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Name of Paper Kentucg Statesman City Lexyg‘ tm, Kentucgy
V Date September 8, 1868 Secticn of Paper 1 Page 2 Column 4
Worker‘s Name Single-hm
‘ For Governor
Baker - 25,754 Republican
Stevenson-114 ,412 Democra t
1 Kentucky Statesman Sept. 8, 1871 Sec.l, Page 2, Col. 4
For Governor ‘
Harlan - 89,299 Republican
Leslie - 126,455 Democrat
Lexington Weekly Press Lexington, Kentucky
’ Sept. 5, 1875 Sec. 1. Page 8. Col. 2.
For Governor
McCreary - 126,976 Democrat
Harlan - 90,795 Republican
Lexington Weekly Press Lexington, Kentucky
» September 3, 1879 Sec. 1, Page 8, Col. 2
‘ For Governor '
Blackburn - 125,799 Democrat
Evans - 81,882 Republican
Cook — 18,954 National
Lieut. Governor
James E. Cantrill 124,568 Democrat '
O. S. Deming 81,201 Republican
D. B. Lewis 18,487 -

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The Lexington neuder. nexington, Ky.
. August 19, 1927. section 1, Bage 1, column 4.
For Governor
becknaa --lol,559 Democrat '
Aobert Crowe -—158,090 Democrat
demgeon _-125,302 iepublican
nuoae -- 85,927 iepublioan
Lieutenant Governor
James Breathitt, Jr. 3,592 Democrat.
' the E. Nelson -- 9,598 Republican
The Lexington Leadero Lexington, Ky. '
November El, 1951. Section 1, Page 12, Column 7.
For Governor
Ruby Laffoon -—446,301 Democrat
Jilliam B. Horrieon574,239 Republican
Lieutenant Governor
n. B. Chandler —-426,247 Democrat
John C. Toreham ~~355,573 iepublioan
The Lexington Herald, Lexington, Ky.
HoVember 14, 19555 Section 1, Page l, Column 4,
Jor GoVernor
A. fig Chandler -—555,644 Democrat
King SWOpe -—4ol,561 xeoublioan
. Lieutenant Governor
Johneon w-515,694 Democrat
J; J, Kavanaugh ——107,556 Republican

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The Press Transcript. Lexington, Ky.
Hovember 17, 1895n Section 1, Page 11, Column 2.
For Governor
Hardin --163,524 Democrat:
Bradley --17?,A36 dagublioan.
Pettitt -— 16,911 Poonlist.
Demaree -— 4,188 Prohibitionist.
Lieutenant Governor
Tylor -—156,045
Jortnington --164,990
nlair -- 15,957
, nughes —— 5,872
The horning Herald: Lexington, Ky. .
E0vembe: 24, 10050 section l, Rage 1, Column 7.
For Governor
J. 3. W. Becknam ~-229,014 Democrat°
A: B. belknap ——202,764 Republican;
To B. Demaree —- 4,830 Brohibitionis‘te
kdam Hagel -- 2,044 Labore
Llfred fichmutz —- 615 Socialist‘
Lieutenant Governor
73 Pa Thorne -—223,086 Democrafi.
J. E. filhoit ——199,l49 Republican.
0. T. Vallaoe -- 4,714 Prohibitionist.)ierald
Eu 3. larkert -- 2,040 Labor. le-Ew'QB
James Doyle ~— 554 Socialiet. )Bagc 2 Col. 4
The Lexington Leader” Lexington, Ky.
December 8, 19073 3eotion l, Page 4, Golnmn 5.
For Governor
3. Us Eager —-196,428 Democrata
A: L. Jillson -—214,4Sl Aegnblioane
n. n. Bioket -- 0,552 Brohibition
Claude nndreus -— l,499 socialist
J. H» urnold —_ $81 Socialist Labor

