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THE LABOR ENQUIRER.
S6B T. A RTVRB STREET.
J. S. BUCHANAN. Editor.
"We will renew the times of truth and Jus
tice,
Condensing In a fair, free commonwealth
Not rash equality, bnt equal rights.’
Entered at the Denver poetofflee as second
elass matter. •
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sion of all subjects which tend to educate,
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Denver Colorado
The publisher of this paper Is not respon
sible for the opinions of contributors. The
columns will always be open for the discus
slon of all sides of the labor questions of the
day. Contributions always welcome.
AN APOLOGY.
Those comrades who read The En
quirer closely will be more than likely
to notice that it is not up to its usual
standard this week. The reasons /or'
this are several, and the circumstances
unavoidable: In addition to the con
stant worry that has been mine for sev
eral weeks (the cause of which is well
known to the comrades), several small
but aggravating things, have tended to
rather upset me and disarrange the con
cern this week. I have been physically
under the weather for several days ; on
Tuesday one of the most necessary at
taches of the office was taken Reriouslv
ill and, being unable to secure someone
to fill his place, I had to throw mv coat
and undertake to perform his duties,
upset as I was ; on. Thursday morning
I received instructions to proceed at
once to Blossburg, New Mexico, there
to investigate the strike of coal miners,
which has been going on for a month.
So, reader, you can see how I have been
and am still pushed, and I hope you
will overlook all shortcomings with this
issue and trust me to do the best I can
under all circumstances.
I may not be in New Mexico longer
than a week—l hope everything can be
satisfactorily arranged in that time —but
will have to start (or Richmond almost
as soon as I get home. Therefore let
me ask you to extend your charity over
the next five or six weeks, at the same
time I urge you to be prompt, and as
liberal as possible, in forwarding sub
stantial aid to the office.
If The Enquirer was supported as k
should bo by the comrades these little
affairs, which are quite natural, would
not amount to anything, and the editor
would be spared all "apologies.”
JOURNALISTIC COWARDS.
The sensational “story-papers” of the
country are not to be out-done bv daily
newspapers in sensationalism— if they
know themselves. What with mighty,
unearthed conspiracies, horrible pic
tures, huge dried beef cutters and dang
ling nooses, one would think the height
of diabolical frenzy creations had been
reached by Chicago journals.
But an eastern paper which sends out
weekly slush for people’s men al .food,
thereby crowding out every sensible or
practical thought, is going beyond them,
They have concocted a blood-curdling
storv of the Anarchists out of newspaper
details and their own hot-house imagin
ations. Pictures of black conspiracies
hatched in fearful dens are shown tip.
where the hero detective is one of the
partv, and drinks blood and beer with
the other dark spirits in order to get
their secrets. The “eight” are repre
sented as hideous as black ink and un
scrupulous literarv quacks can make
them. And such stories will go through
the land to poison the minds of thou
sands of readers, while here and there
are an unusually well-balanced head
will be led to inquire. “What is Anarchy
anvwav?”and go on asking until he
learns something to his own and the
world’s ad vantage.
What ought to be done to cowards
who print such lies ? Cowards they are
for they wonld not stand before Fielden
or Parsons of Spies free, and call them
such name! as they do in the po-c!alled
“story.”
' Sue.them for libel ? They can only
be touched tt> rough their pockets—bnt
alas, law is onlv a grand machine run
by parties in power, and only a means of
much vexation of spirit to all others.
Or, wait the slow grinding of the mills
of the gads ?
DO YOU WONDER AT CRIME!
Heury McCarthy, a printer, his wile,
and two children, one a babe of eighteen
months, were dispossessed from 124
Orchard street ye-terday morning, and
wandered through the streets without
food or money. The babe died in its
mother’s arms. The father went to the
Eldridge street police station, where the
policemen made ud a small purse for the
family and sent for a coroner. Six hours
later no coroner had appeared.—New
York Sun, Sept. 11.
Read this, and then sav do yon won
der at crime ? Here is a case of starva
tion tor ttiose who pooh-pooh the truths
uttered by the cranks. You will admit
that it «a.~ death from a lack of nour
ishment; what have you to sav when I
tell you it was murder? Well such it
was; murder most foul; murder by the
side of which the executions in the hav
market were as nothing.
Who is the murderer? Society! and
every man who helps to uphold the
present system was accessory before the
fact! This same murderer has the blood
of millions of slaughtered babes, men
and women upon its hands.
Mdlions annually starve to death in
the “civilized” world, say the best au
thorities. They are everyone mur
dered by Society ! Through such awful
miseries as were suffered by that printer
and his wife, thieves, murderers and
prostitntes —human fiends are made of
men and women ; and of every crime
committed by them Society is guilty.
