The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-28

!, | Il uoucSty 20 Dc exaggerated, bu
be assured that they como from the heart q
yonr most grateful servant,
JoaN b DUaaAN.
Inc Distress among the Laboring Classes Of the
| North. ION ~
| From the Savannah News.
The workingmen Of New York held n
large meeting at Cooper Institute last
/ week, Tor the purpose of considering the
ulstress which now prevails among the
Ignoring classes throughout the North, and
OF 1aaugurating measures for relief.
l.. Inc report of their committee showed
the city of New York, and also gave inn
portant statistics with regard to the work
ingmen, now idle. in the State. They find
mat there are 1s2, GOO members of trades
unions now idle in the State; that $500
homeless men and women are lodged in the
station houses every week, an Increase of of
o.G%s over last year; 1850 poor persons
are fed daily by the charity of one man.
and forty men are lodged in his stables at
night; and that there are 81, 600 machinists
ana biacksmiths now idle in the United
are 10000 laborers now out of en-.
Pioyment. They report that these be-
iong to the unions, and that il is limos
sioie for them to ascertain the pum- |
Der of unskilled laborers who are out of
wore. Nearly one million of persons |
young and old, are dependent upon the
1s2, 900 workingmen of tho State. Who 'a ae
tDls time have no employment. At the
various lodging houses for women and girls
one hundred per night are turned away
TO the mercies Of the street." The YOUNG
hen,s christian Association have a branch
establishment in the Bowery. where ono
thousand persons receive daily a bowl os
soup or q cup of coffee and half a pound of
bread, for Scents.
., Inc resolutions of tho meeting REQUIRE of
Inc city government to place as many
u ooIers on tho public works as possible.
Emoiazoned among the notices were these
significant words:
All salaries should DO reduced-No Sly O0O
Iudgeships, $500 900 Sheriff, $3.50, 900 Countv
:lerk, $50 600 Chamberlain. They are exnan,
I've Injuries in these hard times.1 j
Strikes" 'euy 'or =
eve demand Suspension of Paw. e.,
donths" u A'n' iof Ahree :
When Workingmen Beein to Th;nt NJ
opo!y Begins to Tremble." A'0'
=. Mans Avarice Must Be Limitedv
we rave sworn Upon the Altar of Justice
nay y IT. Inc wealth Earned by Labor Shall Paw
8. " Doe Does Speculation or Labor Create Wealth %
" We Mean Business" p
politicians, Please Take Back Seat.v
Another placard invited attention to the s.
ame heures, adding that the profits of the
DO were uujustly paid to public office1a C,
oioing slnecures under the Law. "Let Us
yer $4,000" w
9ae demand 10 that one psrson shall not L
s a over 100000 in property and g.
One of tho speakers was loudly applanded
hsn he said that the reformers we're worsa
an sne IaAmany ring, for the Tammanv
~ al7ided 9Th the people, and the re-. Fl
r I'm keept all to themselves.
ne Pc olso fS0bers were denounced. The
snd shs r; 81
mt was censured for signing the salary bill :
d taking heavy benefit from IL. TT
oome OF the speeches and resolutions =
ire pr, OF a very infammatory character, as 90,
"a !. AZ calculated to excite apprehension '0'
re Bulletin speaking of this, says tbev T
would read very well at tho se9uces az ts,
"onderini International, or before some to 8
tae acooinlcal clubs in the Faubourp "a "a
antoine ia the olden time when the iron
lueiler club had Paris by the throat, but &c
place in the common sense city Of N 3us fah
rk." ivy u 1'e" etc
tevertheiees, true as this may be. it will A
well for the people of New York to re- and and
"a DER that like causes produce like re- and
., and that when the laboring masses En-
" 0h oppressive and
rupt government are reduced to becoarv
starvation, comma sense gives place -
ne worst passions, and there is danger Nc
9 IL New York and Paris. While cor orlos
''on ana proniGacy in high places ia the Seve
7r OF the times, and the laborinp multi year,
>, with their helpless dependents, are .troe
'out employ ment, pinched with hunger. hour
suffering for the common necessaries del
ne, It need not be surprising that a ~
IL OF d1econtent prevails, or that the II
extravagsnt and discouraging theo- NE
OF the communist find ready ad vocates.
the common sense people of the rb,
''e1n citles Wouiu escape the evils of ing II
9 olden time when the CordeIier Club
Paris by the throat" they mnst put a
70 the misrnle and corruption which
MS country is fast bringing govern
:, cederal, State and munIciIaI to tho Dr. W
itiun which NADIA Franc. t,,o ',,+,r,I David
er OF the Coldelerand the Sans C0uI- Carl Z
Christ
Saml
Wanted TO be Hard Fro-o