The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-06-01
Progress Of the Labor Movement
PROM MASSACHUSETTS.

Ths third annual convention Of the
E..,. u Fight Hour League, will be held in
rhs Melons %. "Wednesday. MAY %, 1872,
.!ay ana evening. commencing at 10 o'clock,
An
Tll work n-tuen II all nations are en-
-.ej n al erFrrt t. reduce the hours Of
.alor
In Australia. the principal trades have
worked but eight hours a day for nearly
twenty years. In Germany. hundreds Of
thousands If wurkingnen are combined
ana ar earnestly working for less hours
and more pay In England, nine hours
has become the rule in most If the trades.
and a nine hour factory Act has been intro
duced into Parliament In Canada, large
meetings are being held and organizations
formed for the same object.
N,ar home the painters Of Brooklyn
have gained the eight hour rule, and in
New .r> City TIL carpenters and furni-
ture makers ar combined in eight hour
Lea rues. 81 tn latter among the Ger
man residents.
In eNyr- case of "a reduction of working
time the wa, have been increased and
these higher wages have not increased the
cost II prDductI"l.
| We cordially invite the public. regardless
Of Iarty. nationality, color. class or sex,
who waivinr every other issue. aud know
ing no friends ur f,es except a. they aid OF
oppose this long-deferred world wide
measure. u Join with us in the declaration
that the hours ~ labor must and shall be
reduced, and that the reduction is never to
be purchased ~ accepting reduction Of
pay
May oath, 1872.
Editor Boston Traveller In communi-
cation to your paper yesterday, in which
the writer states his preference for Grant
as against Greeley, my name occurs.
To correct any erroneous impression, let
me say that will not vote for either
The present industrial serfdom is sus-
tanned BY both the parties which these can
didates represent. / detest them equally
4 change Of masters does not emanci-
pate the slave.
f. NJ. CHAMBERLAIN.
TnE horse shoers of Boston have struck
for an advance Of wages 81 per week for
first wages SO, 30 for second class men,
An executive Committee was appointed,
consisting of Michael Delany, Charlestown
and Chelsea Michael Costello, South
Boston and Dorchester Michael Ready,
Roxbury Mathew Barry, North end and
East Boston Patrick Mcdonald, Cam
bridge John Carmody, and Daniel Droin,
South end
BosToN, May 2S.---The Convention Of
the Massachusetts Labor Union was held
to-day in Horticultural Hall, E. M. Cham
berlin, President Wendell Phillips read
series of Resolutions, which approve of
all associations Of workingmen, as a means
of training their members to cooperation,
and Of fixing the attention Of the world on
the condition Of the working classes de-
nounce violence and interference with per-
sonal liberty, but believe that strikes are
eXpedient and necessary, and cOngratu-
late the parties iii the late strikes on their
success advocate the establishment of q
Congress If labor unions regard cooper
alive associations as a cure for most of the
evils suffered by workingmen hold the
lessening If the hours of labor as a necess-
ity express favor for the Government
scheme to reduce interest to or 3per cent,
and abolish the system that all dividend
paying companies should be obliged to di-
vide one half Of the net profits among the
laborers, and that imported pauper labor
to work on long contracts should be subject
to duty.
At the evening session, the following was
read
SENATE CHAMBER, May 20, 1872
GENTLEMEN / cannot take part in
your public meeting, but declare my sym
pathy with the workingmen in their aspira-
tons for greater equality of condition and
increased opportunities. l therefore in
sist that the experiment of an eight-hour
law in national workshops shall be fairly
tried, so that if successful it may be extern
ded. Here, let me confess that find this
law especially valuable in promising more
time for education and general improve
ment. If the experiment is successful in
this respect, / shall be less curious on the
question of pecuniary profit and loss, for to
my mind the education of the human fam
lily is above dollars and dividends. Mean
while accept my best wishes, and believe
me, faithfully yours,
CHARLES SUMNER.
To the Committee of the Labor Conven-
ton.
The resolutions offered in the morning