Daily globe., 1878-08-07
MIXED SENSE AND NONSENSE.

New YORK. Aug. 6.-This being the last day
of the Congressional labor investigation COM
mittee, the attendance was unusually large.
Geo. E. McNeall president of the Interna-
tional Workingmen's union, residing in West
Somerville, Mass, was the first witness. The
whole difficulty, in his opinion, is in the wages
system of labor, in other words, that the
wages system and steam engine are contempo-
raneous, and that the productive power has ex-
ceeded tle power of consumption. He favored
an eight hour law throughout the country.
Mr.. Peck, of D anbury, Conn. followed. He
thought, instead of lending hun dreds of mil
lions of dollars to banks, the government
should lend some few hundred millions, free of
interest. to working men. He read long pc
tition to Congress- asking the government to
lend any man $4,000 to build a house with, the
amount to be paid back by installments
Mr.. Sellick for abolishing the United
States Senate, restricting the powers of Con-
gress and the President, for issuing $53 per
capita curtaiing home labor to six hours; and
allow no one outside OF a labor bureau to en-
ploy laborers
MIR. Kemp believed the cause OF depression
was the war over silver and currency, extrava-
gance caused by the cent. per cent. in1iction
and high protective tariff, all of which ought
to be remedied.
Mr.. Hewitt read the following questions
which the committee submit to the public:
The Congressional committee earnestly re-
quest the cooperation of the public in all sec
tions of the country in obtaining information
to aid in practical solution Of the important
question submitted to it. 1t especially invites
suggestions from representative men In all de-
partments of business. 1t proposes the follow
ing questions to employers of labor throughout
the country.
First--What were the selling prices of your
product 1850, and in each subsequent year
down to 1878 inclusive?
Second-What were the wages paid by you
in each of these years for labor employment?
Third--Where the persons furnishing infor-
nation willing to do so, the committee in
vites them to state the percentage OF profit
made by them in each of these years upon the
capital employed.
Fcurth-What were the wholesale and retail
prices OF leading articles Of family con-
sumption during each OF these years in your
vicinity?
Fifth-What is he difference, if any, be-
tween the rents of tenements occupied by
operatives i'll the years 1860 and 1878, in your
vicinity?
gixth-What was the comparative amount of
products OF your business, quantity and value,
in the years 1860 and 1878?
Seventh-State the comparative steadiness of
employment OF operatives between the years
1868 and 1878 inclusive.
The committee invites suggestions from
causes of the present depression of business,
and as to any special legislation which in their
opinion would tend to relieve the same.
The committee will hold it's next session in
the New York postctfice August 10th.
Henry D. Rothschild, clothing manufacturer,
thought the business still profitable, but the
percentage lower. He believed in ten hours
per day for laborers and workingmen generally.
The eight hour system was the cause of dissl-
patton. He would not give Il laborer time even
Mo- nl,nt ION, ,ant,r,
cry increased employment. If workingnen
saved their wages when work was plenty and
prices high they would not now suffer from
want. Mr.. Rothschilds remarks were received
with Kisses and cries, ''Get out
A Mr.. Schroeder advocated building homes
in the West for the unemployed.
Wm. Whiting said machinery was the curse
OF labor and should be crushed out. Hc would
also demonetize gold and silver.
Mr.. Harlan IL blue ribbon man, said the
present destitution was altogether due to rum
guzzling and beer swilling. Abolish all traffic
in liquor and beer and prosperity would return.
The committee then adjourned until August
Goth,
a KEARNEY DIfOyIATIoN.
BOSTON, Aug. 6.--The following resolutions
were adopted at the Kearney meeting Last
night:
WHEREAS, This republic instituted for the
avowed purpose of advancing and conserving
the interests of the masses, has been reduced to
plutocracy that employs the Republican and
Democratic parties in the perhdlous work OF
establishing thieving monopoies and class
privileges, that sap the blood of national in
dustries SC that it can be Tapped up by the
vampires Of capitals
AND WHEREAS, All laws enacted that not
in the direct interest of the producing and Ia
boring classes are crimes against the spirit ana
prosperity OF this republic, for which leglsla-
tors should be branded with the infamy OF
criminal imprisonment,
AND WHEREAS Infamous if not criminal
class legislation has been heaped upon the in
dustries of the nation by political parties until
the burden has become Il torture OF the masses
from which there is no escape except by unit
Ing the mutual interests OF the producing and
laboring people of all classes in such political
action as will give them their rightful control
of State and national legislation and the priti-
leges of which they have been plundered, and
thereby restore this government to the just
and lovely purposes for which it was instituted
by the patriot fathers; therefore be it
Resolyed. BY the citizens of Boston, in Fan
euil Hall assembled, that it is to the highest
and truest interests of industrial classes in
New England that they extend hearty, cordial
and united support to Dennis Kearney, the
great and efficient apostle of the laboring
classes of California, who comes among them
for the noble purpose of uniting them as ne
has united their brothers in his own State In
that political aCtlOn WHlCu ID heS0eSnhy W L.
store this government to the just and humane
principles for which it was Instituted, so that
the prosperity of this people may be recalled
and firmly established.
LOUISIANA DEMOCRACY.
BATON ROUGE, Aug. 6.-The Democratic State
conventions platform recommends the levee
system; calls for aid to the Pacific railroad ano
Brazilian steamship line; endorses the Nichols
Governments endorses the State funding law
and approves the fraud investigation by the
federal House. The resolutions favor the nex1
legislature calling constitutional convention
asserts that the interest OF the wealth produc
ing classes is the paramount interest," OF th'
neople of the United States; those whose labo
and enterprise produce wealth should De Sc
cured in it's enjoyment; expresses sympath,
for the laboring classes who have
heen thrown out of employment by tn
ruinous financial policy and unjust Legislator
of the Republican party, and pledges the Lem
ocratic party to reform these "loHS9 upo't -
ascendency to power.
Reso1.Yd That the Louisiana Democracy de
mands that the national banking system shonl.
be abolished and national bank notes retireo
and in lieu thereof that the United State
should issue an equal amount OF treasury notes
commonly known greenbacks: ana we ais
demand the unconditional repeal or laws I'm
nosino a tag upon the circulation OF Stat
banks.
ditional repeal of the resumption act an
are unalterably opposed to the ruinous polio
pursued by the Republican party whereby til
volume of currency has been contracted far b
low the business requirements or the count.