The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-25
ONLY A MERE HANDFUL
MEETING OF THE UNEMPLOYED
BUT SPARSELY ATTENDED.
John Stub5s' BanefuI Influence
Seems to Have Killed the Move
ment-ResOlutiOns of sympathy
With the BROOKLYN Strikers and
With Debs We're ADOPTED.

A meeting of the unemployed work
ingmen was held yesterday afternoon
in the Walker Pavilion. The atten-
dance, however, was very small, only
a handful in fact Norman B. Dresser
presided.
The irrepressible John STUDIOS occu-
pied as much of the attention of the
meeting and spoke as often as possible.
First he reported that the committee
appointed to present the resolutions
adopted at the previous meeting of the
unemployed had seen Councilman
Cchn and he was with them.
Later on Stubbs again tried to gst
his graft in and told the audience that
he aready had to get out Of two coun-
tries and he didn't know where he
should go to if he had to get out of
America and present indications were
that he would have to move. He talked
politics for awhile and finally was forced
to sit down, much against his inclina-
! ton, however.
Warren Foster addressed the meet
! ing. by request of the chairman. He
| said in brief: It has been demonstrated
that, for instance, a railroad can be
built and operated by labor alone, but
no man has capital enough to build and
operate one without labor. Labor has
as much right to say to the capitalist
''if you don't like the way we do, get
out" as the capitalist has to tell the
| laborer to get out, if ne don't do as
they want. The contest between capital
and labor is an unequal one, the former
! having all the advantage under our
lpresent system. The story of the dog
and the RABBIT illustrates this. The
! dog had failed to eaten e. rabbit and
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| animal like that get away from him,
replied that the rabbit mad more at
stake than him. He ran for his dinner
iWhile the rabbit ran for his life. The
capitalist only has a few dollars at
stake, while the laborer has his own
bread and the welfare Of his family
at stake The strike in Brooklyn Illus
trates this. The men had worked for
so cents day and if it could have
been done they would have been ground
down to Just enough to barely sustain
life This country will never be right
until the necessity of strikes is no more
Chairman Norman B. Dresser was the
next speaker. He said the failure OF
strikes was because of the large num-
Der of unemployed all over the country
Iready to take the strikers places. The
!. lcountry was formerly q good one Tor a
poor man because then the natura
resources had not been uonopo,ized.
The following resolutions were passed
unanimously:
Resolved, That this meeting Of tht
. llaboring men of Salt Lake city sympa
, thize with our fellow workers Of Brook
! l1yn in their strike against the stree
; car company of that city and denounct
, the attempt of the military and polic'
{ lin interfering with the rights Of labo
: to secure justice at the hands of {
: selfish corporation.
E Resolved, That this meeting sympa
' thizes with Mr.. Debs in the unjus
t sentence that has been passed upol
: him for UNFOLDING the interests of tn
? Pullman strikers and also with the ntel
who were bTacklisted for taking par
: in that strike.
John Stutbs again took the floor ant
promised that Ex-Governor Thoma
would address the next meeting Of tn
unemployed and the few stragglers VIII
f were there left the hall.