The record-union., 1897-02-11

necessary FUNDS to MAINTAIN the state
| Printing Office is a menace to labor in
/ that 1t impairS the usefulness Of If in
deed, it does not stop work altogether in
the State Printing Office, thereby throw
ing out of employment many ex-soldiers
and sailors, their widows and children
and
Whereas, We believe the Governor
has been misled by discharged employees
and by adherents of the infamous book
ring, which stands ready to again del
uge our State with worthless and eX-
| pensive text books for our schools, and
Whereas, The Governor by his veto
is opposing majority of the law max
ers who see and know the need of the
State and its institutions, and who evil
IDENTIFY are not antagonistic to labor and
fair pay for the State employees in skill
ed labor; therefore,
Resolved by the members of y. ).
Grant Camp No. ), Army and Navy
League of Sacramento, that we view
this action of the Governor as threaten
ing the interests of labor, belittling to
the State, and utterly uncalled for, and
Resolved, That we earnestly urge the
members of the Legislature in the name
of labor and in memory of the ex-sol-
diers and sailors who fought and bled
to preserve this Union, to stand as a
solid phalanx, and pass this measure
over the Governors veto
Resolved, That a copy hereof be read
at the mass meeting tonight at Metro
politan Theater, and also a copy fur
nished to each member Of the Legisla-
ture and to the press
OTHER ADDRESSES.
Chairman Woodman stated that he
had to announce that a grand mass
meeting was being held in San Fran
cisco on the same subject, and was
tremendously enthusiastic.
Rev. c. A. Mel, the next speaker,
said that as a member of the Typo
graphical Union, he could safely say
that they might leave their cause in
the hands of the best Legislature the
State had ever seen. The veto had
been made by one who was in author
ity, but not an authority. They had
every kind of ism in the world. They
had Republicanism, Americanism,
Unionism, Populism, Socialism and
many other kinds of isms. but they
also had Buddhism. daughter
Buddhism he said, was the religion
tlfat had more holidays than any other.
In India, where the religion is most
popular, there was less to eat than in
any other. 1t would be we'll not to
establish it permanently in California.
| Mr.. Miel then told the story of the
| steamer built just after the war by
a man named Jenkins Out Of lot of
trash that he picked up where he
Mississippi. He had named it "the
Governor" and it ran very well for a
few miles, but when rounding a curve
met another steamer that whistled the
usual signal. The Captain reached up
to catch the rope, and answered the
signal and succeeded in blowing a tre-
mendous blast, but on a sudden the
steamer stopped and refused to an
swer the wheel, for she had no head
way. He called the engineer to find
out what was the trouble, and was in
formed that in picking up the miscel-
laneous articles that went into the
makeup Of the steamer he had picked
a very large whistle and an exceed
ingly small boiler and the blowing of
the first blast had exhausted all the
steam in the boiler, and the vessel had
to stop. There could be no more
steam.
Governor Budd is like the steamer
Governor" He had sounded his
whistle, but he had stopped his steam
er and would get up no more steam.
The applause thar greeted this sally
lasted fully two minutes
Harry Rodgers, foreman of the State
Printing Office said the cost of the
| schoolbooks had been very materially
| reduced since the organiza tion Of tbs
State Printing Office. The labor en-
ployed in the State Printing Office was
the best that could be found anywhere
and it was all union Tabor. He ther
went into some Of the figures in the
| Governors message, and showed thai
most of the money was paid in wages
in Sacramento.
He called attention to the statement
in the message that an expert had beer
appointed as an expert by himself. and
then afterWard employed by the State
Printer, leaving the inference that tht
State Printer had bought off the ex-
pert, but the fact was that the expeqt
had been an employe Of the office Ions
before he was appointed expert by tn.
Governor, and had of his own accord
resigned to go back into the office H
denounced the Governors statement a.
a gross mlsstatement He then padt
his respects to expert Taylor, an(
showed up the mistakes of the expert
Governor Budd, he said. had ordered
! 1000 copies of his annual message. and
had then found that there were st
.. many mistakes Of his own that the,
| had ha Nrf h I.-atr Il
issued, and many of the mistakes il
his work had been remedied in the
State Printing Office instead Of in tn,
Governors own office, where the,
should have been.
Mr. Rodgers closed by stating tina
the State labor organizations wouIl
stay by the State Printing Office til
the roof fell in.
William Gormley. the next speaker
stated that the whole trouble aros,
from the antagonism Of the old booi
ring. whose friend, Mr.. Taylor is now
though formerly foreman in the Stat.
Printing Office
He then read from a statement of Mr.
Taylor himself, in which he said tba
1t the book ring won the State would b,
at the mercy of shylocks and the who,,
property would deteriorate. to the grea
loss of the State, and that the offer o
the Commercial Publishing Company II
San francisco was a fraud on its faca
He read from the reports of all tb.
state Printers, showing that all haf
asked for deficiency appropriation +,
pay for the legislative printing.
Mr. Gormley also showed that the in
crease in the work done in the Stat
Printing Office had been going on nm
der every administration and was ro