Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-12-08

THK TENTATIVE If tine farmers Of our
county really intend to fosego hercsfser
tho employment Of such persons - are
banded against them in Loyal Leagues
and refuse to give them up. Il ID high
time. we think. thst they should be look
ing TO some source or other 70 supply the
deficiency which is likely to be produced
BY this action II il not intended. we
presume. to refuse employment to parties
J~csrrse they hare BEEN members Of these
Leagues. but only tn employ other labor
in eases where parties persistently refuse
to abandon them To estimate the num-
Der Of these malignants or to approximate
it. is now. of course, pure guess work. but
il would be well enough for the farmer TO
be on the safe side and make as liberal
OUTLAWS for obtaining foreign labor as he
can AFFORD. We have work and idle land
enough for the employment both Of our
native and all the foreign labor We are
likely TO obtain. and hence there is little
danger Of crowding out either the labor
crs who have stood by US in the past or
those who may honestly mean to stand by
! us in the future. An initiative move TO
procure new labor for this county We take
to be Of prime necessity in view Of the
contingency stated above. and hence We
give below the resolutions adopted by the
Anne Arundel farmers as an admonition
and guide to our own people. Delegates
have already been selected to represent
our county in the International Immigrant
Convention which meets in Baltimore on
Tuesday next, the 18th of December, in
slant. What action the Convention may
recommend, cannot now be forccasted with
certainty, but as earnest. practical men
are known to be at the head of it, we feel
ourselves justified in asking quick and
concurrent action By our planters on such
measures as it may think advisable to re-
commend.
Whereas. 1t is the opinion Of this Con-
vention that the welfare of the community
impcratiyely calls upon the farmers of
Anne Arundel county TO employ only such
aborers as are not combined secretly
against our interest and ignorantly against
their own.
Pcsoi,,d, That all law-abiding citizens,
who have the good of this community at
heart. should dcnounce BY words and acts
those leaders who have been instrumental
in forming OUR pres mt laborcrs into eret
societies, and endeavoring TO create feel
ing of cnmitJ between our laborers and US,
who are their natural protectors and
friends. Particularly should those ~hie
Traders be denounced, who have knowing
", for their own sinister ends. deceived
the icnorant dupes by promises and threats
which they knew could never be fulfilled,
for the purpose of riding into fat Offices
through their votes and their money COL
lected through the agences Of secret socie-
ties.
Reso'rea, That for the purpose of sup
plying any demand for labor which may
arise in this ccunty. we urgently recon-
mend the landholdcrs of Anne Arundlc
County to form associations in each Flee
ton District, and to employ an agent for
the procurement OF laborers.
Resoirea, That it is expedent that such
district associations be organized without
delay. and We recommend that the agents
employed by them be selected as delegates
from this county to the State Labor Con-
vention which is to assemble in Baltimore
at IL o'clock on Tuesday, the 18th of De-
ccmber.
Rcsoj~d. That VIC earnestly recommend
to the district associations that they cease
TO employ any laborers who remain in az
filation with the so-called leagues, and
that they especially discountenance those
who have made themselves most conspie-
uous in such leagues.