The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1896. FREE TRADE LOWERS WORKINGMEN'S EARNINGS. Itis now generally understood among the masses that the iree-coinage question | was formulated by the Democrats as a false issue. By throwing dust in the eyes of the people and holding up the counter- feit presentment they hope to gain votes, for they know full well that they would | not have received many on the record of President Cleveland as expressed in the Wilson bill. Not only do the Democrats of the entire country feel ashamed of the record of their party on the tanff issue, but all classes know that their policy of ruin has com- pletely prostrated the manifold industries ! of the country. The New York Sun, generally conceded to be the ablest Democratic paper in the United States, recently put the case of protection as against free trade quite plainly as it applies to the workingmen. It said: “‘There is only one country in Europe in which the wages of labor are within a half of what they are in this country. That is Great Britain. Wages in Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland are not one-third of what they are here. Those of Italy are not one-quarter. Lastyearcheap foreign labor was imported into the United States in the shape of manufactured goods to the value of $602,319,768. This was a great wrong to American labor. In the immense amount of imports permitted by our insufficient and detective tariff the labor of women employed in the Manches- ter (England) cotton-mills, whose wages do not age $60 a yeur, came into com- tion with the higher priced labor of } our Soutbern and Northern cotton-spin- ne nich is a gallery and center of art. rman women with as many as six United States ten thousand feet under the sea before the hideous spectacle shall pe- come an incident of our civilization! . “Nearly $700,000,000 worth of the starva- tion labor of Europe 1n the form of manuo- factured goods imported into this country last year! That which came from Bel- Rium in bales and boxes represented the wages of 22 cents a day for women and 43 cents for men; and the highest priced labor in loose cargoes of Belgian steel and Lmn represented wages less than 80 centsa ay. “Italian labor in Italian merchandise | was imported into this country last year, l in competition with American labor, at prices that should fill sensitive souls with horror and alarm the thoughtful for the future of the human race. The pay 1n the cotton factories of Naples is cents a day; of the Neapolitan marble and granite cutters, from 40 to 50 cents a day, acccord- ing to skill; of coachman, 30 cents; of women .in lace factories, 10 cents, and girls, 7 cents; of soldiers in the army, $2 a month. Of all the workmen in the glass works of Italy only the skilled blowers re- ceive as high as a dollar a day, and la- borers on farms, hoeing or making hay, from 15 to 18 cents a day, working from sun to sun. God save America from such wages!”’ Continuing the picture the Sun gave the children saw wood in its streets for 15cents ay. May a mefciful God sink the following interesting figures: | “In the Swiss silk goods which came Ruin. intc our country last year in those seven bhundred millions of imports was the skilled lubor of men at 41 cents a day and of women at 10 cents, both competing with the silk weavers of Paterson, New York, Philadelphia and Cheney. “Glasgow, in Scotland, is the largest steamship factory of the world, and its blast-furnace owners and iron-rollers howl for free trade day and night. Of the families in that manufacturing Sodom 41,000 out of 100,000 live in one room, and half of the men and women in the city are out of work. That one room for a family of father, mother, daughters and sons tells what wages are in Scotland and how they drag bumanity down into bestiality ana misery. % “‘Brothers, the Mills bill to reduce the tariff is the first step to that one room for an American family. Figntit without de- lay ‘and fight it to its death, and then make your tariff so protective as to shut out cheap foreign labor in the form of manufactured goods. *‘1t is undisputed that the wages of the American workmen are from 50 per cent t0 300 per cent greater than those of his Englisg fellows, The question then arises, 1s the purchacing power of a dollar in the hands of an American workman the same or is it more or less than the purchasing Eower of the equivalent of a dollar in the ands of an English workman? “‘The answer is, §1 will buy more in the A Picture of How Bryanism Would Plunge the Country Into Utter United States of such things as the work- ingman uses than 4s 1J4d will in England. Joseph D. Weeks, in & letter published in Triumphant Democracy, says: ‘It (§1) will buy considerably more flour, more meat, provisions, bacon, ham, vegetables, eggs, butter, cheese, farm