Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-28
IT SHOWED ITS STRENGTH,
The Labor Union Makes a
Strong Showing.
Trades Unions Endorse the Clerks
EARLY Closing Plan.
An Impressive Parade to Turner Hall.
Some of the Addresses made
and Sentiments
Expressed.

and Sentiments
Expressed.
One OF the largest and best conducted
labor demonstrations ever seen in South
ern California took place last night,
when the various trades organizations
Of the city united with the Clerks As
sociation Of LosAngeles in a parade and
mass meeting at Turnverein hall.
The object of the demonstration was
for the confederated trades to endorse and
cooperate with the Clerks association in
their efforts to obtain the early closing
Of the retail stores Of the city.
The parade brought out large num-
ber of members of the various labor
organizations and clerks. there being
fully 500 men in line. The procession
started from the corner of Los Angeles
and Seventh streets, marched to Main,
up Main to Spring, and down Spring to
the hall. There were about 100 clerks
in line. The order of march was as fol-
lows:
Council OF Labor,
Clerks Association of Los Angeles,
Typographical Union 174,
Painters and Decorators,
Plumbers. Steam and Gas Filters,
Carpenters,
Taiiors,
Bakers,
Iron MOlders,
Cigar Makers,
Boiler Makers.
At Turnverein hall the audience near
iy filed the large room, the galleries
Nh uolvyao hoSv1n npauu1nA II
Cusick, chairman of the committee of
arrangements, called the meeting to
order, and Mayor H. 7. Hazard was
elected president of the evening.
Homer @. Katz, secretary of the
Clerks association, made q brief ad-
dress, in which he outlined it's aims and
described the guccess with which it has
already met. Some of the largest es-
tabliAhments in the city have already
acceded to TIE moderate requests of the
association, and others will follow.
Mayor HSzard followed in an easy ad-
dress, in which he heartily endorsed
not only the objects of the Clerks asso-
citation, but the organisation of laboa to
accomplish legitimate protection of
it's rights.
Ell. q. osborne, editor Of the Express,
delivered scholarly address in defense
of trade and labor unions. After deal
ing at some length with the right of
tabor to organize, and . glance at the
history of labor, contrasting ite status
now and in the past, he concluded as
follows:
That the general condition cf crafts
men has been improved ia the past
twenty years canaot be doubted.
Wages may not be greater, b1t hours
of labor are shorter, and the comforts
l'of life more easily come by. Strikes
seem to be less frequent and disastrous,
and arbitration more common method
of settling difficulties. A recognized
ability to fight often does away with the
necessity for Sighting. We are yet very
far from . perfect age. but the modest
but firmSassertion by every ,man, of hie
rights, helps to bring around the era o1
absolute justice.
Every rnan born into the world has
the right to live. He has more. As
set forth ia the immortal Declaration
of American independence, he has the
right to liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. Hehas just as much right to
these things naturally as had Jay
Gould or the Prince iuf Wales when
they were born. If he lives virtuously
and industriously and gets less than
these things, there is something wrong.
Organization tends to equalize to some
extent the inequalities which tradition,
ancestry, circumstances and law have
| produced between men, and labor and
trades unions, wisely administered, are
| great powers for human good, worthy in
| the line OF their fundamental and GEM
eral purposes of the approval and as
sistance of ell just men.
Rev. j. M. Phillips made an off-hand
and eloquent address, which had the
| effect of warming up theaudience to the
highest pitch of enthusiasm as he ear
nestly advocated the organization of the
laborers of the country.
j. Z. Steward in few plain remarke
told how he had always adopted the
early closing idea; thatfit had benefited
not only his clerks, bat himself, and ae
q business proposition he thought it a
| great success.
Letters were read by Secretary Katz
| endorsing the objects of the Clerks
association from the following gentle
men, who were unable to be presunt
MesGrs. Mullen, Rluett 6yCo.. II. Sie0el.
J. s. Salkey, H. G. Weiner and Jacoby
Bros.
The exercises closed by few remarks
from Councilman Theodore Summer
| land, who pledged his support to the lab
oring classes. A resolution DENYING the
ideas advanced by the Manufacturers
and Employers association Of Califor-
mia, that the dull times are due to the
organization of labor, was adopted, and
with three rousing cheers the meeting
was adjourned.
Thirty-Eeur Years. Service.