The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-03
Employers Massing to Crush
the Movement.
UNIONS GROWING FEEBLE.
They Ask for Money Now
or Never.
A MONSTER PROCESSION IN VIEW.
Meetings Of the Eight-Houf Leagues and Con-
Vention Of All the Trades Organizations.

Ventl0n OF All inc Trades ORGANIZATIONS.
The strike stn shows the general characteristics
it has exhibited for weeks pasta falling or Of
many OF the men, driven by pressing necessity to
work any number Of hours for any attainable rate
| of wages, and the same fierce expression Of no
surrender policy by those who still maintain the
| organized revolt.
| The most powerful pressure ia about to be
brought to bear upon the men by the union OF all
employers, whose permanent Executive Committee
holds daily sessions from ten A. NJ. to ten
p. M. at the Hoffman House. Backed by
wealth, intelligence and an energy as untiring
as that Of the workmen themselves, they win in a
few days have deluged the city with appeals which
win find an echo in many an empty cupboard and
will wiring many breaking heart. Yet the end can
not even now be foretold. The workingmen hope for
aid In money from affiated societies, with which
they will be enabled to once more draw the work.
men out, and they depend upon monster parade
to take place on the LIST Of August for the awaken
ing OF renewed enthusiasm.
The Worlkingmen's Parade-Meeting OF
the Committee Of Arrangem ents.
| Some fifty gentlemen, representing the various
trades organizations agtating the elght-hour ques-
ton, and one lady, representing Section 35 Of the
|
night. The meeting was called to order and the
minutes of the previous meeting were read.
During the reading irrepressible gentleman,
representing the upholsterers, repeatedly gained
| the floor and suggested various reforms and para-
mentary rules and precedents for the solemn con-
| sderaton Of the body After considerable sparring
with the President Mr.. Peter DAILY, that gentleman
! prevailed upon the unquiet member relapse in
condition OF comparative nonentty. The minutes
were finally approved.
The credentials Of the new delegations were
| Thirty-six organizations have so far enlisted in
the enterprise, of which twentyfour were repre-
| sented.
| Mr.. BANKS stated that the Executive Committee
had visited since the last meeting fourteen organ
door, and he thought every one Of them Would turn
out. He advocated the reinforcement Of the CON-
mittee to at least ten members, 80 that 1t might
scour Brooklyn and Jersey City. 1t was finally In
| creased to twenty.
Mr.. HARGAN came forward as delegation. He
mad been instructed to come to the meeting to see
what the purpose, the force, the power and the
| Will OF the meeting were. Mr.. Hargan was deter
mined to explain but by persistent effort the Pres,
wrath delegate remarked that though disposed to
hear eloquent strangers, they preferred to transact
Subscriptions were then paid in to Mr. Pardy, the
| treasurer. Many Of the members came without
funds, but promised the payment Of their assess
ment at the next meeting
After the remarks OF few speakers who had no
business to transact elsewhere the Convention ad-
| jOurned.
| The Iron Eight-Hour League.
| Some four hundred trades uniOnsts out of EN-.
pigment visited the han Of the metal workers at
| Germania Assembly Rooms, in the Bowery, yester-
| day. No business of importance was transacted,
! though the report that President Grant had re-
| ceived their delegation at Long Branch discour-
teously was denied They claim that the President
treated them with the utmost cordially.
The men went into formal session at eleven
O'Clock A. NJ, and few reports containing nothing
Of particular or general interest were received
| Five thousand OF the men are back at work on
the old system, $500 are at work the eighthour
| plan, and $500 are still on strike.
Pay rolls, with estimates for three weeks funds for
relief amounting to total Of $25 OO0 have been for.
| warded to Cleveland. No money has yet been re-
ceiyed in returns but at least $4,000 to 1900 is
pected from that quarter before the end Of the pres
ent week The money paid out by the league, amount
payable by members working under the eight-hour
system and donations from various sources.
First Vice President John Roach was interviewed
and stated that the principal trouble met with In
their efforts mad been bought about by members
OF the amalgamated societies. These men were not
Of them remaining subjects Of Great Britain,
though they may may have been resident here
~h 1 n@eca nd nc Or te
American people, and they wished to carry on the
strikes in the Manchester and Birmingham fashion
| Others, who had been reared or were born here,
wished to operate on square American plan, and
this had occasioned some dissatisfaction and Ill
| feeling Had they been soidly united they would
| have long since been thoroughly successful. How
| ever, he had not by any means abandoned hope
| nor confidence in the sound sense and honesty of
the great mass OF the men who remained out
| IL Is expected that on the receipt OF funds from
| Cleveland the, enthusiasm Of the men will once
! more be kindled, and those who are working ten
hours Will again join the movement.
| The German Eight-Hour League.
The Teutonia Hall meeting was organized as
usual, at eleven O'Clock A. M yesterday, and about
three hundred persons were present. Reports Of
little interest or value were received from strag.
cling committees.
Three manufacturers that had adopted the eight
hour system were reported as having returned to
the ten-nour plan. One Of these employed 200 men
and the others about twenty each. The workmen
in these places are again on. strike
| The committee reports about twelve thousand
| men in the League, and claim that they have ten
| thousand at work on the eight hour system in one
| hundred and eleven shops and factories that as
yet show no signs of changing base. About four
teen hundred working ten hours and the re-
mainder, about six hundred, are still ON strike.
An Address by the Employers.
The following address, ISSUED by the Employers
Central Executive Committee, published In the
form of a small p0mphlet and nrn tod in English