The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
DON'T LIKE THE IDEA
Unemployed Do Not Take
Kindly to Booth fuckers
Suggestion.
Indignant at the Ruling of Chairman
Craig at Monday Nights
Meeting.

A meeting of the unemployed to protest
against the resolutions adopted Monday
night at Metropolitan Temple was held
yesterday afternoon at 1859 Mission street.
Fully 100 were present at the meeting.
which vas presided over by II. G. Smith.
Paul Hartman acted as secretary.
George Speed-who offered an amend
ment to the resolution adopted at Metro
politan Temple, but was ruled out of order
by Chairman Craig = made q spirited
speech denouncing the Salvation Army,
and moved that a manifesto be issued
''setting forth the present conditions of
labor and the futllity of any such patch
fng-up process as that offered by the Sal
vation Army"
In support of his amendment Mr.. Speed
declared that the Salvation Army was Or
ganized to aggrandlze upon the misery of
the poor. "They boast" he said, ''that
from their London industrial farm they
made S104,0 All this doubtless went
into the Golfers of the army, and the poor
men who earned it are none the better off.
"They cannot do MS any good. The only
thing. .Ior the unemployed to do is to stand
together and parade themselves openly
and frankly and compel the people to
recognize their condition. If the Saliva
tionists really had your interests at heart
why were not some of your representatives
asked to be on the platform last night
Why were you not consulted7 Do they
think that they are more competent to
know what you want than you yourselves
are2 They are not working for our inter
ests. The only thing for us to do is TO band
together and become fully class-conscious. I"
The resolution was unanimously car
riad and mi nf fhroa uiofiv -
of Messrs. Speed, Grimes and Oliver, was
appointed TO draw up the manifesto.
Upon the motion of DR.. Wiley a COM
mittee consisting of Messrs. Lewis, Edlin,
Volney Brown and Smith was appointed
to devise some practical plan to aid the
at the meeting to be held at o'clock this
afternoon.
DR.. Spurgeon of the Jesus Christ Army
spoke briefly in denunclation of the Saliva
tion Army, which, he declared, had en-
tered a number of fields of industry and
had driven workers out. Chairman Smith
also made few remarks. in the course of
W hich he declared that there would be no
hope of permanent improvement for the
unemployed until the overthrow of the
competitive system. The meeting then
adjourned 70 meet at o'clock this after
noon.
The City Central Committee of the
SoclanSt-La LABOR party OF THIS Clty at their
meeting tonight, after transacting the
regular business, took up the matter of th e
unemploved's protest at the meeting OF
the Salvation Army in Metropolitan
Temple Monday night.
After discussion motion was carried to
the effect that the action of the unem-
ployed in protesting against the Salvation
Army, or any other religious body en-
deavoring to canvass the City in the name
of the unemployed for food, money or
land for the purpose of establishing poor
farm, be indorsed, and the sympathy of
the body be extended to them in their
battle against hypocrisy and injustice.
1t was also decided that the present
central committees term of office expires
on Tuesday night, August 4, when the
new delegates elected from the different
Assembly districts will be installed ana
will take up the work of the campaign and
business of the Socialist-Labor party of
this City.