The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-08
Strong Resolutions offered and
Sympathy Extended to the
Railway Employees
MAss.MEETING TO Be CALLED.
intimation That II the Police Inter.
fere They Will Be
Roughly Handled.

At a meeting of the Central Labor
Union at Clarendon Hall this afternoon
the matter OF indorslng the Chicago
strik. came up In the regular course OF
business
While there were not over fifty dele
gates in the hall. 1t was said that they
represented the big mass Of the iaboring
men of New York.
Delegate Daniel Harris, a prominent
member OF the International Cigar
Makers Union. moved the frst resolution.
He began by saying:
at Is time that the Central Labor
Union took a stand for the Americas
Railway Union and for President nebs.
During the last week the United
! States Government called out the Fed
eral troops TO suppress organized labor.
"Omnib in1unctions have been 10.
sued fors ing even the writing Of LETT
tiers inten-ed TO promote the purposes
OF this strike.
These matters deserve the attention
! Of tho Central Labor Union, which has
done nothing rs yet.
I'VE must either indorse Debs by Q
public meeting or we should denounce
him.
THE public press has been calling
Debs dictator. l think 1t is not Debs.
but President Cleveland who Is the die
tator.
Cleveland has sent Federal troops
into the State Of illinois without war
rant under the Constitution.
THE Government has thus taken q
stand against labor, and for corporate
monopolies.
THE Governor of Illinois has again
and again declared Mr.. Cleveland's
actions Illegal. Tie Governor OF Illi-
nois commands the respect OF all work.
ingmen by his action in this issue.
''As TO the blood that has been shed,
that ~ the fault Of those railway man.
ayers VINO issued orders that no mall
train should go out without Pullman
car attached.
81 move you, Mr.. Chairman. that .
committee OF ten be appointed with
power to call mass-meeting for the
ra'pose of giving expression to the senti.
ments OF the laboring classes OF New
York"
Harrls's speech was received with loud
applause ,nis The ;aslegsies began to spsaks
introduced, to hold the mass-meeting ut
Cooper Union.
M; Archibald. of the Paper-HangsrS
III We don't do something we shall
lay ourselves open to the charge OF
the meanest coHardice;
carefully ignored by the press and By
the capitalists. The monopolists who
brought on the strike have been guilty
issue is not between Pullman and the
laboring men, but between the Federal
Goyernment and the lahorinE men;
That is not true. The Issue Is be-
tween the avaricious Pullman Company
Harry White, OF the Cisar-Makers' In
ternational Union, speaking Of the hnan-
come fromY = Af sainR Would ISs As Be- Better
TO hold the meeting in the open air and
threat"
After Whites speech the meeting be-
came somewhat tnrbulent. Delegate
Iron Workers' Union.
~ hear that Supt Byrnes is making
great preparations TO put down any dis
turbances which might take place in
I'VE may tell Byrnes that II he takes
a stand against organised labor We will
put him and his $500 policemen under
I'VE have no objection to his putting
dawn r-wdies and incendiaries; we have
S aSr; syhmpS,ny WIN 0rsent1sa moos We
''It organized labor takes a stand
against Byrnes he simply won't be In
IT,"
Delegate James r. Bell. of the At
lgntic Coast Seanrn's Union. said;
"Sup.. Rvruss has no right to
threaten organized laoor. II II comes
threaten organized labor, II II somesly
organized capital, here Is one" holding
Up his hands, who viii stand up 10 as
sert his manhood.
I'm speak in defiance OF the whole
down 10 u fight Of organized lahoraga!nst
NJ the Federal Government uses la
troops against organized labor. In de-
EanGe Of the Constitution OF this Re-
pub,Ic, /; win ,nnd there are. saoush
series o, re sd,utlons were then read
and referred TO the Cc:nmittee OF Four
teen.
The rss buttons we're IN eject that the
Central Labor Union WAS IN sympathy
with the pullman strlkers, an dthat the
Central Labor Union held the Pullman
employees justified In the reAistRnce 70
arr further reduction OF their starvation
wages. In the RESOLUTIONS Mr. Pullman
was referred to 81 that mopstev. Yoll-
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