Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
NEW TO POLITICS.
The Italians of New York Decide 20 Mako
an Attempt TO Defend Their Race
From What They Consider
Encroachments on


IN Attempt TO Defend Their Race
From What They Consider
Encroachments on
| Their Rights.
| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPATCH.l
NEW YORK, August 2.-Since James
Fitzsimons, of Ithe Eighteenth Assembly
district, got through the Board of Alder.
men in February last his resolution aimed
at the Italians of New York, and designed
to remove them from the street corners, oi
which they have now practical and profit.
able monopoly as fruit dealers, bootblacks
and paper vendors, there have been many
expressions of apprehension among the
Italians, and the constant shutting of unrest
in ihe Catanian colony.
=: The Board of Aldermen did not prove a
welcome one for the Italians, but they felt
encouraged in the thought that possibly the
storm against them would blow over. 1t has
| not blown over, but seems rather to be set
ting strongly in their direction, and as a
consequence they are going to hold at the
Germania Assembly rooms, in the Bowery,
tomorrow night, the first public mass meet
ing which the Italians of New York, as a
body, ever held here, to denounce the atti-
tude of their opponents and take such meas
ures as will lead to their organization in the
field of politics of the city
There will be great turning out, and if
the gossip OF the italian lodging houses is
to be believed, a very motley as we'll as
very discontented throng will be in attend
ance at the Germania Assembly rooms, in
response to the following call, which has
been circulated broadcast for a week in all
those parts of town where Italians are to be
found:
PROTEST
CALL FOR MASS MEETING,
To be held on Saturday night at the Germania
Assembly rooms. in defense of the Italian fruit
dealers of New York.
Call-At public meeting held last Saturday
BY the third division of the Laborers' Protect
i've Cnion of New York, at Curry's Central
Hall, resolution was adopted denouncing as
murderers and assassins honored and respected
Italians of this city, and accusing particularly
those fruit dealers who are Italians of such
otfenses. They concluded by ordering the boy
colt of all liquor stores, lager beer saloons and
restaurants which allow to Italians the priv
ilege of keeping corner stands in front of their
premises.
As it is our right to defend a class of honest
men composed in chief or in part of many of
our countrymen, and at the same time to de-
fend Justice (availing ourselves of the liberty
given by the laws of this country to hold pub
lie gathering) we call upon you to attend the
mass meeting. to protest against the resolu-
tons passed by the above named labor organi-
ton. This meeting you are particularly
requested to attend. Resolutions will
be adopted and copies of them communi-
Gated to the local American press. to
the labor societies. and to the municipal au-
thorities. If Giuseppe and Filippi Vergaro fruit
dealers in fight provoked by common thief,
did unfortunately kill this thief il is not
right, neither is it honest to accuse all fruit
dealers OF being capable of committing the
same crime (which crime was most likely CON-
mitted in self defense). Neither is it right or
1alr, that for the crime of one, thousands upon
thousands of peaceful citizens are to be held
responsible and deprived of honestly gaming
their livelihood as dealers.
III hate OF race, jealousy in business-preju-
dlces without principle-are raised against our
arrival land only year ago they wanted to ex-
ciude us from even landing in this country,
then they will succeed only in trying to thrust
out large and most respectable portion of the
Italian colony, with trouble and distress SO that
our colony must exercise its right to make its
voice heard with a calm and dignified protest
Italians! Saturday night no one must be ab-
sent. Saturday night every Italian must be at
the Germania Assembly rooms.
For some reason, which is not entirely
clear to those who have watched the con-
troversy from its outset, the Italians seem
to attribute all of the hostility shown to
them in New York and to their business
prospects here to the Irish residents of the
city and their organ. 1t is not yet known
whether the resolutions which are to be
adopted are to partake of the violent nature
OF these utterances, but in the interest of
midsummer tranquility, peace, and per-
sonal comfort, it is much to be hoped that
incendiary declarations may on both sides
be postponed, and warfare in two
languages thus averted