The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-13
TIE LATEST LABOR NEWS.

Proceedings of Tho National Negro
Labor Convention mt waYhinston
The National Negro Labor Convention,
which assembled III Washington. D. G., on Mon.
day last, WAS composed OF two hundred mem.
Union. Ten OF them were white men, und there
were also ten women delegates nine OF whom
were white. Geo. T. Downing, Of Rhode Island
was chosen temporary chairman, and = Har.
mon, OF Florida, secretary. On taking the chair
Downing male . brief speech, III which
he said that protection, cooperation and
amelioratiOn were the objects for which the con.
ycntion was TO work. Downing was followed by
hr. Richard Treveick I'm q short speech after
which the convention was permanently organ.
izct by the election of james II. Harris, OF North
Carolina, as president, and The usual list OF vice.
presidents and secretares. Harris made a speech
on taking his seat, ut the conclusion OF whicl.
Aaron N. Powell, u delegate from New York, Of.
fcred the following resolution:
ReSolped That we ask Congress- TO authorize at
once the appointment t'y tile President of u land
commission TO DC composed Of six or mure well
known and dislntercsted friends OF the freed peo.
pie, to serve without compensation. TO have ali.
th0ritJ to appoint, with tho approval OF the Sec
reiary or the Treasury, q limited ar,nI,cr of
agents whose dniy II shall be tn cD operate with
individuals aud associations among the hitherto
cnsaved, for the selection and purchase or clipi.
ble iEal for hnInc'eala, tn hold titles thereof for
u given period. nnti by Instruments they shall
have been pnd for NJ actual cost TO The govern
ment. when the money su employed, not 10 ex.
ccc,l s2Ooo,0OU, shall he refunded lo The national
treasury.
on the second day The Committee OH Savings
Banks reported that the deposits In the Freed
mans Savings Bank amounted to $40, 900. .ooU a
resolution was adopted rendering the thanks of
the convention TO President Grant, and appoint.
ing q delegation TO wait upon him for that pur.
pose ]. N. LangstOn read an address, enti.
tied "Thc Colorcd People In their Relation TO
American Industry" This document asserts thc
Skill and capacity of colorcd labor, citing en-
amples OF both, and demands fair remuneration,
fnli protection and equal rights Of apprenticeship
and employment with those enjoyed by while
mechanics and laborers. The address also recon.
menls very strongly the formation OF cen,rai
bureau OF industry, the object OF whcf should be
to organize tho colored la bor OF The country, am,
especially Of the South, and concludes rs follows:
IN the cultivation OF such n spirit Of generosity
on oar part, and the maSnanimous condnct wlIlci,
IL prompts. we hope, by argument and appeal
addressed TO the white mechanics, labOrers nnI
trades unions OF Our country, 10 our legislators
ami countrymcn 1T lnrge, TO overcome The prem
diGes now existing against u.s. so far as 20 secure
u fair opportunity for the display and remunerl-
tlon OF our Industrial capabilities. We launch
our organizations, then, In the fullest confidence,
NuOWlUB Wt5cIy hf1u ltNttClOuSly tnanuVeu,
IL must bring to all concerned strength end al.
nnd especially to the cOlorcd American,
~ its earliest fruits, that power which comes
from competence and wealth, education and the
ballot, made strong through Union whose fun.
principals are Just, impartial and
On the third day, Wright, of South Carolina,
from the Committee on Railroads and Travel, re.
ported In favor OF recommending that q bureau
he created, to which this matter, with others re.
lnting to tho exclusion OF coiorcd people from the
cars, be referred, and that fund be created to
prosecute any such case OF exclusion, under tho
Civil Rights b and to test She virtue OF that BILL
Referred.
Labor News In Brief.
New Orleans and Chicago papers express
regret at the presence OF armies OF unemployed
men In the atrceis OF those clties
Al new silk mill has been built and fitted MP with
machinery In P0ughkcepsle, N. Y. II Is nearly
really to begin operations ana Ia calculated " do
a large business, mainly In the manufacture OF
sewing siik.
Three antI.Chincsc mcetlngs have been held In
san Francisco. The sum Of $4,000 Is required 10
carry ont Tho plans o! tho committee, TO scnd
igenis 10 Saoramento and Washington TO URGE
'av brablo legislation.
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