The daily gazette., 1876-07-26
THE DEMAND FOR WORK,
ANOTHER MEETING OF THE
UNEMPLOYED.
A Disgusting BurIesque.

A Disgusting BurIesque.
BOot6Iack Charley the Orator of
the ErentnS.
COUNCIL AGAIN DECIDES TO RESUME
WORK ON THE RESERVOIR,
THE woBKIHaMEN's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LIZ PRoCHBDINGS, SPEECHES By MEs6RS.
KANB AND CHARLEY ALEXANDRA,
OF THE MEETING, AND MESsEs.
PYLE, PAYFrRR, CANDY
AND FARRELL, OF CITY
CoCNcIL-THnDE-
hAND For WORK
| ACcEDED TO
The meeting of unemployed work.
ingmcn at the City Hall, last evening.
was attended by about four hundred
persons and though called for q seri~
Gus purpose, degenerated into q dis.
gusting farce. Men seemed to forget
the hunger and privation, toalleviate
ding the advice Of one sensible speaker
they said, they listened with riotous
mirth to the senseless utterances of an
eccentric boot black. almost forgetting
the objects for which they had assem>
bled. A report Of the proceedings will
show exactly how the meeting was
conducted.
At 745 o'clock on motion of Thomas
r, O'Djnnell, Mr.. Tbos. H. Kane took
the chair and called the meeting to
order. MIR. Kane said:
FELLOW CITIZENS AND FRLLow
WoRKINGHEN. Il am sorrow, in ono
sense of the word that we are Obliged
to hold this meeting to night, when
we did not expect to meet again till
Friday night. But financial circum-
stances have created dire necessity,
and we want to know how we stand
what we are to do
FOR BREAD AND BurTRR.
w hat do see before me! see men
who are always obliged to work for
breadfwho cannot now get bread to
eat.
Council ordered work on the reser-
voir to be resumed Monday morning.
but work was not resumed at the in,
stigation Of one or two members, be-
cause they said there was no money. l
say there is money, and the men eau
be put to work, and We should
DEMAND OBJ COUNCIL
either work or bread and butter, It is
two hard to think of o man and his
family starving when there is 81 much
money in tho banks. II is a scandal to
rich men to stand up and see poor men
starve.
r,aba M vo1;t;onl t,,,n .{.-1-
advocate work or bread and butter fer
suffering men, without regard to party
race or color. "a voice, "Sound
Democrat by God" Cries Of "Put
him out.")
Work ON the reservoir can be resum.
ed because the city has more money
than was represented to US on Monday
morning. The work should be resum.
cd until the money is spent. II Coun-
Gil arc afraid Of political issue, let
us appoint committee of one from
each Ward, and let each man of that
committee select 10 or 20 men, and
hand their names to the Water Com
mittee or Chief Engineer, to be en-
ployed, on the basin. Let this course
be continued until all the suffering men
have had chance to earn something.
to bring bread and butter to his ia
mily.
Let us say to the Mayor and City
Council, who perhaps think this sub.
ject is not important, that suffering
men in this city are numerous. Let
them give Us employment. SO we can
have our bread and butter.
Here ON motion of Thos. F. C'Don-
! nell, q committee ofthree-John Shaw
John Donahoe and Martin HealeY-
was appointed to call on the Water
Committee and bring them before the
meeting to say what can be done in
regard to rcsuming work on the re-
servoir.
Mr.. O'Donnell also moved that
committee of three on resolutions be
appointed. Adopted.
Committee-Thomas +. O'Donnell,
! Geo. Sterrett, James Cleavey, col.
The committees retired, and the
President invited any one who felt
inclined to take the stand and speak.
| No one accepted the Invitation,
though loud cries were made for var
ious persons. A man named Owen
Marlowe, very drunk, staggered on
the stand, and was greeted with up
roarIous applause, but he Querclously
inquired, "What ails you folks" and
began talking in q low tone to the
President,
| The committee to call on the Water
Committee reported and that Council
was now in session and, weuld take ac-
tion on the subject.
The committee on resolutions here
returned and reported the following:
| At II meeting oJ the workingmen held this
evening at the City Hall.
1st. The following resolutions were adop
tod:
Be it resolved by this meeting here assemb
led, ask the question why Mr.. Pyle and his
committee and His Honor Mayor Whietely
cone to put between the workingman and
! his daily bread
81. Ind be iVarther RESOLVED, That Mayor
!. Whiteley. as executive officer of the city, to
take into consideration the fulfllment OF the
law made in Council last Friday evening.
: July LIST 1876.