products of all kinds, tea, coffee, more oil, a little less sugar, and in many parts of the country more fuel. As todry goods aud clothing it will buy more sheeting, shirting, prints and thingsof thiskind than can be bought for the same money there.” The more carefuily workingmen investi- gate the problem here in California, as elsewhere, the more thoroughly are they convinced that their inability to get em- ployment is due to the brief reign of free trade that has aiready afflicted them. It was recently shown in THE CaLt, in a series of interviews with typical working- men, just how they realize ihat free trade hurts them. In a simple, manly way the sons of toil told why they favor protection as the forerunner of prosperity. “Statistics zathered from every State in the Union within the past eighteen months,”’ said George L. Nolan, a promi- nent Eastern manufacturer’s agent, a few days ago, ‘‘show that ome cut of wages has followed another with great regulai- ity under the Wilson bili, and most of the factories that are NOW running are en- abled to do so by reason of reduced forces and lower wages.”’ ! here. That is the picture of the ruin thus far wrought, yet it is mild, indeed, compared with whaf the plans of Bryan would do, were he allowed to open the free-trade throttle to the extent he desires. Another picture of the rnin that pre- vails in free-trade countries is that made by the eminent Joan Bright, who por- trayed the condition of Glasgow; but, hor- rible as the condition there was, it is that which free trade would speeaily bring He said : “In the city of Glasgow alone 41,000 out of every 100,000 live in homes having only one room, and, further, nearly one-third of the whole people dwell in homes of only one room, and more than two-thirds of the people of Scotland dweil in homes of not more than two rooms. *“We find poverty and misery. What does it mean, when all these families are living in homes of one room, to us who have several rooms and all the comforts oflife? It means more than I can de- scribe” and more than I will attempt to enter into; and as need begets need, so poverty and misery beget poverty and misery.” And so in all our great towns, and not a little in our small towus, there is misery and helplessness, much as I have described. In fact, lcoking at the ast, to me it is a melancholy thing to ook at; there is much of it which éxcites in me not astonishment only, but horror. The fact is, there passes before my eyes a vision of millions of families—not indi- viduals, but families—fathers, mothers, children — passing, ghastly, SOrrow- stricken, in never-ending procession from their cradles to their graves.”” The workingmen of America have had a slight foretaste of what John Bright meant, for they know that the country is now on the way to desolation under the free-trade policy of which the Wilson bill is a mild forerunner. They begin to seas that there was wisdom in the policy of Clay and Blaine, a protective plan to pre- serve American industries and American liberties. LABOR DAY WAS FITTINGLY CELEBRATED Great Gathering of Toilers in Metrepolitan Temple. STIRRING SPEECHES AND LOVELY SONGS. Fair Women Added Grace to an Otberwise Imposing Assemblage. THE RELATIONS CF CAPITAL AND LABOR. Vital Themes That Were Understand- ingly Discustel by M ss Anna Shaw and Many Others. Organize bor, in its magnificent strength, held sway last evening in Metro- rolitan Temple. sans, their wive: ters and sweethearts, crowded the vast edifice and listened to the words of men and women who learned hey spoke in the workshops of this Stretched across the stage, high above | the speakers, the American flag hung be- tween the pennants of*many labor organi- zations. In the center, between the de- vices of the respective unions, was a plainer ner, silently extending to alla hearty “Welcome by San Francisco Labor Council on Labor Day, 1886.” The medallion in the center of the banner reaa abor is King.” The silken banners most prominent on the stage ana over it were those of the Ironmoliders, the Typographical, the Coopers’, the Cizarmakers’ and the Joui- neymen Bakers’ unions. Besides these emblems of this grand coantry and of the most powerful and honorable associations within it, little attempt was made at dec- oratio On the stage front a haif score of beautiful tioral pieces ited the ladies who with song and recitation helped to make the moments pass more pleasantly between the telling utterances of the speakers. On the stage were: President, T. F. Burns; viee-president, J. Hill; secretaries, Ed Rosenberg and Joseph Waiters; treas- urer, W. C. Ackerman; C. Shuppert, Miss Annpa Shaw, W. MacArthur and Thomas Hurd. Mr. Burns said it was his pleasant duty to introduce the speakers and also to! briefly outline the labor unionism. “Trades unionism,” he continued, “is objects