The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-02
MASSACHUSETTS LABOR MOVEMENT
Delegations of the EiSht-IIour Mem ASS
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Claimed More Valuable than Money.
Boston, June l, 1872.
A meeting OF workingmen was held in Faneuil
Hall last evening to congratulate their fellow work.
|ingmen in New York on the success Of their recent
movement. Nathaniel Il. Chase presided and the
presidents of trades unions in Boston and vicinity
iwere elected vice presidents. Mr.. Chase advised
the mechanics to strike AT once and asked the CO.
operation OF every trade represented. The resolU
tons, while expressing the opinion that strikes
were ordinarily unnecessary and inexpe-
dent, recommended the measure in emer-
lgences like the presents appiauded the quiet
land disguised manner in which the New York
strike was conducted; advised the working men 10
1combine to crush tyranny when occasion requreds
and demanded of the city Of Boston eight hours "a
the measure of daily work for its employees.
CHARLES ]. CRANE support ted the resolution In
sstrong speech, and said the employers were IN
session at the American House, taking measures to
thwart the movement of their men. He opposed
3concession to the propositions for Overwork, as it
would eventually lead to the Old ten-hour systems
4 WILLIAM J. FALLS argued that the workingmeni
must organize to meet their organized employ
3ers. He claimed that over-production was the
result of the tenhour system. Labor would be
system. lie wished that The money sunk by strikes
could be put into the permanent labor organiza-
tion and proposed now that The talk about slavery
abroad was ended, to agitatc the slavery question:
1 at home. He closed by urging the formation of a
trades assembly.
dCarpenters' Union, gave short history OF the New
tYork movement, aud asked co operation for
the maintenance of the present success He
believed in conspiracy for personal eeya-
!, ton, protection Of family, and the reduction OF
the hours Of labor but not against the common-
wealth. If that was conspiracy tile employers and
awealthy classes could make the of it. Oppor-
! tunity for seiculture was desirable above mere
wages.
s. Il. RUMsDELL, of Boston, urged the formation OF
a Mechanics Freedmen's Bureau, and asserted that
eighteen hours of ninety would accomplish more
flor their amelioration than eighteen years OF such
j craftsmanship as Massachusetts had just passed
through. better dividend on the production OF the
State was the due Of the laboter and it in his
Apower to acquire it, He urged combination just so
FAR merchants, capitalists and professionals com
\ bine to obtain theif prices from the people, and
wanted to labor so regulated that when an em-
ployer sought cheap men he would be compelled
an appeal to young mechanics TO quit the street
acorners Tor evening in each week and repair to
the Assembly Rooms to consult upon their con-
iition and It's Improvement
conrad Weir and Kandoli Gratz, OF New York, adj
Idressed the Germans, and were received with favor
John Caruihers and others also addressed the
meeting. An eight-hour petition to the City Coun-
Gil circulated, and trace signatures for organi-
cation asked n
i The painters reported three hundred members in
their Union, which was strengthening.
The audience was large and enthusiastic Mt the
opening, but dwindled materially by ten O'Clock.
Provision was made for the or ,anizaton' OF tho
proposed Delegate Assembly, and the meeting adj
lourned.