New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-30
THE woRKINGMEN's PROTEST.

In obedience to a call issued by the Work
ingmens Central Council OF which James Connolly Is
Chairman meeting of wOrkingmen, and those inter
esed the questions of the contract and eiShthour
systems was held in Cooper Institute. last evening
The announcement contained in the call that Joseph
Arch Of England would address the meeting was infu-
ential IN filing the hall. which was. however, by no
means crowded As M Arch is on his way to Ireland
the OF the fact to the audience when the
eentiemaus name had been several times loudly called
was decreasing and numbers left before the meeting
was half through.
The proceedings were opened by the nomination Of
James Connolly Chairman, who IN accepting the
pOsiton said 10 seemed 10 him the workngmen OF New
York had often met council to make speeches and
rrn in resolutions expressing their determination 60
right their wrougs and then gone home and forgotten
all about It. Were they going to talk without acting or
were they going that their resolutions were car
sisd outf fCries OF Garry them OutH1 They had come
TO protest behalf of the stOnecuttcrs and the
citizens generally against the action Of the Capitol
Commissioners at Albany, and TO censure the last
sAgsaiure for not passing the Apprenticeship act last
Winter ~aos<,za~a S.szs --S-ssS
MI Connolly then proposed George Blair Secretary
OF the meeting. and his motion was carried Mr. Blair,
after brief speech expressive OF his confidence that the
time had at when the wOrkingmen were going
10 Tcht their wrongs and win proper recognition
from the capitalists, read several resolutions winch were
adopted.
The resolutions express resolve on the part OF the
workingmen to sustain another, demand hat such
Industries at the command Of the municipal state
and General Governments must IN the iuture he gwen
20 the organizations under the direct supervisory
control OF persons elected by the people themselves ana
under the control OF contractor, monopoly or
fayOTseeker whatever they protest against the Gen
era Government giving ont contracts To contractors
out locality where the work is u be performed
without exacting d strict adherence to the Eight Hour
law and against the evasion OF the Eight Honr law by the
Capitol Commissioners IN the erection OF the Capitol
building al Albany; they demand the enactment OF
Law for the protection Of the lives and limbs OF
workincmen engaged in all industrial pursuits, aud
verey the members OF the last Legislature for
not passing such law they demand the immediate
AbOshinent OF the contract system in the prisons, and
immediate purchase OF the works III TINS city by
the government, that the people may he supplied
with hight at cost, as they are now with water.
Speeches delivered by Osborne Ward on 1.-THE
Contract SYSTEM X. ". Ferguson on The Bond OF
Union between the WOrRingmen and Farmers Henry
ROfe, President Of the BrOwnstOne Cutters Associa
hon on "The Combinations of Capitalists 10 Deiraud
Worsingmen," aud by John McMakin, President 0f
Painters Lodge No g. ON " The UnwiiDgness OF Mum
epal and Governments 10 Recognize the Rights Of
HOTkDgmeu."