The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-06

NEW 1Ohht Aukubt '-4uv usuAL
number OF reformers Of labor appeared
before the Congressional Convention this
morning. Mr.. Hastings had tilt with
Mr.. Hewitt. He wouldn't make his
statements specific and was told to stand
aside. He then charged Hewitt with be-
ing hostile To him and said his treatment
was not just. e.-7 20
Mr.. Hewitt took occasion 70 say in
view Of an allegation Of Hastings that
he, Hewitt, was NOT 4 shareholder in any
bank and didn't import any foreign
goode. -. .-.,-
Mr.. Robb read long statement setting
forth the Importance Of the question un:
der consideration. He said God would
hold the committee responsible for every
hungry stomach and naked back In the
land. God says, aye shall not sell the
land forever" No man has a right to
give q title TO land. We have violated
The laws Of God, and fraud and perjury
prevail everywhere. There was great
deal more Of this kind oftalk intesspersed
with questions by the committee and the
Auditors were amused. 80. .
o'Grady, who represented the dry
goods saleamen and shoe trade, took the
stand TO read q statement, but the COM
mittee declined 10 hear him, as Il would
take TOO long, and o'Grady declined to
submit his brief statement, which would
take, two hoursto read. ..,..- g,
Maurice Cohen, formerly manufac.
turer 81 ailk cloaks, said that large man
ufactories had crowded him out, and
were crowding out all small dealers, and
he requested the committee TO attend TO
theae matters.' u E.ll!jCE .t't
Mr. Graham, Secretary OF the Work.
ingmen's Union, held that We don't de-
sire the outlaws Of the Old World to come
here and upset the government. He
didn't intend to denounce capital when
honestly accumulated, but denounced
railway. monopolies, and the raising OF
prices Of provisions, DC, by stock jobbing,
speculation, &c; reduce tariff and stop
sectional legislation, stop railroad jobs
and give the country the benefit. Oar
shipping has been driven off the seas by
foreign steamers. l would tar steamers
in favor of freight. .s...H
Mr.. Hewitt asked Mr.. Marshall, a
larga ship owner, to give his views. he
said that he did not want any protection
agains. steamers. He thought that the
removal Of taxes rs much rs possible,
consistently with the revenue necessities,
would revive trade, aud the abolition Of
prohibitory Law, preventing Americans
buying their vessels abroad, would re.
lieye chipping trade. J!-.'.. /,
/ The President Of the Cigar Makers
Union spoke Of the cause Of the depres.
sion 10 the cigar trade, only he said while
the number Of ciRars manufactured. stead.
lily increase, the condition Of cigar makers
got worse. In one month there were
four suicides, in New York, OF cigar
makers for the want Of work. Trouble
has been caused by the general govern.
ment by a system Of taxation which
throws the husiness into The hands Of the
large manufacturers. The firut cause Is
the introduction Of 5000 Coolies into the
trade in San Francisco. and in New York
the tenement house system caused the
ruin Of trade. Il is shame, the whole
family OF man, woman and children,
work day and night from four
teen 10 eighteen hours, and still
only make enough to live or rather starye
on. When the cigar makers struck for
wages the landlords, who were the manu-.
iacturers, turned one thousand wretched
families into the street. In tenement
houses the people get say tobacco for
| ], 900 cigars aud make eleven hundred out
OF il and they trade the extra one hun
dred to the butcher, grocer and baker and
pay no revenue on them. He asked that
the tenement house system be abolished
and that cigars be allowed to be made
only in factories. He was not opposed
to Cinnamon as rule, but he was opposed
10 the importation OF Chinese or any
other labor, under such system. He
didn't care how many Chinamen came to
this country or what wages they worked
for provided they were not imported o.
Coolies. he was opposed to the impor'
tation OF all labor by contract. s
There we're other and uninteresting,
addresses, and the committee adjourned
ill tomorrow. .41lJt,s, .,.-r,, -.,rf