The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-23
More Than Forty Organizations in
Street Parade Stirring Addresses
by Representative Union Men
at Infantry Hall.

ness agent Of the Providence District oi
international Association OF Machinists
introduced +. T. Friend. president OF ihe
Rhode leland Central Trades ana LABOR
Union. as chairman of tho meeting.
Mr. Friend. an introducing the 3gss
speaker, spoke briefly as follows:
Fellow Workers Ladies and Gentle
men--Thls meeting was inaugurated by
the Rhode Island Trades and Labor Union
OF this city 10 demonstrate the value ol
the trades union. Ii gives me great pleas
| ure TO introduce 80 YOU Dir. James oCon-
| neil, International president OF the Ma
| chnists' Union
ORGANIZED LABOR BENEFITS.
| MIR O'ConneIl said IN part: Ladies ana
| Gentlemen---You have been Invited here
this evening Ia order that We may dem
| e4stF4i..- tl4e -heHelliz- derived from nrgan-
| lied labor. We are living Ia AN age when
individualism has passed away. IL men
must succeed n is absolutely necessary
that they combine their efforts with those
OF others. We look around MS today aud
We slnd that all that inap produces Is IN
the hands OF a few men. Labor is the Sy-
| bill of today, yet lives IN noisome tene-
ments and heated sarrats
at points 10 modern society today ana
says. Unless y change takes place we are
| not responsible for the results. This meet
| ing has been called TO ask you 10 JON
1 DanuS IN a FNhulCNtFF AtSef ~ N'NN'
| that we may elevate ourselves and faini-
| lies 20 higher scale
| Look around YOU now at the combna-
tions. In Providence. as everywhere else.
4 IL the STANDARD OIL Company says YOU
must pay % cents per quart for OIL you
| must pay a. AT this age of association. II
] Is necessary for every man 10 lend his
| hand and Join together, IN order 10 work
any Improvement in tire condition of the
laboring classes. The rnaohniats IN this
! country have made general movement
I toward shorter hours.
The movement touched Providence only
spasmodicaily I want Go give notice now
| that there is going To be nine hour day
IN Providence by the arst of next May.
F, or there is going TO be- strike I'm Provi-
denco We must stay together. one OF MS
| amounts Go about as much as snow
| fake. but millions of them make great
drift. and go we, II we stand together. are
( 4 powerful body"
| Resolutions compnneuting a local pa
per were then reud by The chairman.
| placed temporarily or the table and never
passed
! After another selection by the hand.
/, Dancing on the Levee \. w. Collier,
| representing Typographical union, No. g.
! Of New York was introduced. and made
! q stirring appeal 10 his andit0rs 30 lend
/ their assistance in boycotting the New
| York sun which had never kept It's prom
| iscs with organized lohor. The union had
! spent Sa00coa n the fght against The sun,
| which was abet,ed hy Nv Fairbanks.
| oi the firm OF Browning. King 4 Co, and
| had seen the circulation Of That paper
| reduced from 00Om1 a week 20 q tH0c
! over 1900 q day and ts advertising today
! is scnrcelv 0ne-t third OF what " used ~
be. Ho asked the cooperation OF friends
of labor in the struggle.
WORDS or WISDOM
T.. J. O'Tooic. of Boston. first vice presi-
dent of the Teamsters union. said II
| am A Young man In the labor world but
I can tell you ~ ,he situation In the
Tsamsters union. The teamsters arc q
| Woodworking tlaef. They have long
hours and small pay. The union helps
us 10 Get what we arc worth ard I'm my
/ city the union has membership OF SW0
We had little strike on IN Boston. but
| our opponents save IN after W hours. You
! can improve your condition in tho Sarnc
wav that We have in Boston. organizco
labor intends ~ help every man who gets
into tho union
william Spencer Of Springfield, general
organizer al tho Plumbers union. follow
81 Mr. OToole Tie said in part.
I'VE. INC speakers, have come here to-
night for tho purpose of doing YOU som,
good. We want YOU 10 organize your
selves IN order that YOU may improN,
your condition. We want you TO Rc
more money. IN order 90 accomplish this
! result. we advocate cl0ee gani1ation
I First then. organize. for 20 gct mor'
money and shorter hours. and you mus
, work together. Shorter hours tend =,
| remove tho supcrhuous labor. and whei
! this is accomplished YOU will be in n 20
, rition to enforce your demands for mor'
! / money. We do not wish you ~ do any
? | thur unfair but 20 organic 80 that tn
= labor movement may be as advantngeou
p o. The employer ss to the euploye.
. You can exhibit az AL times n lai
sririi toward YOU employer. lie has hi
e disadvantages and IL is not fair for us q
, force further disadvantage upon him
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