New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-26
COL BROWN. THE wORKINGMEN's ENEMY
HIS RECORD ~ THE LEGISLATURE SHOWS THIS
PLAIN1.Y-HEAPING INSULTS on
LAUORING PEOPLE.


HIS RECORD IN THE LEGISLATURE SHOWS THIS
rIAINLY-uEArING INSULTS or
LAuoRING PEOPLE.
Colonel William L. Brown. the Democratic canlI-
date for Congress in the XVIII District whore an
election Will be held on January 30 made an
traordinary speech Wednesday night at Co
umbia Hall. The labor organizations are up in
arms against Colonel Brown because Of his record
State Senator at Albany.
The Senate journal shows that April 10. 1893.
on the vote to a bill prohibiting convict labor
on marble. Colonel Brown lodged. ON the same
day. Senator Saxtons bill forbliding the en-
plOyment OF women under twcnty-Onc years oil
than sixty hours week. and forbiding the
employment Of girls under fourteen ana boys under
twelve in mercantile houses Colonel Brown lodged.
On April g. the Assembly bill TO hX The hours
Of labor in brckyards. Colonel Brown lodged! on
March 30 1898. the bill requiring union wages -
be paid to mechanics and labOrers ON public works
and regulating their hours Of labor Colonel Brown
lodged He also lodged the votes on the bill
against the sweating system. on tn" bill facilitate
ing the collection OF wages. the bin limiting the
hours Of railroads. the municipal lodging house
bill. and the bill to establish a State Printing
House-all OF these being measures brought for
ward and advocated by the labor ORGANIZATIONS.
HIS HOSTILITY TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES
But his action on the Qugley Assembly bill for
bidding surface and elevated railway compar"s TO
demand or tn'lT cfHp!os - more IMAM t'H H'Ni@
consecutive labor Is the chief ground Of objection
bv the working people. The vote this bill was
taken In the Senate on April y. lN@. ana Colonel
Brown cast the only vote against it. These facts
have been put into circular which was written
and printed by committee appointed At tn" great
Cooper Union mass-meeting held on January y 10
protest against the Wilson ill. The committee
was composed OF Il. IIerschaft, John Walker.
Thomas W. OKcefe and John Clark. These men
are workngmen. ana not labor agiiators. pke"fe
and Clark forcmen in the Elm Flax Mis-. IT
Fifty-seventh-st. and Tenth-ave. iierschaft and
Walker employed in the Travers Mills In his
speech on Wednesday night Colonel Brown accused
the Republican candidate. SIR. Quigg OF having
issued this circular He called Mr.. Qugg a little
white-livered fellow" and he said that the men
who signed the circular Aicssrs Hcrschsft. Walker,
O'Keefe and Clark. were "uamps and not citizens"
These remarks Indicate that Colonel Brown I'f-
has lost his had The facts contained in the
circular literal abstract Of the senate Journal
INSULTING A WORKINGMEN's COMMITTEE.
But there Is also further evidence Of Colonel
Browns hostile attitude to labor measures and
to workingncn "A class The knights of Labor
have an organization which they call their congress-
1t is "A convention composed Of delegates from all
their local assemblies This Congress meets an
nually and appoints Committee on LEGISLATION,
whose duty 1t Is 10 promote ihpor measures NJ
corning the attitude Of all Senators ana rongr.s.-
men. one such report was Esurn on Aus"S, J., Is'l;
Thai Al meeting Of the Committee on General
Laws at a hearing on the Five Cent Interest bill.
Senator Brown 50 far forgot the etiquette Of the
committee work as TO interrupt your committee
and YOUR committee We 50 he said. were too
well dressed to be workngmen lie wished as: no
doubt to be kc mad" the victims
OF circumstances by such actions as MS
president of the congress: Henry a. Hicks chair
man Of the Legislative Committee; Edward j.
NEE eu bnq o Of the cnera Executive Board Of the
knights of Labor lie Is at me or'hd mon ,.ri iDtrl
his hotel last night and was asked as TO ne ac-
Of e labor c erf and c%rk y rep
hat IL was entirely accurate. He was then asked
The knights OF Labor Legislative Committee In
1891
HE SAID WORKING PEOPLE WERE IGNORANT
.Mr Hicks and l." replied Mr. Mcclure were
before the Senate Committee on General Laws
advocating the passage OF the Five Per Cent In
tercst bill Colonel Brown was a member OF that
committed Bankers and other representatives were
present to oppose the BILL among them being itos-
vel i. Flower. present Governor OF the S,,atc;
,hn 'comr,ittee We showed that the banks were
making from 10 per cent to 60 per cent on their
oaped The bin Senator Brown had given close
and respectful attention to the arguments OF me
bankers but %se Is tn ay ne sead Of
listening to u.s. he laughed and joked with other
l,e and made speech He was supposed to be sit
,ipc there as a judge between US and the oppo-
nents OF ,attit1de he oudd the bankers in his
lnIp"arc,at,ons OF organized labor and of our com
mi,tee. lie abused US personally. and said that
M '.on,d moi be honest workingmen. because our
v we We're too good It seemed to offend him that
cotn nore clean linen and had our shoes backened
we WWiou'ed M that vulgar speech by saying that
&c Iorking people TOO ignorant to understand
nnance' Indicating adH that he regarded it i'm
nertnence to have any opinions on suea s sap
|ects am anna sn against Colonel Brown but can.