Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-31
NAMED LABOR CANDIDATES.

The Citixenss Industrial Party Formally Or
ganized-M Men ~ Be Supported for Omce
without Respect to Party-One Quality
Necessary Resolutions Adopted.
The third meeting Of the Citizens Indus
trial party, held In Odd Fellows Hall,
Southside, yesterday afternoon, was the
best attended and most enthusiastic meet
ing yet held. Delegates from nearly all
labor organizations in the county were in
attendance. Politics was the chief subject
of discussion, and the movement started by
the American Flint Glass Workers has de-
veloped such strength that it promises to
have a marked effect on local politics. As
time was 20 short little effort was made to do
anything at the present election, but it Is
the intention to keep up the agitation and
get into working order for the spring cleo.
tionA The policy pursued is to support
none but labor candidates
A large part of the time yesterday was
taken up in indorsing certsin candidates
for the coming election. As the names were
mentioned, warm debates resulted. Many
expressed much hesitancy in taking any
step that would pledge the workmen en-
gagged In the movement to any definite plan
of action. The reason advanced was that
they had no time to prepare for fight, and
If their candidates were defeated it would
put quietus ON the movement, and dis
courage all hope for future efforts. John
A. Snee was not Endorsed, as he was not
q member of any labor union.
The following were officially indorsed
and every means is to be employed to secure
their election, being considered safe as labor
candidates: Jerry Doherty, Democrat, for
j. &ho r
Mcdonnell, Peoples party, for Congress in
the Twenty-second district; Jerome Agin,
Peoples party candidate, Twenty-fourth
Congressional district; Thomas Grundy,
Socialist-Labor candidate tor Congressman
at large; Patrick Joyce, Democrat, for As
sembly in the Fifth district; David Lynch,
Democrat, in the Sixth district; Gustav
Henning, Democrat, Fourth district, and
Rudolph Hunsicker in the Third district
The Executive Committee recommended
that permanent organization be effected,
which was adopted. It was decided to elect
the officers at the meeting to be held next
Sunday at the same place, but in the concert
hall The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted:
Recent events must have impressed all
reasonable men with the fact that the pres
ent system OF labor organization alone is
not sufficient TO give us the fair play and
protection which We as citizens deserve.
No man can deny that capital is organizing
upon entirely new lines These efforts in
combining into vast syndicatcs, trusts, etc.,
have enabled them to concentrate into the
hands of a favored few the greater part Of
the wealth OF the nation. This condition of
affairs warns us of the danger Mt hand, which
is that capital at present is corrupting and
controlling municipal, State and Federal
legislation.
Such dangerous abuses must be met by
labor OrpaniZed for political purposes
Industrial Alliance of Western Pennsyl-
vania, do pledge ourselves to create CO.
operative spirit of political unity among the
Industrial classes and to be no longer di-
vided politically, such as voting to support
men and parties who In the past have OBJ
tanned our sutfrages upon a system Of Ialse
pretense.