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The World Almanac Record of Election
Vorte ’r Heme .vge-Jr-;:..;5.a.lle1e ._ - m.
Returns for Govgggg; in Kentucky
1875 flcCreary --125,g75 Democrat
Harlan «m 33,?95 Republican
1879 Blackburn --125,799 Democrat
Liana -5 81,832 Republicul
Cook -u 18,954 Granger
18?3 Knott -=l$$,615 Democrat
Morrow -_ 89,l81 chublican
1337 Buckner -~144,619 Democrat
Bradley -—lB7,604 Republican
Gardens -— 4,437 Lnbor
E01 -- 8,390 Prohibitionist
1891 Brown -—144,163 Democrat
Jood --ll§,087 Xepublican
Erwin nu 25,351 Labor
Harris -— 3,293 Brohibitioniat
1895 Hardin --163,524 Democrat
Bradley —-l72,436 Reoublican
Pcttitt mu 15,91l Pogulist
Demarce as 4,186 Brohibitionist
1899 Goebel ~~lQl,331 Democrat
Tnylgf ~u193,719 Bopublicon
3,038 Bopulist
9,346 Prohibitionist '
190} Gocbel ~—239.273 Democrat
Taylor ~-226,755 Ragnblican
1903 Beckham --229,014 Democrat
Belknap —~?0?,7€d Republican
Demarce m- 4,830 Prohibitionist
Eagel -m 2,044 Socialist
Schmhta —- 515 SDCLHl L939?
1907 nfiger --196,423 Democrat
Jillson ~~3l4,481 flopubllcwn
:ioketi -- 6,352 Prohibitionist
1911 LoGroary -~326,771 Democrat
o'fiear --195,456 Recublican
&odd -- 5,675 Prohibitionist
uflflfflflafilk ~~ 8,718 socialist
grnold -- 800 Social Labor
Buyicn ~— 218 Peoole's

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1915 Stanley --219,991 Domocrat
‘ Lorrow -—219,520 iegoblican
' Prexler -= 1,371 Progreasive
Dobbs -~ 5,317 3ocialist
Pickett -- 4,201 Prohibitionisfi
1919 Elmck n-Eli,lld Democrat
Lorrow —=?54,290 Ropubliaan
Becker -- 4,221 Socialist
1923 Fields -—548,029 Democrat
Dawson --295,082 ieoublican
1927 Backhan —-367,567 Democrat
393193911 -—419,’70a) .IEEQUJDliCESLYI
195i Laffoon —-@%S,513 Democrat
Harrison -—366,982 Republican
Thohe __ 1,165 Socialist
Hornung -- 1,143 labor

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1927 Beckham - 367,567 - Dem.
Sampson - 419,700 — Rep.
1931 Laffoon - 438,515 - Dem. ’
Harrison — 366,982 - Rep.
Thobe - 1,183 — Soc.
Hornung — 1,148 — Lab.

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Name of Paper Lexington Weekly Press City Lexington, XX
Date Sept- 3,1891 Seo.ofPaper , 1 Page 4 Column__§__
Worker's Name Singleton
For Governor
Brown — 141,188 - Democrat
Wood — 108,087 - Republican
Harris- 3,293 — Prohibitionist
Erwin — 25,631 — People's Third Party
Lieut. Governor
Alford - 143,349 - Democrat
Houston — 114,988 — Republican
Winslow — 3,045 ~ Prohibitionist
Smith - 25,330 - PeOple's Third Party
v The Press Transcript Lexington, Kentucky
November 17, 1895 Section 1, Page 11, Column 2
For Governor l
Hardin - 163,524 — Democrat
: Bradley - 172 ,435 - Republican
~ Pettitt — 16,911 - POpulist
Demaree - 4,188 — Prohibitionist
Lieut. Governor
Tylor — 156,045 — Blair - 15,957
WorthingtOn - 164,990 - Hughes - 3,872

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Name of3Paper City
Date Sec. of Paper Page Column
Worker's Name Sallee
The World Almanac Record of Election Returns
for Governor in Kentucky
1875 McCreary ' — 126,976 — Dem.
Harlan - (90,795 — Rep.
1879 Blackburn — 125,799 - Dem.
Evans — 81,888 — Rep.
Cook — 18,954 — Granger
1883 Knott — 133,615 — Dem.
Morrow — 89,181 - Rep.
1887 Buckner - 144,619 - Dem.
Bradley - 127,604 — Rep.
Garden — 4,487 — Lab.
Fox — 8,390 — Prob.
1891 Brown — 144,168 - Dem.
Wood - 116,087 — Rep.
Erwin — 85,361 - Lab.
Harris ~ 3,893 - Prob. _
1895 Hardin - 163,524 — Dem.
Bradley - 178,436 - Rep.
Pettitt - 16,911 — Pop.
Demaree — 4,188 — Prob.
1899 Goebel — 191,331 — Dem.
Taylor — 193,714 — Rep.
3,038 — Poo.
8,346 — Prob.

