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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03

The dissatisfaction among the opera
tive taiOrs of Boston with the present
organization Of the trade was made
manifest yesterday when 800 or more
crowded into Wells Memorial Hall and
applauded the several speakers, who
urged the thorough reorganization of
the trade and advised that an increase
III wages and reduction in the hours of
labor should be enforced. The meeting
was held for the purpose Of giving the
members Of the trade an opportunity to
publicly express their disapproval Of the
National Operators Union as now or
organized, and to denounce the actions
Of the so-calLed national secretary, John
Crowley, and his manipulation Of his
taiiOrs laDeI.
Every person who either directly or
indirectly condemned Mr.. Crowley or
condemned his removal from office was
heartily appIauded, So thoroughly con-
vinCed, however, were the 800 men and
women present that an independent or
ganizatiOn Of the trade was a necessity
that nearly all Of the time Of the meet
ing was employed in deylslng ways and
means for the reorganization Of the
craft, rather than in airing their
grievances against the secretary Of he
obnoxious national union.
Joseph Finn presided He introduc d
as the first speaker Mrs 5. ii. NJ rry field,
who advocated an eight hour work day
and other measures calculated TO benefit
the operative tailOrs. The speaker con
demned in unmed,ured terms the teue-
ment house system of manufacturing
clothing, and declared that such sy,. em
should be abolished wherever 1t existed.
The present competitive industrial sys-
lem, she declared, WAS injurious 10 the
masses of the people. and should be
suppiautrd by a cooperative common
wealth The change Of the industrial
system, she maintained. could only be
brought about by a thorough organize
iiuu Of the working people.
Henry Atrahams Of Cigar Makers
Union o. was the next speaker. lie
strongly urged the Reorganization of the
tailors, and declared that any per-on
whose 9th ial ac Is tended to disrupt the
tail0T9' organizations -hou j be- depO5ed
from office.
Other speakers followed in similar
strain. and, at the conclusion Of the
speaking. 1l3 men and women Joined the
Operative Tailora Onion, and long dis
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03

Chauncey NJ. Depew refuses to sink
the tracks Of the New York Central in
Buffalo and will therefore persist in
killing people at the many points where
his road crosses the busy streets of that
city, became lis municipal authorities
have granted to another railroad mon
opply the right 10 enter it.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03

| Rochester Shoemtkers and the ArChi-
tectUral Iron Workers gave so.
The Secretaries telegraphed 500 to
! Rochester on Sunday evening.
Ale and Porter Union No. requested
that as the Central Labor Unpn OF
Brooklyn had declared the c. l.. y. not
to be "A bona tide central body, all Mons
| represented therein and also in the c. l..
| +. should he ordered to withdraw.
| Endorsed. The same union desrfl the
! hiring of meeting room not connected
| with a beer saloon in which small lables
| could be placed for the delegates use
| and a separate place for the visitors
! This matter was laid over one week
! The same union I2r"rted that it had
elected a comauttee TO visit the Certral
Labor Union of hudson County, \. j.,
for the purpose of inducing IT. to
also change its name into thai Of
! County thus forming one Joint central
body Of New York, Brooklyn and New
! Jersey. The scheme had been en-
| Enthusiastically endorsed by the G.. /, u.
Of Hudson County. (Applause,) A
half barrel Of best Amber Ale had heen
donated to the Fair in behalf of the
WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE.
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N'trEe0' ioOn"uts' w. S'IiIo n,IS 'ulS low
ported that Meyer Jonasson & Co. had
| appealed to Sam. Gompers on bended
knee to settle the strike at his place and
| that Gompers had actually lnterfercd
ia r'i @v '''n,''o 'nit "',ao "a lio
! to refer to tho Arbitration Committea tn
| inves, igate and to be careful not 10
| allow any outside interference
Delegate Sanlal, in the name of the
| special committee appointed some time
ago to study and present a plan for the
| establishment of a strike fund, suo-
mtted the following, which was male
| the special order for Sunday, Janualy
2, 1891:
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| Whenever an organization rppsespntpd
in the Central Labor Federation shall
have exhausted all It's funds in the sup
port of Its striking or locked out mem
hers, 1t may apply to the SAID Fedora
ton for donation or for loan, as the
case may be. The application, together
with statement showing ~ the amount
! applied for, (|) the amount in the trea-
suTy OF lhe ~, ~ L. r. 10 .n tne creoit OF lt7
ool'uarlt} ruha, ana lo) me various
amounts IN "l,lGh =, tIie lnaJ1rlly ana fhihor
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OF ho1 less lilan WE'VE deleRatesh pro-
pose 70 appropriate Slla'l llillheu'aVrY
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03

