Year: 1873

CINCINNATI Dec. IA, 1873


A very large and excited meeting OF working
was held in Arbeiter Han, over the Rhine
last night, Tor the purpose OF taking action on the
stagnant Industries. peder by the name OF
Halter was called to the chair, and


STIRRED UP THE PASSIONS AND PREJUDIcEs
OF the crowd by telling them with bitter emphasis
that the rich would not help them, but ex-
pected them to toll on until old age, when
they would be lett TO die in the poor
house. .Look,n said he, show it is in the world
to-day. Men who work live In novels; men who
do nothing live in palaces. The rich tell you that it
the beer you drink that causes your poverty,
and call you extravagant for drinking the simple
glass that sustans you in your daily toll, while
they grovel IN luxury and indulge in costly wines
and oyster suppers. The time has come when you
should take hold OF this matter and comprehend
what measures it is necessary to adopt to gain
your rights"


FIERY YOUNG MAN


took up the cry next, and shreked out that every
body present had suffered from the oppression OF
capital. The monopolsts had grown rich from the
sweat OF the poor mans brow, but they didn't
intend to stann it any longer. They were not
going to die OF starvation. There was an alter
native (the only one leit, and that was to take up
arms unless their demands were acceded to by the
rich corporations Better die with arms In their
hands than to die OF starvation.


These incendiary sentiments were received with
roaring thunders of applause.


A STRING OF RESOLUTIONS


were next read, to the effect that the city was
bound TO md employment for everybody who
wanted it, and that the city government be re-
CURED to find work at 81 so per day OF eight hours.
cut down the price OF city labor IRON So to 81 rs
per day, and provided Tor workingmen's process
Mayors oe 'Rs %here city T G tn be
formally demanded, and the New York reso-
lutions were adopted with howl of ap-
probation with the amendment "Glve work or
remission OF three months rent" The city soup
houses were denounced and the newspapers which
advocate any cutting down Of wages.


THE PEDLER WOUND UP THE PROCEEDINGS
with hOwling speech, as follows Ills 1t only the
poor that shall suffer in this crisis while the rich
nabobS draw back from us and show just what
they are willing to giveP Is the condition or the
aboring classes of the country to become what it
shall not be the first to be struck by the storm OF
the present panic; that he shall not be the only
sufferer; that his labor IS worth as much now as it
ever was, and must not be cheapened to him and
his family because labor is SO plenty and say to
the journal that attempts this that those
us, to be bought and sold in the
market-who are against the laboring classes and
their interests, should receive the anathemas
OF the worKingmen rom one end OF the country to
the other. Let these journals, these officers un-
derstand from. you that the first vote you get at
them Will repudiate such doctrine and leave that
kind OF cattle out in the cold. say to you, WORK.
ingmen, that you have the power in your own
IL yOu VIII Ouly use lt lou nave the Tlglt
to take the government by the handle. You have
the votes to do it, and hereafter when YOU see
men who are opposed to labor and in favor OF cap
ital, use your power against them, and when you
subscribe Tor papers see to 1t and take papers that
support your interests and not those that 20
against you.


NEWSPAPER OPINION OF THE MEETING.


The Commercial, commenting upon this demon
stratiOn to-day says:-"We do not believe work
ingmen have much to do with the movement that
would force the city to give out large jobs where
there is nothing to do, and pay wages at the high
ND fnrn fo1
Some OF the old municipal thieves are getting up
the row. They want work cut out not that en-
ployment may be given the destitute, but tAat the
prohigate may have an oldfashioned season OF
piering,O