The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-29
VIGOROUS PROTEST.
woRKINGMEN OBJECT TO THE
COAST DEFENSE appropriation
Ringing Resolutions Against the
Massing of Standing Army, Be-
cause 1T Would BE Menace to
the Rights of Labor.

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Members of
the Central Labor union and sympa-
thizers of organized labor filled the
large hall of Cooper Union tonight to
protest against the proposed eXpendi-
ture of $11O,OOO,OOO for coast defense. as
we'll as more millions for an increased
navy.
Jerome O'Neiu, secretary of the Cen
trail Labor union, acted as chairman.
The first speaker was Charles w.
| Hoadley, secretary of the Building
Trades association, who declared that
nobody wanted war except perhaps the
inventor of a new rife, the smokeless
powder, or the maker of the bunting
used on land and sea.
John McLuckie of Homestead, who
was connected prominently with the
strike at the Carnegie works, spoke of
the armOr plates manufactured for the
navy. He stated that the armor plate
now on the Monterey had one hole in
it as large as the face of an ordinary
eight-day clock, and which was filled
with forty plugs. What reliance. he
asked, could be placed on such ar
NOR? He mentioned other ships on
which
FRAUDULENT ARMOR
had been placed, the New York, Ore
gon, Amphitrite, Terror and DIassa-
chusetts.
Henry B. Salisbury said that Renja-
min Harrison, lecturing upon law, had
given the best definition eXtant of CO p
italist legislation, when he said that
the object of law was to make the rich
secure and the poor content. An ap-
preparation Of $SS,OOO,000 for coast de-
! lenses, he said, was to make the rich
secure and when the poor looked down
the muzzles of the guns they would
have to be content
SOVEREIGN KISSED.
A letter of regret from Grand Mas
! ter Workman Sovereign of the K. of
L. was roundly Missed.
The secretary then read a set of
resolutions denouncing the proposed
appropriation.
! Henry George, who followed, asked
! that those in favor of the resolutions,
| and those opposed, should rise in turn.
! Those opposing amounted TO hardly
more than two dozen, and Mr.. George,
after saying that he respected the ants
| for the courage of their convictions,
| said that he had no doubt that the
i proportion shown in the hall was
! fairly representative of the great body
! of the working people Of the COUNTY,.
The proposed appropriation, he said,
! is considered to be carefully laid plan
| to build up a standing army, which
would crush labor whenever it dared
| to raise its head.
GAS a citizen of the United States,
and from thought, study, reason and
| conviction" he said, 81 would rather
see every locomotive thrown from the
rails. every car broken, every rail torn
up, than to see order
|
PRESERVED BY THE BAYoNETs
of standing army. Order IS heavens
! first law, but there is one thing prize
! before order, and that is liberty"
The other speakers were Herman
! HelZel, Ernest Howard Crosby, Henry
| Weissmann. Daniel Harris and James
! Fitzgerald. The following resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas, The undisguised purpose
of the monopolists and rings who have
graSped political power and are rob-
bling the workers under laws passed at
their instance and by their purchase
is to so increase and mass standing
| army that they may rule by injunc-
tons backed by federal bayonets, and
Whereas, AS a means to this end
bills are pending in the senate and
house for the appropriation of hun
dred millions for coast defenses and
other millions for more 1ronclads, the
money to be drawn from the treasury
kept from bankruptcy by the issue of
bonds unauthorized by congress and
jobbed out to favored capitalists, ulti-
nately to be repaid with interest by,
fresh taxes on labor: therefore,
Resolved. That we pledge ourselves
and ask our brethren in other places
to pledge themselves to vote against
every member of congress, no matter
what his party or profession, who shall
support any of these bills, and that
we especially call on Thomas 3. Reed.
speaker of the house. to act as a true