These are the figures of the Confederation of Labor. collected by their organization. coming from men who know. and they do not ask relief in the shape of subtreasury loans. they are not asking for silver bills. they are not asking for antioption bills. the object of which is to make the price of their food higher. They may tolerate these things. but they are not clamoring for them. They are not asking for the tariff to be raised any higher. or to be left where it is. but they are asking. among other measures. that we shall take a bold. honest step in favor of eight hours. that we will follow up the step we have already taken in excluding the Chinese laborer by this step. that we shall follow it up by efficient laws to keep out contract labor and suppress convict labor. Even this very morning I received from the Stonecutters Association in my own city an assurance that they are ready to prove that the stone for the great Government building at Detroit is .being cut in the penitentiary at Joliet by convicts.
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