Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-03-06
PROMOTERS OF MOVEMENT
| FORMULATE STRONG PLEA
Municipality is Urged to Issue Bonds
and Provide Public Word to Feed
and cIothe Those Who Are With.
out Employment.

police officials are preparing for trou-
BILE suct as was recently experienced
in Philadelphia, when the "army of
the unemployed" in the metropolis
attempt to hold a great demonstra-
ton in City Hall park tomorrow af-
ternoon. 1t is expected that small
army of police, both mounted and
foot, will be on hand in case the
demonstration is carried ont on a
large scale and will use harsh meas
ures to put down any move toward
rioting.
Members of the executive commit
tee of the Unemployed Conferenceof
New York, who assert that hey rep
resent 100000 men who are out of
work, insist that the demonstration
will be carried out in peaceful
manner and that the only object is
to urge upon the city, state and fed
eral officials the immediate necessity
of starting public works for relief
The Central Federated Union, rep
resenting union labor in New York,
has refused to give its sanction to
the demonstration. Conservative la
for leaders declare that the mo, :.
ment is a political scheme to further
the interests of the Socialists and
their chosen leader, William D. Hay
5wood. 1t is rumored that Haywood
will address the meeting of the I'M
employed tomorrow.
In their appeal to the unemployed
to take part in tomorrow's demon
stradon, the promoters of the move
nlent say:
This unemployed conference has
been called together in view of the
industrial depression now existing,
which is causing want and suffering
to hundreds of thousands of working
people in this city and to millions
throughout the country. Its purpose
is to demand and use all means to
procure measures for the relief of
these sufferings, and, at the same
time, to promote a correct under
standing of the causes of such indus
trial depressions so that their recur-
renee may be prevented in the fu-
ture."
"The conference recognizes that
measures of immediate relief are
imperatively necessary. The confer
ence therefore calls upon all labor
organizations to give 1T prompt and
energetic support in. inaugurating a
great, systematic and aggressive
popular demand upon the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the city, upon
the Governor and Legislature Of the
State and upon the President and
Congress of the United States, that
these public authorities use the law
making and taxing pawers to the fol-
lowing ends"
First, to undertake useful public
works upon a large scale and thus
give employment to those thrown out
of work in private industry, such
work not to be done by contract, but
under a system of direct employment
by the city, state and nation, SO that
all the moneys appropriated shall go
to the workers and none to useless
niiddlemen, and all such work to be
done under union conditions as to
hours of labor and wages, so that the
general stapderd of living may be
raised rather than lowered by such
public EMPLOYMENT.
"Second-At the same time to
enact and enforce such Legislation as
will abolish child labor and establish
general legal work day of not more
than eight hours, thus reducing the
competition in the labor market and
distributing employment to a larger
number Of persons. while also saving
the working people from the crying
evils which result from the exploit
alton of little children and from ex
cessive labor for adults
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