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Show TELEGRAPHIC noicui.N'GilEX, A Mild Jlasa Meetiuc In Wash-loglou. Wash-loglou. The Chicago Cobblers Strike. Washington, 13. The first ol ft oeriea of maea meetings under the auspices of the workingmen's assembly, assem-bly, waH held bere hvet night. The speakers were moderate in tone and appealed to their auditors to abandou irresponsible leaders, and to eDter into a systematic, well devised plan for their own protection. They Bftid many attempts had been made to indoctrinate in-doctrinate ideas in the heads of true mechanics by stiollers which, il carried car-ried out, would do no good. Tney did not propose to array one class of laborers against another, nor to array labor against capital. Iucendiary epeeches would not benefit working-men. working-men. There must be a combination between all trades of the country, and a unity ot action, if they wished to force all those who are disposed to pauperize labor, to accede to their demands. Chicago, 12. Weber, who is the munofarturer who expreesed hia willingness wil-lingness in the case ot emergency to employ Chinese laborers, says what ever is done will be done by tbe manufacturers acting together. If he hires any Chinamen it will l-e for all the manufacturers and not for bis firm alone. There is no certainty about their being engaged at all, Mr. Weber stating that they would oot be hired unless they could be obtained to do the work for lea than the prices paid for prison labor. He did not know whether tbe strikers would re turn to work or not, as the manufacturers manu-facturers bad not been near them, and did not intend to go, and the strikers had not put in an appearance. Things were quiet at the shoemakers' shoe-makers' headquarters ibis forenoon, i John Mullio. tbe manufacturer who engaged the men yesterday at the prices, was around to day and secured the services of several of the best workmen in the city. He intends to add about thirty men to hia usual corps of employ, and will give them full wages. In regard to the Chinese question, men don't oare anything about it. It was hinted that if the movement to hire Chinamen wab made it would be nipped iu the bud, not by the shoemakers, but by out side parties. |