The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-09-25
Serious Facts For LabOrins Men !!
SCHEMES OF THEIR BITTER
ENEMIES, THE DEMOCRATS!
CrOWding Ont WOrkmen With CQnViCt!

One OF the hardest hghtS Wn1cn Cne
Laboring Men Of this country have
been called upon to make in their own
interest, is the battle against the farm
ing out Of convict labor, and bring
ing such labor-by convicts fed and
clothed by the States in which it is
carried on in direct competition with
honest workingmen who have to
board and clothe themselves, and pay
taxes to feed and clothe these very con-
victs until they can be so brought into
competition.
In the State Of Georgia, the banner
Democratic State, Senator and Ex-
Governor Brown is one of the largest
contractors of convict labor in the
United States. In New York Re
republican Legislature abolished this
system. In Kentucky, which gave
Hancock over forty thousand majority
these convicts have until recent date
been employed only to work on pub
lie works. The Legislature Of that
State, however, by recent act, author
lied the employment of these convicts
MINING. A desperate fight has been
made against this by honest working
men, but the authorities Of this in
tensely Democratic State have pushed
the honest workingmen to the wall.
The Louisville Courier Journal has
been publishing this advertisement:
CONVICT LABOR TO HIRE.
As required by Section 13, Chapter
IS, Of the General Statutes, the under
signed Commissioners Of the Sinking
Fund. will on the 23d day Of Septem-
ber 1884, hire out to the highest and
best bidder, all Of the convict labor
required to be worked a0ithim the scaIIs
of the Kentucky Penitentiary to the
number of sac hundred, up to which
date bids are solicited, and will be re-
ceived.
They will also, on the same day in
pursuance of the provisions Of an act
Of the General Assembly, entitled "An
act to provide for the relief of the
Penitentiary," approved May 3, 1850,
and an act amendatory thereof, ap-
proved May 10, 1884. hire out TO the
highest and best bidder the labor Of
all iconvicts who may be in said Peni-
tentiary IN excess of SIC hundred, ex-
cept those convicted of murder, rape,
attempted rape or arson, or who have
a longer period than five years to serve
amounting at this date 553. to be en-
ployed upon public Vorks I'M Kentucky,
such as The construction and in1proue-
meat of railroads, canals, aoater-aoays,
sandleuees, and IN mining, up to which
date bids therefor will be received.
The undersigned reserve the right
to reject any and all bids, and upon
giving the lessee or hirer sixty days
written notice to withdraw from his
control as many able-bodied male con-
victs as may be proftably employed
IN vork upom branch prison, in
which event the lessee shall be releas-
ed from his obligation to pay the stip-
ulated price for the number so with
drawn, and also the right to require
the return Of the convicts working
without the walls Of the prison when
ever there shall be proviced rooms and
accommodations for them within the
present prison, or any branch prison
that may be erected. upon giving six
months written notice to the lessee
or lessees having such conyicts in
charge. }. PROCTOR KNOTT,
J. A. MCKENZIE,
P. W. HARDIN,
JAMES W. TATE,
FAYETTE HEWITT,
Commissioners Of Sinking Fund.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1884.
When the State Of Kentucky needs
any branch prisons, there will be no
honest mechanics employed-the work
will be done by convicts. If mason
or carpenter wants to work on such
buildings, he must get into the Peni-
tentiary first. And it will soon be
that the only hope of securing steady
work in the mines in that Democratic
stronghold, will be to become a con-
vic first.