The herald., 1893-10-15
THE VOICE OF LABOR.
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ICONTRIBUTED.l
The council OF labor will meet next
Wednesday when an active campaign
will be inaugurated against certain enc
mics of the unions. The secretary has
been in receipt of many letters from all
over the county pledging assistance to
the council in the struggle.
Quite number OF Chinese cooks who
left the city when the Geary act was be-
ing enforced have returned and h ave
been seeking work in their old places
with some success. A vigorous attempt
at deportine them will be made in a
little while.
Work in the building lines still con-
tinues dull, except with the plumbers,
although the printers report brighten
ing up of trade.
The reports that the Coast Seamen's
union is about to disband is received
in labor circles with little credence. II
the union needs funds 1t has only to ask
the other affiliated bodies and funds
will be forthcoming without delay. The
sailors have made gallant fight for a
just cause against powerful odds, and
organized labor cannot afford to allow
them to surrender without every assist
ance. There is no question but what
the recent dynamite outrage in San
Francisco has materially injured the
union, but it has never been shown that
the union has in any way been respun-
sible for that fearful crime,
Mr.. McNally, the contractor on the
Hotel Green in Pasadena, has acceded
to the eight-hour demand of the car
penters, go that union men can be en-
ployed on that work.
Organized labor is anxiously awaiting
the decision of the United States gu.
preme court on the habeas corpus Chi
nese cases soon to come before them.
The federal authorities in this city are
confident that the decision of Judge
Ross will be sustained, ami as soon as a
decision is rendered, prosecutions under
the law will be pushed as rapidly as the
business of the courts will permit.
1t is claimed that contractor s. R.
Smith, who is building the government
jetty at San Diego. brought all his labor.
ers from Portland, Ore, and that he
pays them only SLIGO per day and charges
them $3.50 per week for board. The
government has been petitioned to in
vestigate Mr.. Smith.
The Cigarmakers' Journal has this to
say: ''At last trades unions and organ
lied labor get credit for being the safety
valves of society; and the great conser.
vators of peace, the press. are now
chiefly engaged in railing at what they
call the unorganized conglomerated mass
OF irresponsible, headless, aimless mobs
who congregate in outdoor meetings.
They unwittingly admit that all the
harsh epithets that were formerly hurled
at organized labor were not the sincere
and honest utterances of an unbiased
mind. when they now say that nothing
is to be feared from the gathering of un-
organized trade unionists.
A Chicago paper says, in relation to
the labor congress, that there were at
once more brains and more crankism
there represented together than at any
other one of the worlds Chicago con-
crosses. There was Miss Grace Dodge
of the New York bluebloods; there was
sockless Jerry Simpson OF Kansas !;
there, too, was DIR. Zacher of Berlin, q
learned German professor, while here
and there were scattered Carroll Wright,
United States labor commissioner !;
Henry George, Felix Adler, Tom Mann,
the London labor agitator; Victor Dele
haye of Paris, Walter Besant, the novel
ist; Annie L. Diggs of Kansas, the
Catholic archbishop of st. Paul, and
finally the president of the Tuskegee In.
dustrial institute for black pupils al
Tuskegee, Ala, Booker I. Washington.
Mr.. Washington has the reputation oi
being the ablest colored man in the
south.