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Show o?uois. Wurkluciuen Orcttuf z.iuy: a 1'olUicul 1'urty. Philadelphia, 11. A wet.-titi cf workingmen was held to night in the Caledonian hall to concert measures to form a new political .Darty through which the worhiogmeu" of America hope and exptcc to maki their collective collec-tive inlluenco felt. Nearly all the trades were represented. The meeting meet-ing was private, and all reporters wore excluded. After the meeting it was announced that the following preamble and resolutions hid beeu adopted : Whereas, The lamentable state cf urlaira existing in this country having boon brought about by undue power granted laws to corporation capital, by partial legislation iu iu favor, by destructive laws through whhich associated asso-ciated laborers are deprived ot all right to regulate their own aflaira, and by the total alienation of government govern-ment and representatives in legislatures legisla-tures ana congress from the people who have entrusted them with their interests and protection; and Whereas, All etlorls having heretofore hereto-fore failed which have had tor their object the emancipation ot tho working work-ing claysea, owing to the manifold divisions in the ranks of labor, and Whereas, The destruction ot industries indus-tries oi the country and the pauperizing pauper-izing of ila labor must be the inevitable inevita-ble consequence of partial legislation on tbe part of our law makers, therefore, there-fore, Resolved, Tnat we earnestly to-commend to-commend the organization of workingmen work-ingmen for political purposes, to be called the Protective Labor Party, having for its object, first, the mutua protection of. labyr; second, direct representation of working classes ii: muaicipal and slate legislatures am: congreea; third, tho repeal of al! oppressive laws against labor; fourth tho enactment ot just laws for tht " protection of If.bor. The speeches made were of a conservative con-servative character. A communistic communication from tho working-men's working-men's party of the UniLed Slates was oflered to the meeting, but tabled unanimously. After the appointment of a commiltfje composed of delegates from the trades represented to draft plans of organization, the meeting adjourned. ad-journed. Columbus, O., 11, In the work-ingmen's work-ingmen's mass meeting, to-night, resolutions were adopted denouncing the republican and democratic parties, par-ties, aud the Hayes administration, at appointed an executive committee to take Bleps toward calling state and county conventions to nominate a full workingmen's ticket. Cincinnati, 11. The mass meeting here of workingmen nomiuated a full state ticket. For governor,. L. H. Bond of Cincinnati; Lteuleu ant governor, Frank S. Kadd of Cleveland, state treasurer, L. A. Hine of Cincinnati, clerk of th supreme court, Frtd. Amsperger o this city. |