The annual income Of the rural popu-
lation Of Europe is highs in France,
where it reaches the sum Of $l2j 80 per
capita. Next comes Denmark, with
$l2L2j; then England with Sll250.
Russia stands at the bottom Of the list
with $3.50.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03

Our pension legislation has already
yielded to the sharks and sharpers
known as pension attorneys" the snug
sum of $31 900, 900.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03

Handbills for the mass meeting to be
held on January ), 1891. are to be had at
Hail or at the Labor Lyceum,
and should be distributed at once.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03

The receipt of a sample copy of this
paper is an invitation to subscribe
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-03
BOST ON

mon ot-tarpt nteES vii Renew the
Battle for Eight hours on Sew Years
Day - he Operative Tailurs Kror-
ganiling; they Welcome u Socialist
speaker
Socialism, and its effect upon the
Wage,W0rSers, was discussed for several
hours at the meeting of Cigar Makers
Union 81 in Typo Hail last Sunday
morning.
The majority Of those present were Of
the opinion that the jfond of the labor
movement was socialistic, and that
labor organizations would be obliged to
work for the overthrow Of the present
industrial competitive system.
Officers were then elected.
Notwithstanding the defeat of the
Boston carpenters eight hour strike of
last spring, the carpenters Of Massachu-
srtjs have, in the many meeting, they
have held in the past six months, de-
cjded to continue the agitation. and
have urged their Boston hrethern to
make every possible effort to establish
the eight hour day during the building
season If 1891 1t is safe to say that
there is more interest in the eight.hour
movement among the entire building
trade than has obtained in any previous
year, There has not been a meeting of
any Of the various building trades orga-
nlHatiOns Of Boston during the past few
months thut the necessity of the reduC-
ton Of the hours Of labor to eight per
day has not been advocated by large
majority Of the members of these several
unions.
The union carpenters throughout the
state are working with might and main
to create such an interest In the eight
hour movement as to enable them to
keep their nOn'union fellow craftsmen
from seeking work in Boston during the
time that their brothers may be on strike
in 1891. The carpenters maintain that
they were defeated last season because
of the large number of their craft who
sought and obtained wor, in Boston dur
ing the strike. The members of the "a
local unions who were represented at a
meeting of the carpenters district coun-
cal in Temp" Hail, Saturday night nave
decided thayNthe council shall fire their
first eight hohr gun for the season of
1891 in fremont Temple on New Years
eve. w. j. Shields will preside. Z. }.
McGuire, general secretary Of the
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners, Rev. D. z, Bliss, Henry Austin
of the Fifth Nationalist Club, Harry
Lloyd and several other labor men of
prominence were invited to address the
meeting
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19
"TO-DAY, RELIGION

Having adopted the policy of present
ing each day some great topic of human
interest in full detail, the NEWS to-day
begins the publication of its regular
Monday page of church services in
this city by printing brief reports of DR..
Riggs jubilee services, of the Rev. Mr..
Anderson's sermon ON believing, of DR..
Horizons ON the permanence of Christian
precept, of the services in Congdon
Street Church, of the Rev. Anna Garlin
Spencer's pungent talk on the needs of
Providence, and others.
The News believes il part of its duty
as the journalistic representative of a
Christian community TO pay great atten-
ton TO the work of the churches, and it
will every Monday repeat today's expert
ment, if experiment that can be called,
of whose value and interest there can be
no manner of doubt,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19
AS TO PAwTUCKET.

