The San Francisco call., 1897-02-11
CONDEMN GOVERNoR BUDD.
Laboris0 Hen Resent the AttacE on the
St0ts PRINTING Office.

Laborin0 Hen Resent the Attack on the
Stots Printing Office.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 10.-Over
600 members of the organized labor unions
OF this city marched in procession from
the Metropolitan Theater tonight to at
tend mass-meeting which had been called
for the purpose of demonstrating the
necessity of passing the appropriation
made in favor Of the State Printing Office
over the Governors veto. on the ground
that the veto meant the disruption of the
Office and the lowering of wages.
The crowd that packed the theater was
wildly enthusiastic, and appiauded
evry hit made by the speakers in
labor's favor with vehement ap-
pause. E. 1. Woodman, being selected as
airman, introduced the first speaker of
the evening, II. Raphael, a representative
of the Cigarmakers' National Union, who
made an eloquent address in favor of la Dor
and its interests, in which he said:
LAS far as organized labor IS concerned,
1 believe they will stand together as a
man, and they will be upheld by the Or
ganiZed bodies OF not only this State but OF
Others" and he stigmatized the Gov
ernor's action in vetoing the State Print
ing Office appropriation as an attack not
only on organized labor, but upon the
women wage -earners as we'll.
W. B. Thorp, chairman of Committee
on Resolutions, then introduced the fol-
lowing resolution, which was adopted by
a perfect storm OF ayes that fairly shook
the House:
WHEREAS, The State Printing Office is recog-
niZed as one OF the great bulwarks OF organized
labor in the State OF California; and whereas
said institution under its present manage
ment has been conducted on strict union
lines in all its branches, thus aiding and
| assisting all honest craftsmen in the effort to
protect themselves against those who would
oppress labor and make the lot of the toiler
all the more burdensome; and whereas,
those of our fellow laborers employed in
said State Printing Office VINO have
| allotted to them, rendering full value in labor
| for every cent paid 10 them in wages, have
| been attacked and maligned by the Governor
of this State under cover of a disagreement
fare being waged against said State
| Printing Office ard against the workers EN-
ployed therein has convinced US that the
| Governors object is not so much a reform of
alleged abuses as the uprooting of the lnstitu-
gre tfuiiy forced to the conviction that the
| Governor in the attitude he has assumed
| toward the State Printing Office is either wit
\ tingly or unwittingly playing into the hands
I of the old schoolbook ring, which has in the
past few years been tireless in its endeav-
to destroy the ability of the State to protect
parents OF school children from extortions and
| exactions of former years; and whereas, the
| statements contained in the Governors mes
| sage rejecting on the faithfulness and eff
| cheney of the labor employed in said State
| Printing Office are a gratuitous libel upon our
| fellow-laborers and co-workers employed
| therein; therefore be it
! RESOLVED, That as q preliminary proposition
| this meeting declares that 1t detests q dema-
| gogue and abhors politician who would at
tempt to make cheap personal political capi-
| tai at the expense of those who toll for their
| daily bread.
RESOLVED, That the allied trades and la Dor
| unions OF the city OF Sacramento in mass
| meeting assembled hereby express their en-
| phatic condemnation of the action OF Governor
James IL. Budd, in Vetoing the act for the ap-
proprlation OF money Tor the support OF the
| State Printing Office for the remainder of the
| present fiscal year, and denounce as unjust
and untrue the insinuation against the faith
| in said office made by the Governor in his
message to the Legislature.
RESOLVED, That it is the declaration of this
meeting that unless the Governors state
| ments concerning the financial management
OF that institution have bette foundation in
TACT than have his criticisms of the labor there
employ ed, such statements are ntirely mis-
| leading, devoid of tru tn and utterly unworthy
the Governor OF great State.
| Resolved. That organized labor represented
Dy TINS mass-meetlng here tonight, acting in
| behalf of hundreds of wage-earners, both men
and women, employed in the State Print
ing ONCE, the payment OF whose wages
| Tor labor faithfully performed is dependent
upon the actioL of the Legislature at its ses-
sion tomorrow, most earnestly and respect
| Iuily petluOn the honorable mem 0erS OF said
Legislature to pass the bill for the mainte-
nance OF the said State Printing Office over the
veto of the Governor.
ResolUed, That we warn said mem bers of
| the Legislature against taxing stock in any
| accusations against the State Printing Office
| until such accusations have been thoroughly
| investi gated by a competent non-partisan
| committee of fair men, for 1t is mat
| ter OF public knowledge that large
| majority OF such charges have their
! origin with interested parties who hope to
| break down that institution in order th at they
may feed and fatten upon the taxpayers of the
State at their leisure, and that in their efforts
| to accom- plish this object they have often Sc.
cured the cooperation of some of the highest
| officials of the State.
Res0tued, That this mass-meetiug hereby lie.
| clares this matter strictly non partisan cues.
| tion, question of simple justice and of the
protection of labor, and we appea at this time
| TO Pcpulist, Democrat and Republican alike
TO stand with US in our resistance of the blow
aimed at organized labor by the Governor of
| this State.
William Jenks of the Army and NAVY
League. on behalf Of that organization,
| then presented the following resolution.
| which was also unanimously adopted:
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ARMY AND NAVY LEAGUE
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