The New York herald., 1873-11-28
THE LABOR CONTEST.
Dissolution Of the Pittsburg Printers
Union-Philadelphia Working People
Dema ndlng Employment.

Dissolution OF the Pittsburg Printers
Union-Philadclphia Working People
Demanding Employment.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, Nov. 27. 1873.
This evening, at a meeting Of the Typographical
Union, II was determined to disband as an organi-
zation, and resolution to this effect was carried
by decisive vote. This action on the part OF the
Union does not mean simply Temporary snspen-
sion Of the organization, but enectual breaking
1D on the concern, never again to be resurrecte0,
judging from the spirit Of the meeting. 1t was
also resolved % surrender to the National Union
the charter, and this document win pe forwarded
to the President at onces-
This action on the part OF the Typographical
Union leaves the pittsburg Journals, one and all,
utterly iree from the good or bad influences eXer-
cised by the union Of printers and proprietors OF
newspapers may now manage the afrairs OF their
composing rooms as they see ft and proper. Tn
strike unduestionably was a tyrannfcal one and
merited that measure OF Ill success that 49, So
Lowed H. sssaass Gns ua paper should sse
posirors on four other pa rsfnsy ~ ,ne WORN
and LETT Ell the publishers Sci them out the % best
Every hsSspacerSSta SStace m pistsoure Is now filed
ans t Rrsas oil the strikers will succeed IN
Mme MsSa n.y. 49, ing situations. Newspapers pay the
sSYs p.ce to non-union men as they did to those
WY str9ck, 10 cents per 1000 ems.
MASS Mketinx or Working mon At Phila-
dstphia-Eheir Resolutions and De-
Mands.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27, 1878.
, The following resolutions were adopted by a
mass meeting OF working men and women held in
Independence square to-day. There were three
stands at which addresses were made by persons
identified with the Internatonalists:-
Whereas tho present financial crisis has produced a
mosl eaamitoas condition smons the working classes
had no control over the causes which have produced
these results but that they are produced by -otten
banking system gambling stock jobbing and wild com
Resolved, That we demand Of the City Councils that
they find Immediate employment for the unemployed
supply depo where people obtain the necessities OF
Resolved 1t being the right and duty Of every person
which gives the instruments and means to labor 70
capitalists corporations Is and must be abol
isned, and system securing to each and every lndi
place
Resolved, That eight hours per day should be the
standard of days work and that wages for such work
should be mutually agreed upon between the authorities
and employed.
Resolved That recommend TO the City Councils the
appointment of committee 10 work in connec with a
committee appointed by the working people, whose duty
shah be to search and relieve the wants Of the most
destitute.
of the Patrons of Husbandry
Resolved That the organization Of the Patrons Of In
dustry Is ste in the right direction and that recon-
menu men and women OF the East to join in with them
Resolved That as the nation is suffering from money
crisis and has been convulsed by frequent panics in the
duce similar the future demand at the hands
OF the general government the adoption OF such nan-
cal system as will remove the disproportion between
the accumulave power Of money and the increase Of
industry.