The accurate and well-informed Provi-
dence correspondence of the Boston
Herald contained yesterday this refer
ence to the Pawtucket situation:
Pawtucket Republicans have always
claimed TO be the stalwarts of stalwarts
such thing as break on their part and
fealty 20 Democrat was too idiotic to be
considered even for a moment, but the
break has come, and in such a way that il
carries CONSERVATION with il. That such
men as Darling, Golf and Newell should
leave the party seems incredible that they
should place in nomination a Democrat
who did his best TO down the Republican
party when he was in the Legislature
seems suicidal.
The Herald goes on, as BELTS an Gin
dependent" paper, to argue cheerfully
that this three-cornered arrangement
means Democratic success and to hint
with ghoulish glee that similar three
or more cornered fight may soon be
waged in Providence.
We sincerely hope that this will not
be the case. Indeed, we are confident
from our own reports that it will not.
For Pawtucket Republican, on the eve
of Presidential election, to desert his
party and vote for whether
regular" or assistant ~ is like
striking the mother who bore him.
Most of them have too much sense, if
not Of gratitude, for this.
Which party, by its policy, makes
Pawtucket's busy wheels hum and sets
its buzzing machinery in motion-the
party II free trade or the party of pro-
ection
Republicans of Pawtucket, the habit
of voting the straight Republican ticket
at every opportunity is good habit for
YOU to cultivate.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

In his recent speech before the Young
Mems Republican club Mr.. Charles a.
Russell very neatly punctured the claim
of the Democrats, by showing that the
Mills bill proposed to reduce the revenue
by less than Si9,5OO.0OO while the Nc
Kinley bill had already in nine months
reduced the revenue Sl50i4.SSS. and
would reduce it by S6O,OOO,OOO before
the year is out
Mr. Russell however forgot 90 clll gt-
tention 10 the fact that az the time the
Mckinley hin was framed il was pro-
posed 10y the committee having il in
charge TO reduce the revenues by SG0.-
100000. Business men will do well to
bear this fact in mind when reading
theuretic vagaries about the tariff As
a matter Of fact this same Mckinley bill
Is the most scientifically drawn tariff act
that has ever been presented ~ Congress
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19
and its record thus far proves the truth
of the statement.
Ir HAS DONE IL.

The Mckinley tariff was enacted to
keep the American market for AIneri-
can laborers. II has done it.
The Mckinley bill sought to enhance
industrial prosperity. II has done it.
The Mckinley bill sought to maintain
the present high wages for the working
man. 1t has done it.
The Mckinley bill sought to reduce
the revenue of the government. 1t has
done it.
The Mckinley bill sought to reduce
the price of the necessities of life. 1t
has done it.
The Mckinley bill sought by reci-
procity TO increase our foreign trade. 1t
has done it.
While the Mugwump and Democrat
bemoan to each other the ruin caused by
Republican legislation, the country with
great strides marches forward to in
creased prosperity. The Mckinley bill
has done it.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19
The only Republican daily
Of the Republican Capital
Of a Republican State.
AS TO RECIPROCITY.

Let me further say that the reel.
procity clause has given ample market
for many barrels OF -four and many
pounds Of pork. Brazil some months
since entered into treaty by which
many American articles are admitted
free. Flour Is made free and pork is
admitted at q nominal duty. Cuba
and Porto Rico have reduced the duty
on -four from $3.50 barrel to 81
(which gives us the market), besides
putting nearly 100 articles Of Ameri-
can production on tho free list. San
Domingo hes made reciprocity
treaty with -four and pork upon the
free list, besides a large number of
other articles. Other treaties for reci-
prooity are in progress.-James G.
Blaine's Ohio Letter,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

either case he predicted ruin 10 our in
dustries and serious loss of work to
workingmen, and yet our industries
were never more prosperous than they
are to-day after Vae year of Nc
Kinley duties on the so-called
raw material. Their production was
never before SO great as to-day.
New industries are constantly starting
mp, and so far from decreasing our pro-
ductive capacity by exporting industries,
many foreign industries have been bod
lily imported into this country and mil
lions of dollars of foreign capital have
been invested here under the fostering
care OF our present tariff.
That anomalous creature, the pro-
fessedly Independent editor, who
shelters himself under the "Chinese
wall" for better protection against Cob
denite bribes, has profusely drawn upon
his elastic imagination and bewailed
the increase in the prices of all the
necessaries of life which the la
borer consumes, and yet there never
was time in the worlds history
when the necessities of life were so cheap
as they are to-day, There never was
time in this country's histry when the
laborer could buy with the wage of
days work so many goods for the adorn-
ment and comfort of home as he can to-
day after one years operation Of the
UBIQUITOUS Mckinley tariff"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19
LEARNING by ExpERIENcE.

