The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-31

Cleveland SLabor Record.
Why Honest and Intelligent
Workmen are Opposed to
the President
His Offensive Vetoes of Labor
Bills When Governor.
His Want of Sympathy With
American Labor as
President

The oficial acts Of Grover Cleveland,
while governor of New York, were so
VIGOROUSLY against the interests OF labor
ing men in the vetoing Of many import
ant measures, that the Workingmen's
Municipal Reform League of New York
city have determined that their fellow
laborers throughout the country shall be-
come acquainted with his record. and
have therefore issued a circular setting
forth eleven reasons why workingmen will
not vote for Cleveland. George Blair,
whose name is appended TO the circular,
was a State prison inspector when Cleve-
land was governor, and A. +. Smith, an
other signer, is eX-president OF a Demo
cratic club and first master workman of
the Eccentric Engineers Union. Follow
ing is the circular:
To the Workingn,en Of the United States:
"A circular embodying the following
poin is in opposition TO the candidacy Of
Grover Cleveland for President of the
United States was issued by the represent
alive workingmen of New York State, who
sent committee TO the Democratic con-
vention at Chicago, in 1884, for that pur-
pose. Eleven reasons why workin gmen
will not vote for Cleveland:
While Governor Of the State Of New
York he was opposed to the following
labor measures:
He vetoed the bill establishing Depart
ment of Labor, and making the secretary
of said department a Cabinet officer.
He vetoed the mechanic 's-lien law bill,
making the wages of yorkingmen engaged
IN the construction OF buildings a first
mortgage on the property.
He vetoed the life-and-limb bill, max
ing employers responsible for accidents
happening from imperfect machinery or
inferior construction of buildings
He vetoed the tenement house cigar
bill, forbidding the manufacturing of
cigars In a tenement-house.
He vetoed the bill compelling the ele
waited railroads of New York city TO
charge only five cents fare.
He vetoed the printers bill requiring
all the State printing to be done by union
workmen.
He vetoed the bill making ten hours
legal days work for all street-car en-
ployes.
He vetoed the bill abolishing convict
when submitted to the popular vote Of
the people, was carried by . majority Of
10000.
He vetoed the child labor bill, providing
for the inspection Of factories where chill
dren were employed, and prohibiting the
employment Of children under fourteen
years of age.
tionary engineers Of New York city to pay
a tax Of 81 per year to the police pension
fund or be debarred from following their
vocation.
He signed the Oil reducing the fees Of
the New York harbor pilots, which bill
benefited only che foreign steamer monop-
olies. GEORGE BLAIR,
Chairman Picking Bon Makers.
A. +. SMITH,
6seyuayy Stationary Engineers. I"
Since the expiration Of his term Is Gov
ernor, the hve-cent fair II fact. All the
other measures which he vetoed have been
passed and are In operation. The engin-
GERS tar bill, after being in operation one
year, has been repealed. Brothers, with
this record, not Of public utterances, but
man TO run over US for another four years
in the interests Of monopoly and foreign
syndicatest
A. Fl. GALLIHuB,
Chairman Workingrsen's Municipal Re
form League Of NsU York.
ENGLISH BLANKETs FOR AMERICAN
Since becoming President, Mr.. Cleve-
land has shown his want of sympathy
with American labor by sending money TO
England to purchase blankets for the army,
when he could have obtained blankets of
American manufacture at q cost only
slightly In advance Of the
English price. Later, when Ameri-
can laborers were contributing from
their wages to aid the yellow fever suffer
ers In Florida another collection OF Eng
lsh blankets was obtained for the Marine
hospital service and sent to Florida for
the use of the sufferers.
CONVICT WAGONS FOR THE INDIANS.
But II there is one act above another
that should cause the laboringmen Of the
country to put their feet down upon the
neck of President Cleveland's admins
tration IL is the one which
Senator Teller Of Colorado exposed
in the United States Senate on the 18th OF
October, 1885, Senator Teller showed tina,
under Indian Commissioner Atkins con-
tracts were given for hundreds and hun
dreds Of road and farm wagons to Cherry
Morrow & Co., Nashville, lessees Of the
convict labor for the state of Tennessee
that on Feb. % last year President Cleve.
land made a pocket veto Of the bill which
prohibited the purchase by the government,
of any kind of convict-made goods, aud
very soon afterward an order was given to
Cherry, Morrow d. Co. for 400 of Their
wagons, made by the penitentiary con
victs, and intended for and used In the
Indian territory. There were subse
quently other large orders given by gov
eminent officers for these wagons
Whether the President made poke,
veto Of the bill making IL crime
10 use for the government convict-mads
goods with an eye to these very contract.
Is conjectural. This what Senator Teller
wants investigated, but the infamous par
of this business, In connection with the
interests of the laboring man, is tie fact
that these contracts were made in compe
tition with others who employed union
labor, the Studebaker wagon works o.
South Bend, Ind, for instance. Tn,
lessees Of the Tennessee convicts pay
about twenty-five cents q day per man fo
their work, while the Studebak re- pa,
from $50 TO 50 . day. The law rovide
that the contract shall be let Ito the low
est and best bidder" President CLEVELAND
has, by his various acts, including hi
pocket veto of the bill mentioned. SAIL
that the convict bid was not only the low
est, but the best. Is this not an insult u
honest laborf
MAKING SOLDIERS WIDOW A PAuPHR
As further evidence OF Grover Clsvs
lands love for American labor and for tn
soldier, the Labor Unionist vouches 70
the following;
Rachel Hughes, the widow of q Unio
soldier, used to wash towels for the Whit
House before the Cleveland regime. Ate
his election Grover Cleveland had tn
White House washing let out on contract