The workingman's advocate., 1874-05-23

the police force Of New York. fWild ap-
plause. They made more crime than
they stopped crime. In Dublin men were
chosen for the police because they were
strong, healshy and honest; here because
they were political rowdies. The working
men should have q meeting ON Tompkins
square before month had passed. They
should organize, and on the 9th Of Novem-
Der NEXT they would Sand OhaRliuk to dump
ON Long Island and Hayemeyer to purify
his own sugar.
[ Mr.. eastman, Of the Tailogs' Union,
was next introduced. He spoke i'm his
usual eloquent and forciDle manner. He
was in favor Of organizing for political pur-
poses, aud stated that meeting would be
held next Saturday evening in Masonic
Hall. He suggested John Ennis, of the
Plasterers' Union, for Mayor, and spoke
OF Comptroller Green as having rubbed
poor scrub-womel, and kept thousands Of
men out Of work ln winter tO checkmate
| Commissioner Van Mort.
The meeting as a whole was a great sue
cess.
CLEVELAND
Cleveland has done its duty and done it
nobly Last evening the Public Square
was crowded by throng of earnest, eager
men, who had met for the purpose of en-
dorsing the platform adopted by the Roch-
ester Congress, and also to demand the
removal Of Mr.. Mullett, the so-called Su-
perintendent Architectof Public Buildings.
A band was in attendance, and from time
to time discoursed music, which is calcu-
lated to sooth the savage beast (nO punl
though l assure you good many present
were mad with the existing state Of affairs.
At half-past eight O'Clock, Mr. Robert
SchiIling called the meeting to order, when,
on motion, Mr.. w. J. Cannon. President
of the Cigar Makers international Union,
was called to the chair, and MIR. H. g. M.
s. Smith, of the Machinists and Black
smiths Union, Secretary, and the follow
ing gentlemen elected Vice. Presidents
Michael Moran, Coopers' Union Mo. 1.
Mr.. McArdle, Coopers' Union No. 3.
VIM f. johnson, Machinists and Black
smiths Union No. 2. of Ohio.
j. b. Hunter, Machinists and Black
smiths Union No. 3 Of Ohio.
H. Dorm, MAchinists and Blacksmith
Union No. of Ohio.
Daniel Postance, Machinists and Black
smiths Union No. ~ Of Ohio.
'Ames Atkinson. Iron Molders Union
No. "a.
Con. Coughlin, Iron Molders Union
No. 2lS.
Michael Adams, knights Of st. Crispin
No. ~
j. jackson Smith, Typographical Union
No 53.
Avon kannel, Typogravia No. q.
James Mctiovern, Cataract Forge No. 2.
John James, Miners National Associa-
ton.
ID. A. Rees, Iron and Steel Heaters
No. q.
James 4. Brown, Amalgamated Society
Carpenters and Joiners.
Fred Ackerman, Cigar Makers Union
No. IL.
Thomas Stead, industrial Union No. l.
The President, in taking the chair, re-
ferred to the Importance OF the OCCASION
that the wOrkIngmen throughout the
country were holding meetings of a like
character, to secure an expression from
workingmen in regard to the demands Of
labor
MR.. JOHN FEHRENBATCH,
p resident of the Machinists' and Black
smiths Union, was the first speaker, and
made very able and sensible address
The following synopsis Of his remarks are
taken from the Cleveland Leader. one of
Mr. F.'s most persistent maligners. 1t
says:
He opened his remarks by reference
t. the meetings that were being held else
where, and said that the present was a
moment of grand Importance to the work
ingmen of the United States. They were
meeting everywhere to express indignation
against the action Of Supervising Architect
Mullett, Of the United States, who had re-
Gently recommended the repeal of the eight
hour law.
He then, at some length, spoke Of the
alleged injustice Of many Of the laws now
In force thai ground labor to the earth
and elevated and extended the power Of
capital Laws which allowed the coal op-
and children Of their employees from their
homes at the point of the bayonet in mid
winter, which allowed railroad companies
to keep men out Of their hard earned
wages. Yet we boast Of our freedom and
our stars and stripes, when the laws allow
workingmen when peaceable upon the
street to be struck down like dogs. IL a
law was made in the interest Of the work
ingmen, every effort in the world would be
made to repeal it. SO it was with the
eight hour law, and ON this evening they
were met together to demonstrate against
its repeal, and the representation Ut Mr..
Mullett, who, if not hired outright, is at
lie ast a tool of those who would work men
sixteen hours a day and pay them nothing.
He asked if workingmen we're justified
in their demands to have the hours Of labor
cut dowu. The marts Of industry, the coal
mines, the workshops, the wooden mills, the
farms, and all points where civilization be-
comes greater by labor, would give answer
that men who furnished and psopled these
places of labor and created these luxuries
should have
LITTLE MORE TIME.
Z" In answer to the question as to whether
time should be reduced, he would call their
attention to the factory children who merge
their young years into years Of age before
their time; to the condition Of the young
women who are forced by poverty to enter
factories and toll beyond their strength
and to the aged woman As she plods her
way to and from her place Of toni. These
would furnish the answer to the question
as to whether more hours Of rest was need
ed. Look at the employees, who are, by
the thousand, warped and bent by toll, and
who 60 through life poor, and finally lie in
psuper grave.
Why do we want more time For our
mental, social and physical Improvement
More time to get acquainted with our child
rem, to teach them to look up to heaven, to
educate them 30 that the fathers and moth