Year: 1877

San Francisco, Sept. GA mass
meeting of unemployed workingmen was
held at Union Hall last night. Some
2,30O people of both sexes were present
L. Day occupied the chair and intro
duced Hon. Phil. Roach as the first
speaker. Mr. Roach dwelt on the griev-
ances of the laboring class in the city,
decried the employment of extra police
during the late disturbances, claiming
that the money paid them would have
been better expended upon public i'm
provements, and that the Safety Com
Hlttee should have advanced the money
for the employment of the people in
stead of for the payment of extra police.
lie hoped the municipal government
would order sufficient work on Golden
Gate Park. the streets and sea wall, to
put unemployed men to work. He in
Weighed bitterly againgt the fact that
Chinese were supported by the wealth
Ter taxpayers, while white women are
deprived OF labor belonging to them.


ID hearny followed in highly incen-
diary speech. He said every working
man must add a musket to his house
hold property, and claimed that within
one year there would be at least 20, 900
laborers well armed and organized, and
able to demand and take what they
would, despite the military, police and
hoodlum safety committee. He not only
threatened the Chinese with summary
treatment, but inveighed against capital
lists Of the State, giving the names of
many, and revelng in such terms as
Hanging is necessary" "A few fires
Will clear the atmosphere" etc. He de-
clared he knew his speech was incen-
diary, and lie intended it should be;
that he knew the press would blame him +,
but he did not care for the "leprous
friendship Of the press" He respected
a certain morning paper, which he
claimed, was the only one in tbs city
that wonld give free expression to men
of his kind


The Chairman commented on the
speech, saying it might be considered
lncendiary, but desperate remedies may
be required before the Chinese are got
rid of. He then attacked the National
Government, on the ground that it had
tried for years to enslave the laboring
classes


Patrick Healy followed with On ad-
dress more incendiary if possible, than
the preceding. After naming a dozen
prominent citizens, he proposed as q
solution of the labor question that they
should be hung first, and then the Chi
nese taken in hand ae advised his
hearers TO join the militia, that they
might, by so doing, obtain arms to use
as occasion might require. He thought
it would be better to either swear slle-
glance to Great Britain or to throw off
the yoke of the Union and create u
workingmeus republic of the Pacific
coast. He spoke at length against free
trade, and declared capitalists must be
put down at all hazards.


kearny came to the front again, and
said that when be spoke of "the leprous
friends of the press" hs really meant
land grabbers, and not the press.


Mrs. swift, a prominent California
street stock brokeress, spoke in favor Of
working women. but thought before
working men talked of driving away the
Chinese they had better teach their
wives and daughters to take their places.


1t was resolved that headquarters
should be established where unemployed
workingmen may assemble and sign
their names as members of seli-pro-
tective organization. A resolution was
adopted appointing Mayor Bryant a
committee of one to receive subscrip.
tions in aid OF unemployed workingmen
and from persons whom the speakers
had expressed desire to hang. 1t was
also resolved to bold u mass meeting on
Sunday and big street parade soon
after


The meeting was very enthusiastic
and the remarks of the speakers were
loudly cheered.