The New York herald., 1875-03-11
THE NEW CONSPIRACY LAW.

PROTEST BY woRKNGMEN AGAINST IT'S ENACT
MENT-A LARGE MEETING AT THE COOPER IN
sr1TUrE-THE BULLET TO TAKE THE PLACE
OF THE BALLOT.
The large hall of Cooper Union was filed last
evening By worSingmen who had come to protest
against the re.enacrment OF the conspiracy DILL"
Mr.. Jacob Mohrstadt, President OF the Tailors'
Union, presided He said that II the law now
before the Legislature were to pass the trades
unions would be broken up, and starvation wages
could then be easily maintained The working
classes were naturally conservative and opposed
to the varlOus 'isms," and why should the employ
ers, whose fortunes the workingmen had made,
try to crush them2
Mr.. Waters, OF the 'longshoremen, was elected
secretary. lie read the following resolutions:-
Whereas bin is now before the Legsa ure tor the
spracy law workngmcn who NAV organize themselves
socaiion oi any number onl in direct
accord win the prineiple OF he constitution but when
direct benefit 10 The community at large; ana whereas
and condnctcd in All respects in lawful manner, the
enactment Of any sucn law would be iransnt with
labor too sistcnance. and would also naugurate
distinctly prohibits and TINS doing would endanger Tho
peace BY arraying one class OF citizen, against another
the Whole community anu whereas the adoption such
worsngmen in deprlyins them Of the ony means they
the nUw ss as % by voice oa s TO- s
measure OF value OF their handcralt; therefore, be it
assembled, do hereby ener most earnest ana
paac protest hgnst M in e ta II most mon
of this state and OF existing statutes securing
Resolved That becomes the representative of free
to M & 50 much at variance with
and JUSTICE and call upon every representa-
ic h against S BILL '0f any 'aS 10 cast
Resolved That we urge upon the judiciary Committee
n adversely n ia
unconstuonaity, and as being subversive OF all good
Resolved, That, as the democratic party made It a
81 e II S the
Judiciary Committee and the Asssmolymen from this
The resolutions were then read In German. and
enthusiastically applauded.
Mr.. McMacken, a painter, addressed the meeting
at length, denouncing the law In very bitter
terms. He said among the causes which led
to the introducing OF TINS measure was the TACT
that they had tamcly submitted to the most ty-
rannlcal rulers that mad ever oppressed people.
Their first OmDiatnt was against the Ponce
Com nissloncrs and that '',nidnight assassin
peaceabe worklngmen RON the streets. Since
that, owing TO the apathy among workingmer,
the steamship companies had had three -iourtns OF
the police at their command, to stamp out the men
VINO only wanted a lair Sustenance. 10 IL was ADDED
the Fourth avenue imp ovement, when the work.
ingmen tried 10 get o iair days wages from that
pubic roDber Vanderbilt. (Checrs.) They were
not satisned with driving the worklngmen through
the city like nerd OF swine put wanted to I'M.
prison and fine them FOR trying to protect them-
selves. If this bill should become law where
were they today The constitution stated ex-
pliclily tnat the right OF peaceable meeting
should not be abridged. But take 1t on the prln-
ciple oil trade. Was .nere not here an exchange
Tor every trade and would they. wipe out the oniy
true labor exchange that existed, the trades'
unions (Cneers aud applause)
Mr.. Bisserr, OF the Tallors' Union, said If this
bill had Deen law a few months ago, wnen tho
'longsnorcmcn were on strike, the jas would
have been crowded. (Cheers.) suppose boJy
men stood at "A corner. ana General Smash
away, with captain Poker and body or blues
came on-(cheers) we'll they all knew how well
these brave men would take care OF the interests
OF tine workingmen. iCheers) They all knew
bow brave a body the police showed themselves
TO be at Tompkins square. where they
boat little children and knocked down