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Elmira Daily Bazoo The OFFICIAL ORGAN of the Workingmen of Elmira and Chemung County, PUBLISHED EVERY NOON BY E. C. GEORGE & CO., 136 EAST WATER ST. TERMS:—Single Copy, One Cent. Single Copy one month delivered by carrier, or by mail, 25 Cents. Thursday, Sept. 13, 1877. GREENBACK LABOR REFORM CON- VENTION. The Greenback Labor Reform Party will hold their County Convention for Chemung County, at the C. Y. M. B. & T. A. Hall, BAZOO Block, 136 East Water, on Satur- day evening, Sept, 15th, 1877. The object of the Conven- tion is to elect a delegate to the State Convention, to be held at Buffalo, Sept. 20,1877. Each ward and township is entitled to five delegates. R. BEAUMONT, THOS. SPENCE, Chairman Secretary. THE DAILY BAZOO. Will a large sized workingmans' paper be supported in Elmira ? The question is often asked us, and often by workingmen. What will be done i n the future can only be judged by what has been and what is. Just in propor- tion as you sustain and support the BAZOO — the only paper in Elmira published in the interest of the workingmen—^just i n that proportion can a large paper expect your support. The BAZOO is the only daily paper published i n the interest of the laboring classes. Without being solicited to published it, no one, save its publishers, knowing its policy, we gave you the BAZOO. Before the Erie strike we took the same posi- tion we now advocate. We had a right to ex- pect your support though we did not ask it. We give to the BAZOO the credit of the organi- zation of the Independent party of this county. It has noticed all the meetings and has been the •aieans of communication between the officers and the members of the party. Without the BAZOO one-half of the ward clubs would not have been organized by this time, nor would there have been one half as many names on each roll as at present. In return, what have you done for the BAZOO ? Subscribed for it, you answer. So far so good. But have you induced your neighbor to become a subscriber ? Have you worked up a club in your shop or neighborhood ? Have you given your trade to those and those only who advertise in it? Have you informed such adveitisers tliat they had your trade because of the place you found their card ? One half of our present circula- tion is in answer to the personal efforts of thiee men who, in their respective shops, went to work and demonstrated that they were in ear- nest about this matter. If a small paper, while it is the best that can be procured, will not _re- ceive your hearty support, little may be ex- pected with a larger sheet. We are not a little surprised to hear men who are in this •'new movement\ actually suggest other papeis than the BAZOO , papers whose circulation is limited, papers that never have advocated the cause we have espoused, as the organ for notices, etc. Taking party funds outside the party ! Yet there are a few just such men to be found i n eveiy partv. A workingmans' organ in Elmira ougiii to have 5 ,000 subscribers, and will have it, if every man who favors such a paper will go to work. Again, to secure advertising lor our paper we depend on you to create a demand on our space by talking it to your merchant and liy your trading only with those who advertise 111 the BAZOO . In your churches, lodges and so- cieties order notices published in the BAZOO and look out that the funds be ready to pay for the same. We never can enlarge till you become \terribly in earnest.\ When we are forced to enlarge it will pay to do so and not one day be- fore. That day depends on your action. When it is to be, is for yi)u to say. The B .\ZO O is only twenty-five cents a monlh, less than a cent a day. Bring in your quarieis. Our terms are f« rtr/z /rtWfc. We must have the money to run the machine! *•••<> Your neighi)or may be worth ^100,0.0 in government bonds. He pays no taxes, diaws his gold interest and lives at ease; while you with your arm or workshop, must toil on to pay your own taxes, and aid in paying those of your rich neighbor. Do you want to perpetuate such a system ? If you do, stick to your old party.. But if you want to free the people, and set i n motion the wheels of trade, identify your- self with the Greenback-Labor party, that has declared against further class legislation. The Pennsylvania Coal Company paid £70,- 000 in silver to their employes in the vicinity of Pittston the other day. Silver in large ijuan- tities can he purchased at two per cent discount which would amount to a profit of ;Sz,40o tc the company.