A little over one year ago the McKin-
ley tariff law went into effect. 1t had
been passed in the face of an opposition
that was as unceasing in itEenergy as it
was unsound in its logic. Moreover, the
law has been enforced under such a
storm of misrepresentation and design
edly misleading criticism as to seriously
hinder the customs officials in its en-
forcement. Yet, in spite of all, it has
now shown some actual results which it
may be worth while to compare with
the predictions and assertions of its op-
ponents.
Even before the law went into effect
the calamity editor of the Democratic
press sought the oracle of his inspiration
in the theories of Roger @. Mills, the
representative of that great manufacture
ing centre, Corsicana, and predicted that
tin plate couldn't be made here. The
'Wel3h tin-plate makers sadly replied
that they feared it could. Then the
calamity editor asserted that it shouldn't
be made here, and the Mckinley bill
inserted tin-plate provision and re-
piled that it should. Finally this calam-
ity editor said it wouldn't be made here,
and the manufacturers have replied that
it would, and it is to-day being made of
American mined tin, ON American made
sheet iron, and by American labor.
One year ago the Anglo-American
Mugwump editor took his stand in Eng
land, and through his long-distance mon
ocle, adjusted by the hand of the Eng
lish manufacturer, saw in the Mckinley
bill Chinese wall built around this
country so high that imports would be
impossible, yet the value of the first ten
months imports under the Mckinley
bill are greater than those of the ten
months previous by over $91 100000.
This same Anglo-American, his brain
teeming with Cobdenite doctrines, took
his stand ON. the British owned stock
farms of the West and pitifully theorized
that because of the iniquitous Chinese
wall, which would destroy imports, we
could not export our cereals, provisions
and manufactured products, and yet
the fact remains that our exports over
or through this Chinese wall have been
greater by $40, 100000 than they were
during the ten months previous TO its
erection 10y the Republican party in Con-
gress.
The Hon. David A. Wells, who could
not persuade his own neighbors of the
accuracy of his theories, saw i'm this bill
a law for the favored few manufacture
ers, who would oppress their operatives
ny lowering wages ON the one hand and
raising prices of their products ON the
other. And yet there is not in this coun-
try to-day an industry wherein tho
wages have been lowered during the
past year or the prices of whose products
have been raised.
Mr.. Citizen Cleveland. posing rs a
statuette representing the wage earners'
friend. foresaw in the absence of raw
materials In the Mckinley bill the sitting
of our industries at home. or their com
plcte transportation To- countries
where raw materials were free. In
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

THE Record is respectfully reminded
that it has no copyright on the
planks in the platform which a few of
the members of the Democracy adopted
with such flourish of trumpets on Fri
day evening; but those enthusiastic
gentlemen are TO be congratulated ON
beng able to know a good thing when
they sc it, even if it does come from a
Republican urce. They have unani-
mously adopted - their slogan" the
resolutions offered b. Alderman Dyer at
the last meeting of the Board of Alder
men. No objections are raised to their
advocacy of sound doctrines, but their
claim of originating them all cannot be
entertained.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19
THE OFFICE BOYS OBSERVATIONS