Women and helpless little children
are turned, tarnished and half naked,
by the ruthless hand of the landlord,
out into the streets to die, and Society,
with sanctimonious face, only shrugs its
shoulders and wonders at the increase in
crime. And the brutal landlord is one
of the choicest, and certainly the most
substantial pillar of Society.
Society builds jails and makes crimi
nals to fill them ! It erects insane asyl
ums and is the wrecker that fills them
with shattered intellects 1 It peoples
the houses of prostitution with its vic
tims ! It drives millions to beggary, and
then flaunts the lie of its “charity in
the face of Christ! It makes “laws”
for fhe punishment of the criminals it
has created, and then provides judges
and counsellors who protect the rich
from their enforcement I Society shares
its bed with the prostitute at night, and
sits as her judge on the morrow ! It is
responsible for all the poverty, ninety
per cent of the prostitution, ninety-nine
per cent of the murders, all of the steal
ing, and yet its supporters wonder at
crime!
Hepry McCarthy, gather your fellow
victims around you in the public square,
and tell them of the murder of your
babe and, if yon have the courage to
face the clubs and bullets of Capitalism s
thugs, tell them who is the murderer.
It may be that y..ur story will serve to
warn your hearers of their approaching
fate; and it may be you will be hanged
for “preaching Anarchy,” but you will
deserve a worse death if yon hold your
peace now.
FOR THIS THEY AGITATE.
Idaho Springs, Colo., Sept. 15—Re
turned excursionists from Salt Lake City
avow that the Edmunds law as executed
by the territorial officers is working,
great hardship to the women and c il
dren who .are effected by it, and they
declare emphatically that the law should
be repealed or so modified as to prevent
polygamous marriages in the future and
the evasion of the law, but they con
demn the present method as cruel and
barbarous in the extreme, witbout effect
ing the purpose that was intended by
the government.
Edmunds and the other prime agita
tors agains* the Mormons care absolutely
nothing for polygamy : as a rule they are
men who practice it themselvei, with the
difference that they do not support and
acknowledge but one wife. The whole
object of this “anti-polygamy” agitation
is a scheme of the monopolists and land
sharks to drive the Mormons out of
their homes, so that their beautiful val
ley can be gobbled up by themselves.
The tenacity with w .ichtbe Mormons
cling to the polygamous phase of their
religion (while only a small per cent
really practice it) is well known, to none
better than these same agitators; and
their past record shows that they will
give up their homes before they will re
linquish or compromise with their re
ligious beliefs. The object of Edmunds
and his scoundrelly asso iates is to
“make it so hot for the Mormons” that
they will do as they have in the past,
desert their homes and leave them to
the monopolist and political thief.
The Mormons have made the Salt
Lake valley, which was once an arid
plain, blossom as the rose ; have made
it the garden spot of this continent, and
the eyes of the greedy, vicious land thief
beholds it, while his avaricious nature
covets. His bloody paws itch to clutch
this lovelv and valuable spot. For this
do they agitate the question of polygamy
in Utah, while they practice and con
done lust and prostitution a hundred
fold more disgusting in their own terri
tory.
The Enquirer does n- t uphold pVvg
amv ; like Myron Reed, “I am opposed
to it, in Utah, Denver or tne District of
Columbia,” but when the libertines,
thieves and murderers of the United
States try to cloak their crimes beneath
the garb of “virtue and morality,” I will
cry out and denounce the hell-hounds.
Detroit celebrated “Labor Diy” in
grand style. The capitalist press, in its
reports, said nothing of the red and the
black flags being carried side by side in
the procession, hut they wire there all
the same.
It is now about settled that Henry
George will accept the nomination of
the workingmen of New York City, and
make the race for mayor.
THE RED FLAG IN LONDON
A Meeting In Which Sixty Thousand
Social Democrats Participate.
The Resolutions.
For The Enquirer.
On Sunday, August 29, Trafalgar
square was the scene of one of the largest
demonstrations which havs ever been
held in the British metropolis. The
meeting was called tog-ther, as I stated
in my last letter to Thk Enauirer, to
demand the immediate release of our
comrade, John Williams, who is now
suffering two months’ imprisonment for
speaking at the corner of a street in the
Edgware road, and to maintain the right
of free speech for all opinions The
square, as no doubt your readers will re
member, was the scene of the famous
“unemployed” meeting of the eighth of
February. The police authorities made
the most elaborate preparations for keep
ing “order” and lam bound to sav that
they were less demonstrative in their at
tentions than they have been on previ
ous occasions, although 2,400 constables
were present on the saute and in the
square, and several were held
in readiness to read the riot act.
