Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-22
THE APPEAL FOR WORK.
New Works Unemployed Issue
 a Proclamation.
THEY WANT GOVERNMENT AID,


 to Steal Bread and Knl Rcporters-A BIE but Quiet Crowd Gathered In Union Square to Hear Speeches.
 NEW YORK. Aug. a2.-The several com mittees appointed by the organized labor for the relief of the unemployed have issued three proclamations. The principal one is addressed to the people of the United States and begins with this 
 A hundred thousand men, women and chil- lren are nearing the verge of starvation in this rich metropolis of these free United States. Hundreds of thousands of others are within but short distance from want and its suffering, misery and crime. From Ill the manufacturing and commercial centers here comes the anxious demand for work unn, we fear, to be followed by the desperate, lt~IairinE cry for bread.
 Then follows a somewhat horidly word {! r, cital of the condition of the working nNplc and the announcement that organi- :hion and shorter hours of work would in time solve the problem and abolish power y. This appeal follows:
 The Appeal.
 We therefore call upon all To contribute funds for the unemployed who seek work in vain and whose wives and little ones are starv- ing on our streets As a city Is a cooperative corporation in which all citizens are sharehold- ers. no one has the right Ia live in eXtravaGant luNurY while the others want for the needs of life. We therefore call upon the mayor and the board of aldermen of the city of New York Io convene in special session and there devise ways and means in the same manner and to the same extent aS they would in case of pesti- lcnCr.
 As food obtained by work is moro enjoyable than food obtained even a right without work, We ask the authorities to provide ways and means for the commissioner and mainte- nance of public works and the employment of the unemployed directly and not by contract. The same reasons prompt Us 10 call upon the governor Vf the state and the president of the CuItcd States Ia call attention by public proc lamatloN and by legislative action to the same end and in Surh manner as the fundamental law will permit.
 As humane men and women We cntr1at you to listen to the Cry of labor for work and bread. As patriotic citizens We proclaim that those who control the industries and the finance of the ultcd states are responsible for the en- p!uyInent of labor, a Id We demand Of them i'm mediate relief for 'ae victims Of system inher- lied from the ages of wrong with which the poor have been oppressed
 The foregoing appeal is signed by sam uel GomperS, Chris Evans, Andrew J. Smith. Thomas (. Walsh, Joseph Baron deSs, Henry Weismann and Henry White.
 Advised to Kill and Steal.
 
 Orchard street, the first speaker, whose name could not be learned. denounced the authorities generally. When a reporter walked into the hall. he was denounced by the speaker, who said that the crowd should rise and kill the representative of the capitalistic press.
 He repeated the injunction two or three times. and several times there was a simi- lar demonstration toward the reporters. The reporters acted very quietly and took no notice. The second speaker intcrjccted politics into the meeting. He said that the pres ent condition of the workingmen was en- tirely due to the Democratic administ ra- ton.
 Later there Were two meetings going on simultaneously in Covenant hall, one on the first and another on the second floor. In the meeting up stairs n speaker whose name could not be learned. advised his hearers to k nN more for work, that they gre mAAvrs ot hrr4l and it they wanted .. tu go and take II and let nobody or nolhllS stop them They should fight all opposition. ID natter what kind. and get N Eat they wIut @!
 Emma Goldman was more rah!d in her uitrrauce> than ever She told her nearer: to Tt mem bcr the fate ot the men who had
 
 tons. She told them that if they went tI another meeting at Union square not tI even lu.k at q policeman. Then she clppe, that wlth the .tdvIce. Don't go To CuioI square uulr~> you are armed There Were morc people. more speakers more Vu.Itr, more platforms and nor hard language in Union square at tn second open air mass meeting of the un employed than ou Saturday night. wheI the rain dampened the ardor of even tn most hothcaded. Emma Goldman ha rangued the mob to her hearts content il two languages. and denounced president | and kings, police and Pinkertons, report CTS and their Capitalistic employers, an, especially the individual who keeps his ey l on WalhalIa hall, but the big crowd kep | its wits
 In vain she referred to the fate of Alex | ander II ot Russia and eutrelted her heal CTS tu take sticks and stones and show tn l hardheArted American public what the | could do. IL was quiet meeting, an | when it was declared to be ended the 5, % men present dispersed peaceably.