of organized to suppress vice and compet- | tion among themselves. It is hard to con vince the middleman that competition is the life of trade when he comesinto con- tact with the great, mammoth concerns— combines that have for their object the concentration of wealth aud to crush out | all smaller rivals. No more can you tell a workingman that competition is the best thing for him. The iabor movement, in my opinion, represents the vanguarad of the industrial democracy.” The chairman was warmly applauded. He introduced Mark Dobrin, who read a voem, **‘The Judgment of Labo:,” written by Miss Gabriel M. C. Furlong, a member of San Francisco Typographical Union | No.21. The poem was dedicated to the San ¥rancisco Labor Council. Its climax— And in naming all thy glories, the dearest that we bless, The greatest, and the grandest, Is America's Free Press— Met the hearty approvai of the house, and the poem received an ovation. Mrs. J. Morrissey contributed to the pleasure of the evening by singing “Good- by, Summea” for which she was en- thusiastically applauded. In reply for an encore she sang “My Little Bweetheart, May.” J7 J. Galvin, ex-president of San Fran- cisco Lypographical Union No. 21, deliv- ered an address on ‘‘Children of the Trade Unions.”’ He said: Mr. President, feliow trade unionists, la- dies and_gentlemen: My lrpclrlncc here this evening I accept as a compliment 1o the trade union of which I am a member. The Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade for the man of business affairs, the Bar Association for the reputable attorney, the medical society for the pnysician who is not 100 closely related to the underthker and the trade union for the mechanic and for the arti- san who are capable and who are self-respect- ing. ill of the organizations named are identical as far_ad ethical obligations are concerned; they differ only in that the trade-unionistis a wage earner. T?ne underlying principles of trade unionism are a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work, and the greatest good to the greatest number. These principles require no elaboration they are eternal as the billowy ocean, an their fairness and justness are self-evident. All capital comes from labor, and all labor is performed by man. Hence, clrlul, labor and man are a trinity which should work to- ether in harmony. As health is man’s in- fiermnu from God, 80 is his labor the only means of preserving that health by enabling him to make a livelihood. Allowing that constitutions are necessary - Men, hardy men, arti- | for the government of states, and that the Board of Trade, the Bar Association and the Medical Society are essential for the mainte- nance of proper relations in business and pro- fessional life, manual labor, which is the basis of all wealth and of all government, steps modestly to the front, and says: ‘Gentiemen, we too 1ind it necessary to organize for the | protection of that labor which is the founda- tion upon which your grand superstructures rest, and we proudly present to you our trade and labor unions, So there can be no quarrel between honest capital and faithful labor; and faithful iabor is guarantéed by the trade unions. Such being the conditions and these being | our principies, we have organized into trade and labor unions, and the Guvernment of the United States has set apart this first Monday of September for the celebration of Labor day, in recognition of the claims of the working people as represented b{ these organizations. Then we have assembled here this evening to celebrate Labor day. And whatare our ac- complishments? Why do we celebrate? We precede commerce and we make the fine arts possible. We are the lllxlkinrz of the scientist and make the application of the Roentgen ray available. We say to the merchant: “Here is your good ship we con- structed it; and_ here are our jolly | sailor boysto man it, do business with the Indies and become rich.” We say to the iaw | student: ““Here is your college, we built it; | ana_ here is your Blackstone, we printed it. | Study hard and become a great ma We say | | to the young medico: ‘‘Here's your college also, we built it expressly for you; and here's | your skeleton. we made iL’—n0; 0! | is one thing we can’t do. We say: “Here’s | your college, voung Esculapius, go find your | subject; and here’s your box of nice little sur- | gical ~instruments” to dissect it, find ont whether it was sore throat or laryngitis.” We say to the composer: ‘‘Here are ihe piano, cor- net and violin; let us have your latest compo- siiion and our union musicians will perform. These are some of our accomplishments, Yes; and they extend much further. And when the question is asked, ‘‘Who are the nionsts, and what of their achieve. s?” the enswer comes: m the shop and the factory and the office; from the forge and