New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
PRINTERS BIG PARADE.
AN IMPOSING DEMONSTRATION AGAINST
THE SUN"
THOUSANDS OF TRADE UN1oNIsTs MARCH
UP BROADwAY-CLEVERLY INSCRIBED
TRANsPARENCIES-BI MASS MEET
ING IN COOPER UNION.

UP BROADWAY-CLEVERLY INSCRIBED
TRANsPARENCIEs-B MASS MEET
ING IN COOPER UNION.
The printers OF the city last evening made an
imposing demonstration of hostility to The
New York Sun" They formed in ranks and
marched up Broadway. with sympathizing trade
unions. bout twelve thousand strong. early in
the evening, carrying many transparencies in
tended to excite public feeling against the news
paper that is seeking to establish its office on
non union basis They formed the greater part of
the audience that filled the large hall of Cooper
Union to overfowing at the mass meeting later
in the evening. when speeches attacking The
Suns policy were applauded vigorously Both
the parade and the meeting were organ
lied by Typogra phcal Union No g.
1t was about o'clock when the parade started
up Broadway from Battery Park. and the route
was along Broadway. Seventeenth-st. ana
Fourth-ave. to Cooper Union. Many thousands
OF people stood or the sidewalks along the line
Of march to cheer the paraders. The locked out
employees of The Sun" were in the first Of the
fourteen battalions of the parade. Each battal-
ion headed by band Most of the organi-
ations carried silken banners, and most Of the
mon carried small American flags, while there
were hundreds of transparencies. At the head
OF the line was an escort of twelve policemen.
Then followed seventy wheelmen Of the Jeffer-
son and Printers wheel clubs the officers Of
Typographical Union No. and the various bat
talions The grand marshal was Lieutenant
Harry Maslln. and his aids were James NJ Cum
MON and John A. Hawkins, ali Of Typographical
Union No. 6. The marshals. as we'll as the
chairman Of the Parade Committee. William F.
Derfiinger. mounted and wore sashes or
different colors
There was a feeling that the paraders might
attempt to march up Park Row, which they mad
been forbidden to do. If they had any such in
tenton it was dispelled by the line of police
men who stood elbow against elbow at the
junction of Park Row and Broadway. Conse-
uuently the City Hall Park intervened between
the parade and the office of the newspaper at
which the demonstration was aimed.
CLEVER TRANsPARENCGEs.
A favorite transparency, of which there were
many copies in the parade, had upon 1t picture
Of the setting sun. with rats scamperng over its
face and the words Spots on the sun Other
notices read: The Sun is the enemy of prog
ress-even it's own; The workingman who
buys The Sun sells his birthright'' The Sun
is the friend Of the putocrats' IF you see it
in The Sun it's so-rats."
Cooper Unions big hall nearly full Of
people for the mass meeting when the parade
arrived at the building, about o'clock, and
soon after the paraders began to crowd In the
hall became 50 full that the police stopped
and turned away hundreds of people at the
doors
John H. Delaney president Of Ty ypo6ragL,ral
Union No g. presided and spoke a some length
on the strike in THE Sun office. He introduced
an the first regular speaker Samuel Gompers'
president OF the American Federation of Labor.
Mr. Gompers said he had no desire to invade
the domain of Individual opinion but when a
newspaper manifested itself in damnable trea-
son to the right of the workingman to avail
himself OF the advance in civilization to better
his condition It deserved condemnation and CEN
sure He referred to the locked out printers as
silent partners in the business or 'The SUM-
thrown into the street after forty years Of faith
ful service Mr. Gompers abused the policy
adonted by the newspaper. and said that be-
fore It had attempted to rat Its office II had
given many illustrations Of its mental decay.
He prophesed that Typographical Union NO b
would see the total eclipse of The Sun and
would he fourshlng when that newspaper had
acknowledged its error or had gone out Of busi-
ness
'You NAV ridicule the labor movement" said
Mr. Gompers in conclusion. but were it not for
the forces Of organized labor where would the
workers Of to-day stand against the vast COM
bination of wealth? From Maine to California
there IS a spirit OF fraternity that bodies good
for the people and good for progress but IL
bodies i'll for any organization that stands in the
way of the peoples progress.
Mr.. Delaney thanked in the name OF TYPO
eraphicaI Union No 6, Stereotypers' Union NO.
| and it's president. John J. Connor. as well as
the Ijthographers' Union the Eccentric Ensl-
neers and all the other labor bodies which had
offered to help No 8 In its present fight.
BENJAMIN Hanford, OF No. g, was the next
sneaker He advised the stockholders of The
Sun" 10 consider the forces arrayed against It
ard to call its two hundred and nifty men back
and discharge the one man who had forced the
trouble.
WILL NEED A MANDAMUs
Soon. I suppose he said, The sun VIII
annv for an Injunction. When they get 1t we
give II a bigger circulation than The sun ever
had We'll distribute 1t in big type until IT looks
like one Of the yellow journals The sun talks
50 much about II this fight keeps on The sun
won't need an injunction 1t VIII need a man
darnus to compel people to read it
John n Parsons General Master Workman OF
the Knights OF Labor followed He referred 10
the attitude of The Sun during tne recent