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Name of Pepe;___mm__mfiwmmw§mwmmm__‘m‘w”W*__ City
Date bee. of Peper Page _0o1umn
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1900 Goebel - 230,275 — Dem.
Taylor — 826,755 — Rep.
1903 Beckham ~ 229,014 — Dem. v
Belknap — 802,764 — Rep.
Demaree — 4,830 - Prob.
Nagel - 2,044 - Soc.
Schmutz - 615 — Soc. Lab.
1907 Eager — 196,428 — Dem.
Willson - 214,481 — Rep.
Pickett — 6,358 — Prob.
1911 McCreary - 226,771 - Dem.
- O'Rear - 195,435 - Rep.
Rodd - 3,873 — Prob.
Lanforselk— 8,718 - Soc.
Arnold — 800 - Soc. Lab.
Payton - 818 — Pro.
1915 Stanley - 219,991 - Dem.
Morrow - 219,580 — Rep.
Prexler — 1,371 — Prog.
Dobbs — 3,317 — Soc.
' Pickett — 4,801 — Prob.
1919 Black - 214,114 - Dem. ‘
Morrow - 254,890 - Rep.
Becker - 4,281 - Soc.
1923 Fields — 348,089 - Dem.
Dawson — 895,088 - Rep.

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 . PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT A MEETING OF THE
MECHANICS AND NORKING MEN OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE,
December 27, 1860. — LOUISVILLE DAILY JOURNAL. - -
January 7, 1861. Page 3, Column h.
Whereas, it is apparent to every true lover of his country's good,
that the glorious confederation of states, under which we (as a people)
have so long lived and prospered, is threatened with dissolution, and the
magnificent Temple of Liberty, erected and cemented by the blood and toil of
our patriotic forefathers, is shaken to its centre amidst the storm and treason '
of fanaticism hurled against it by shameless recreants, who in the hour of their
country's peril stand perjured before the nation and high Heaven by the be-
trayal of the high and important trusts confided in them by generous and over—
trustful constituencieS.
. And, Whereas, The world's hope of freedom is centered in America, to
which we, with beCOming and patriotic pride, have, for over three quarters of
~ a century, looked to as the asylum of the Oppressed, the land of the free,
the home of the brave. Shall that hOpe be now lost? Shall that freedom be
now circumscribed and descrated by the mad fanatics who rule the hour? fanatics,
who with unholy zeal would plunge their country, their brothers and kindred '
into the dark and fearful abyss of disunion and civil war? God forbid itl
Men of America, permit it not. Freeman, working men, brothers, patriots of
Kentucky, resist it unto the bitter endl Therefore -—
1. Resolved, That we, the working - men of Louisville, without dis—
tinction of party, believe, that as a consequence of the sectional controversy
now agitating our country, we are approaching the verge of social and financial
‘ ruin. That our material prOSperity, our hopes of happiness and future security
depend upon the continuance of the Union as it is.
2. That in the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United
States under the forms prescribed by the Constitution, we do not recognize any
just cause, or admit as reasonable, any pretext for the abandonment of this
mighty fabric of government, founded as it was by the wisdom and patriotism
of our illustrious sires.
3. That, in the mere abstract questions which have been used to dis-
tract and divide the honest masses, the working—men of the country have no
real interest; and as we can hardly hope for a safe solution of pending dif- V
ficulties through the politicians of the country, we therefore exhort our
brethren throughout the land to lay aside all party feeling, sunder forever the
ties that have bound them to favorite leaders, and unite in one solid column
for a single purpose n the preserVation of the Federal Union.
h. That, under the circumstances of our position, furnishing as we do —
the nerve, the strength and skill in the multiplied industrial interests of
the country, and at necessity's call freely breasting the tide and brunt of
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war, we will not desert the gallant old ship of Union-freighted as she is—
with the liberty, happiness, and prosperity of more than twentyefive millions
of human beings — so long as one timber remains above the surging sea, or one
shred of the glorious emblem of our national unity is to be seen at her mast—
head.

