The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-22
Indignation Meeting Of Workmen an(
Incendlary Speeches.
RESOLUTIONS OF REVENGE.
The Iron Founders In Council Re-
solve to Resist to the End.
Meetings Of the Roefers, Gas Men, German
Printers, Iron and Metal Workers,
Howe Protective Union, Working
mems Union and the Board
of Iron Founders.


Of Iron Founders.
The excitement caused by the Cooper Institute
meeting last night was the only noticeable change
In the pulse of the labor movement, and there Is
some reason to fear that o relapse win follow from
the intensity OF the fever manifested In the con-
duct OF the anair
Judge Bosworth decided yesterday In the case OF
Kavanagh against Captain Cafrrey OF the police,
that workmen had no right to enter peoples shops
to ntimdate the men there employed or take them
from their work, and in case OF such occurrence
the police were justiaable In forcibly expelling
them or placing them under arrest.
The wrework manufacturers Of the city, to the
number Of nine, gave notice to the workmen In
their employ that they will consider oil who not
at work before seven O'Clock A. NJ. on Monday as
discharged; also that in future they will only en-
ploy men by the hour.
The Executive Board OF Clothing Cutters warn
all men OF that guild to make no engagements to
work in Chicago or Philadelphia as their conJeres
In those cities are on strike.
The metal roofers have received information that
strike In their trade has been inaugurated In
Boston.
The beer brewers report progress in their strike,
anu advise the bartenders, who are uneasy, to 0l-
The st. Johns Park depot laborers forgot to men,
ton half dozen names OF bad men in their 'black
llst' or Thursday, and arc out with them in an ad
vertlsement yesterday.
The furniture manufacturers have adopted long
series or resolutions thanking the Board OF Police
commissioners and the Superintendent and cap
tains OF the force for their vigilance and promptness
In preserving the peace and protecting property.
The Indignation Meeting at tho Cooper
Institute.
An audience Of about eighteen hundred persons
with sparse sprinkng OF ladies', gathered ut
the Cooper Institute last night to hear
what the indignant trades uniOnists had to
say In their wrath and indignation at police
interference. The speeches were q rehash
of those made in the halls Of the different trades
societies during the last week with and added spice
OF gan and bitterness, some of them were very in
cendary In their character, and it was freely re-
marked by friends OF the movement after
the meeting that they would do more harm
to the labor movement than an ordinary riot. The
men who addressed the assembly lost GOODNESS and
Judgment when speaking, and in their excitement
said things that they perhaps wished afterwards
had been unsaid.
Mr.. CONRAD KUHN called the meeting to order
and introduced Mr.. William Jessup as President and
Messrs. Min, Leader, Mart and Gin were named as
Vice Presidents.
The PRESIDENT said have merely come to the
meeting as one OF yourselves. thank you for the
honor you have conferred upon me and hope that
the present will show those who have trodden down
our rights that we will not submit to it longer.
! see no one present who Is not as intelligent as
the men at the head Of the city government Yet
the men at the head OF this government direct
those who club US. "a voice. 1--WE Will give them a
tap they little expect'D Gentlemen, will now In
troduce our fellow workingman Mr. Mackey.
Mr.. MACKEY-Gentlemen, friends and working
men-When we assembled to parade last Septen
Dor we were looked upon as fools and asprants for
political power. A few months have rolled by and
We have achieved position even in the eyes OF the
most determined resistance. Why should we not take
this position and show the people that the work
geons OF the police. Great applause and few
hisses.) What Kind of freedom does there exist in
this country when Justice IL blinded by those men
who have controlled the legislation OF the
State and corrupted the courts OF jnstice
There is no freedom for the workingmen
Some one says that the movements Of the masses
mean social revolution. Yes, this movement does
mean revolution. (Cheers.) What chance do the
workingmen OF America stand when, with wealth,
the men who keep their fast horses and their
stu faster women, can enter Into the
and sell the poor (Cheers.) No man can be
honest who stands upon fraudulent platform. We
do come here to inaugurate a revolution, revolu-
ton that shall be carried by peacabe means II pos
sble and by forcble means II necessary. Cries OF
hear hear, and cheers. When politicians tell us
of this country they tell alsehood. The working
men have no control in country where they have
no voice, but where money controls legislation.
The politicians will soon take principles ND,
as the democrats swallowed the whole box and dice
Of republcanism that they had been fighting,
against for ten years. There is that brave COM
mander, Kelso, the superintendent OF the New
York Police, who wines on his fine champagne with
MIR. Steinway and forgets himself. Do some OF
these men who hang about the arisJocratic
journals and talk about q riot know that If we
wished to inaugurate riot we could march
clean out the city, dice box aud all. Let us stand
united and take my word for it that
all the united capitalists and aristocrats
They say they will starve us to submission. Let
them remember Paris in 1913. When the arstocracy
OF Paris refused bread to her workingmen there
followed scene in which those same laborers
reyeed in the finest halls and palaces OF that city,
forwcrd and read the following
PREAMBLE AND REsOLUTI0NS:-
Whereas we the united woEkmen Of this city and u
desPoc and brutal attack made upon US while quietly
of our rsRs against THOSE who have oponiu
Poclaned The world they win siafyc IS into
The late barbarous assault made upon a portion Of our
Mso are openly decang tcssses arSn Sar te n@
and are representing 70 the world that endeavor
consequence OF which, be it
Resolved That recognizing the truth Of this precept
those who break the law shan ~ Inc av be broken
action I may be to prPec, Ourselves and resist
them or any other tools OF the enemies OF the industrial
Resolved That while we deny the allegation that we
endeavorns to inaugarae civil Ftre,n having ire
quently aud publicly proclaimed determination aud
desire sucure our legal demand in manner
determined 10 organize respective bodies
be prepared 10 protect ourselves further
Lawful attack that may be made upon loud cheers
Resolved, That permanent central committee be APP
pointed composed OF two delegates each industrial
body empowered to receive all
bodies OF men who determined organize to resist
opprc and maintain the laws OF this nation
against those who openly violating the statutes
Mr.. CONRAD KUHN delivered an eloquent and ar.
gumentative address in German, describing the
latons OF the workingnen with the police and in
defence of the eight-hour movement. The position |
OF the wofkingman was becoming as the !
events Of the moment augured more
and more like that OF the downtrodden
toer under Napoleon. In many parts OF the
United States labor was q serldom from which |
nothing but diminutlon of the hours OF labor |
could emancipate the men. He spoke in glowing
terms on the meagre difference between the work.
mems condition and that OF the Chinese lie |
then spoke OF the overt and unwarrant- |
able action OF the police, abiding to 1t |
suggestive OF O lurking desire TO crush working
men, The fault rested not In the policemen who |
piled the clubs. The matter was stlll more sug-
gestve. The will-p0wer lies not in who obeys, but |
he who, like monarch, sits at his champagne, and,
under its influence, gives the bloody order. lie !
wound up with call OF Long live the Eight-hour
Law"
The PRESIDENT next introduced Mr.. Blissart, who