The evening world., 1888-10-04
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enforce section 1888 of the New York Penal
Code, which reads; "A person who lets or
permits to be used Il building or portion OF a
building, knowing that II rs Intended to be
used for committing or maintaining n public
n%ulsance, is guilty of n mlsdg meanur.'
There need DC 40 cHsuistirul getting away
from this section, MS laws since passed by the
Legislature more especially those III 1887, fully
detail IN tho most specific language not only
the acts complained OF, but the remedies to
be applied.
We refer you to chapter "a of the New
York Laws of 1887, an act relating to public
interests" previous to that year and still most
shamcfully neglected. Tho duties of the
police and the health inspectors are thoro
clearly defined, as arc those of factory III
spoctors III chapter 4G2 of the same Laws of
1857, namely, An act to regulate employ
! ment of women and children III munufac-
turing establishments" NC.
1t Is needless TO tell You that the Central
; Labor Union recognizes the fact that mere
money fines AS Il punishment for the crimes
I committed by the rich tenement = house
sweating cigar manufacturer are worse than
useless.
We demand the imprisonment OF these
men according 10 law III order to remedy the
shameful abuses they have inauguratod and
! pcrpetuatcd. At present the law is powoiless
to make them pHy higher wages 10 their
slaves than they now dola out, and which. rs
the evidence before the Ford Committee
showed, were, in many cases, SO wretchcdly
insufficient for the maintenance of life that
widows employed in these factories had to
send their children out rs Migrants to obtain
enough to keep lie and soul together.
| But the Jaw Is not powerless as TO tie cigar
p~est-houseS rs you would suggest iii your let
ter of the 2lst inst.
If those at present running the govern
ment Of this state and city are not able to
carry out and do not understand the laws
which they are paid to see properly admins.
tered, II is high time that competent und
impartial citizens were put III their places.
The Central Labor Union may see to this,
however, in the future. For the present, it
demands Justice and the putting down OF the
Infamous conditions of existence under
which the poor house c~igar-makerS
are martyred and their little children
doomed to the slaughter of the mnocents."
VERY TART EroRr.
You have objected that labor organizations
" are not more ConsidcrUtU IN the use of Ian
guage when they desire official action to be
taken" We suppose Il burglar would, much
in the same way, object 10 a District AttOr-
ney'S lack of consideration when prosecuting
HIM.
No consideration has been shown the labor
organizations except those considerations
which capitalism always gains when it wants
its pound of flesh. The probability is that if
this State and city were to spend II few mill
ions less for urmories and militia and IA SIN
gle million or two for Libraries i'll the tene-
mCnt-house districts, there might he an
opportunity for the members of labor orgnni-
zatiors becoming acquainted with the writ
ings of La ltochefoucauld and Machlaveill,
and thereby acquire the Chesterheldlan airs
and graces of McAllister's -four hundred"
or rather four hundred and one" includ-
ing your intimate friend, His Grace the Duke
of Marlborough.
We are hard working citizens, saying what
we think in Il plain, blunt way. Otherwise
we might have run to the other extreme and
have taken the advice of your deceased
ather-in-luw, Peter Cooper, who recon-
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Industrial difficulties with Calling guns and
Winchester rifles. We are ~law-ablding citi-
Zcns. wanting the laws honestly carried out
without fear or favor, and VINO beileye III the
ballot to repeal had laws and to make good
ones that will ellectually suppress the hor;
rors OF tho sweating tenement factories and
other sins of capital against labor.
HORACE GEEELEY's BURNING WORDS.
These grievances have too long existed, and
we are not n bit better of now, and shall not
be whether under monopOlstlc protection or
capitulistic free trade, than the industrial
masses were III this city forty years ago, when
Horace Greeley told the printers of New York
city, at their celebration of Franklin's birth
day, on Jan. II, 1850:
"NhilC labor builds far moro sumptuous
mansions i'll our days than of old, furnishing
them far moro gorgeously and luxuriously,
the laborer who builds those mansions lives
oftenest i'll II squalld lodging than which the
builders uf palaces i'll the fifteenth century
can hardly have dwclt in more wrctchcd; and
tnat while the demands for labor, the uses of
labor, the efficiency of labor are multiplied
and extended on every side o. Ino rush of III
NCntlon and the groWth by luxury around us,
vet in the middle of the nineteenth Ccntury
call il the last year of the first half or the
first year of the last half, MS you please
labor is n drug III the market; that the tenn
perato, efficient, upright worker often finds
the comfortable maintenance and proper
} education of his children beyond his ability.
and that in this thriving emporium of the
new world, this trophy and PRIDE OF Christian
civilization, there are at thus day not less
than forty Thousand human beings anxious To
earn the bread Of honest industry, but vainly
! seeking and painfully, despalringly awaiting
opportunity for SO doing"
The Central Labor Union. with the cigar
sweating factory infamy before its eyes, par
tivularly calls your careful consideration to
this quotation. 1t would also like to have
two questions answered
First, will another forty years of the cruel
l fiXion OF labor he continued under such con-
ditionS rs those narrated by the founder of
the New York TribuHe?
And second, will Justice ever keep her head
turned way from organized labor, and VINO,
SO far rs the demands that the Central Labor
:, Union has made III relation to sweating tene.
ment factories are concerned, appears to he
i'll danger of beng throttled by official red
tape Yours respectfully,
ERNEST BONN.
Corresponding Secretary &. L. q.
202 East Fifty seventh street.
Scared Away.