5. That we view with scorn and deep indignation the course being pur—
sued by the disorganizing traitors who are now at the Federal Capitol plotting
treason against the greatest and best government ever instituted by man; that
we hope the ground — swell of public sentiment now rolling up from an outraged
and indignant people may reach and overwhelm them; that they may be swallowed
up in the sea of eternal scorn and contempt, into which all traitors to their
country should be relentlessly cast.

6. That the Union must, will, and shall be preserved, with the coopera-
tion of our brethren in all the states, in building a bulwark around Freedom's
Temple, from which we will, with speedy hands, hurl the accursed traitors who
have with impunity desecrated its inmost sanctuary.

7. That we discountenance any and all attempts made by partisans or
public papers towards disunion, believing that such are not the sentiments of
the people of Kentucky. '

8. That we earnestly recommend to the working-men of every state, the
calling of conventions in their various Congressional Districts, to take into
consideration the action of their Representatiyes at Washington, and demand
the immediate resignation of all such ultra or sectional men as are now by
their action imperilling the safety of the Union.

9. That the chair appoint a committee, to consist of one from each
mechanical trade and the merchants, to prepare an address to the working-men
of the U. 3., and to correspond with the various mechanical, mercantile, and
agricultural interests of the country, conveying COpies of the proceedings of
this meeting, and suggesting, among other things, the time and place for

_ holding a general convention.

10. That as charity should begin at home, we will in future discard
all party issues in our selection and support of candidates to fill the various 1
officesof anyone who uses means or influences in any way abridging the privileges
of the elective franchise.

ll. That, as a local matter, we, the working men of Louisville, will
not support for office any man who is or may be known to entertain disunion
sentiments. ‘

12. That copies of the proceedings of this meeting be furnished the
city papers for publication, and that all papers favorable to the maintenance
of the union be requested to copy.

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At same place, p. 3, col. h, is to be found a copy of the address
' prepared by a Committee consisting of:

John Ba Curry, Fall City Marine Institute

Will Be Horan — Stove Moulders' Union

Alf. 3. Kierolf — Typo. Union

R. King - Maohinists' and Blacksmiths

John - Cigar Manufacturer

C. H. Hart — Carpenters and Builders

W. H. Powell - Machine — Moulders Union

Joseph A‘ Gillies — Merchant

George.&. Houghton — Engineers' Association

John Pearce - Boilermaker

William Drysdale - matchmaker and Jewelry

Henry W. Ran _ Machinist andxfiniiflffiffigal Union

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Louisville Daily Courier -
Monday Morning, January 7, 1861
Address to the Mechanics and Workingmen, Farmers and Merchants of the U. S.

‘ Friends and Fellow~citizensz {

At a mass meeting of the mechnaics and workingmen of Louisville,
Kentucky, held in the City Hall on Thursday evening, December 27, 1860, the
undersigned were appointed a committee to prepare an address, and submit
to your approval the resolutions adopted by that meeting.

We feel that the time has now arrived when the hard working,

‘ peaceful, and conserVative men of our country should speak out for them— ,
selves. The men whom our suffrages have elected to the highest offices of
government have proved themselves incompttent to manage any longer the
ship of the State, and unless we can make them listen to the voice of
reason and conservatism, we must hurl them from their high stations, and
put better men in their places. The i sue is now made up, and the guestion ‘
for us to determine is, not whether designing, base political demagogues
and fanatics shall have their way, but whether our liberties, our institu-
tions, and our treat and glorious nation shall be perpetuated. The Negro
question has been so long agitated, and so much strife and animosity en—
gendered by it in our halls of legislation, that the public interests
are sacraficed, our country distracted, our high places-ofrpower and trust
filled by dishonest and unworthy men, and in the general scramble of office-

- seekers and office holders our public purse has been plundered, and our
:overnment involved in almost hopeless bankruptcy. ;
' We say, then, the time has come for the people to rise up in
l -; their might, and rebuke the partisan :ricksters and political jug lers,
k who have driven us on to secession and revolution, regardless of the ruin
l. and misery and woe they have already brought upon the industrial, agricultural

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and mercantile classes of the country, and who would oull down the Con-
stituiion, that plorious palladium of our liberties, in the hope of dividing
among hhemselves the spoils.

We, the workingmon and yoemanry of this Republic, are tired of the
everlasting turmoil, and we are determined to lay aside our individual
party prejudices, our old warty organizations, and former political prefer-
ences, and units together as national men--as the National Party of these i
United States; and we fling our banner boldly be the breeze, inscribed with ,
the motto of our great Webster: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one
and inseparable."

