Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-14
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE
TO BE ISSUED BY THE INDUSTRIAL
LEAGUE.

Criticising the Management Of Municipal
and County Affairs-Candidates Favor
able to the Labor Cause to Be Sup
ported - Organizing Wage = Farmers
Clubs.
The Industrial Alliance held o large
meeting in Odd Fellows Hall, Southslde
yesterday afternoon. The Executive Com
mittee reported that number of wage
earners' clubs were being organized II
different wards throughout the city. There
was already one club in the Twenty-ninth
ward with a membership of over zoo. Two
clubs have already been formed in ALLIE
gheny, and the Alliance yesterday author.
lied the formation of another. The two
secretaries will hereafter be paid salary.
The Alliance now has representatives in
Lawrence, Butler. Washington and ALLIE
ghenv counties
Although there was no regular motion
passed, it was generally understood that
the Alliance would not put any regular
ticket in the field, but that the object
would be to indorse whatever candidates
were favorable to the working classes.
Quite number of speeches were made in
support of this policy and warning the
members to beware of politicians and their
tricks
The following address, offered by the
Executive Committee, was unanimously
adopted:
To the Workmen and Citizens in General Of Allie
gheny County,
FELLOW CITIZENS During the past 25 years
the professional politicians and partisan or
gans of this country have been appealing to
the sympathies, the passions and the pretu-
dfces of our working people for the sole pur-
pose of fostering and maintaining one of the
most villainous city and county rings that
ever existed within the boundaries Of our
American Republic.
Sweeping Charges of Corruption.
Our community is now cursed by the domi-
nation of a greedy horde of Unsuitable Office
seekers, arrogant bosses and unprincipled
political heelers. Corruption dominates
every department of our county and m unici-
pal government and even touches the er-
mine of not few of our county judges. The
masses are demoralized, the voters
are no longer consulted as to their
choice in nominating and electing
of autocrat1c bosses now dictates nomina-
t1ons for the various offices within the gift
of the people The great debt hanging over
the citizens of oittsburg and Allegheny
like a pail of death is only one of the results
OF misrule and corrupt political methods of
inscriptions boodlers-
To change these conditions is the patriotic
duty of every citizen. With these ends in
view we hereby present this appeal for your
assistance, and, with the hope of securing
the cooperation and direction of all the
great labor, Industrial, social and reform
organizations existing within this county,
Gnh hrr1it to no 0ff he nj
jects sought to be accomplished by our Alli-
ance. and call upon all who believe in secur-
ing the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der to assist US:
Objects Sought to Be Secured.
First-The encouragement and formation
of vigilance committees in every election
precinct of Allegheny county.
Second-The organization of branches of
this Alliance in every precinct each branch
to be represented by delegates to the Citi-
zens' Industrial Alliance at all its sessions.
Third-To provide means whereby all
organized and unorganized
can be united together for the purposes OF
prac actical measures affecting their separate
md combined interests.
Fourth-The repeal of all laws that do not
bear equally upon capital and labor and the
adoption of stringent legal measures pro-
viding for health and safety of all wage.
workers.
The above form is but hasty and imper-
feet summary of aims and objects to be
achieved by our Alliance We appeal to you
% give prompt consideration to the impor-
ance OF our great cause. Consider it well and
leeply, and you cannot fail to realize what
In endless train of blessings to our commu-
lity the Alliance can place within easy
anae of possibility.
1t was decided to have a number of these
appeals printed and sent to every working
nan in the county. The Executive Commit
zee also reported that they were making
for a grand mass meeting, to
,e held in the Grand Opera House in the near
uture. The Alliance will meet again in two
weeks,