Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-23

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-Three thousand
unemployed men assembled Tuesday in
mass meeting near the Columbus statue
ON the lake side. in response to call
from the Allied Wood-worlxers' Trades
Council f. o. Cochran, business agent
of the council, using an express wagon
rs n speakers stand, stated the object
of the assembly to be TO consider what
the unemployed workmen of Chicago
should do in the present hard times.
Carpenters Union No. /, who spoke in
part as follows:
Hard times coming Serious times are
ahead shall we walk the streets this winteri
The causes OF the hard times are not those
given BY our Lawmakers: they lie deeper. The
only remedy is to send men TO congress and 10
the legislatures who win represent the People
and not the mouey-bags
Thos. j. Kidd, general secretary of
the Wood-workers' international Union
of America, was greeted with cheers
a part of his remarks were:
send representative wage-earners 10 wash
ington instead OF lawyers and milliouaires.
Let the masses and not the classes be repre-.
sented II YOU would do that there would not
be $4,000 idle men in Chicago, our poor
houses and prisons would not be crowded
and women would not De selling their purity
for morsels OF bread. Look at the auditorium
land nc moved his hand toward that structure)
wage-workers cut and set the stone 70 build
IL, but they are The last ones welcomed there.
Why Because you shout for Cleveland and
Harrison
Mrs. Vanderbilt gave $4,000 for q collar foI
her poodle dog, when 10 900 children were starry.
ing 20 death in New York"
r. Steiner, editor of the Arbeiter
Zeitung, speaking in German, said in
part: Neither congress nor any other
legislative body has power to supply
all with work because these bodies do
not control the means of production.
That power belongs TO the capitalistic
class"
p. j. Grimes, of the Hardwood Fin
ishers' union, spoke briefly, saving:
Thousands in this crowd want work 1t can
not De had. II Is not their fault they are idle.
The eapitalistic press says IL Is This is un.
true. Many here know not where their next
meal VIII come from II is only summer now
What will winter produce? They Will die like
slaves. An empty stomach has no conscience
Our people sit on volcano. Let them beware
OF its explosion"
Then Mr.. Grimes read the followino,
which was adopted.
Res solved. That the unemployed OF the citv
Of Chicago IN msss-meeting assembled demand
the removal Of the hRymarket police monu-
ment as they consider II a relic OF one OF tho
worst judicial murders that ever disgraced the
history OF civilization.
Max Stalles, OF the Jewish Cigarmal<ers'
union, spoke at considerable length In German
he blamed capitalism for freezing out labor
from its legitimate employment, and saidi
The masses are being reduced 20 begging.
Hunger allows no discussion. II * not a cues.
ton Of silver OF gold but OF bread. II does no
good 10 pray TO God al present; He viii not help
you; He helps only those who help themselves.
Let the city and state lend US aid"
The following resolutions were adopt
ed just before the meeting broke up:
Resolved, That we demand OF the present
congress TO fix IA true standard Of values based
upon the product OF labor, and that the gov
ernment issue the circulating medium 10 the
people
Resolved That the government employ the
idle men on the roadways and on public i'm.
provemen-s OF al kinds where the convicts are
now employed, and that public work be done by
the people and not by contract
Resolved That the hours OF toll be reduced
TO that point that oil may be employed. so that
machinery viii be boon % the to.ling millions
rather than curse.
Resolved lastly, That the unemployed DO
warned through the press that Chicago has
thousands Of men willing TO work, but unable
20 fnd it,
The crowd. composed of all nation
alities, was quiet, even serious. 1t was
made up almost exclusively of mechan.
les 1t was announced that another
meeting of the unemployed would be
held at Metropolitan hall Sunday after.
uoon.