The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
MOVER HAYWOOD
GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT
 MUSIC HALL YESTERDAY.

ONcr <,UuV PeopIe Meet 10 frOteBt
 Against the Kidnapping and Impris-
 Onment If the Officers of the Western
 Federation of Labor-AddreSs by
 George R. Kirkpatrick of Ohio--Res-
 OlutiOns Put by William AppeIgate
 and Endorsed by the Meeting. The big mass meeting of the organiz- ed trades of New Haven was held at Music hall yesterday afternoon for the purpose of protesting against the alleg- ed illegal arrest and Imprisonment of Moyer-Haywood and Pettibone, who have been imprisoned nearly year and whose trial the labor unions claim has been postponed several times on flimsy pretexts
 Previous to the gathering at Music hall the various organizations met on the green where they were formed into professional order and headed by the ! City band paraded the important | streets around the center The various 1 lodges carried banners with the name of their organization while others bore suitable notices The nall, including the galleries, was crowded. J. c. | Appes, colored, arose and opened the meeting by explaining that the gath ering was not socialist one, as some | people supposed, but one of organized labor and that they were met in the name of that class and in the interests of common humanity He concluded by introducing William Applegate as chairman of the gathering MT Apple gate spoke briefly of the aims of the meeting. He said the history of our country had been comparatively clean one until year ago, but that the Iblack spot which now rested on it through the Mover Haywood affair would he a hard one to wipe out.
 Mir. Applegate introduced as the speaker of the afternoon George R. Kirkpatrick of Ohio, who was received with great applause. Mir. Kirkpatrick spoke for nearly two hours, during which he went on to speak in support of his claim that the workingmen lab ored under many disadvantages and that there was great and general need for them to combine and stand to- gether He assailed vigorously the kid mapping of Haywood and Mover and called upon the working classes to pro- test with all their strength against | tbn;r ,,rast a,,l ;r,y,r; <, y,,a,,+ Tt s,,Ys port of his theory he quoted extensively from the constitution of the United states. He als6 contended that the working classes had been kept in ignor- ance of their early trials and tribulh- tions by having the tyrannical facts of the carly days kept pTposeiy out of the history books of both our grammar land high schools At the conclusion of Mir. Kirkpatrckts address the chair nan read the following resolutions which he put tothe meeting and which wore carried amid applause and woth- out a dissenting voice;
 resolutions
 We, the citizens of New Haven, in mass meeting assembled, do protest with all our being against the prostitu- tion of government in the states of Colorado and Idaho.
 | We protest against the Illegal i'm prlsonment of Mover. Haywood and Pottibone against the manner in which they were kidnapped and deported from Colorado to Idaho, and
 Whereas, The supreme court in the fmaous Dred Scott decision, prior to the war between the slaves virtually proclaimed to the world that the chat tel slave had no rights that their mas ters were bound to respect, and l Whereas, Now comes another band of high-h handed conspirators against the workers. the supreme court in it's rul- ing in the Mover, Haywood and Petit bone appeal case. have again notified the workers that they have no rights their economic masters shall respect.
 We affirm that the faith in the honor and integrity of our brothers is un- shaken
 We declare that we are thoroughly awake to the fact that there is one law in this land for capitalists and another for the working class.
 We realize that the Imprisonment Of Mover, Haywood and Pettibone is a di- rect attempt to disrupt the organiza- ton of the working class, and In view of this face we realzd if these men are to be saved 1t must be by tho united effort of the working class. therefore. be it
 Resolved, That we members of the i working class in mass meeting assem- ,bled pledge our honor. our moral and financial support, and call upon all wage eaners in this country to unite as class to save our brothers from the gallows which the capitalists are erect ing for them, and be 1t further
 Resolved, That copy of these reso- lutions be sent to the president of the United States. to the congressman from this district, to the governor of Con- neeticut, to the press, and to such oth- CTS as in the opinion of the committee l seems wise to do so.
 A collection was then taken up in aid of the movement and was literally responded to.
 The meeting was also addressed by J. T. Vaughan and W. Maley ,of New York.