The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-23

nave pleasure, happiness ana entertain
ment as well as toll. But you must go at
the correction of the wrongs as you are
now dong, IN quiet manner and not an
grlly. You must agitate, agitate, agitaUe,
ana you Will succeed in making the world
better
GOVERNOR THOMAS
was expected to address the meeting. The
following Letter from him was read:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 70, 1890.
james Devine, Esq:
DEAR SIR-Much to my regret I now find that
l VIII nave TO leave the city on Saturday morn
ing next, aud viii not be able TO meet with the
worklngmen in the era house
They nave my hearty sympathy in their efforts
10 accomplish the success of the eight hour
movement Very respectfully,
ARTHUR L. THOMAS.
MAJOR Brady
then interested the audience with scraps of
his own and others history in so much as
related TO the long hcW labor question and
low wages, concluding that it was the
Workngman's right to demand an eight
hours day. be eXpatiated upon the evil OF
allowing appetites to become the masters
OF men, especially the appetite for in
| toXlcating liquor. Thought the eight hour
day would tend to the breaking down of
tnat curse-the drinking habit-as the men
would nave more time TO the development
and improvement of their minds, they
would read the newspapers and books, and
become better posted on the questions of
the day, and would see to it that better
men would go to the legislative halls: we
would get better representation, fair play
and no fayorS.
Labor should be independent, and to be
independent the laborers must own their
homes. We never can expect labor to rise
and take its proper place until this is the
case. Keep at 1t and agitate until victory
comes.
MAJOR E. NJ. BYNoN
next spoke. This meeting to-day is one of
many that are being held throughout the
country. 1t is one OF three that have been
held here agitating the eight hour day
question-one on the Fourth of July last
one on the great labor day, the ID of Sep.
TENDER, and this on the 22d day of Febru-
airy, the birthday of the father of his
country, George Washington. 1t was
deemed that this would be an appropriate
day to hold this demonstration. ,Ve are
here not begging, but demanding that we
shall have fair and square division of the
profits Of labor
The demand determines the market-aud
who makes the demands upon the marke5,
but the laboring men of our country. De
e.
mand depends upon the condition of the
laboring men ana the wages they get de-
termine their condition.
Among all classes there is much human
selfshness. Capital is strong and takes
advantage of labor, and | have seen where
labor was strong, labor take ad-
vantage Of capital Capital is strong.
welded in the hands of one man; labor is
strong welded in the hands of many, but
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shape that it can be handled.
Organization Of labor in this territory is
practically but started, but this is the last
meeting we shall hold here for the pur-
pose we are now working for, viz to get an
eight hour day for our working men, be
cause after the first of May we viii take it.
all over the United States. We will re.
sort to no strikes or force of any kind. We
are disposed to be conservative and resort
hour day because it is just; it is as fair to
capital as it is to the labor, and the extra
time viii not be devoted to debauchery
In the city from which | hail, Pittsburg,
exists almost the headquarters of the
labor organization There we find public
reading rooms. smoking rooms. eUc, where
laborers congregate to ;scuss among them
selves the questions of tie day, compare
notes, etc. As j result of this the labor
ballots, or 10 DO anything Of a public nature
that is calculated TO benefit mankind
With the eight hour movement the general
tendency OF mankind is to divide time in
the way all philosophers say it should be
divided-one-third devoted to labor, one
third to study and recreation and the other
third to rest.
We want and must have an eight-hour
day. We do not intend to beg for it. but to
demand it,
+. B. o'BRIEN
Was next introduced After introduction
he said the expression "felloW working
men, had much music in il to his ears. NY
friends and brothers in a just cause, the in
| jury OF man who works eleven hours a
day is the injury of the man who works
SIX. Organized labor in Utah is as vet
only a SNOWFALL descending down the Alps
of labor that will terminate in an avalanche.
Why should we not be united as one! Our
cause is just, and conquer we must am
a stranger here but am from the Butte.
Montana, miners union. Omitted we
stand, divided we fall" is our motto. II
should be the motto that should actuate the
mind of every man who tolls for DAYS
wages. We are here to day to be practical
l despise the demagogue, but admire the
practical man.
The great issue to-day is not an issue of
ayarlce; 1t Is more noble. The golden rule
! do unto others as you would wish to be
done by. Look along the highways of his
tory and see the wrecks of mankind
strewn along the way, the result of mon
strous capital. My friends. it is an old
axiom that the gods help those who helr
themselves. Will you who are ordained
freemen help yourselves Do not whine
but stand up and demand that you have
rights as well as others and that you can
do an honest days work in eight hours
American brotherhood What grand
title! This is the country that makes
brothers of US all.
The speaker here related some of the
work that the labor organizations had done
in DISCRIMINATING the pig tailed Chinese. d
and some incidents that were received
well, and closed declaring that labor organ
izations should know no creed, nor party,
and should know but one thing, and that
was to do an honest days work and to
take recreation with their wives and fami-
lies. The family should have the company
OF the father, and ali men who are not
united on the eight-hour day movement de-
serves to be crushed by the monster cap
ltal- Give to capital fair days work for
a 1alr days wage, and the contract is hon.
orably filed. We must demand American
rights.
W. WEII.OCE