the bench and the railroad train; from the foundries and the ironworks, and from that huge fortress of pro- tection and engine of destruction known as the lmu)u-shir. | From pillar and column and nave; from | tower and dome and tall minaret does the answer come: “We are thy handiwork, O children of the trade unions.”” From crest of spired cathedral to its founda- tion stone, with altar and chalice and organ | grand, the sacred edifice, with all its wealth of | rich belongings, consecrated to the service of | the living God, 1s the construction of the | artisans and the mechanics of our trades | unions. - |* Iadies and gentlemen, these are the monu- ments of labor. Are there any that are grauder, more enduring or more useful? And | their builders are the honest sons of toil who protect the dignity of their callings through their membership in the trade unions. But there are others to be heard from. of tne stout-hearted seamen? Over the realm of the storm-tossed sea, where God is still supreme, but where the elements are raging in tneir anger, from the disabled vessel comes the cry of the sailor man, “We will stand by our fuod ship till the last preclous life issaved —till the last precious life is saved.” And the musicians! What may be said of sweet music? It can only tell its own story. It is melod it is harmony. Itisof earth, yet is belonging to heaven. The prelude | of the orchestra; the chimes of the ves- per bell; the martial strains of the brass band; the mazy waltz; the sersnade of the moonlight; the reveille of the soldier; the ballad; the grand opera: the | sacred oratorio, and “Home, Sweet Home.” What tender memories of youth and mother | and the innocent days of chiidhood! Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Men® delssohn, Beethoven! Ye do well, oh, mem- bers of the Musicians' Union—ye do well—to surround the practice of your divine art with all the pure safeguards of trade-unionism! And what of the printing press! Of those who follow the trade of the great SBenjamin Franklin, the revered Horace Greeley and of our own brave townsman, James H.Barry; and among whom are to be found many of the brightest journalists living under our starry flag? Those esrnest men and women, who toil through the weary hours of the night that the world may be enlightened when the sun- | light greets the morn—what of them? From the East and the West, and the North and the South, centering round about New York, and there, from the office of the New York Journal to its sister, the Examiner, flashes the message: The members of the International Typo- | graphical Union of North America, on this, our Labor day, send you fraternal greetings to the number of 40,000, And we of the trades unjons have brothers far over theseas, and from beyond the Atlantic come their greetings to-night. : Bobbie Burns says, ‘A man’s a man for a’ that,” and this gem of Scotland’s bard will go down the ages as conveylnf the very highest conception of mankind’s integrity. Govern- ments may go wrong, but the great masses of the peoplée—never. And so to-day. Erom the llnrul grand old Gladstone and from the beauteous Rhineland; from the heathery hille of Scotland and from Lafayette’s sunny Fraunce, and from the shamrock-bedecked fields of ever dear old Ireiand, come messages of con- gratulation and of peace such s brethren send to brethren, Ladies and gentlemen, such are the trades unionists and such are some of their achieve- ments, Respectable in our personnel, honest in our purpose and asking for nothing but ustice. The man who is so fortunate as to be able to emnploy 1000 workmen has in a measure the influence o1 1000 men; he should not only be :?1‘“ demplonx. ‘but their protector and n end. You all remember the strike at Homestead, ‘where thousands of poor men were thrown out of employment because they asked for a rate of wages Whereby they could keep body and soul together. You all remember the relentless iyranny of that rich man who held the for- tunes of 8o many of his fellow-creatures. Youn remember how, during the labor troubles, he imported that ruffianly band, known as the Pinkerton detectives, toshoot down free Amer- ican citizens because they were exercising their heaven-born right of protecting their labor and providing for their wives and chil. dren—hired these Pinkerton detectives, beside whom the myrmidons ‘of old who followed Achilles against the walls of Troy were gentle- men—aye, they were patricians, Think of it, citizens; think of it, a man so favored in world!i goods that he was able to employ thousands of his fellow-creatures to work for him, and picture the pitiable spec- tacle of this man hiring unscrupulous wretches to protect him from the onslaughts of his own workmen—when he could have been loved by them, when he should have ‘been their counselor and their friend. Isit