1 myselt was on one of the South Lon
don detachments the whole of which
met at the foot of Westminster bridge
and marched past tbe houses of parlia
ment and the government offices in
Parliament street up to the square, our
band playing the ever-inspiring “Mar
seillaise,” and onr banners and flags dis
playing a significant warning of coining
events to the gazers at the windows of
the aristocratic residences. On the road
we were accompanied by many foot and
mounted police, and our men decorated
with tho red ribbon, preserved an or
derly and really impressive demeanor.
The apj-earance of the Nelson column
the base of which was crowded with i
some hundreds of demonstrators, and
the square itself, a mass of human be
ings, was most imposing. The total
number of people present is estimated at
between 50,000 and 60,000.
Punctually at 4 o’clock in the afternoon
the speakers at the three platforms
commenced. Shortly before this, how
ever, the Frenc'. Socialist workmen del
egates, whose visit to this country I men
tioned in my last communication, to
gether with the principal English
speakers, marched in a body into the
square, and were greeted most heartily
by the assembled multitude. The
speeches in French and English were of
the usual thorough going Socialist type.
The resolution, which was submitted
simultaneously at the three platforms,
was carried amid the greatest enthusi
asm, The following is the text of the
resolution :
"That this mass meeting of the citi
zens of London expresses its deep indig
nation at the unjust condemnation of
John Williams and Samuel Mainwaring
for doing that which religious and other
speakers are allowed to do Sunday after
Sunday without interference, demands
the immediate release of John Williams
who is now suffering imprisonment and
calls for the maintenance of freedom of
speech for men of all opinions. That this
meeting declares its conviction that this
police interference with and condemna
tion of the Social Democrats are due to
the fact that they alone work constantly
to obtain short hours of labor, good
food, good clothing, and eood education
for the workers, are striving to secure
for the producing classes collective con
trol over the railways, shippng, mines,
factories, machinery, and land, and in
tend to recommence at once their vigor
ous agitation in favor of the organiza
tion of the labor of the unemployed.
That this resolution be sent to the prime
minister and the home secretary.”
The principal speakers were Hyndman,
Fielding, Champion, Burrows, Hall and
Louber, of the Social Democratic Feder
ation, CourtouX, Blondou and Lousrd,
of the French delegation. Rousing
cheers were given for the Social Revolu
tion, for John Williams and for our
French comrades. lam satisfied that
the reception given to the Frenchmen
will do much to strengthen the
strong international feeling which is de
veloping among the workingmen of
Europe.
At the close of the meeting the various
branches reformed and marched away
to the different parts of London from
whence they had come. Needless to
add that we were escorted to our branch
rooms by mounted and foot police the
whole of the wav, and as the demonstra
tors fell out of line to return to their
homes and the procession dwindled to
some 500, who went to their local ren
dezvous at Bermondsey, the detachment
which I accompanied, t‘ e police wore
nearly as numerous as we were. An
inquiring child who saw this was heard
to remark to its parent, “What have
they done, mother ?” evidently under
the impress! in that we had committed
some enormity, and were accordingly
about to be incarcerated. And, indeed,
the little band had all the appearance of
a body of Revolutionists being taken to
some British bastile under the charge of
the officers of the law.
Altogether the Revolutionary Social
Dednocrats of London have every reason
to congratulate themselves on this mag
nificent meeting, more especially as sim
ilar demonstrations were held on the
same day and for the same purpose at
Manchester and Glasgow, in both of
which industrial centers Socialism is
m-king the most rapid strides. No po
litical party, or other organization in
this country, cou d possibly bring to
gether such a vast concourse of people as
assembled on this occasion. In fact,
nothing but Socialism now stirs the Lon
doners up.
lam deeply grieved at the result of
the Chicago trial, and wish to assure ray
American comrades of my deep sympa
thy with them and our friends who
have fallen victims to the capitalistic
conspiracy at Chicago,and I need hardly
say that all tiie London Socialists are
surprised and grieved that things should
have reached such a pass in America.
Some of us still have hope, however,
that the courage end determination of
the American people may prove suffi
ciently strong to prevent the judicial
murder of men whose sole crime has
been to explain to their fellows how
they have been plundered by the land
grabbing, profit-mong. ring, brothel-fre
quenting classes. James Blackwell.
7 Cancel street, Walwortti.
London, S. E., England, Aug. 30.
THE ANTI-CHINESE MEETING.
A Large Attendance Witn Considerable
Interest Manifested—The
Resolutions.
There was an attendance at the anti-
Chinese meeting last Sunday winch
completely filled the police com t room.
Dr. S. T. Peet presided, and W. A. Graves
was secretary. Addresses were made by
Joseph R. Buchanan, Judge A. J. Quig
ley and James B. Bedford, in the order
named. Resolutions were introduced
and considerable discussi on ensued. The
resolutions as adopted are as follows:
Whereas, The history of all countries
where the Chinese have been permitted
to reside among other races has resulted
in the most physical afld industrial de
cadence of the people; and
Whereas, The evils arising from the
presence of the Chinese are:
First —Their coming is invasion, not
immigration.
