Thirty Years of Labor 1859-1889

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Never yet Share of truth was vainly set In tin: world's wide fallow. After hands sha.ll sow the seed, After bands from hill and mead Shall reap the harvest yellow.? Whittier. The Presidents of the Machinists' and Blacksmiths', Coopers' and Iron Molders' International Unions unite in a call for a...
More Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Never yet Share of truth was vainly set In tin: world's wide fallow. After hands sha.ll sow the seed, After bands from hill and mead Shall reap the harvest yellow.? Whittier. The Presidents of the Machinists' and Blacksmiths', Coopers' and Iron Molders' International Unions unite in a call for a convention?The first meeting a failure?Second session held at Cleveland?Robert Schilling elected President?Officers elected?Resolutions adopted?Convention styled Industrial Congress of the United States?Meeting at Rochester in 1874?Schilling re-elected President?President Robert Schilling issues call for another convention?Deputies appointed for thirty-one States?Currency question discussed at convention?Reasons advanced for adoption of currency plank?Preamble of the Industrial Brotherhood?A. Warner, St. John, and Robert Schilling agree on name Industrial Brotherhood?Declared formula of the organization?Motto selected? When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle?List of deputies?President authorized to appoint additional deputies?T. V. Powderly appointed for Pennsylvania?Convention to meet in Indianapolis in 1875?Apathy of trades unionists and workingmen generally?Comment of Public Ledger of Philadelphia on the preamble?Decay of the organization while the principles live on. T is a noticeable fact that while the efforts of the owners of capital are redoubled in the direction of intrenching themselves more securely in their possessions, while they leave nothing undone to add to their possessions, chapter{{Section 4the men of labor neglect their organizations and pay no heed to the future. Steady employment at fair wages to-day drives all thought of loss of time, reduction of wages an...