any wonder then that the name of Car, no; there | ety ‘THOMAS F. BURNS, President of the Labor Council. negie is held in execration by the masses of the American people ? At Puilman many workmen were receiving no more than 75 cents a day. A labor trouble ensued. The workmen sent a committee to interview the magnate and to ask for arbitra- tion. What was his answer? His answer—his heartiess answer—was, that there was nothing to arbitrate. You all know the stary of the subsequent happenings. Is it any wonder that the name of Pullman is held in execra- | tion by the great masses of the American peo- ple? I believe in “ De mortuis nil nisi bonum,” but as a man lives so shall he die. And when Jay Gould died, unwept, unhonored and un- sung, there were none =0 poor as to do him reverence. Collis P. Huntington of course you all know something of. He believes it the proper thing to oppress the workingmen and to send mil- lions of American money over the ocean to re« habilitate old world palaces and feed the hun- gry scions of B decaying so-called nobility, His code of ethics is oppression of the people, debauchery of their representatives and rob- bery of the Government, and I would con- sider myselr lacking in my duty es a citizen | and unworthy of the name of a trade-unionist if Idid not here to-night irom this platform denounce him asthe arch-enemy of the people, the arch-enemy of labor. And let me say to our brethren of the East that there is not one individual member of ‘a trade or labor union, or an independent man whatever his calling, upon the Pacific Coast, who does not re-echo this sentiment. Ladies and gentlemen, I have told you some- thing of the “Chiidren of the Trade Unions,” of their friends and of their oppressors. Our cause is just and all-embracing. The divine word has gone forth that truth and justice shall prevail; and as well forbid the roaring of the thunder or the whisperings of the breezes &s to forbid 1ts progressive march. The next number on the programme was a selection of songs by Messrs. Myer and McNeil, which was followed by a song, “Sing, Sweet Bird,” by Miss I\i Aspen, with violin accompaniment. Anndrew Furuseth of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific delivered an able ad- dress on “Trade Unionism, Its Necessity,”” in which he said: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: the church has set aside one day in the yeAn: to commemorate the birth of Christ (Christ- mas), Good Friday for the consecration of suffering, Easter Sunday for victory, and as Pentecost brings to our thoughts that assem- blage upon which descended the spirit of re- ligious. political and social equality—brother- hood—causing “no one to call anything his 80 has organized labor set aside this day as & milepost upon humanity’s road at which to linger for one brief moment while wedrink new strength from the fountain of :{ne gnn‘ b‘%help of which we m?m more clearly, suffer more patiently a; 'lxl‘lebl‘l,l}l'y in nlm Imt:re‘.) Y Son Lt n s day ays have been labor’s in which to serve or to seek an obnonunlg.l’t; serve, in which to have a master or to seek one, in which to strnggle against oppression or to soffer it, sometimes with hope, sometimes without {t, sometimes advancing toward s ter conditions, sometimes dreaming away the present in vain hope that oppression may cease of itself; again, at other periods, realizing that reforms come high and must be bought. by the life-blood of men and the tears of woma Tyranny is consiantly assuming new forms, and it i3 sometimes so seductive 1n appearance that its realnature is not discovered until the marching column has turned on its track ana is again approaching the servitude whence it SR ona 1 s road from slavery to freedom, fro: to harmony, from force to justice, as 'x:‘::: alon; it, s strewn with thie skeletons of hu- manity’s bravest and best, who on it suffered death under the pale,on the cross, at the stake, on the scaffold, in the prison or by pro- scription. From the times of the Greeks and Romans, with & civilization the fragments of Which have come down to us to testify to its greatness, but in which absolutism and in- equality ruled = supreme—imequality before God. inequality before the law, and in its later dn{fll especially, the master and siave on the fleld sud in the workshop—all of it force, authority, absolutism, we have attained to equality before God and at leasta preiense at €quality before the law. But as yet absolutism p;m;ficllly reigns supreme in our industrial system. g Agitation, organization and education have given'us what we have. We have by religious organization been taught that we are the children of the same God, and that he is no respector of persons. True, his kingdom has becndplnced above the skies, yet we pray, “Th kingdom come on earth.” We have been tol