The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-27
LABOR BuD ITS FOES
DISCUSSED VIGOROUSLY AT A MASS
MEETING IN MARKET
HALL.
RECENT KILLING OF MINERS
DENOUNCED IN RESOLUTIONS AS
AN ATROCITY UNPARAILELED
IN AMERICA.
CAME IN FOR A ROAST.
Ballot, Not the Knife and the Torch,
Held Up as the Means of Bet
ter Things.

The mass meeting at Market hall,
yesterday afternoon, for the purpose OF
discussing Government by Injunc-
tion," and the recent shooting of the
Hazleton miners, served to assemble
fair-sized audience, which listened for
two hours to addresses dealing in gen.
eral with the labor problem, and each
eliminating in a strong announcement
of the so-called massacre. Prominent
labor leaders, who were charged with
intriguing with the 'capitalistic'
classes, were also subjects of bitter
denunciation, and the laborer was call
ed upon to henceforth repudiate those
who were alleged to have proved trail
tors to their fellows. The speakers in
troduced by Chairman Anderson were
Herbert Shaw, w. B. Hammond, Algsr
ron Lee, of Minneapolis, and Dwight
Potter, of st. Paul. At the conclusion
Of the addresses the following resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, on the 10th day of the present
month the sheriff of Luzerne county, Penn
sylvania, with large force of heavily
armed deputies chosen fer the purpose, wan
tonly attacked peaceful gathering of un-
armed miners near the city of HaZleton. and
without any excuse whatever fired upon the
ing twenty-six persons, and disabling many
others.
Whereas, the military force of the state OF
PENNSYLVANIA has been used to protect the
murderers from legal prosecution and stife
all expression of feeling by the people of
LuZerne county.
tion of the crimes by the coroner and the
judicial authorities is to be mere farce, add
ing insult to the injury already offered to
the working class; and
either
approved of the massacre or has tired to ex-
cuse or palliate the guilt of its authors;
therefore, be 1t
Resolved That we recognize in the mur-
dered miners of Hazleton our brothers and
comrades, and extend our heartfelt sympathy
to their families and friends. That we con-
denim the Hazleton massacre an atrocity
unparalleled in American history, and de-
nounce Sheriff Martin and his aristocratic
deputies as murderers of the worst kind
That we condemn the pure and simple mis-
leaders of labor who have Systematically de-
ceived the workers. blinded them to their
class interests, divided them on false issues,
and delivered them to the capitalist
butchers. That chief among these men who.
by their treason to the working class, have
become acccmplices to the Hazleton murders,
we point out Samuel Gompers and his fellow
fakirs of the American Federation Of Labor,
That we call on all our fellow workers to
recognize the fact that tire interests OF capt
we are in the midst of an irrepressible class
struggle which end only with the over
class will hesitate at no crime in carrying
out it's schemes. That the workers must
recognize their own class interests, realize
their own solidarity, forget all petty divisions
of race or religion abandon all false issues
of tariff or financial reform and act as
unit to fight by all means in their power, bu1
especially by uncompromfsing class
political action to destroy the fraudulent and
murderous system of capitalism and set UP
in its place the social commonwealth
w. B. Hammond reviewed the great
A. r. u. railroad strike, during which
he declared that=it had been necessary
for Capitalism to urge riot and dis
order, which, he said, the employers
had accomplished < themselves and
charged to the strikers, to secure gov
ernment intervention, but now, the
speaker declared, not even the SEM
blance of riot was necessary to bring
down the capitalist government upon
the oppressed laborer. Instancing the
shooting at HaZletGn, Mr.. Hammond
declared that the miners had assem-
bled in peaceful gathering, had been
guilty of no overt act nor created the
slightest disturbance, when, he assert
ed, they had been shot down In cold
blood as a means of terrorizing the
strikers into subsection. If the laborer
permitted such outrage to go unrebuk-
ed the speaker declared, the time
would soon come when they would be
in abject slavery. 1t was useless to
protest against the atrocity, unless
some action followed the protest which
would powerfully affect the capitalists.
Fortunately, the speaker said, the
effect of the so-called murder had been
just the opposite of that which was
desired by those he accused of precipi-
tating the shooting. Instead of terror
izing the working classes it had brought