the firm, with true yankee pluck,
determined to fight it out on that line
if it took all winter. They obtained
a new lot of men, but these. frightened
by the threats of the strikers" did
not dare even to enter the shop. Some
three weeks ago The firm secured
twenty men who were willing to brave
the opposition Of their fellow-work
men these are now at work, although
they were obliged to encounter the
threats, insults and assaults of the
"union" men.
And this is done in the nineteenth
century of our Lord, and by men liv
ing in a commonwealth whose pride
is that her citizens fear God and honor
woman! Why, their ideas of wo
mans rights do not rise to the leve
of those held by Indians and Africans
for they permit women to work. If
such infamous prescriptions of poor
honest working women as those advi
sed by the Westfeld and New YORK
German Cigar Makers Unions shal
receive the endorsement of the labor
organizations of the country, they
will find, instead OF the sympathy will
which the community has greeted theil
resistance to the demands of capital
an Indignation which will throttle
their societies and leave their carcass
es to show that Americans will no
see a woman struck down by rough
or a Trade Union. If we had th'
furnishing of the Westfeld cigar ma
kers, we would lock them in Faneui
Hall for two hours, and compel then
to listen to the burning words witt
which Anna Dickinson and Lucy Ston
would lash their unmanly souls ant
cowardly acts, from the text, Th'
man who lifts his hand against a VIC
mans person, or against her self sup
port, is brute" ."-Watchmam and RI
taector.
Fowl BUSINESS. W. Barrow
, of Waterford raised the past seaso
, forty-four turkeys which he sold fo
, $40. But the most remarkable par
of the story is, he had only two tu