thatour bodiesare the temples of the living God, until the lash, if not abolished, has be- come disreputable, and the selling of that temple by others is practically abolished, yet, by their control of the means of living, weare forced to sell ourselves. Men have felt and reasoned that when there is equality before God any inequality before man must be wrong, And so, as I said, we have at least a pretense of equality before the law and in the State, and organization—politi- cal organization—has given us so much thereof as we have, and as we have been able to keep, Inspite of registration laws, educational and Pproperty qualifications, Novw, friends, as religious organization based uun religious discontent gave us religious liberty in spite of the stake, as political organi- zation gave us such political equality as we have in spite of the scaffold and the prison, so will industrial democracy come through in- dustrial organization, hostile employers, hos- tile legislation, apostate churches, cowardly and selfish workmen notwithstanding. It is therefor we organize into trade unions and why we brand the unafliliated workmsan asascab. Thisis why we strike against reduc- tion in the standard of living or to improve it; this is why we hear with joy of progress made during the past year. And, friends, there has been progress, both in this and other countries. The trade-union movement is growing in num- bers, in knowledge and in consciousness of its mission, and it is proud of the indorsement of such men as Engels, Mark, Thorald Rogers, Ruskin, Carlyle and Ely and can afford to listen in kindness to the criticism of some of the soctalists, whose fundamental principles are the motive power of the practical move- ment, though we disagree with them in some things, and especially in methods. The trade-union movement can look with pity upon such movements as the Emflloyen' Association, organized in 1892 to crusn labor and then to stimulate ‘““home industry.” The unions suffered and thereby were purified and hed their horizon enlarged, but what of home industry? Eastern shoes, Eastern cigars, East- ern castings, £astern almost everything, until our manufacturers are but the agents of East- ernh firms selling Eastern goods, while Califer- nia machinery is rusting. Molding shops are idle, while such eminent and loyal members of the Home Manufacturers’ Association as Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson are ullln{fi Oregon rison-made stoves. Shoe factories idle, while astern prison goods fill the market! . And yet they cannot see thattheir methods are destructive. True, labor also suffers, but then labor is used to that, and besides, men may move while buildings stay, and while the Half-Million Club is talking work workers go East in Coxey's armies or otherwise, and the half-million comes not to the city divided against itself. But we cannot afford tc think lightly of the efforts made through the press now and then to have laws enacted to punish what it pleases them to call *‘conspiracies in restraint of trade,” while under the name of arbitration they offer us laws to forbid organization, and even men who think themselves friends call out from the very housetops that ““trade-union- ism is @ failure and the strike a weariness of the flesh.” To talk of the equality of Huntington, employing 75,000 men, and his section-hand is well enonah as & sedative. but we must be awake to the danger ahead. Employing 75,000 men, having the power to say what our earn- ings shall be, what hours we shall work, to de- termine our standard of life, to say when we shall see our families, what the chiidren’s education shall be, a power to regulate the daily life of some 300,000 men, women and children, and to bring this power home to us unceasingly, every hour of the day, when the overseer 10oks &t our work or at us when. we straighten our backs, 8t every evening, when we may be told, **You are not wanted here any more”; every morning &t the factory gate waiting for that sign which to the worker means so much that around it centers almost every thought, and this daily need, this daily dependence, nt along with us even to the ballot-box. the history of the Saxon or Gotho-Germanic races Was ever such power given to individual man? The struggle, therefore, to-day is between religious and political equality seeling to ex- fend and compiete itself by occupylug. the industrial field and industrial absolutism seeking 1o stop the progress of the ages and turn the. march backward. This danger is real,and it expresses itself by gradually chang- ing our very Government from one of specific delegated powers to one in which the powers are to be inherent. