The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-02
THE DEMANDS OF LABORERS.
Beginning Of the Eight-Hour Agitation
Among indianapolis Workingmen.
The Mass-Meeting Addressed by Trevellick
Last Night-The Demands Made Yester-
day by Employees of Several Firms.
EAST NIGHTS MEETING.
Orator TrevaIlick Addresses the Laboring Men
on the Impending Questions.

Orator Trevallick Addresses the Labortng Men
on the Impending Questions.
Richard T. Trevelick spoke last night at Turner
Hail, to an audience numbering about four hundred
ard fifty persons. L. H. McClellaEd chairman Of
ne meeting. AR. Trevellick on beginning to speak,
szsa: 1.-THE first thing want you to learn is the law
Of common sense. want you to quit smoking
He said in the discussion of question OF this char
asasr great deal of common sense is required We
TO look at the outcome of all this turmoil. Good
amsn. thinking men, to be driven almost to their
wt end to the leading to this condition of
things. and wonder what is to follow. Above all
things. keep down all undue excitement. Do what
Sses you do without passion prejudice and think
tssee before you act Some strange things are
ksking place. Sometimes of a summers day
or ia the evening the flies mosqui-
tces bite, and people say. "How
de flies bite, ''How the mosquitoes bite; there is
gang TO be storm" don't know why they should
hass thus before storm, but they do If you viii
look over the nations to-day you will find strange
things taking place. You will find in the government
Of Belgium turmoil and discomfort and troops sent to
hold IN check those known the Strikers We find
strikers in London taking possession of Trafalgar
sEaars. We find them in France. and certain els-
Esnt in Prussia at Leipsic, under the very of
Bismarck the labor element. controls in affairs They
aEU upon u.s. and there must be o cause
The speaker here described destructive thunder
Heorm-one that destroyed houses, cattle. and
hannah lives, but as 1t passed left the air pure
and wholesome. 1t was the storm that made life pos
shss TO DO endured God requires the thunder storm
Do purify the air. There is other land on this
planet so blessed by nature this but do not be-
ksxe" he said. s'that any other part has been 80
o1Esed by bitter ruthless. robbng legislation There
b no man IN indianapolis who will dare take that up
whiie am before them The papers viii bark whom
Gm gone bat they ours in the presence of men,"
Carroll d. Wright, Chief the Labor Bureau of Amer
locking for labor in vain this country. say, as
Xnighs Of Labor having access to more assemblies i
than any other man, that. in men. women, boys and
girls, there more than two millions looking for
work in vain. | am not speaking of those little
wretches whose fathers were born before them that
sy might smoke cigars and wear clothes, they could
not earna triune compound of pants shirt cellar and
cheek-but of those wanting to work. I assume that
tAe productive power of everyone who labors-men
and women, boys and girls-is equal to So q day. /
EN- speaking of productive power. not what each
0ves. Mr.. Blaine said that during the last twenty
Ex years there has been added TO the wealth of the
United States and Territories thirty thousand million
dollars of wealth in property. heard Mr.. Hendricks
my he thought Mr. Blaine correct. VIM Df
Kelley said he thought SO. Who added that wealth.
No power earth but intellectual and physical labor
combined Neither air. fire, earth is wealth.
They are elements created by nature for the of
and which he is given control. Wealth is
intellectual and physical labor applied the element
ssy principles of nature out of which are extracted
things of beauty, utility and art If what Mr. Blaine
sEd true then instead of the productive power Of
lkber being 81 day, combined with improved ma
chinery it is nearer So day. and not only feeds and
thes s but others who 10 do do not work and adds
ing it be So day, then if day is lost and
sn stand in the market place idle when the rises
and goes down the wealth that could have been pro-
daced has been lost with the day it means loss of
four million dollars That is frightfui. It means two
zAilion unemployed people Suppose million of
these men, and so per cent of these are mar
ricd. 1t means many thousands of boys driven by
hunger to commit crimes that lead to the penitentay
and to the gnllows It means girls as pure as yours
mine driven down the dark alley of crime from
whence, for women, there is rescue, resurrec
6On. How far that dark shadow will pass down the
avenues of time God alone can measure for man
not.
Take every mechanic, every miner, every laborer in
tsctory foundry. ON the railways all over this State.
scd each mans wages win not average $3.50 a year.
fake out lost time and sickness and so per cent of
tAese poor fellows who not mechanics will make
consists of five persons-father mother and three
children The father pays say, five or six dollars
month rent for house. The poor wife goes to the
Butcher twice q week for soupbone--a little meat q
chunk of gristle good deal of bone. 1t makes two
soups, two hashes and hash-magundi. Don't you
think If we could have beef that could consume
this 16 per cent of what we don't consume at home
We wouldn't want market then for that 16 per cent
of surplus
Some fellows pride themselves on fighting. Perhaps
ono of them could whip two of Well, mule
could denoish four of them. So to be the eighth of
mule would not be much. IF you fail to develop
your brains the bigger the animal for capital put
its saddle on. You must learn government, because
you part of it. Talk of overproduction and sew
anedQ
Of hunger. Wealth does not produce wealth. IF
loan money at 3 or 10 per cent it doesn't make
money. 1t just takes the other fellows money.
gay the government that permits the agent called
money whether In the issue of mortgages checks or
bonds to gather to itself for It's faster than labor
can make by its energies that governments fraud.
cheat and lie.
The speaker here addressing men at the door
remarked: "Beas quiet as you can young men. If
IDEAS At another place referring to the newspapers
OF which he appears to have special spite, he said
.The newspapers may shake their cocoanuts. 1t is
eocoanut 1t isn't head It's pimple. You
couldn't draw it to a head with poultice" He de-
nounced saloon keepers and took whack at LAWYERS
One of his most elegant expressions where speak
ing of politicians he said: II would like catch you
rightacross my knee, because then can reach your
brains the first lick"
where possible by committees, but showed how time
md again employers had struck their employees
and that the boycott had been used by employers
against such men as Daniel Mclaughlin, of Braid
wood and Terenes v. Powderly, of Scranton.
In concluding. he said that during the next fifteen
Or twenty days the knights would be passing Through
hood If strikes it will beyoung fellows who have
Just into the assembly and haven't got their eye
won't love to rush into trouble. It's because your
brains amt high enough up. To-day is the 1st of
May. Some who have looked for eight hours a day
won't got it some viii get nike but shorter hours for
american labor dates from to-day and you will see
cen hours days work disappear from the Ameri-
can continent. We are moving onward to save the
credit of this government by giving the unem-
ploysd labor and TO save bloodshed the unemployed
must be employed II is the unemployed whe concoct
evil We viii make the hours shorter and shorter if
necessary so that every unemployed man and woman
finds work. The paradise lost by mans disobedience
will be found by human intellect making tools the
Instruments of labor and man the master.
Mr. Trevelick viii speak this afternoon at o'clock
ct Mozart Hall, to the knights of Labor.
A OUICKLY-ENDED STRIKE.
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