The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-08-07
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The National Labor Congress.
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To all schom Il may oonoern: ~h
Due notice is hereby given. that the Third
Annual Session of the National Labor Union,
viii be held in the City Of Philadslphia, Pa, be-
ginning at 10 O'Clock A. n. on the 10th day OF
August next.
All trade unions, all cooperative associations.
all labor organizations of every kind, in every
part of the country-whether composed OF men
or women-are entitled to representation. -
prescribed in the constitution, a. follows:
SECTION 2. Every International or National
organization shall be entitled to three represent
atiyes. state organisations to two. trade unions
and all other labor organizations to one repre-
sentative in the National Labor Union, provided
that representatives shall derive their election
direct from the organization they claim to re-
present.
Each international organization represented is
required to pay the sum of $l6, and each nation-
al organization $40. Each local union or Labor
Organization of any kind, represented by dele
gate, is required to pay ONE CENT upon each
member belonging to such organization. This
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in the land can pay it without the least en-
barrassment.
This will be the most important meeting OF
workingmen ever assembled in this country. In
our definition Of workingmen we embrace all
who are engaged in productive industry; all
who are in good faith oheying the Divine decree
by eating bread by the sweat of their own faces,
and not living upon the honest earnings Of 9th
ers. Not those only who open up and cultivate
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in workshops, but those, also, who by intellectual
labor extract the principles of science from the
great arcana of nature, and give them practical
form of art and direct the hand of industry.
In short, every human being who, by physical
or intellectual labor, contributes to the substan
tial wealth of the nation-all whose occupation
is useful and honorable Questions Of the very
highest national Importance will come before
this body for consideration.
We have adopted platform in which are en-.
bodied the great central ideas of our organiza-
ton. We must discuss and decide upon the best
means to accomplish our objects and put our
principles into practical operation.
Our ideas are not utopian.
Our intentions are not sgrarian.
We do not seek to pull down, but to build up.
We want sound national currency, issued by
the government directly to the people, at q low
rate of interest, so that all who desire to use it
for legitimate purposes can do so without being
swindled by money shavers and gold gamblers.
We want the public lands given (not sold) in
small quantities to actual settlers-and none
others.
We want labor department at Washington,
for the benefit Of the industry Of the country.
We want good apprentice and mechanics
lien law in every state.
We want good practical eight-hour law in
eveay state
We want the abolition of the present system
of prison labor, and the adoption Of one that will
do justice to honest men and convicts.
We want the repeal of all the conspiracy
laws" making it an offence for men to belong to
''Trades Unions"
We want plain, practical law in every state,
recognizing trade unions as legally authorised
bodies. qualified to do business, hold property,
&C.; and subject to the laws of the land as other
legal bodies.
We want economy in the administration of all
our affairs-national, state and municipal.
We want virtue, not vice; honesty, not ras-
cality craftsmanship, not partisan demagogue-
ism brain, not money, to rule in the councils Of
the nation.
Every honest man in the land can make com.
mon cause with us upon these issues. Let work
men everywhere, without regard to place or 90
cupation be up and awake-busy in the great
work of organizing for the last grand struggle
for human liberty. Liberty from party rule;
liberty from the grasping power Of monopoly :
liberty from false monetary system that ena-
bles the few to gather the wealth Of the nation
into huge piles, while the many work and remain
poor For complete and entire political liberty,
in land where liberty has long been supposed
to dwell.
Organize everywhere, and send in your dele
gates to the coming convention, and let Us send
forth an emancipation proclamation that will
carry renewed hope to every oppressed individual
in the land.
We are engaged in huge struggle. Honesty
against corruption-freedom against tyranny
people against mmeyed aristocracy that ID
squeezing the life ont Of the nation-s monsyed
power that is fast reducing the whole industrial
people of the country to mere vassals to contri.
butte to Wall street and it's satellites. Who shall
win? Let the people answer.
The convention will meet ct 10 O'Clock A. n,
on the 10th day Of August, In the large Hall.
Assembly Buildings, southwest corner Of Tenth
and Chestnut sts., Philadelphia Delegates ar
irving before that day can report ct the Office oil
the National Labor Union, $50 Harmony st.
w. H. SYLvIs,
President National Labor Union.
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