The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-18
TEuE LABOk MOVEMENT.
The industrial Congress.

The Industrial Congress.
The working men of The United States
believing that they should have some lead
ing organization embracing all branches of
mechanical labor to look after their inter
ests, sent delegates from their various trades
unions to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, and
perfected such union under the name of
the Industrial Congress of the United
States This Congress is now in session at
Rochester, y. Y, representing all classes
of labor and nearly every state in the
Union. Mr.. VI. II. Smith of Rutland re-
presents Vermont as delegate from the
Rutland Mechanics and Blacksmiths' Uni
on, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and the Rutland Typographical Union.
The Congress was called to order by the
president Robert Scheling of Cleveland.
Christopher Kane of Rochester, in behalf
of the trades union of that city, delivered
an address of welcome, which was respond
ed to by the president In the absence of
the secretary, Byron Pope secretary of the
International Coopers Union, was appoint
ed secretary pro tenn.
The list of delegates show the congress
to be composed of various trades unions
such as, Machinists e Backsmiths Union.
Coopers Unions, Industrial Councils, Iron
and Steel Unions, Trades Assemblies, Cigar
Makers Unions, Workingmen's Councils,
Quarrymcns Unions, Iron Moulder's Union
Typographical Unions, Tobacco Laborer's
Union, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers,, Sovercigns of Industry, Industrial
Brotherhood, Financial and Industrial
Union, and Miners Union The Rochester
Democrat characterizes the delegates as a
fine looking body of men.
a protest against the admission of seve-
raj gentlemen who claimed seats as dele
gates, was referred to special COM
mttee consisting of VI III Smith of Yer
mont, (chairman), Branton of West Vir-
ginia, RIGS of Tennessee, OIIara of New
York, and Cannon of Ohio.
The president of the Congress then de-
livered his annual address, which, after a
brief introduction, considers the subjects
of the labor press the objects of the labor
organization, and its progress the patrons
OF husbandry.
The address was warmly applauded and
its tenor generally well received. Our
space forbids an extract from it, but hope,
at an early day, to publish abstracts of the
addresses in the columns of The GLOBE.
Standing committees were appointed on
the apprentice system; imported cheap
labor organization arbitration; amaga-
nation of unions ways and means and
finance constitution prison labor dec
laraton of principles hours of labor ;
legislation and labor bureau; foreign trades
unions.
NJ II Smith is chairman of the committee
on apprentice system, and member of the
committee on constitutions.
j. Jackson Smith of Ohio then read the
following resolutions
Whereas, 1t has been the practice of all
national boards of trade, chambers of com
merce and the great assemblies of mer-
chants and forwarders, composed, as they
uniformly are, in part of bankers, bond
holders and middle-men, to introduce into
their resolutions and speeches the idea that
they represent the great industries and the
working classes of the country and speak
for them and
hnrD1G thnt
themselves and their own private interests
with that OF middle men generally and
Whereas, We have for many years ex-
ahmed the question of finance, and main
tanned the conclusions to which we have
arrived in ouTplatforms'and which are now
adopted and approved by all labor Organ-
cations throughout the country and also
the last by the most patriotic. Ilsinterested
and eminent of our statesmen and citizens
therefore
Resolved, That we now speak for our
selves and the millions whom we represent
and demand of the government to hear us,
and ask that all laws which create mo.
nopoly of banking, and all laws under
which the fraudulent national bank system
is continued, be repealed, and the currency
issued only by the government and changed
at the will of the holder into 1865 converti-
bic bonds.
Horace Day offered the following as an
amendment to the above
Resolved That we view with alarm the
growing strength of the banking and mo-
nopoly interests as evinced in the bill lust
passed in Congress extending the national
banks, and failing to adopt the 1856 CON
vertible bond system so long advocated by
the laboring and producing interests of the
country, and we call upon President Grant
to veto the bill now before him, as that
law cannot remove the evils which Cypress
the nation.
The resolutions were referred to special
committee. The following resolutions of
fered by Mr.. O'Hara Of New York, was re-
ferred to the same committee:
Whereas, The late financial panic was
brought about by few unprncipled bank
ers and money gamblers in using the PEG
pies money entrusted to their care in wild
speculations, thereby bringing bankruptcy
and ruin on the people and country, throw
ing thousands of working men and women
out of employment with no means of sub
sistence therefore be 1t
Resolved, That we, the representatives
of the producing classes, in convention as
sembled, do hereby petition the congress of