The morning call., 1893-03-13
SAND=LOT WORDS.
The Unemployed Weary of
Agitators.
A Slim Crowd Which Listened I'M
patiently to a RehaSh of
Old Speeches.

A change came Ger the spirit of their
dreams when the agitators who have been
trying to make capital out Of the existing
depression in the labor market faced their
audience on the plaza opposite the new City
Hall yesterday afternoon.
On the previous Sunday there were un-
questlonably between 800 and 600 respect
able artisans seeking n EolutiOn of the la
Dor question and anxious for employment
men who listened to the speeches In hopes
of remedy. Yesterday there were not $50
persons in the entire crowd, and very few
OF these were mechanics OF workingmen
out Of employment
a sergeant and six officers from CAPTAIN
Douglass wa'ch had been detailed, so that
no turbulent proceedings occurred, but the
majority of the men composing the meet
ing drifted away and suent the afternoon
in discussion of the labor problem in little
knots OF four or five, far from the madden
ing crowd and away from the sound of the
orators voices. The police looked tired.
like men whose occupation was gone.
X. /. Mclvor, who presided at the pre-
vi0us Sundays meeting. stated the purpose
OF reassembling and introduced Hugh ST lew
art, who was also one of the speakers on
the previous Sunday.
Stewart somewhat surprised his hearers
by stating that 1000 psuple were represen ted
at the delegation which called on the Super
visors, and which was discourteoHsly met
with limitation OF five minutes for each
speaker. lie said there Is only one class of
worklngmeD, the men who work, and he
warned trades unions not to lose sight of
that fact The supervisors had fooled the
delegation by referring the matter of the
unemployed to committee, and so put the
thing off for another week. He denounced
politicians as men capable of betraying their
God, their country and their fellow-men,
and that when these politicians have
starved out the work ingmen they will have
to 60 TO work themselves.
James Andrews, who was the only new
speaker, got the best reception of the pronp
OF orators. He spoke in strong, resonant
voice, with distinct articulation, and ad-
vanced the familiar sOcialistic theories In a
pointed way.
Mrs. Anna II. Smith, who has been a
sociallstic agitator for three years past, de-
liveIed an impassioned address and declared
that she had just returned from the bear
garden at Sacramento" She gave the legis-
lators bad black eye and insisted on the
necessity OF parade OF the unemployed.
j. Il. Mills spoke briefly. and Il. f. Nc
1yor wound up the proceedings by paving
his respects to the daily newspapers in no
complimentary terms.
We are agitators," he said, "and will re-
main agitators as long as our grievances
remain That we are demagogues / leave to
the newspapers to settle between them
SN''S' - w SOiho W q plhCH we Will uetfl-
onstrate the unemployed so that the name
OF the Golden City win 60 all over the
world"
just here a man in the crowd said in the
hearing of the reporter:
Il understand that man (McIvor) is an
EDglishman, and has only been in the coun-
" four years. he speaks Of the new City
Hall as our property This thing makes
me tired"
He moved eff just as the speaker closed,
and peoples party advocate mounted the
the stump to sell papers, while free-tbinkeI
shouted out notices OF fTee~lecture in the
evening.