St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-22
THE CRY OF LABOR.
A HUNDRED THOUSAND ON THE VERGE
or STARVATION
IN THE RICH METROPOLIS.

Appeal--Fiye Thousand People
at the Union Square Meeting
One Speaker Saws If They Do
Not Get Bread the Scenes Of
Paris Will BE Repeated.
NEW YORK, Aug 21.-Today was
busy day for the several committees ap-
pointed Sunday at the meeting of the
organized labor conference for the re-
lief OF the unemployed. An address to
the people of the United States was
formulated by the committee appointed
Tor that purpose. 1t opens thus: "a
hundred thousand men. women and
children are nearing the verge of starva-
ton in this rich metropolis of these
free and United States. Hun
dFeds of thousands of others are within
out short distance from want and its
attendant suffering. misery ana crime.
From all the manufacturing and COM
merclal centers there comes the anxious
demand for work, soon. we fear, to be
followed by the desperate, despairing
cry for bread. We, therefore. call upon
all to contribute funds for the unem-
ployed who seek for work in vain, and
whose wives and little ones are starving
on our streets.
Wecall upon the mayor and the board
OF aldermen of the city of New York to
convene in special session and there de-
wise ways and means in the same man
ner and to the same extent as they
would in case of pestilence.
We ask the authorities ITO provide
ways and means for the employment of
the unemployed directly, and not by
contract.
As humane men and women we en-
treat you to listen to the cry of labor
Tor work and bread. As patriotic citi-
Zens we proclaim that those VINO con-
troll the industries. the finance of the
United States. are responsible for the
employment of labor, and we demand
OF them immediate relief for the victims
OF system Inherited from the
Ages of Wrong
with which the poor have been op-
pressed
The foregoing appeal is signed by
Samuel GomperS. Chris Evans. Andrew
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Barondess, Henry Weismaun and
Henry White.
At a meeting of anarchists on the
East side this afternoon the notorious
Emma Goldman sought to sound the
key note for the Union square mass
meeting of this evening.
The black flag" she said, 1.-THE SYM
Dol of destitution and hunger. has once
more been trOdden under foot. The
mayor Of Newark at a meeting today
tore 1t down. L Say the mayor of Newark
is beast, and his time OF retribution is
near.
If you take bread you will not gain
anything. 1t will profit you little. You
must take more. You must take all.
Do not fear the clubs of the police, and
say to you that if you go to the meet
Ing in Union square tonight with moth
ing in your hands. merely to listen to
the talk. talk, talk of so-called leaders,
you will accomplish nothing.
You must go armed. Let clubs,
stones and other weapons be opposed to
the clubs and revolvers of the poll ce,
for unless this is done and until this is
done your cause will not progress one
iota."
The attendance at Union square was
fully five thousand tonight. the meet
ing being much larger than that of
Saturday night. There was no disorder,
however. at any time, and the speakers
were permitted to spout TO their hearts
content.
Two trucks fanked the crowd, an
from these speakers of different nation
alities harangued the asse mbled people,
while from the platform itself Emma
Goldman. the
Anarchist Queen.
screamed her words of fear and warn
ing. She was preceded by others, who
spoke i'll English. German ana Hebrew.
The tenor of the speeches was that the
people we're hungry and wanted work.
If they did not get bread by working for
it they would be compelled to get it by
other means. The crowd cheered these
sentiments. and at the close of the
meeting went away without any attempt
at disorder.
Capt. Devery aud forty policemen
headed the procession. At the start of
the march, Capt. Devery. took a black
flag from the hands of a man in the
ranks. This was the only scene worthy
of mention.
The speech-maklng began about 80,
and in less than two hours it was all
over. A squad encircIed the crowd, and
kept everybody in place. Several
women were in the audience.
DR.. Theodore Knight, who declared
himself an anarchist, said if it was nee
essary to raise rebellion the working
people of America would be found
ready to stand np for their rights.
A man named Zimmerman, in Ger
man, said if the people did not get
bread the scenes of Paris would be re-
peated in New York.
Then Emma Goldman was called. She
told the audience they must get bread,
get it how they would, and said she was
ashamed of America because it made
the rich very rich and the poor very
poor. The capitalists took their strength
and gave them nothing in return. Kings
and presidents were all alike, for thew
all ground down the people. Emma
spoke in German and English and was
loudly cheered.
Resolutions were passed calling upon
the Jews to unite with other national
titles in organizing and the meeting
broke up.
COAL MINERS.