The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-06-28

cigars, ana if everyone of them would
| boycott ChInese-made cigars. and smoke
only white labor cigars. the dealers
would then soon come to time
The Manufacturers Association had
! been caught lying, said Mr.. Barry. In
thelr clrcular-in their Misunderstanding
mad declared that trade was depressed
/ soIeiy because of the organization of
| trades unions. But only few days ago
a committee from the association had
! gone before the Traffic Association in
| San Francisco and declared that the de-
preston in trade was due solely to the
fact that there was no competing railroad
into San Francisco.
WHO DRINKS IMPORTED BEER?
! The Manufacturers Association had de-
clared that the domestic beer trade was
/ being ruined, and that imported bottled
beer was supplanting the local producE
| Who drinks imported beer? asked the
| speaker. The laboring man or the manu-
| facturer? 1t must be the manufacturer
himself-no laboring man ever drank
| imported beer, because he could not afford
| 1t. FIye-cent beer was about right for
| him.
The manufacturers had denounced the
boycott and declared that every boycotter
was highwayman Ii this was the case
said Mr.. Barry, he saw thousands of
hghwaymen before him, and he was not
afraid OF them. If this was the case,
! George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Adams, and the other patriots were all
hlghwaymen, because they advocated
/ that no American should drink English
tea as long as a certain obnoxious law ex-
listed.
The association had also said that all
boycott circulars lied. This boycott cir
cular, though" said Mr.. Barry, holding
up a copy of the manufacturers pro-
ciamatlon, lies more than any boycott
! circular L ever saw" lCheers and
laughter.l The boycott was a powerful
and legitimate weapon, he declared, and
as long as the world lasted it would last
The manufacturers condemned the boy
colt, yet IN their manifesto they call upon
their members and supporters to pre-
pare to boycott trades unlonism.
SHOULD INCLUDE POLITICS.
After he had finished with the procla-
nation. the speaker branched off on a
! general dissertation on the labor problem.
He said that, although trades unions
avoided getting into politics, he thought
they should participate in politics-not
partisan politics, but the higher order of
politics. 1t was necessary that they
should familiariZe themselves with the
politics of the day, and learn that in the
! ballot-boX they had friend, which
would some day, by their own direction,
work out their salvation. He once heard
a divine declare, he said, that most of the
poverty that existed in this country was
due to whisky. Whisky was no doubt to
! blame for great deal of poverty and
| misery, but 1t was also fact that the
! greater portion OF inebriety was caused
| by pOverty-it had driven good men to
| be drunkards and outcasts. All this was
! due to the mercilessness of the hoggish
| capitalist, who, with his thousands and
! mlllions-which he would not live long
enough to spend, and would not spend if
he dld-stlll wanted more, and continued
to grind down the laboring people, the
very ones who made him rich
! The speaker concluded with stirring
! appeal to the laboring classes to continue
to organize, agitate and educate, and
promised that by so doing they would
eventually attain their freedom.
MORE SPEECHES.
| A. B. Sanborn of the Typographical
| Union was the next speaker. He said he
| felt his Inability to interest the assem-
/ blage after Mr.. Barry had gone over the
ground so fully. He urged the working
| men to stand firm, and adopt resolutions
! which would inspire their San Francisco
! brethren with confidence, and cause them
| to stand off the announced assaults of the
| Manufacturers Association
ID. Goodman Ofthe Iron-MoIders' Union
was introduced, and made few remarks.
| He spoke principally with reference to
the troubles of the iron trade. Owing to
the crushing tactics of the manufacturers
| good men had been driven out of the
| business. and the scum and riff-raff of
the country brought in to take their
! places. The result was that the kind of
| work demanded by the trade could not
be turned out by these manufacturers,
and they had to step back and,make way
for competent labor, OF get out of bust
! ness. On behalf of the local .irOn-mold-
ers he promised that they would stand as
| firm as rock for their rights, as well as
! for those of their brethren throughout the
laboring world.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The following preamble and resolutions
were then presented by the Chairman.
and read by Secretary Sheehan:
| WHEREAS, y concern calling itself the Man
! ufacturers' and Employers Association of
| California has in a manifesto, issued on Nav
! 9th last attributed the dullness and back
! ward development of the industries that
ought to thrive in the State to the trades
unions, the only form of association known
! to the creators OF the wealth of the world: and
whereas, said Manufacturers and Employ
! ers' Association has maliciously ma
! ligned, misrepresented and falsified the
desig9 to reduce under was an
! in California by destroying the trades unions
] the only institutions that now stand in the
| way of a general degradation and enSIaVe-
| ment of labor; therefore be it
Rescued, That the laboring people of Sacra-
mento in mass meeting assembled on this
| 27th day OF June, 1892, hereby denounce the
| declarations and design of said association as
! false and unjustified by the facts
| ReSOtCed, That we denounce the objects and
] purposes of said association, which are moth
ing more nor less than o conspiracy of ayarl-
ciouS men, not satisfied with the wealth thew
have already wrung from labor to wiring still
more from the sons of toll.
ReSotced, That we pledge ourselves anew to
renewed and vigorous efforts in behalf of the
principles OF qnlonlsm and in behalf of the
great cause of humanity that they represent.
ReS0tUed, That while we court no conflict we
will resist to the bitter end the brazen usurp-
atoms of the conspirators of the Manufactur-
! ers' and Employers Association, to the end
that justice may triumph and labor receive
q fair and just reward
RESOLVED, That we demand of the next Legis-
lature a law making it a crime, punishable by
| imprisonment, for any person, or combination
| OF persons, to procure, or assist IN procuring
the discharge of any man or woman from his
| or her employment because of their afiliation
with trades or labor union
I1eSotUed, That our slogan will ever be "Agi-
tate Educate, Organizer
The resolutions were adopted with a
mighty shout, after which the meeting
adjourned.
Lecture on Cough.
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