The evening world., 1888-04-11
KEEP THE HALE HOLIDAY,
1T is THE PEOPLES RIGHT AND THEY
MUST HAVE 1T.
The Corporation Anxious 20 Get the ssnate
Bni Through che Asssmbly-Ths Peoples
Daty TO Admonish Their Representatives
Gov. Hill TO be Appealed TO rs the
Workers, Last Resort.

Workers' Last resort.
The Senate bill to limit the Saturday Half
Holiday law TO Saturdays in June, July,
August and September has not yet been acted
upon by the Assembly. There are several
repeal measures before the lower house md
one of them is for an absolute repeal of the
w~orkingmen's and w~orkingwomen's law.
The radical members of the Assembly, who
are opposed TO the interests and welfare of
honest and Woodworking ~toilers, favor the
absolute repeal bill, while there are other
enemies of the laboring people who wish to
concur with the Senate bill.
The several measures. therefore,, that strike
ut the Saturday Half Holiday law may result
in tangled legislation. and the Assemblymen
who are on the side of the toilers have a
chance, if they stick together, to postpone
indefinitely If not to defeat the iniquitous
attempt to rob the people of their Saturday
half holidays.
The corporation and monopolistic Senator'S
who rushed Senator Walkers enactment
through the upper house are very solicitous
regarding the fate of their pet meaHure in
the lower house. They wish the amendment
to go through the Assembly just as it was
If the Senate amendment is amended in
the Assembly in any way, shape or manner.
il will have to go back to the Senate. If the
Assembly should pass n bill of its own origin
alton q Joint conference committee would
probably be appointed.
The foes of the working people know this
and appreciate the danger that delay would
bring. Hence their anxiety that the Assem-
bly, should concur III the Senate amendment
to the Just law passed and signed i'll 1887.
Workingmen and workingwomen of New
York, Brooklyn. Albany, Troy, Syracuse,
Rochester, Utica. Buffalo and other large
cities and manufacturing towns should ut
1000 49, .n..a AIn A..,l N,,n tts
ring with the Senate amendment. Working
people of both sexes should communicate
their protests to the Assemblyman of their
district.
Each Assemblyman should be told that his
action and vote are being watched. II the
Democratic members should in n body OPP
pose the Senate amendment and have the
support of q dozen Republican member who
represent labor constituencies the Saturday
half holiday the year around would remain a
law.
If the Assembly should unfortunately con.
cur with the Senate's enactment the hard
working toilers would have to turn their
hopes to Gov. Hill. He signed the present
law less than q year ago, and before 1t was
introduced he favored just such q law in his
messages.
During the summer of 1887 he delivered q
series of addresses at county agricultural
fairs in which he spoke of the beneicent
effect of the Saturday Half Holiday law. The
friends of Gov. Hill are confident that hi
will not sign the compromise bill, which
gives the workingmen and workingwomel
only sixteen half holidays during the year.
The corporation Senators and Assembly
men started in to pass an absolute repea
measure, but The EVENING WORLD took VI
the fight of the people against the, repeal ant
the compromise amendment was the result
The sadsn1 Ev EN- .o wOnaD, howeEer, l. w1 stid mo mo
listed in the peoples fight for the people
right