National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-02-11
THE WoRKINeMANs ASSEMBLY,.
A Cold Shoulder TO Isaac Cohen--Other Mat
tera of interest

COld shoulder to Isaac Cohen-Other mat
tiers of interest.
The Workingmen's Assembly met last even
ing, Captain Il. b. Robinson in the chair and
j. +. Christian secretary.
The credentials of Messrs. J. w. Pryor w.
Cooper, and w. II. James as delegates from
Lincoln Ledge No. 1, Brotherhood of Labor
were read aud referred to the committee on
organization for examination.
communication was read from the Jour.
neymon Soft Stone. Cutters Association, stat
ing that they intended recognizing andwould
send delegates to the Assembly.
The chair stated that he had visited the Cap
itol and conferred with members of the Com
mittee on Education and Labor, and ascer-
tanned that 1t would be impossible to accom-
plish anything looking to the establishment of
a National Bureau Of Labor Statistics during
the present session.
COHEN DENIED ADMISSION.
Mr.. Hamilton read the following report from
the committee on organization upon tho ere
dentials of Isaac Cohen as delegate from the
Brotherhood of Labor:
We, the majority of the committee on organiza-
ton, having had under consideration the ere.
dentials of Isaac Cohen, from the Brotherhood of
Labor, have agreed to report adversely thereon for
First-It IS a wollknown fact that Isaac Cohen
made application to become a member of the AS.
sembly about year ago aud was refused admis.
sion upon good and sufficient reasons. After his
rultlcss attempt he went upon the streets and
gregatod together few of the lowest class of col
ored people and made speeches and excited them
TO riot, and bl0ckguarded the Assembly and every
body connected with IT, Aud finally he made
himself so obnoxious TO the public that he had to
be suppressed and was finally arrested and placed
in jan
only seeking TO make his living of the poor, igno
ppNfp1 fbRs Of Il.p a toe so
allow themselves TO be gulled by him,
Ihird--Thnt we want only men in this body who
can command the respect Of the citizens of tile Dis
trict, We want men who are willing 70 earn their
living honestly and conscientiously. We want no
parasites TO suck the life from this body. The mere
lact OF his coming here as Il delegate was only Il
cunnngly devised plan to crcetc diScord in the
Assembly by the enemies that have long been at
work to destroy its usefulness because they were
unable to use II in their own interest.
FouTth-Ihat his admission here will only result
in dissolution, US three of the solid unions will
withdraw rather than be associated with him.
For these reasons we have made the report ad-
versely aud ask the Assembly to adopt the follow.
ing:
from the Brotherhood OF Labor be returned to that
body, with instructions that If they desire TO be rep.
resented they must send some one who is Occcpta-
D,e to inc Assembly and can command the respect
oil society. J. p. UAMlLT0N.
b. q. MCDONALD.
+. l.. BARKER.
Messrs. Thomas Barker, Hamilton, Chris
tian, and Draney spoke in favor of adopting
the report of the committee aud Messrs.
Wclch, Schreiner Bell and Spier against it.
Upon being put to vote the report was
| adopted, with but two dissenting votes, and
| the credentials were ordered to be returned to
| the Brotherhood of Labor.
Mr. Mcdonald stated that the proposed
library and readng-room would probably be
open by the lst of April. Hon. A. r. Shep'
| herd aud other gentlemen had donated num-
| her a valuable honle mud ha yrnnlI
be forthcoming when necessary.
Letters were read from the Miners Union,
| Of Nanticoke, Pa; the Workngmen's Union,
Of indianapolis, Ind, and the Moulders' Union,
of New Albany, Ind, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of the circular Of the Assembly relative
| TO proposed labor congress, to be held in this
city, aud expressing their intention of sending
| delegates, If the congress should be decided
advisable.
| DISTRICT DELEGATE IN CONGRESS.
| The next business in order was the consider
| alton of the resolution offered by Mr.. Thomas
at the last meeting of the Assembly declaring
that the District Of Columbia was entitled ia
Delegate in the United States Congress tC
| look after its interests
Messrs. Thomas, Barker, and Boron discussed
the subject at length, after which it was put
upon its passage and adopted.
| Mr.. Mcdonald sent to the secretary's tabl,
and had read an article in The REPUBLICAN
relative to employing paupers at the work
house, which was referred to the Judiciary
| committee.
A request that Cohen he allowed ten minute!
to vndicato himself was promptly voted down
Mr. Crancy made u motion, which was car
i ricd that a committee of three be appointed t
wait ON the Commissioners and request then
to pay $3.50 per day to every man employed il
filing up the old canal. Messrs. Craney
Sohreiner aud Mccarthy were appointed u
the committee to look after the subject.
The Assembly then went into executive ses
sim