New-York tribune., 1900-11-19
LABOR READY TO ASSIST.
CENTRAL, FEDERATED UNION PLACES
LITTLE FAITH IN CROKER'S
CRUSADE, HOWEVER.

The warning hosts against vice gained another
ally yesterday In the Central Federated Union,
which represents most of the large labor organza-
tions in the city. AT the meeting of the Union, in
University Settlement Hall, resolutions passed
approving the present agitation and crusade against
vice the East Side, and the movement was prom
sed all the aid and assistance in the power of the
organization. The resolutions so worded how
ever. that it plain to that the Central Fed
Grated Union did not believe in the sincerity hon
esty of Tammany Hall in the movement Boss
Croker to the contrary notwithstanding.
One resolution which introduced by Timothy
Heay. delegate of the Eccentric Engineers Union
read follows:
proves of the efforts being made 10 clean the city
OF the dens Of vice and that this body stands ready
to render cooperative assistance to any honest
movement in that direction.
The resolution was quickly passed and in passing
1t the Central Federated Union placed itself on
record ready to lend its aid in stamping out
vice whenever called upon to do 1t is we'll
qualified Tor this work, probably nobody knows
more about the prevalence of vice in the tenement
house districts of the East Side than the honest
workingmen OF the unions, who are compelled to
live there because they afford to pay the
high rents demanded in more favorable parts Of
the city.
When Delegate Healy was asked what he meant
by the words honest movement" in this resolu.
ton, he said:
Il mean anything outside of Tammany Hall"
that Croker honest in his declaration of war
vice. that Tammany Hall intended 10 do
anything stamp 1t out lie added that ne would
not agree to the Central Federated Union aying
itself with Tammany Hall in such crusade, but
believed that II could accomplish much good
through cooperating with sucn organizations as
Bishop Potter's, with such Seth Low
and James B. Reynolds. head worker of the Uni
VerSity Settlement.
William ]. O Brien, delegate of the Granite Cut
ters' Union the labor representative on the
Tenement House Commission said he believed that
the Central federated Union could cooperate in
the movement TO crush out vice and immortality on
the East Side by giving evidence of what occurred
there nightly. He added that on the nights that
the different sections OF the Central Federated
Union held meetings ii University Settlement Hail.
at Rivington and Eldridge SITS, the delegates saw
vice openly Haunted every side.
Delegate Brien then called the attention of the
mission announcing that there would be public
hearings held in the United Charities Building on
November 26 and 2S on the prevalence of vice and
other evils the tenement house districts of the
East Side. The Central Federated Union in
Vited to send delegates TO the hearings and give
evidence of the existing evils.
prostitution is rampant on the East Side con-
tinued Mr. O Brien. In some large tenement
houses there are forty families of respectable
Working people but the first and second floors are
occupied by disreputabe persons and conducted as
of respectable workngmen should be contaminated
by such surroundings.
Delegate Brown and others voiced the sentiments
of Mr. O'Brien, and the offer of the Central Fed
Grated Union to lend its aid in the war on vice was
IouliV applauded.