Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-06


cape, but of permitting no poor man to
escape, while wealthy criminals 90 scot
free nearly every time There Is one |
law for the proletarian, and another for
monopolst in your bailiwick. $3.50
The industrial conspiracy laws which |
the Central Labor Union is endeavoring |
to have repealed as tyranncal relics of
medieval barbarism, are ruthlessly put |
in force against wage-slaves who, upon
occasions, have been railroaded without |
shrift by District Attorneys, The law
for the rich is different. Even muir
derer, if a capitalist can not only escape
the hangman's moose after sentence OF
DEATH but governors, Judges. mayors
and statesmen partake Of his hospitality
and make his house their headquarters
SO with the wealthy scoundrels who
we now insist on having punished for
their inhuman deviltry towards their de-
pendent serfs They can buy justice
and thereby escape the prison their
crimes should have consigned them to
long ago.
The Central Labor Union, acting, at
the Mayors request, as corporation
Counsel to the Mayor and as District At
torney for the Tobacco Trades Section
| No. ?, demands that you Immediately
make the proper officials, under pam OF
removal from office. enforce Section
1928 of the Penal Code, which reads IA
person who lets or permits to be used
building, or portion of a building, know
ing that it is intended to be used for
committing or maintaining public nul-
sance, is guilty of misdemeanor,
There need be no casuistical getting
away from this section, as laws since
passed bv the Legislatures more espe
ciallv those in 1887, fully detail in the
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 more shamefully ne
elected. The duties of the police and
health inspectors are there clearly de
fined, as are those of factory inspectors
in Chapter 462 of the same Laws of
1887, namely, "An act to regulate en-
ployment of women and children i'll
manufacturing establishments, etc.
1t is needless to tell you that the Cen
trail Labor Union recognizes the fact
that mere money fines as a punishment
for the crimes committed by the rich
tenement house sweating cigar manu-
facturers are worse than useless
.. We demand the imprisonment of
, these men, according to law, in order to
remedy the shameful abuses they have
inaugurated and perpetuated. AT pres
5 ent the law is powerless to make them
) pay higher wages to their slaves than
they now dole out. and which, as the
,, evidence before the Ford Committee
: showed, was, in many cases, Sc
q, wretchedly insufficient for the malnte-
= nance of life that widows employed il
these factories had to send their chill
=, dren out as Migrants to obtain enough
> to keep life and soul together.
;. But the law is not pOwerless as to the
cigar pest houses, as you would sugges
in your letter of the 2lst inst.
If those at present running the gov
It eminent of this State and city are no
+ able to carry out and do not understand
b the laws which they are paid to SEE
u properly administered it is high time
= that competent and impartial men were
~ put in their places,
(, The Central Labor Union MAJ see tt
., this, however, in the future. For tn
y y present it demands justice and the put
% ting down of the infamous conditions 0
" existence under which the poor tene
y ment house cigarmakers are martyret
. and their little children doomed to eth
. slaughter of the innocents."
) You have objected that labor associa
tons 'are not more considerate in tn
use of language when they desire off
cal action to be taken" We suppose
burglar would, much in the same way
l. object to District Attorneys lack o
consideration when prosecuting him.
, No consideration has been shown tn
labor organizations, except those conslo
- erations which capitalism always give
O. when it wants its pound OF flesh. Tn
re probability is that if this State and cit
rs were to spend a few millions less TO
Ii armOries and militia, and a million @
n two for libraries in the tenement nous
district, there might be an opportunit
for the members of labor organization
becoming acquainted with the writing
of La Rochefoucauld and Machiavell
" and thereby acquire the Chestertieldia
y airs and graces of McAlisters ''fOu
- hundred" or rather -four hundred an
,rr | one, lncluulHp Spul lhlllhot0 - i'iAN
y His Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
! We are hard working citizens, sayln
e, what we think in a plain, blunt way
u Otherwise we might have run to I'll
81 other extreme, and have taken the az
u, vice of your deceased father-in, Law
u; III Peter Cooper, who recommended til
il Knights of Labor to settle their indu
10 trial difficulties with Calling guns an
Winchester rifles. We are law abldin
', citizens, wanting the laws carried GU
' without fear or favor, and who belleS
- in the ballot to repeal bad laws, and
make good ones that will etfectualI
snnnress the hnrrnrs of the sweatlr