Second —They have no homes nor
families among us.
Third—Their domestic relations and
modes of living are such as forever pre
clude their assimilation with onr people.
Fourth —By education and custom
they are antagonistic to a republican
form of government.
Fifth—They maintain in onr midst
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secret societies in defiance of our law.s
Sixtn—The presence of so many adults
owing allegiance to a foreign govern
ment is dangerous.
Seventh— They are driving white labor
from Colorado.
Eighth—The contract system under
which they come to this country is vir
tually a system of peonage hostile to
American institutions.
Ninth—Their presence deters the
growth of a reliable labor element among
oar boys and girls.
Tenth—After subsisting on the lowest
possible portion of their earnings, they
send the residue, amounting to many
millions annually, to China, while the
institution of American labor would re
tain this vast sum of money in our own
country. For these reasons they are a
constant and growing menace, and it is
necessary that their immigration must
be stopped and effective! measures be
taken to remove those arqong us.
Resolved, That w e demand that the
government of the United States take
immediate steps to prohibit absilutdy
this Chinese invasion.
Resolved, That we will not patronize,
vote for or associate with any man who
employs a Chinaman, and to this end we
hereby sign these resolutions and
pledge ourselves to use all practical
means to enforce our demands.
After the passage of the resolutions, a
roll of membership was opened, and a
number of signatures were obtained.
The meeting then adjourned until
next Sunday (to morrow) afternoon at 2
o’clock, when the organization of an anti-
Chinese league will be perfected. Every
one interested in the subject of regulat
ing the Chinese are invited to be
present.
What She Understood.
For the Enquirer.
The Daily News grows compassionate ;
in this mood as is the case usually with
hypocritical villains, it is unendurable.
It piiiee that noble woman, Mrs. Parsons,
“because she did not know to what her
course would lead her and her husband,
and because she did not understand the
spirit of our laws, etc.”
Shades of ignorance—pity them 1
She understood better lhan they ever
could, better than most of us in fact, the
spirit of the whole bourgeois class, and
foresaw with keen, prophetic vision,
what would be the condition of society
when they should by any means begin
to feel their seat of power shaking,
through the efforts of the proletariat
class. She knew that the spirit of Rus
sia slumbered here, where classes are
made by the same means as there, and
would surely arouse whenever the old
superstitious reverence for our “free and
glorious country” should prove insuffi
cient for the subjection if the masses.
She understood the organizition of soci
ety ,so well thot she knew what to ex
pect and faltered not an iota in saving
and doing what she believed to be right.
No Spartan woman ever did a braver
or more devoted deed than did she
when she gave up' her husband, dearer
to her than he' life, because she felt it
would be est for the cause and other
imprisoned comrades.
But “she did not understand the
spirit of our laws ?” Who did, a year
ago ?
Who would have interpreted them as
making it a crime to speak one’s
thoughts ?
Who ever read in the constitution,
Declaration of Independence, or legisla
tive laws anyth ng that would warn a
man that he put his head in a noose if
he turned labor reformer?
Who could have guessed, a twelve
months since, men and Women in Amer
ica and under the laws of a “givern
ment by and for the .people” could be
arrested without warrant, tortured in a
sweat-box, imprisoned iu underground
cells and impregnable jails for months,
and sentenced to death, all because they
believe and advocate ideas which the
ruling classes do not like ?
Ah. she understood the “spirit” of the
law and read its “letter,” better than
most of us. And she dared it for the
truth.
A mile from my home, men are work
ing on a railroad grade. Young men
with pale, intellectual-1 oking faces are
working there, who stagger under every
load of dirt, and keep up only by strain
ing every nerve, and they are earning
$1.25 per day. In a few days they will
be tramping.
In that much-lauded watch factory at
Elgin, their slaves only last sixteen
years 04 an average, and earn through
■the year an average of 75 cents per day.
They breathe braS3 dust and chemicals
instead of oxvgen, and pour their eyes
out through glass tubes at a rate that
finishes them in fifteen years or so. But
I will leave this model(?) instituti m to
be dealt with by an abler writer who
has given it c msiderable attention lately.
Every day willing men who waut to
work, sneak by, trying to keep out of
range of the authorities’ eyes, and beg a
bite to eat.
Vanderbilt, Gould, Pullman count
their “salaries” by the sectTnd, more dol
lars than we care to think about for each
one. Ingham gets SSO per day, from the
state for helping to judicially murder
• innocent men. Yet men exist who in
sist the system doesn’t need changing.
Lizzie M. Swank.
Home Rule For England.
Fellow Countrymen and Fellow workers.
