The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-02-05
BALTIMORE, Jan'y. %, 1870.

rHE CEIsPISS AND ST. MARYS INDUS /
TRIAL SCHOOL.
In the annual report of the Directors
Of 81. Mary's Industrial School Of this
rity, reference is made to the action of
the Knights of st. Crispin IN connec-
ton with the Messrs- Faust and COM
pany's contract to manufacture shoes
N the school. The report says that
the Crispins in the employment Of
Messrs. Faust interfered with their con-
tract, and would not permit their men
to work, and goes on to stigmatize the
order ny n " wicked and uneharitable
Your correspondent is
disposed to think that the committee
who made up that report, or the Board
Of Directors Of the Institution, or both,
were misinformed as to the real facts in
the case and also the objects Of the
order, otherwise they would not have
dealt in harsh and uncharitable lang
uage. Yet at the same he cannot relieve
from censnre any man, or set Of men
Who will deliberately bring before the
bar Of public opinion their fellow-man
upon a false accusation. Such course
il not in accordance with that command
which says. "Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor." Now
the Crispins of this city did not object
70 the Messrs. Faust a. Co., making a
contract or contracts with the Directors
of Industrial School or any other In
stitution in the city, county, state, or
United States The stock cutters in
the establishment objected to cutting
stock which soGs to be taken out of the
establishment to be made up. They
said If Messrs. Faust & Co. wanted to
manufacture work In the school, they
(Messrs. Faust & Co. should employ
stock cutters in this school. They had
nothing to do with the contract and
therefore they could not object to it,
and as q proof of this fact your cores
pondent will state that the men who
objected to cut the stock have since
been discharged, and boys employed In
their places. And again, if the Girls
pins had objected to the contract then,
they would object to it now, and there
would not be any Crispins at work in the
establishment, whereas all the men en-
plOyed In the manufacture of shoes IN
the establishment Of the Messrs. Faust,
are Cnspins, and the Messrs. Faust &
Co. still hold the contract, hence the
Crispins never objected to the con-
tract. and the managers Of the school
were led astray for interested motives.
But the gentlemen who compose the
Committee and Board, over stepped the
lines Of modesty, propricty and common
sense, In stigmatlzing that, to be
wicked and uncharitable," which men
have adopted to enable them to obtain
the necessaries of life, and a little of the
comforts thereof for their wives and
children. For some years past the
weekly earnings OF a journeymen shoe
maker was not sufficient to obtain for
him a bare existence, and in many in
stances it did not even do this, for he
had to depend for support during GER
tain season of the year upon the charity
of his neighbors. This condition OF
things aroused some of the boldel
spirits of this class of artizans to a pre-
per sense of their duty. A few thought
in land flowing with milk and honey
there should be no such thing as stGrvG
tiOn Hence they formed an association
tn he known as the, KniGhta- cG g,
Crispin. The principle object Of thi
organization is to visit the sick, burr
the dead, clothe the naked, and fee
the hungry, to improve the moral, so
cial and intellectual conditions OF it
members particularly, and the member
Of the trade in general, are these un
charitable purposes? Are they wicked
deeds? Are they not rather purp ose
worthy the commentator of the phil
anthrophist and true christian. How
much better it would be for men, higI
or low to inform themselves about mat
tiers in which they are about to speal
or bring before the public, then to LEND
a wiling car to any knave or trickster
who will deliberately lie to smooth ovel
his own misdeeds. But truth, in al
ages has been assailed, and the waves
Of time have beat against it only tc
wash the scum and filth from around it
and leave it the more pure, and so it is
with Crispinism.
| THE CAN MAKERS
Employed in Messrs. Shott's 6 Co.'s
shops are on a strike against a reduc
ton Of wages. In passing the estab.
lishment the other day, some animals
were observed coming out, and some
carriers who were standing by, held a
consultation as to what species they
belonged to; some said they were ran
gatangs, others that they were Azetics,
one suggested they were Chinese, for
they had a strong smell of rats; SambO
said "dem dere tings amt belong to my
race, dere too ugly" They were about
to receive an application Of raw hide,
when rough specimen Of the Emerald
Isle spoke up saying" arrah be jabers if
you lay whip on thin fellows yonr
own bastes will be running sores as long
as they live. if they don't die sooner
than the breath leaves them" This
speech created a panic and all drew
back horror stricken, and with one
breath exclaimed, "Why, Pat, what are
theyr' Faith" said Pat, with a
knowing wink and nod, "they're
dirty, thieving scabbs, just look at their
ugly mugs"
STOVE AND HoLLOwwARE MOULDERS, -,
Is in quite a prosperous condition.
Their Cooperation enterprise is getting
along finely. Their last meeting was
well attended; considerable business
Of private nature was transacted.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
President-Wm. Gardner.
Tice President-Patrick Rigney.
Rec. Sec.-Fred. Rhodes.