Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-06

extent of the procession and mass meeting ex-
ceeded the expectations of the managers. The
time set for the procession to form on Louisi-
ana avenue, in the neighborhood of the CITY
Hall, was seven O'Clock, but it was nearly
eight before the various unions began to ar.
rive. There were many people gathered about
the place waiting for the procession to form.
IL was soon apparent that the demonstration
was to be one OF workingmen, as the OrganiZa-
lions generally allowed no boys in the line. 1t
was long past eight O'Clock when the order to
mareh was given by the chief marshal, Mr.. j.
r. GARRISON, and. amid the cheers of the spec
tat0rS- the line, lighted up with calcium lights,
with music playing, proceeded over the route
puDlshed In The STAR OF Monday.
The Procession.
The procession was in the following order
Detail OF police: chief marshal, John F. Clark
son aids, Charles Danenhower, G. T. E. Tay-
lor, w. Evans and j. M. Padgett.
First Btrision-JOhn l. Hall. marshal Trans
parency on wagon inscribed Clear the way
the people are out tO-night;'' when the ser
sats Of the people strive to become masters
work, Carriages containing George +,
Mcneil. of Boston, President Of the Inter
national Union; RICHARD Emmons, President
J. p; Hamilton, Dr. Thomas. and others.
DOnchs Band. WOrkingmen's Assembly. with
transparency inscribed The National Work.
lIH ing Assembly, organized October 7th,
classes must be achieved by the wOrkngmen
themselves" BrickIayers' Union, wi h the
lolIoiwlng inscriptions on their transpa
Make employers liable for accidents;' In
du3trial apprentice law Free Justice in our
courts" Carpenters UniOn-mottoes: what
IS Communist? S. for a correct answer"
I'VE. ask for nothing but what is right and
nothing wrong" Journeymen Carpenters and
JoinerS-',ln unity there is strength = Gap
ltai and labor are twin brothers; - ''All com
r, Second Dtuision-N. T. Plass, marshal
Columbia Typographical Union, No. lOl
JGnrneymen Tailors'. Union, with notices:
to branch agencies German Workingmca's
UniOn-"A normal working day. "Workmen
cut loose from democrats and republicans;
Organization
Third Dirision-John Fuller. marshal
Washington Drum Corps. PressmenS Union
WIN WIN m3 hIiSi,d While we I've let US live,
NO bogus memorials" Fainter rP0p un a"i
Plumbers and Gas Filters Union, with trans
parencies; Eight hours Prohibit the use
for a fair days work. BOOkbinders' Union,
with notices: Repeal the resumption act =
Honest days pay for an honest days work :
abolition of national banks
Fourth DirisiOn-Robert Kopp and Edward
HoWell Observation-Disclosures drum corps,
Il pieces; Amalgamated Mechanics and La,
t 60Iers % the District OF Columbia win mot
appropriations for the DistricS schools" "A
I fair days wages for a fair days work; p
ana harness Makers Union.
Fifth Dirisio7a-JOhn Christian. marshal
Repetns band, with Navy Yard employees.
IIanSparenc1es: mo contract work, I'VE
aSk Tor the shfni Of the
ring joy,m,, No communism, but fair GRANGE
at the ballot box" Eight hours legal day's
Nn,r Win no reduction Don't forget the
evasion, We challenge Johnny Roach and
the rest of mankind "Strike hard and tell
ing blows for yourselves" Our Secretary
, ever; IL right" : Employment the boon OF
The number Of men in the line was exceed
lngly difficult to determine, owing to the fact
that the organizations on the route had large
accesslons to their ranks On the march, but
without doubt when on Pennsylvania avenue
it was one of the largest living professions
ever seen in this city; certainly the largest
turnout OF WOrkingmen, fully 5000 of them
being in line. Along the line of march there
were displays of fireworks from TIE Washing
ton house, Geo. Drivers, the Washington
Light Infantry armOry, Chesapeake saloon
Schwing & ClarkeS and other places
AT THE RESIDENCE OF GENERAL BUTLER
the procession halted, and a committee con
sisting of s. c. Hunt j. p. Hamilton. and &.
Z. Taylor, waited upon the general and re-
queSted him TO make speech. He stated that
ne was under many obligations to the work
lngTen for this mark of their esteem, bat
owing to a severe cold he would be unable to
speak in the open air
~, before the procession returned to the City
Hal Hal the crowd had became impatient and sew
Shortly after 10 O'Clock the procession re-
turned, and soon the open space was den>eIv
packed, and 1t was found necessary to have
from both wings of the building
The Meeting at the East Wing
was called to order by Mr.. j. P. Hamilton. VINO.
in the course of his remarks, said a Senate
committee paid attention to a memorial of
seven men and threw aside one from over
hundred thousand working people.
NOTE OF WARNING
Mr.. Hamilton, continuing, said: They nav
can us Communists, agrarians, information
aliStS, or anything else they please; but We now
propose to assert our rights, and We dare
MAINTAIN them. We are not voluntarily idle
and helpless without bread 1t is the result of
class legislation for the few, and unless we are
specify relieved from this burden of hunger
that has so long held together our Lawmakers
and Wall street. l am no alarmist, but these
sentiments are only those that are embedded
fha sle neapi Oh every true Workngman Let
breadth OF this country! Let the echoes be
heard in every legislative assembly, and then,
IL not needed, apply the remedy"
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Mr.. E. L. Barker read the following list of
OfhcerS, and they were elected:
President-Richard EmmOnS
Vice Presidents--J. W.Reynolds, r. Ram
Heiderman, j. NJ. Padgett, Stephen Charlton.
VIM. Boston, Charles Davis, VIM KettIeman'
WE VIM. a ~ p ward Gh Fl d. Gaines, Robert E. Gill;
Secretaries E. l.. Barker and G. T. E.
Taylor.
RESOLUTIONS
were offered, and adopted amid cheers, "that
the safety of society depends upon the equaIi-
ty OF rights and opportunities of all its mem
berS, and whenever, from any cause, the free
dom of a part of the community is endanger-
ed, either in their political or economic rights.
1t behOOveS the people to devise methods by
which the uSurpatiOnS OF the powerful shall be
overthrow and the fullest freedom of the
humblest be maintained; that the political
rights OF a people are not more sacred than
their economic rights, and to prevent a class
from possessing all of the material advantages
OF progressive civilization is as much an act
OF tyranny as to prevent them from exercising
their rights of self-gOvernment that the vic.
tory over 'divine-right' rulership must be sup
plemented by victory over property-right
rulers, for there can be no government
OF the people, by the people, and for
the people where the many are depend
emf upon the few for an existence:
that the appeals and petitions of unemployed
and oppressed labor for aid and assistance at
the hands OF the government having failed to
meet that consideration which the necessities
OF the time demand, it is not strange that the
working classes, who constitute the strength
OF the natien, are becoming clamorous and
dissatisfied under the present abuses of class
legislation, and are awakening to proper
realization OF the Importance of organizing
their power into National Union League,
based upon a principle of equality and fraIer-
uity which will spPllra for them rooo1n;t;nn