The present grave crisis in the polit
ical and social world proves the necessity
for the readjustment of the whole legis
tive machinery in the British States. It
is of vital interest to English working
men ind women that the right of home
rule should at once be given to the peo
ple of Ireland, who have struggled for
justice and liberty amidst the greatest
tyranny and oppression that ever con
fronted a nation’s progress. Scotland
and, Wales are complaining of not receiv
ing that attention under the present sys
tem of government which is urgently
necessary for the welfare of the peoples
of their respective countries, and de
mand, as the only solution of the diffi- 1
cnlty, a home rule parliament fore ach
in which they may attend to i
their neglected internal affairs.
Fellow countrymen ! Are not we in
England suffering, most severely from
the neglect of home affairs 7 The history
of our parliamentary system plainly
Bhows its incapacity to deal effectually
with the social evils that are slowly but
surely destroying the life of our people.
To day we are governed and dominated
by a parliament comprised almost
wholly of the classes who live upon the
fruits of other people’s labor. This par
liament spends its time in passing coer
cion acts and futile reform bills for Ire
land and other parts of the empire, and
in wasting the wealth we earn to main
tain an army, not for the benefit of the
English workers, but to enslave and
massacre peoples of weak countries li l e
the Egyptions and Burmese, in order to
extract large interests and profits to sat
isfy the greedy demands of English and
other bondholders and traders who live
on the degradation and poverty of the
toiling masses. They make laws to
evict tenants who cannot ray rack rents
tothfi_gfeed7 landlords in Ireland, Scot-
Tandand Wales, and also turn our
miners and their families from their
homes into the street in England, where
the men refuse to work for starvation
wages. The land is getting into fewer
hands, and ft fast going out of cultiva
tion, and the tillers of the soil are crowd
ing into our large cities, there to com
pete with our townsmen in the struggle
for life, or swell the army of unemployed.
English fathers, have a thought for
the future of your children ! Let us
unite as the Irish have united, and de
mand home rule for England, a legisla
tive assembly to deal solely with our
affairs, and thus remedy the social evils
under which we suffer, or our condition
wifi become deplorably worse. English
workers, then, unite and prepare the
way for a brighter future for yourselves
and your children. Let us unite to make
laws for the abolition of landlordism and
the established church ; to give free ed
ucation to our children, and make the
land, mines, railways and other means
of transit the property of the people, to
be used for the benefit of all; to abolish
the robbery of the funding system, and
establish national banks which shall ab
sorb all private institutions that derive
a profit from operations in money or
credit; to say how we shall be taxed and
how the money shall be spent; and reg
ulate the cost and administration of
justice, and so make England a happy
home for the English.
And then, when we have obtained our
own freedom, shall we be able to bring
about the union of the English speaking
peoples, and prepare the wav for the
Brotherhood of Man.
Issued by the Nottingham Section of
the Socialist Union.
Labor In Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Sept. 14. —A full delega
tion was elected to the state labor con
vention, to be held at Newark this
week. The ward caucusses were large.
Alexander Mitchell, the railroad
prince and bank president, as well as the
richest man iu Wisconsin, a democrat,
has come out for the re-election of Gov
ernor Rush for a tnird term, making the
issue a straight one —Capital versus
Labor.
A committee of the Labor party are to
make a report of the facts about being
connected with the “Bay View massa
cre.” Maps and illustrations will show
the ground and illustrate the fact that
the eight hour committee did not see
the military until after the fatal shots
were fired.
Milwaukee is almost certain to elect
K. of L. legislators this year.
Skylight. Jr.
Free Presn a Tradition.
"Mrs. Waisbrooker : You are the
most fearless woman I know. I have
just been reading your ‘Wait? No, Sir!’
lam a coward, Lois. Ever since the re
sult of the Anarchists’ trial here I have
been boiling over with rage. Think of
hanging men who have no more been
proved guilty of murder than I have,
and all because an idiotic people—the
wretched tool of a monopolistic press,
are crying for innocent blood. I have
been boiling with rage but dare not say
so in my paper. Yonder in the next
room my forms are made up ready to go
to press, and there is not one word .of
which mv heart is so full.
“Am I afraid to speak my th ughts?
Yes I am! My paper would be con
demned in the mails if I did, apd I
should run the risk of having mv ribs
stamped in by a ruffianly police that
have treated hundreds of people in this
manner since the fourth of last May
when every soul in the city of Chicago
was pnt under gag law under penalty of
death. Helen Wilmans.”
Give tile Devil His Due.
Consider the case of Parsons, the An
archist, and give the devil bis due.
However misguided his opinions, and
however wild his projects for reforming
human society, he is undoubtedly pro
foundly in earnest, and absolutely dis
interested. He is a man of superior tal
ents, and could do much better in the
world had he devoted himself to his own
fortunes instead of to those chimerical
schemes for the remodeling of society.
