The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-26
LABOR MASS MEETING.
TYPOGnAPHICAL UNION INVITES
ALL TO PARTICIPATE
And Condemn the Action of Judge
jackson and His Injunction
Proceedings.

To All Citizens Opposed to Government
by Injunction,
Acting under instructions from Houston
Typographical union Nc, 81, l invite all
citizens opposed to government by injunc-
tion to meet with us at o'clock Sunday
afternoon, August 20, on Market Square
where suitable resolutions will doubtless
be passed denouncing the action OF
Judge" Jackson in the recent Injunction
proceedings. II Ia OF the utmost impor-
lance that. Ii we are To- preserve intact
the rights Of the constitution, secured for
breasts TO the hail of lead and dyed tho
soil on many hard fought batt!efields with
their LIES blood that we must not delay
longer, but from all parts OF this country
there must come protest and demand
that the constitution of the fathers be OBJ
served and the poor be allowed the same
rights that the rich enjoy. 1t Is only in
recent years that II has become a crime
for men t. strike TO better their condition;
only within recent months IL has become
crime TO march the public highways. or
to talk to some tEoughtless workman who
rs inJuring the cause by remaining at
work. aud II this continues much longer
the time Viii come when we VIII no longer
call this THE land of the free and the
home OF the brave These orders were
not Issued by brave man, and were this
the free land. THE refuge OF the op-
pressed" etc. that we are taught TO be-
liove, thcre could be no such proceedings
carried 10 the same successful termination
We have just witnessed
Everything Is now done for the benefit of
oanital because 1t helps labor" not for
tho benefit OF labor because it helps capt.
tai; and an Indiana paper asks in A re-
cent issue: What would labor do without
capitalf" The whole drift OF official SEN
timsnt nowadays is toward capital and for
tue upbutlding OF trusts, no matter what
tho costs. Wages have come SO low In
various trades in different sections of the
country that 1t is almost an impossibility
Tor married man To earn sufficient wages
to support his family In even tho most
frugal manner. and the coal miners against
whom this Federal Judge has just issued
an injunction. restraining them from
marching and from holding conversations
Win miners who remained at work did
not average wage OF So rcr week, and
40 they lived In houses owned by the COM
pany, and were forced to buy from the
| oompany's store, their wives and children
munger. nor clothes enough to hide their
nakchness: yet every day they were getting
deeper and deeper In debt. Thus plunged
INTO slough OF dependency, they looked
ABOUT for remedy. and tho strlsc--and
that a'one--prescnted itself, and one morn
inH the papers told MS OF the strike, OF the
conditions that brought on tho trouhlc
and OF the excellent prospects OF the men
to win, but rs time goes on tho atrikurs
are becoming stronger and stronger day
by day; the operators look about them ,or
means OF breaking the strike and. MS
usual. use the tool or the monorolies and
trusts OF all descriptions Federal In.
!, dietary But fer once the decision Of n
peitifcgging lawyer. who doubtless could
| mot earn his salt as n practitioner. did NOT
"irspire the craven hearted labor ,rn.lers
With awe" and turn their following and
| run them like sheep back into tho nine.
No; for once the plans OF tho slave drivers
miscarried. and desnlte colonel" Rend's
accusation egainst the labor leaders, that
they are dishonest, tie strike Is still, a,
and 1t is proper that we shonld meet ana
rend TO the St Louis meeting OF Monday
| words CT counsel and cheer and entreat
them to so frame their protest against the
present method OF government by inIunc
ton that the whole world will stoo IA
listen while the Statesmen" Of the conn
try viii heed our demands ana seek 10
alleviate our condition.
Again I cordially invite all who ara IN.
posed to government nv Injunction TO NICE.
with us at Market Square SUNDAY. AUGUST
90. pt o'clock Y, a Swons
President Houston Typographical Union.
No 81 "'