Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Want Freedom and an Extra Session. [ARTICLE]

Want Freedom and an Extra Session.

There is no mistaking the spirit and intent of these resolutions, recently adopted at Chicago: “The Trade and Labor Assembly of Chicago, a delegated body representing the organized artisans and mechanics of this city, desires to support the call made by various Journals and citizens for an extra session for the repeal of the McKinley law, •The verdict of the people at the last election was emphatic and overwhelming against the further continuance of a nationaPpolicy that restricts abd preys on the consumer. We, therefore, as the representatives of organized labor in Chicago, declare to you with all the solemnity of serious men and women, that, inasmuch as the only protection we secure as industrial units comes by virtue of our own organizations and the degree of intelligence and fraternity we cultivate among ourselves —we therefore request that this legal and arbitrary protection be unqualifiedly repealed. As workers, we' have no fear of our European fellowworkers. “We therefore ask you to aid in hastening the time when free trade, carried on by free men, will be the ruling policy of our nation.”