The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-24
THE LABOR UNIONS
Ben Butterworth Assails
Them Bitterly.
CONGRESSMAN suRsEsIs DEAD
The Appropriations Committee
Favers Lib<raiisy in Arid
Land Matters.

wAsHEssTox, Ian. 21-The house wen;
into committee of the whole % the sanirs
esyif bill Lzwks OF IiIi1oss offered ar
amendment spprDpriatfng <J0.no0 Tor NJ,
pairs and preserving the eussonhouse al
Chicago Agreed to-
Iardes OF Iillgois moved 10 strike ont the
clause OF the bill prosidfng for the sSe oI
steam presses in the bureau ss engraving
and printing. for hich royalty shall b
paid not exceeding l cent Per thousand
Impressions A long discussion easusd .s
10 the relative merits of hand-presS are:
stean-press werk. during Which Russev-
worth szsd the organization of hard
plate printers had declared war afo1
the sEeaEa machines and had sisstermsne 3
that they shouia so. II they onght TO &c
on their merits, lei sA<m go but II thew
ought not to 60 on their merits the fact
that these gentlemen desired shem 70 10
was not the slightest reason for putting
them oat- He h&d beea told that the men
who worked on the steam presses were
hissed and annoyed while going TO aud
from work by the hand printers. IL this
we're true the secretary OF the treasury and
she superintendent of the bureau ought 10
be isapeaclIed fyr net vindieating the right
els man Ia this cocntry 10 earn his hread.
A eGmmitfee lad been appointed by the
house TO look into the character of the
work of the steam presses, and he was sol
icitous 70 know whether the witnesses tes-
tiled as they woasd have testified had IL
not been fer the reign of terror established
In the bureau. II such reign had been es-
tablsshed
Quite colloquy ensued asfwesn Brsser-
worth. Foran of Ohio and ra-quhar OF
New York, in which the latter spoke for
the organized mechanics OF the la1d. who
hal, he said. been the men who bsftsesi
and kept UP the industries of the country
Bufserworfh said he approved combiua-
tionS of labor, bat he did not appr owe
force being used TO exclude any American
from any walk In life or calling 1t was
eyes To the fact that some OF those organi-
zatioRs starved widows and orphans Into
com piiance with their behesfs He had
not suggested that the Knights of Labor
were opposed TO the introduction
of labor-saving machinery, bat he
knew sometimes misguided men. uu-
der the belief that IL was against their
interest, had protested aud had used sio-
lence against their introduction. All he
insisted upon was that the members shoaId
stand by their deliberate judgment. susi
Hot yield 10 the suggestion that Ii would
shorten their political life to do so. de
denied the right OF an association 20 say to
q boy that be should not learn trade of
his father. Against that right he in-
Weighed. 80 long as hucksteripg politicians
yielded 10 trade winds SCI in motion here
os there, Just so long would free iustitu-
tions be in danger, not because men did
not know better. but because they had not
courage TO do better. If this house had done
its duty, the children of the men who had
made and kept the republic would not be
crowded out OF employment by shiploads
of lazxaroni from Europe who landed daily
on our shores. An immigrant should bring
energy, thought, some money, moral make
up and manhood. bat we were having
thrown upon our shores every hour men
who represented nothing upon God s earth
except an appetite, STOMACH and an ali
menfary canal. Neither house of congress
had dared in the presence of political
necessity TO stand by the hemes of the
country. He hoped this congress would
do so before the session was over, but he
protested that no association in the world
bad right to punish him and starye him
70 death because be hired this mau or that
Grain of Texas said he was surprised 10
see the stand taken by the distinguished
representative or the Republican party,
which had posed rs the friend and cham
pion of the iaoofing men, because they
had done what capital had d0ne-organ-
lied themselves for protection. 1t was by
organization that they compelled their en-
ployers TO pay the rate of wages they de-
mand and were able 10 obtain the present
rates.
Farquhar offered an amendment that
none of the money appropriated should be
used in repair of the steam presses: aud
White OF New York an amendment offer.
ing royalty at 81 per thousand impres
sions.
Pending vote on any amendment the
committee rose and the house adjourned,