He is a man of stoical courage; for after
he had demonstrated, by his escape and
successful concealment for weeks, his
ability to avoid the police, he calmly re
turned and walked through a long line
of police and detectives, who utterly
failed to recognize him, into the crimi
nal court, and surrendered himself, not
with any expectation of acquittal, but
simply to share the fate of his fellows,
whatever it might be.
His deportment throughout the trial
was characterized by neither the hardi
hood of the desperado, nor the timiditv
of the coward. He bore himself rather
with the calmness of the philosopher,
.who regards death as quite as natural a
phenomenon as life, and has no more
i. 1
dread of it than of anv other inevitable
event. His cheek did not blanch when
the verdict of guilty and the doom were
pronounced. He was as calm as at any
other stage of the proceedings, and
amused himself by waving a red hand
kerchief at the window of the court
room, which the police foolishly pretend
was a signal for revolt to the mob out
side, but which was plainly intended
as nothing more or less than a jest at the
expense of the officers.
Retired to his cell, he devoted himself
to writing, not in his own defense, but
in defense of the principles of what he
calls Anarchism. His reply to Pow
derly was as calm a presentation of those
principles as could have been written by
a philosopher in the peace and security
of his library. There is not a word in it
that would suggest the shadow of the
gallows in which it was writted. Ar
chimedes interrupted by the Roman
soldier in the midst of his equations,
and quietlv requesting the intruder to
postpone his murder for a few minutes,
until he solved the problem he was
working on, was not calmer or more ab
stracted than this man Parsons.
Another phase of his character is
shown in the little episode revealed bv
the Mail newspaper on Friday. When
he was informed about the lady who in
quired about him at Baltimore when the
police were hunting for him. His writ
ten reply to the reporters could not
have been more delicately conceived or
worded had Chevalier Bavard himself
been its author. Parsons has the in
stincts of a gentlemen, as well as the
brain of a philosopher, and the heart of
a hero. It is a pity that these high qual
ities were not directed to better ends.
Such as he is, however, let us be just to
him, even though we hang him. Give
the devil his due. —Detroit Daily News.
Notes From tile Sun.
Augusta, Georgia, Sept. 10. —Notice
has been served upon the operatives oc
cupying houses owned by the Augusta
factory that they must vacate at once, as
the houses are wanted for operatives who
are going tf> work. Everything con
tinues quiet and unchanged about the
mills. Only a few hands are working in
the picker room of the Augusta factory.
Efforts are still being made to compro
mise the differences between the facto
ries and the employes. Very few of the
3,000 hands out of employment have
left the city. They are waiting for an
adjustment of the differences, preferring
to remain here idle than to seek for
work elsewhere.
The clothing cutters in thirty shops
of the manufacturing clothiers were at
work yesterday. No work was done in
the ether fifty shops, the bosses in which
demanded on Thursday tint their men
should abandon their trade union.
There were strikes in the shops of
Nathan Brothers in Canal street and D.
L. Newberg & Son, Broadway. The
firms insisted that their clothing cutters
should work ten hours instead of nine.
In the afternoon they sent for their men
and told them to go to work at nine
hours. It was resolved subsequently
that the present arrangement of stop
ping work on Saturday at noon should
continue until October 1. After that
work will stop at 3 o’clock on Saturday.
The Journeymen Plumbers union re
ported yesterday that the master plumb
ers had taken down ttieir apprenticeship
rules in two more shops, and that only
430 plumbers are on strike now. Last
evening the master plumbers met at 52
Union square, distributed twenty-eight
helpers among the different members of
their association, and resolved to make
a black list of the apprentices who de
sert them in the fight. A committee of
five was appointed to confer with the
master builders on concerted action in
case the journeymen plumbers continue
the war.
The kniteoods manufacturers in Am
sterdam, New York, met yesterday and
resolved to close their mills on Monday
if the striking spinners in Schuyler &
Blood’s mill do not return to work.
Dr. Aveling's Arrival.
Dr. Edward Aveling, Socialist, arrived
last Friday from London in the Inman
steamship City of Chicago, His wife,
a very pretty and intelligent woman, a
daughter of the late Karl Marx, accom
panies him. They were met on arrival
of the vessel at Jersey City by Theodore
F. Cuno and W. L. Rosenberg, secretary
of the executive committee of the Social
istic Labor Partv,and were taken to the
Metropolitan house in East Fourth
street. Herr Wilhelm Leibknecht,
member of the German parliament, who
is to lecture with Dr. Aveling, is ex
pected on the Cunard steamship Servia,
which will probably arrive to-morrow.
