Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — Workiugmen vs. Cleveland. [ARTICLE]

Workiugmen vs. Cleveland.

A regular-meeting of the Federation of Labor Unions was held Tuesday night, at Washington, D. C. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted : Whereas, Stephen Grover Cleveland is a candidate for President of the United States; and “ Whereas, the said Stephen Grover Cleveland has shown himself to be a bitter enemy of the workingmen and the workingmen’s interests, inasmuch as he has used the power (accidentally acquired) of vetoing all the bills which the workingmen have for years been trying to have enacted into laws in the State of New York, as follows: 1. A bill to reduce the number of,hohys; work tor street car drivers and conductors from Seventeen to twelve hours per day, vetoed by Stephen Grover Cleve- : Tagd. 2. A bill to prohibit the empldyß ing of children under 13 years of age in any mill or factory in the State of New York was vetoed by Stephen Grover Cleveland. 3. A bill to enable the wives and children of workmen and for others to ride on the elevated R. R. allo cents fare; Vetoed by Stephen Grover Cleveland. 4. A bill called a mechanics’ ieinlaw, to prevent swindlers from robbing workingmen out of their hardettrrwd wages; Vetoed by Stephen Grover Cleveland. 5. A. bill to.prohibit infection and disease from spreading throughout tlie community by forbidding the manufacture of any cigars in a tenement used as an eating, sleeping, and work-room, one room for all /purposesv-tluis placing—in of all smokers of low priced cigars the seeds of whatever disease may be prevailing in such places; Vetoed by Stephen GrovergCleyeland. Therefore be it. Resolved," DiaV the workingmen of the United Stateshave too much at stake to trust the power of vetoing of such bills as the eight hour law, and the bill to prevent the importation of foreign contract labor, and the bill to prohibit prison contract labor, and the bill to forfeit .all unearned grants of land made to • railroad corporations in . the hands of-StephenAdroveuCfeveFand. r Resolved, That we shall aid in every honorable way to defeat the vassel of corporations and the servant of capitalists— Stephen Grover Cleveland.