Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-09-02
Cleveland and Labor.

Cleveland and Labor.
THE REASONS WHY woRKINGMEN SHOULD
VOTE FOR HIM-A CLEAR STATEMENT OF
THE CASE.
COLUMBUS, August 17.-The Catholic
Columbian prints the following:
At meeting of workingmen held in
New York it was decided to circulate 100,-
900 copies of the following:
Twenty-four reasons why we, as work
ingmen, will vote and work for Cleveland
First. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed on June 4, 1884, the bill
which aDolishes child labor in all the insti-
buttons in this State.
Second. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill which reduced the
exorbitant fees of one of the greatest mo-
nopolies of the country-namely, the Asso-
citation of New York Pilots, who are paid
by direct tax on commerce. They are rich
men, and their fees were from 81, 1000 to
$4,000 for each man every year. Cleveland
reduced them to So, 800
Third. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill which secures a
pension to the widows and orphans of po-
lcemen. One section of the bill provides
for testing boilers, and thus adds to the
safety of every working engineer.
Fourth. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause by vetoing the elevated fare bill he
set an example to all employers of honest
dealing with laboring-men, and showed the
need of keeping bargain fair and equal
with every man.
Fifth. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill authorizing the
spending of So, 600, 900 for additional com
mon schools in New York.
Sixth. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he appointed on the very day the bill
passed head of the Bureau of Labor.
This Bureau of Labor did much to
awaken the interest that resulted in the
abolition of convict contract labor.
Seventh. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he would not sign bill which would
reduce the car-drivers and conductors one
third.
Eighth. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he would not sign a bill which took
away the rights of a wOrkingman. This
was called a mechanics lien, but actually
benefited contractors and not the men who
worked with their hands on job.
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 could have got
big fees and have been chiefly benefited.
Ninth. We will vote for Cleveland be.
cause he made a Republican Legislature
take back a bill that only went half way
and compelled them to pass bill, which
he at once signed, abolishing convict con-
tract labor in every institution.
Tenth. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he appointed a railroad commission
which, by what it has made railroad cor
porations do, has made travelling on cars
safer and more comfortable for every man,
woman, and child.
Eleventh. We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed two bills abolishing ten
ement-house cigar-making, and so gives
health and enjoyment of home to thou
sands.
Twelfth. We will vote for Cleveland be
cause he signed a bill making workingmer
first creditors for wages where an employer
fails.
Thirteenth. We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the bill appointing ten.
ement-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 Cleveland
because he signed the bill which did away
with the manufacture of hats in State priS
Ons
This bill ended contract competition
which had thrown hundreds of working
men out of employment.
Fifteenth. We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the emigration commits
sion bill, the provisions of which protected
emigrants from robbery, injustice, and ex-
tortion.
Sixteenth We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the bill limiting the
charges of pawnbrokers and preventing the
sale of poor mems furniture.
Seventeenth. We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the bill which gave the
people chance to speak their opinion OF
convict contract labor. The people having
spoken, he signed at once the bill which
carried out their wishes.
Nineteenth. We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the law to give pure but
ter and cheese, and also to prevent the sale
of watered milk.
Twentieth. We will vote for Clevelan
because he recommended again large ap
preparation for the employment of men on
the new capitol, which appropriation was
refused by the Republican Legislature.
This action of the Republican Legislature
in refusing to appropriate money has made
it necessary to discharge hundreds of men.
There is plenty of work, but no money to
pay for it.
Twenty-frst. We will vote for Clevland
because he signed two bills, one in 1883 and
one in 1884, to prevent cruel and unjust
treatment of children.
Twenty We will vote tor Cleve-
land because he signed the bill which large
ly reduced the fees of receivers of corpora
tions, and saved the money for the people
to whom it belonged.
Twenty third. We will vote for Cleve
land because he signed the bill which com.
PEELED insurance companies to keep theil
promises, and so protected the widows and
orphans of men who had paid their money
to be insured.
Thenty-fourth. We will vote and work
for Cleveland because he has done more fol
the workingmen of the State of New York
than any Governor we have ever had; be,
cause every act shows he has at heart the
true-interest of the workingmen.