We call on you as fellow-citizens, not of our State or your State,

. but of the United States. We call on you as Union-loving men of this great

nation, to join us in this great work. We appeal to you, by the love of our
common country, its honor, and glory among the nations of the world; by the
glorious stars and stripes of our country‘s flag; by your love of your .
children and your desire to leave to them unsullied the peace and happiness,
the liberties and free institutions you have yourselves so long enjoyed,
to divest yourselves of all alliances to men or party that will hinder
you from coming up as one man, with one voice, to the rescue of the Union;
and let your war-cry be in the words of the heroic Jackson: "The Union
must be preserved!"

Would our people only stem to consider the consequences
that must inevitably ensue from a dissolution of the Union; could they but .
see the strifes and bickerings, the wars and rumors of wars, the burdens of
taxation that must be laid by every State or Confederacy to keep up a
separate government and a standing army; could they see for one day the

” evils and sufferings that must flow from trade and manufactures prostrated--

from the great agricultural interests ruined by the clogging of the wheels

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of commerce, and the conflicting interests of the various sections of our
extended country should its present Federal Government be destroyed, we feel
assured that they would turn from it with horror and dismay.

The evils we are now enduring, the want, privation and suffering

I we are now undergoing, presents a picture of distress terrible enough. lut
the horrors of civil war would increase it tenfold, and upon us, the Me-
chanics and Workingmen of the nation, the burden of these evils would prin-
cipally fall. ,

There seems to us then but one remedy left, and that is for us to
stand up in one united band, and, with earnestness of soul, protest against the
mismanagement of the men now in power, and compel them to pause and retrace
their steps. The sovereignty of this nation lies in the hands of the People,
and if ouf public servants will not hear of our solemn remonstrance, we
should see that their places are soon filled with other men who will truly
represent us.

The resolutions, passed by a unanimous vote of the largest meet-
ing of workingmen ever held in our city, indicate the course we should
pursue. Let us meet together in the various towns and cities in the
several States. Let us call our Conventions in the various Congressional
districts. Let us instruct our public servants how to act in our behalf,
and if they will not obey us, demand their immediate resignation. Let us be
up and doing at once. Above all, let us be united ourselves, and let the
American Union be the altar on which we will sacrifice all our differences
of opinion on subjects of minor importance.

As citizens of Kentucky, the Central State of our glorious Con-

. federacy--that State whose devotion and loyalty to the Union has never been
questioned--that State whose sad now holds the ashes of the revered, the
venerated and immortal Henry Clay, in our undying love for the memory of

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that great statesman--that patriot who sacraficed his own ambition on the
. altar of his country's good-—suffer us again to use his own words, spoken on
the occasion of his retirement from public life, in 1843, when our country was
suffering from a similar excitement:

"Fellow-citizens of all parties, the present situation of our
country is one of anexampled distress and difficulty; there is no occasion
for despondency. A kind and bountiful Providence has never deserted us.
Punished us He perhaps has, for our neglect of His blessings and our mis-
deeds. We have a varied and fertile soil, a genial climate, and free institus
tions. Our whole land is covered in profusion with the means of subsistence
and the comforts of life. Our gallant ship, it is unfortunately true, lies

I helpless-- tossed on a tempestous sea, amid the conflicting billows of con-
tending parties, without a rudder and without a faithful pilot! But that Ship
is our Country, embodying all our past glory--all our future hopes. Its
crew is our whole People, by whatever political denomination they are known.

I If she goes down, we all go down together! Let us remember the dying words
of the gallant and lamented Lawrence, 'Don't give up the shin.'"

The glorious banner of our country, with its unstained Stars and
Stripes, still floats at its masthead. With stout hearts and strong hands,
we can surmount all our difficulties. Let us all rally around that banner, and

‘ ' finally resolve to perpetuate our liberties and regain our lost prosperity.

Come, then, mechancis and workingmen, farmers and merchants; come,
all who have our country and our country's glory! Come, all who desire the
perpetuation of our liberties and our free institutions; comet let us
bury our ultraism both North and South. Let abstract questions, that have
so long divided us, be dropped at once and forever. Let us each and all
be just and generous to each other!

Let us substitute brotherly love for sectional hate--the spirit .