The political editor was a 'shearin' away
athis exchanges this mornin wen in come
some nice spruce gentleman an says one
of 'em You said Ruth was the only
woman Bible book was named after"
"No" says the political man 'Twas
the Newport NCrS said that saws he,
just rs perlite rs you please. Beats all
how perlite folks is here TO everybody
'cept the Office boy.
"Well" says the other man "You
quoted it an you said it was all right. an
faint all right, cause. there was Esther.
Have YOU got Bible here ?"
Then the political man e didn't know
what to say. Says be "Well, You see, this
is new office an we haven't much of a
brary yet
didn't hear what the other man said,
but afterwards they was bundle come
an he opened it an out come Bible with
red edges an real gay cover. HUH
Don't see why they didn't let him buy his
own Bibles. Nobody never offered me no
Bible, 'ceptin' my Sunday school teacher
onct. an she said she'd give me one II I'D
read il through An / read Is far s
som'er's into Exodus guess, an didn't
understan' half of it, an | jess made up
my min didn't want no Bible. | don c
see why old folks don't let boys pick out
the easy parts, il they want bows 90 rad
the Bible They was'one lot about bomer
an Javan an Dod'nim AT had awful
time with But those parts like crossin'
the Red Sea was fine, they wasl
Well. this hain't business. They's an
eight-page paper to-day. DO | get any
more showf Oh. YES dol OF course /
ruu 20 the Post Office every half hour, an
have twice rs many printers Co sweep
after an run errands Tor, an nobody
hain't invited me To WI ite no editor ais j
know thev's goin' 10 use more, too, cause
heard the political man say So,
Say, guess that poet IS dead, jess 8 !
tbonght Don't believe anybody will
mourn much. such rubbish never dia
see 4 All about Chepachet, au' Noon-
soket. nn'-Post Once Nhy, / went
only ten minntcs ago. not 20 40 asin'
tLo,,0b don't like this eight-pagc bust
ness. Ahh 0ffANA DVi'
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19


Not boastfully but gratefully, not with
,oud vaunting of its own achievements
but frankly acknowledging the recogni-
tion which has both spurred and re-
warded Its endeavors. the News makes
to-day its appearance in snewform.
Less than one month has passed since
fhe first number Of the paper was issued,
but the swift support accorded to it by
an Intelligent community enables us to
say of n what might sound like boasting
were we not careful to place the credit
where n belongs, That support has
filed its columns with advertisements
until its expansion became absolutely
essential. It has put II into thousands
Of homes In Providence, and made its
name q household word from Woon-
socket to Westerly. It has given MS
circulation already third among the
dailiss Of the State and crowding close
upon second place.
Yet we cannot quito yield mp to its
readers and Its advertisers all credit for
whst ths NHws has done, for that would
be wronging the faithful endeavors of
its employees and its owners to make it
what we think II is, clean, honest and
reliable paper, fiji for home reading and
free from political heresy. They and
wc have worked increasingly to that
end.
The NEWS speaks for the people. 1t
acknowledges no smaller olientage. 1t
upholds Republicanism because the Re-
publican party is the party Of the peo-
pie. It has no master but itself. 1t
win have none. AS the only Republican
daily Of the Republican capital of Re-
publican State, it will be satisfied with
nothing less than the highest form of
success, which is the highest usefulness.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

THE assignment of the order of the
Annual Friend and the mournful coun-
tenances of its members in Providence
are worth something as " frightful ex-
amples." Those who are so fortunate as
to be able to learn by others misfortunes
will perhaps understand better the wis
dom of caution in joining new orders
with queer names.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

IT begins to look very much as though
the " hullabaloo" raised by the Telegram
over what it is pleased to call "rotten-
ness" in ike manner of doing work and
awarding contracts, is for the purpose Of
diverting the attention of the public
from the record of some of its own
friends, which now seems to be becom-
ing unpleasantly prominent. Watch
the professor"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

The Flower that bloomed in the spring
Ira la
Gavo promise of go d an sunshine,
That made Tammany chuckle and sing
Ira In!
And prophesy spoils for the ring
Ira! lal
For keeping the "heelers" In line
For keeping the "heelers" In line.
But the blossom that droops in the fall
Alas!
Is very disconsolate Flower.
And Tammany's no chance at all.
Alas
For stealings both great and small
Alas!
For Fassett's the man of the hour
For Fassett's the man of the hour.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

1T is quite natural that they should be
talking about earthquakes in the West
just now. How deep does the earth
"quake" when nature shakes her crust
is one of the questions they are asking,
and mot above 900 feet is the favorite
answer.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-19

THE Boston Central Labor Union yes
terday refused to pass resolution calling
for restriction of immigration, but did
pass one calling for legislation to send
back undesirable immigrants. It's a
logical and sensible distinction.