The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-22
LABOR MASS ING.
CORNER CHARIREs AND FRANK
LIN AVENUE.
Line. Headed by IL Rnnd OF
Nlusic--Sune Remarks.

Music-Sonie Remarks.
Three hundred trades unionsts headed
| by q hand made up Of the Musicians
union. and with torches and banners at in
tervals in the line, marched to corner Ct
Charities street and Franklin avenue last
night to mass meeting. Al that point
they were met by about 100 ladies' and gen
tlemen, The line of march was from in
front OF Union Labor Hail. on Franklin
avenue to Travis street. the nee TO Texas
avenue, thence to Main street, thence to
| Franklin avenue, thence to san Jacinto
| street thence TO Congress avenue thence
to Chartres street and back to Franklin
avenue. The bakers. brewers. street ear
| men. plumbers. carpenters, timers and
cooks and waters made up the parade, the
rear of which was brought up by hacks
| driven by j, a. Thornton, VIM. Hawkins
Jack Butler, Henry Black and John Haul
mond.
There were several suggestive banners
in the parade one of which was The
solution Tor strikes Is city ownarsniD."
|
of the speakers, as a part OF his tcxt.
After the band had finished their music
Harry a. Morey of the street car men In
troduced Henry NJ Walker. president Of
the Galveston Labor Council, who. by r.
quest Vas to act as chairman OF the meet
ing, Mr.. Walker made his maiden effort
before a public audience. lie told them
| al,
brond and liberal that it could do NOTHING,
but attract the sympathy aud Endorsement
o. the laeoring men of Houston and Texas.
The wages paid TO the produceIa and con
sumers OF the land, he said. lareel, fig
ured In the prosperity of that land. The
street ear men had to work longer hours
than person would be permitted 10 work
a mule or horse. He then Introduced C.
G, Glass, Il member of the Typographical
| union, horn and raised in the Second
ward" MIR. Glass said that he felt that
he was standing on his native heath. nut
| that one resident of that ward has dis
gracod himself by accepting stock in the
sum of $1,000. In 2ase OF war the govern
| nont would call, upon the lahoriug mea
OF tho country, MIR. Glass ooutonded ana
he did not doubt but what they would
make a gallant fight for their country. He
| then rendered the street car men a chacS
| for 500 coming from an unknown SYM
| pathl2er, who requested tina; his name ho
| withhold, and I was accepted amid jhe
| cheers of the crowd, following which MIR
Walker introduced w, I. Dixon, formerly
/ an empoyc OF the street car company
| Mr.. Dixon talked at the rate Of a thou
| sand minute and caused himself 10 he
popular with his auditors by the relation
OF u joke or two, creating laughter by his
odd references to the situation.
Dixon said he did not believe the goou
citizens would ride en- the street cars I'M
less operated by union labor, and that II
our forefathers had not asserted their in
| dependence as the men in this instance
were doing they would now be calling the
prince of Wales boss" instead of bowling
| before Mckinley, the National boss. he
"scabs' came in for good rounding up,
after which the speaker gave wly to
| Frank ID. Lyons, another member of the
| Typographical union, who Is u pleasant
speaker but last night tired his hearers to
come extent. He took up the discussion
| OF the nights OF labor, and those of CApi
tai, outlining the present trouble ia il few
words, and settled himself on the facts Of
| the controversy as he saw them. Nr.
| Lyons recalled the contract, WHEN he .a'i
| tho press OF Houston had misrepresonted
TO the people, and was calculated 20 cause
| lA1l bitbt hktuNS W hut SoNtEhule II VI
! affairs of the daypublic opinon--to he
| wrongfuly directed, He was glad TO know.
| however that any sensible man who wol Id
trouble himself to read the contract, would
| not take the same view that the press
OF Houston had been pleased 10 tate, IN
| It's attempt TO willfully mslead the people
| Mr., MacGregor, the speaker alleged, rad
| repudiated the contract II any one had
| The men had taken Mr.. MacGrssocs in
| tcrrretstion OF the instrument. which the
| management Of the company termed was
for tho sole purpose OF getting ,be men
| back TO work last summer and noy hey
| wanted him to 1.-Two up TO 1t.
| The speaker also took some exception
| to the manner In which the news OF the
attempted compromise was printed In the
Houston papers explaining what the word
compromise meant, and the attitude 81
| the company in endcavnring 10 hoodwink
the employees into going hack to work. and
even worse conditions than they enjoyed
when thoy struck for higher wages and
fewer hours. In this instance the press
had again mlslcd the public.
| Yesterday mornings incident. when the
Ic'ice were 'Skcn to the power house "a,
assist the company In getting our its cars,
MI Lyons thought. meant that they feared
| to operate their property. And again The
men employed for the purpose OF taking
the places OF the strikers id not want Ia
come ont and face the great agency
public opinlon--which they know would
stare them in the face and enable tlis $40.
p!a TO see the color OF the mems hair. and
The character Of his face who was against
the demands Of honesr labor.
Mr., Nahon, the International president Of
The Amalg@mated Association OF Street car
Employees, closed the meeting with a few
remarks upon the demands OF the strikers
He said that the Eastern canitafists were
crying that they had to reduce wages Ia
meet composition Of cheap labor in the