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of recrimination. Let us be reconciled as one family, and live together
in peace and harmony, now and forever.
Signed: John B. Curry, Falls City Marine Institute; Will Horan,
Stove-Molder's union; Alf. S. Kierolf, U. S. Typographical Union; John Homire,
Cigar Manufacturer; C. Y. Horst, Barpenter and Builder; W. H. Powell,
Machine Molder's Union; Joseph A. Gillies, Merchant; Geo. A. Haughton,
Engineers' Association; John Pearce, Boiler-Maker; Henry W. Ran and
Richard King, Machinists( and Blacksmiths' 'Union.

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1‘ I At enacting: of the “Lox. Timon. Soc.“ held on the fam’r’fi of the
3th inst... the meeting was called to order by the pres. Lemar: N ’2
2113110121.. and after verimls pmlimimmy mslness the {anemia Preamble ’-
end Resolutions. offered by Mr. Joseph Etter, were adogted. and a com-
mittee of 3111‘83 appointed to place the donation in the hands of the "‘
Texas Commissioner. ' V
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; mnegestien that other societies adept similar resolutions. See next L
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‘ 1 At the ems meeting. it was unenimonely W that the Editors 1 ”
and maploying Printers of this City. together with all meeting-1. Winters
throughout the State, who are 3101?] er‘sneomed in publishing nesegnpers, 8:6. ‘
”be, and they are hereby elected hORDX‘CLZ’y members cf 13:.” Society -- to “a, . ‘ _

‘1 enjoy the righte and pfli‘J‘ZiYLQfiGS 0:53 momherehip so 3.0115 as. they sir—311 conform ‘4
t ‘ 1 to the rites and I‘Ol‘};}.‘.‘:,§l'§if‘fl€3 of tile sea-31mm“ W ‘33th the Editors
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3/ in this City “be requested to 3;:uhli oh the proceedings of til 93 meeting.
' I Joseph ltttot, . 2%
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 THE NATIONAL LABORER, Philadelphia: Vol. I, No. 11, p. re,
col. 1 (June h, 1836)
The march of union is onward. The mechanics of
Louisville have organized a Trades‘Union. Seven societies
are already in the Union, and others are preparing to join.
' Those now composing the Union are the Tailors, Cordwainers,
Printers, Coach Makers, Saddlers, Cabinet Makers, and Tin
Plate workers.
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THE NATIONAL IABORER, Philadelphia: Vol.1, No. 12, p. M7, ,
col. M (June 11, 1336)
(HOTE: The following is taken from a letter written to »
Tho National Laborer by the Secretary of the Trades Union
and informing the paper of - Union convention which had
recently been held.) (h«&14
The Corresponding Secretary then read a letter from the
Trades Union of Cinéinnati, stating that they had organized a
Union, consisting of fourteen Trades, numbering about seven hundred
names; also a letter from the Corresnonding Secretary of
Louisville, Kentucky, informing the Convention that they had ’
formed a Union, and that a processnon of Trades was contemplated.
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LMK}? ACTIVITY IN KUH’FUCKY PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR
The beginning of a real American labor movement is said to I
date from 1827 when the Journeyman Garpenters of Philadelphia went on ‘
strike for a ten-hour day. The movement is said to have begun here
because the unity of action of laboring people growing out of this
strike transcended the limits of onthrade and took the form of
political action by many different labor groups to promote the cause ‘
p of equal citizenship. In order to have equal citizenship, more
leisure and public education were considered essential. and a movement '
started to promote them.
The State of Kentucky was in 1827 a western, pioneerJand agricultural
Commonwealth. Consequently the labor movement here Was begun and
promoted by the various types of craftsmen found in such a community.
The movement in the State closely para leled that in the nation although
the records are not so well preserved as in some other states. We
do not know exactl¥)therefore, when the first union was formed. Records
of the early unions)if any were kept. are not orailoble and the news-
papers of the day>themselvee difficult or impossible to locatejseldom .
\carried accounts of union ectivities.
As early as 1832 the tailors in Lexington apparently were
organized. In 1835 a nandbill was printed and circulated by the master
tailors of Lexington calling the attention of the public to the fact
that "an unlawful combination has been formed by the journeyman and
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a portion of the master tailors of this city. which has, and if
not suppressed will more seriously affect the interests, not only
of the und