Dr. Aveling and Herr Leibknecht are
under engagement with the Socialistic
Labor Party to de'iver a series of lec
tures in this country on Socialism. They
will speak in the Cooper Union on So
cialism on September 20. and trades
unions on September 22. On Septem
ber 19 there will be a meeting in their
honor in Brommer’s Union park, Mor
rissania. Dr. Aveling is a graduate of
Cambridge university. He studied med
icine and took a degree, but never prac
ticed. —New York Sun.
Willing to Pardon.
District Attorney Martine wrote to
Governor Hill yesterday favoring exec
utive clemency toward the imprisoned
boycotters. While maintaining the Ab
solute fairness and legality >f their trial
and the justice of their conviction, Mr.
Martine respectfully submitted to the
governor that, in his judgment, the term
of imprisonment of the boycotters, in
view of the facts that their conviction
was the first of its kind in this state, and
that their previous character had Been
good, might be shortened without detri
ment to the public interests. A delega
tion of workingmen called upon Mr.
Martine yesterday to urge him to en
dorse their appeal to the governor for
executive clemency,—New York Sun.
LOCAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Notices under this head are $5 per year In advance
In n r—Cosmopolitan Assembly, No. 1005,
II U Oof Leadville, meets every Wednes
day evening at 7i30 o’clock, in Knights of
Labor Hall. 125 East Sixth street.
t A n A -Montgomery Benevolent Assembly
I 4z4no 1424, meets every Friday evening
at Neefs hall, third floor, No. 241 Fifteenth
street, Denver, at 7:30 o’clock. A cordial wel
come extended to visiting members.
■ An n— Louisville Assembly, No. 1463,
j 40 j meets every Thursday evening at
7:30 o'clock, at School Hall.
ft nn Y—Union (benevolent) Assembly, No.
V A A I 2327, meets every Monday evening
at 7330 o’clock, In Neefs hall, 241 Fifteenth
street Strangers in the city and other
brothers and sisters are cordially invited,
non n— Pioneer Assembly. No. 2330, of*
U O U Bmte City, Montana, meets evef#‘-v,
Monday eveningatßo’clock. In Miners Unions
New Hall, Travelling brothers always wel
come ,
ft m o *7— Rocky Mountain Assembly, No,
/An I 2487, meets every Monday evening at
“so in Saint Johns’ Hall, corner Nineteenth
and Ferguson streets, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Members ol other Locals always welcome.
fl ft ■ -r—lnternational Assembly, No. 3217,
| / meets every Thursday evening at
7050 o’clock, in Independent ball, corner of
Santa Fe avenue and Bear treet Denver,
Colorado.
fl a o—Fidelity Assembly, No. 3218, meets
UA I O every Wednesday evening at 7;30
and fourth Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, In
Neefs hall, 241 Fifteenth, street, Denver.
Members of other Locals always welcome.
ft r r—Progressive Assembly, No. 3255, of
j / O 0 Pueblo, meets every Saturday even
ing, in Odd Fellows’ Hall, Corner Sixth and
D. streets.
ft ft ft ■ —Advance Assembly, No. 3261,meets
O A 0 I every Saturday evening in Masonic
Hall corner Fourth and Cedar streets, Haw
11ns,’ Wyoming. Visiting members, always
welcome.
ft ft a « —Hope Assembly, No. 3314, (female,)
o o I 4 meets .every Thursday evening at
7-30 p. m., at 347 Twenty-third street, Denver.
Visiting brothers and sisters always welcome.
0000-Litchman Assembly, No. 3338,
U O U O meets every Saturday evening at 7:30
o’clock, In K. of L. hall. Rock Springs,
Wyoming Territory Members of the order
are cordiall v invited to visit. ■
ft ft A n —North Platte Assembly, No. 3343,
j Q Aumeets the first and third Wednesday
evenings of each month at 7:30 o’clock, in
Odd Fellows’ Hall, corner Spruce and Third
streets, North Platte, Nebraska. Members of
other Locals always welcome.
O A HO - Eureka Assembly, No. 3402, I)en-
J4llAver, meets every Saturday night at
7-30 o’olock. In McLelland hall, corner Law
rence and Fifteenth streets. Members of the
order are invited to visit.
n m « n— Platte Valley Assembly, No. 3403,
04U (Jof Sterling, Colorado, meets the sec
ond and fourth Mondays of each month at
the School House in Knights of Pythias Hall
at 7 o’clock o. m. Visitors welome.
n m m ■w—Golden Assembly, No. 3447, meets
J 44 I every Monday evening at 7:30, In
K. of P. Hall, on Washington avenue, Golden
Colorado. Members of other Locals alway
welcome.
n i r n— J. R. Buchanan Assembly, No. 3453
tjmeets every Sunday evening at 7:30,
in McFarlane’s Hall, Como, Colorado. Mem
bers of other assemblies always welcome.