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. That “wealth is king’” we have recognized for some tirhe, and any who doubts may ask the blacklisted trade-unionists, who, under changed names, are seeking the means of life away from their homes. We have, therefore, conspired to dethrone this king, hence they give 1o our organizations the names of con- spiracies in restraint of trade, and under the uise of “‘good of soclety’” they would now, as n the times of Caesar, issue edicts to desttoy this growing industrial democrati before it shall become numerous and strong enough to form an industrial republic or to effectually curtail the power of industrial despotism. That the hope of the future lies in organized labor has been recognized by all students of the social question. In closing, et me therefore again urge upon you the necessity of ‘organization. If you be opposed to absolutism join your trades union, or if your occupation be such that you neither have nor can have one, then give to this move- ment your moral support. vou would i prove the moral condition'of the workers and put some restraint on this “king,” then sup- gorg this trades-union movement. If yoube & bristian and hore for the coming of the kingdom for wh! ch you pray, then sup- port organization. If"you be ‘s workman, oping _jor better times to come in the immediate future, then. organize. Organ- ize into trade unions; into trade unions be- cause you who work at the same trade under- stand each other best, and mutual grievances give mutual sympathy. Let us organize to- gether that we may bear each other’s burdens, but above all let us organize that we may study jointly, study that we may jointly know, and now that we may act joinily in the interest of peace and progress in the times dangerous and doubtful, which, according to all students of sociology, are coming, times in which it may be decided for ages to come whether wealth :go:fld rule man or man be ‘“a man for a’ oL A song, “Rally,” was given by the co! poser and writer, Professor Henri Fair- weather; who was accompanied by his wife on the piano. The Rey. Anna H. Shaw was introduced. She was received with wild appiause from all parts of the house, and indeed, her address on ‘‘Woman’s Freedom,” was none the less warmly greeted, lor the audience was with the distinguished speaker. Miss Shaw addressed the union men as ‘‘fellow workmen,” and told the audience that there is no place 1n this world for a man who is not serving the race, or seek. ing to serve it. There is no use either in this universe for a woman who is not serving_her race, or seeking to serve it. She said that inventions, machines, had taken the work of the household into the workshops, and women followed them to the factories. Women going outside of the houses to toil merely followed their vocations where changed conditions sent them. Itis a mistaken idea, Miss Shaw de- clared, that women are toiling selfishly. It is the misfortune of men that they have been incapacitated for toil, and in New York there are 20,000 women supporting husbands who have been laid aside by sickness or accident. All over the coun- try women are toiling for their bread, and it has been their greatest misfortune that heretofore they Lave worked alone. By organization only can they meet and overcome the conditions against which men and women alike are struggling. She said to the women of San Francisco, Or- ganize! “It takes men a long time to learn that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,” she continued. “It bas taken men who have been sing- ing ‘The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave’ for 100 years just 100 years to realize that it is as important for them that woman should have the same free- dom and power by which she can attain to her highest development. What is wealth? Some man has said ‘wealth is King.” He wasright. Whatisthe wealth of the world? Is it the gold stored up? Labor is wealth; laboris King. Youhave your right hand of labor free, but the left hand of labor is tied. Untie this hand then, so that the women laborers of Cali- fornia may go with you to the ballot-box. You laborers are under the greatest disad- vantages to-day because women are dis- franchised. ‘‘As the men toilers of the State need the ballot-box to protect themselves, sostoo, the women toilers need the ballot-box to protect them. If men need the ballot and organization to protect their integ- rity, therr manhood, how much more does woman need it to protect her virtue, her integrity, her womanhood ?'* In the name of the women organiza- tions of the country she thanked the labor unions for what good they have done for W omen. The orchestra broke in upon the ap- plause following Miss Shaw’s closing words with “Home Sweet Home" and the celebration of Labor day was at an end. OUR mew presses, insuring good and cheap printing, are here. Sanborn, Vi Co. . ———— A Wrestling Match. 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