The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06

There was a large meeting of the unem-
poyed of this city ON the grounds of the
old Haymarket on Saturday last There
must have been in the neignborhooi Of
5000 persons present.
The committee appointed to wait on the
council and business men, to devise ways
and means of employment, reported that
some steps had been ta1en to raise funds
by bonding the city, and it was hoped that
large number would he soon employed.
Speeches were made By MIR Writ Rev.
VIM Wilkinson, Rev. Gjertsen and others.
At the close of the meeting Thomas Lucas
suggested that in order to make the regis
tration of the unemployed effective it would
be necessary to form precinct orgarI..a-
tons by electing Chairman and having
every unemployed man in the precinct en-
rolled on a book, and to have a daily roll
call at O'Clock every noIning. E\ cry
name not answered present at the call
should be crossed off employed and the
rest should then marcn 10 the ward regis
ters office, and all not registered should
then register and from here march to the
Haymarket, torn into line and march
every day around the city hall.
By following this plan it would take all
power out of the hands of the politicians,
as each man would know who needed work
the most in his precinct, bringing pressure
enough to have them employed or sup
ported by the city e they were want.
Mr.. Lucas then put the motion to organize
on this plan, which was carried unanimous
ly. The men were then asked to fall in line
and see how quickly it could be done. The
men were kept still until the wards were
called separately, and in 10 minutes nearly
500 were in line and march around the
city hall. Large numbers not desiring to
horde did not follow in line.
Monday evening, June 4, there was
large meeting of the people on the corner of
Thirteenth avenue and Third street. Mr..
Roberts, the colored man, commenced by
addressing them on the money and bond
questions. MIR. Lucas then addressed them
in half-hour speech, showing the cause
of the point to be the ownership of the gifts
of Nature by select few, and the confer
ring of special privileges on them by gov
eminent, while thousands of people,
in the midst of abundance, had
nothing free from tribute to the capitalistic
class but light and air, and no free place to
stand on to see and breathe. The applause
frequent and enthusiastic. Mr.. Lucas
finished by showing that the remedy was in
the government controlling the gifts of God
in such way that no individual could con-
troll the necessities of the people, and gov
eminent ownership of all law-created mo-
nopolies.
Mr.. Owen was then introduced, and
amidst the greetings of the audience, COM
menced a speech of an hours duration,
which frequently broken by applause
He scored the private monopolies favored
by government-the lack of wisdom in the
present congress and disregard Of popular
rights and concluded amid applause by
recommending the use of intelligence III
voting, instead of mere party allegiance
The Silly Times.
Comes out on Tuesday, June 5, with a
strange claim that the records of the UNI
employed are padded, land that it is by
no means certain that the city council will
vote to issue 100000 worth of bonds for
the relief of the unemployed
If the Times is there is any fraud
in the register Of names, then it should ex-
pose the persons perpetrating the fraud,
and the laboring people would, without
doubt make it quite lively for him. AS for
the issue of the bonds, if the council wish
to take the responsibility of allowing the
people to starve they must answer for it.
The flea that is biting the Times how
ever, becomes apparent in the third para
graph, where it says: Tom Lucas ana the
other Populists have worked up this thing
in order to get the men together that they
may pour Populist doctrines in their ears.
So the reason why people should starve
is because they may not be Kept doclle
enough by starvation to vote the Demo-
ratio ticket.
If the speeches made were Populistlc,
then the doctrine must be good, for the
people seemed to comprehend that II the
gifts of nature were open to their labor
that want and misery would cease.
However the Times may show its vast
sympathy with labor, it may rest assured
that this city must furnish work or bread
to the 14,OOO unemployed, for they will not
consent to stave to please the plutocratic
instincts of the degenerate party that
bears a stolen name from Jeffersonian De-
mocracy.