O A G Q —Progress Assembly, No. 3468, meets
04D0e'’ery Saturday evening, at 7:3u
o’clock, in Odd Fellows’ hall. Carbon, Wyom
Ing.
n x n ft—Steadfast Assembly, No. 3492, meet*
o 4 y A every Wednesday evening at 7:30
o'clock, in I. O. U. W. hall, corner Holladay
and Twenty-seventh streets, Denver. Mem
bers of the order Invited to visit,
nr A Q— Sumner Assembly, No. 3508, meets
uOUOevery Thursday evening at 7:30
o’clock, in hall 241 Fifteenth street, upstairs.
All brother and sister Knights welcomed,
nroo—Ogden Assembly, No. 3533, meets
p 0 O O every Thursday evening at 8 o’clock,
in Knights of Pythias hall, Main street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth, Ogden, Utah. Visit
ing brothers always welcome.
n (3 O O —Justice Assembly No. 3639, meets
0 0 01/every Sunday evening, In Dreyfuss
hall, 379 Larimer street, Denver. Clerks and
salesmen desirous of joining this assembly
can obtain information at this office.
(jn AO—Lewis Assembly, No. 3412, meets
uo4Aevery Tuesday evening, at 7:3(J
o’clock, at 557 Downing avenue.
Q fi/l O —F°°<ly Assembly No. 3648 meets
0 040 every Tuesday evening at Dreyfuss
hall, 379 Larimer street, Denver, Colo.
QG P 7 Joe s!umiy Assembly-, No. 3667,
00 0/ meets every other Saturday at
Spring Canon school house at 7:30 it. in.
Visiting brothers and sisters are cordially
Invited to attend. P. O. address, Stout, Colo.
Q 7 I A —Local Assembly No. 3714, meets at
O/l 48 o’clock every Tuesday evening, in
Neefs hall, 211 Fifteenth street, Denver.
Members of the order are invited to attend.
QQ Q 7 —Highland Assembly, No. 3897
00 0/ meets every- Monday evening at -
o'clock, in Phlster’s hall, North Fifteenth
street, Denver., Visiting brothers and sisters
always welcome.
BRICK MOULDERS’ & SETTERS’ UNION.
Meets every Thursday evening at 557 Down
Ing avenue, at 8 o'clock. p-U-l-v:
TRADES ASSEMBLY.
The Trades Assembly ol Denver and Vicin
ity meets on the second and fourth Sunday
of each month, in Police court room, Cl tv
hall,, at 2 o'clock. GEO. E. GREY, Prest.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
TAILORS.
The Tailors’ Protective Society, of Denver,
meets in Judge Jeffries’ court room, a
o'clock p. m., on the first Monday of each
month. OTTO KRAUZ, President.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
Room 58 Skinner Block.
CARPENTERS.
Carpenters' Union, No. 55, of the Brother
hood of America, meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. All good Carpenters
are invited to join.
E. C. WALLACE, President,
T. R. LARIMER, Rec. Sec.,
A. E. GLLMAN, Cor. Sec.
IRON MOLDBRB.
lion Molders' Union, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday of each month at Hern)
Hall, Twenty-seventh and Holladay, at7:3up.
m. ~ J. J. SMITH, Cor. Sec.,
1015 Holladay street.
PLASTERERS’ UNION.
The Plasterers’ Union, of Denver, meek
every Monday- evening at 7:30 o’clock, iu St
Joseph’s Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stoat streets.
„„ . HARRY COLE, President.
CHARLES M. McOABE, Secretary.
Address, 160 East 18th street.
BRICKLAYERS.
Bricklayers'lnternationa Union, No. 1, o!
Colorado, meets ihe second and fourth Mon
day evenings in each month, at No. 379 larl
merstreet, Denver, Colorado.
JAMES COOK, Sec’y. M. SULLIVAN,
1028 Blake Street. President.
FEDERATED TRADES.
Headquarters of the Representative Coun
cil of the Federated Trades and Labor Organ
izations of the Pacific coast, is at Huddy s
ball, 909% Market, San Francisco, California.
„ _ .. FRANK RONEY, President.
E. D. McKENI,EY\ Cor. Sec.
AMERICAN SEAMEN, TAKE NOTICE !
The Coast Seamen’s Union is the
Backbone of the Pacific Coast Labor
Movement. Capital has subscribed
large sums to break it up and threatens
to import men from the east and abroad,
there are on the Pacific Coast now three
men for every place. Winter is coming
on and soon thousands will be out of work.
Therefore keep away from San Fran
cisco. The Coast Seamen’s Union,
July 1,1886. 3,800 ptrong.
Burnett G. Haskell, Chairman Advis
ory Committee, 513$ East Street, San
Francisco, California,