The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-27
CLEVELAND AND LABOR.
Why the Workingmen Mean to Vote
for Him-Twenty-four Reasons.


New YORK, Aug. 5.-The working
mems general committee, composed of
representatives of all organized labor in
this city, have ordered printed 1000 900
circulars for distribution among the
trades unions of the country, giving
twenty-four reasons why laboring and
workingmen should vote for Cleveland.
The following is copy of their circu-
lar:
First we will vote for Cleveland
because he signed, on June 4. 1884, the
bill which abolishes child labor in all
the Institutions of this state
Second-we will vote for him because
he signed the bill which reduced the
exorbitant fees of one of the greatest
monopolies in the country, namely:
The association of New York Pilots.
who are paid by direct tax on com,
merce. They are rich men, and their
fees are from $4,000 to 5000 for each
man for every year. He reduced them
to 81, 500.
Third-we will vote for him because
he signed the bill which secures a pension
to the widows and orphans of policemen.
One section Of the bill provides for
testing boilers, and thus adds to the
safety OF every working engineer.
Fourth-we will vote for him because
by vetoing the elevated railroad fare bill
he set an example to all EMPLOYERS of
honest dealing with laboring men, and
showed the need of keeping bargain
fair and square with every man.
Fifth-We will vote for him because he
signed the bill which authorized the
spending of two millions of dollars for
additional common schools in New
York.
Sixth-we will vote for him because
he appointed on the very day the bill
passed, g head OF the bureau of labor.
The bureau Of labor did much to
awaken the interest that resulted in the
abolition of convict contract labor.
SevCnth-we will vote for him because
he would not sign bill which would
have reduced the wages of cardriverS
and conductors one-third.
| Eighth-we will vote for him because
he would not sign bill which took away
the rights of workingmen. This was
called mechanics lien law but actually
| benefited contractors and not the men
who worked with their hands on q lob.
1t made it cost ten times as much for a
poor man to get the money due him as
! it does now, and the lawyers would have
gotten big fees and been chiefly bene-
fitted.
Ninth-we will vote for him because
he made the Republican legislature take
| back bill which only went half wav.
and compelled them to passa bill which
he at once signed, aboIishing convict
labor in every institution-state, county,
and city.
Tenth-we viii vote for him because
he appointed a railroad commission.
| which, by what il has made railroad
corporations do, has made travelling on
the cars safer and more comfortable for
every man, woman, and child.
Eleventh-we will vote for him because
he signed two bills abolishing tenement
house cigar making and so gave health
and enjoyment of homes to thousands.
Twelfth-we will vote for him because
he signed a bill making workingmen
| first creditors for wages when an en-
ployer fails.
Thirteenth we will vote for him
because he signed bill appointing a
tenement house commission, which is TO
| report how tenement houses can be made
more healthful and comfortable. This
will benefit hundreds OF thousands of
men who work all day, and especially
add to the happiness OF their wives and
children.
Fourteenth we will vote for him
because he signed the bill which did away
with the manufacture of hats in state
! prisons. The bill ended a convict COM
petition which had thrown hundreds of
honest worhingmen out of employment
| Fifteenth = we will vote for him
because he signed the emigrant commits
sion bill; the provisions of which pro-
tected emigrants from robbery, injustice
and extortion.
Sixteenth = we will vote for him
because he signed the bill limiting the
charges of pawn-brokers, and preventing
che sale OF a poor mans furniture.
Seventeenth-we will vote for him
because he signed the bill which gave
the people a chance to speak their opin-
ion OF convict contract labor, The
people having spoken he signed at once
the bill which carried out their wishes.
Eighteenth-we will vote for him
because he signed the bill that saving
banks should be more carefully ex-
amined, and so the savings of laboring
men and women should be kept safe.
Nineteenth-we viii vote for him
because he signed the law to give pure
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the sale OF watered milk.
Twentieth = we will vote for him
because he recommended again and
again q large appropriation for the
employment of men on the new capitol,
which appropriation was refused by a
Republican legislature, which in refusing
to appropriate money has made it neces-
sary to discharge hundreds OF men.
There is plenty OF work but no money
to pay for it.
Twenty-frst-we will vote for him
because he signed two bills, one in 1888,
and one in 1884, TO prevent cruel snd
unjust treatment of children.
Twenty-second-we will vote for him
because he signed the bill which largely
reduced the fees of receivers of corpora
tons and saved the money Tor the people
to whom it belonged.
Twenty-third-we will vote for him
because he signed the bill which com
PEELED insurance companies to keep their
promises and to protect the widows and
orphans of men who had paid their
money to be insured
Twenty-fourth-we will vote and work
for him because he has done more for
the workingmen of the state of New York
than any governor we have ever had,
and because every act shows he has at
heart the true interest of the working
men.