The San Francisco call., 1897-03-03
AMONG THE
WORKMEN
Legislators Censured for
Failing to Pass Labor
Bills.
BARRIERS APPRECIATE
1.-THE CALL"
The Examiner Detected Playing
the Part OF a Yellow
Dog.
UNION CIGAR.MAKERS NOW AT
CULPS.
Large Incr ase in the Membership of
the Am malgamated Woodworkers'
Organic ltion.

THE CALL has received many requests
from resders who are members OF labor
unions to publish a series OF resolutions
adopted last Thursday night at meeting
of the labor convention in Metropolitan
Hall. These resolutions, which were un.
aYoidably omitted from last Fridays issue
of the paper are the following:
WHEREAS. Recent acts of our Legislators have
plainly shown that they are not in the spirit
OF fairness toward the labor laws indorsed and
prese nted by and in the name OF the California
Labor Convention, with the exception OF some
OF the less important onesi and whereas, 1t IS
clearly apparent that determined dlsposl-
ton TO defeat nearly all proposed laws for The
benefit of labor in a majority OF instances,
and to prove derelct to the trusts imposed in
our represe tatives so far as the cause OF labor
in the main is concerned and has manifestly
asserted itself in various ways at Sacra amento;
therefore be ii
ResoiUed, That we deprecate these facts in
the strongest possible manner ard demand Of
Legislators that they support and pass the
la Dor laws now in way of practical defeat at
their HANDS, and to do SO itnout alterations
and amendments that Will render them mug e.
tory and of no avail to the cause OF labor,
under pain OF our unceaslng efforts to defeat
all who are in those matters found wanting.
RESOLVED, That this applies to men Of all
political faiths, individually and collectively,
aud will be in all legitimate ways adhered 10
and carried into practical effect at the polls
from the standpoint of unionism.
Reso Ued, That we deprecate all subterfuges
indu4 ged in by any one acting for the people
in any capacity, and do by these articles pace
the stamp of our disapproTal on all efforts 20
protect the quest tional ways OF those who are
elected or appointed to offices OF emolument,
trust or profit, and as union men and citizens
we will assert our influence to the end that
ali of these and kindred things be discounte-
nanced.
The very small man employed by
Multi millionaire Hearst to run his very
small paper caught at the omission OF
these resolutions from THE CALL as a fam
lshing hound catches at a bone. They
saw in it means whereby they might in
jure a successful rival. Forgetting the
hundreds of printers cast upon the street
through the avarice of their employer
they begin to denounce THE CALL as an
enemy of labor, an old game they have
often. tried since Mr.. Hearst sought to
convince the farmers of California that
what they really needed was more Chinese
coolies. 1t was the thief crying stop thief
over again.
1: was the millionaire monopolist of tho
press groveling in the gutter 70 besmirch
the fair name of a journal that he has
tried i'll vain TO ruin.
Resolutions condemning THE CALL were
written in the Office on Mission street,
where Wyatt carp sat as editor. and were
mailed to the unions that met last night
A reporter, keenly alive to the humill-
alton. of his position, was sent to each of
the unions to beg that the resolutions sent
by his superiors should be adopted. Some
OF these bodies may have granted his re-
quest, but others, to their credit be it said
refused TO crafty the malicious aims of
the Examiner and sent the unfortunate
reporter away empty-handed.