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AND TOPEKA TRIBUNE.
VOL. IV. KO. 18. 1
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TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1892.
I OFFICIAL PAPKTt OF TIIB
1 PEOPLE'S PAKIT OF KANSAS.
AMERICAN FEDERATION.
Discussing Important Questions at the
Last Session.
Philadelphia, December 17. To-day
being expected to close the sessions of the
twelfth annual convention of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, the delegates
were called together early. Resolutions
were adopted calling on all local unions
affiliated with the federation to join con
tral labor bodies holding charters from
the federation; condemning the Rock
Island system for refusing its teleg
raphers recognition; favoring changes in
the patent laws so that inventors should
receive direct rewards; condemning the
Baron Hirsh fund and its charitably
assisted recipients, and demanding re
striction of immigration; condemning the
system compelling waiters to shave off
their mustaches; favoring the eight hour
"system; asking for clemency for the im
prisoned Chicago anarchists, Neebe,
Fielden and Schwab; calling for govern
ment control of the railway, telegraph
and Jtflephone; affirming the previous
convention a advocacy of woman 8 suf
frage; and asking for state legislation to
protect trade union marks. Various res
olutions asking for legislation against the
Chinese were favorably recommended to
the next executive council.
Differences between the socialists and
autonomists were aired when a resolu
tion was reported asking congress either
to pais legislation compelling the adjust
ment of Jabor disputes by arbitration, or
the submission of a constitutional
amendment permitting such legislation
The socialistic representatives favored
the meuHure as a sep toward govern
ment control of all production, and char
acterized its opponents as anarchists,
chargii g hat they oojejted to it as they
objected to all government. President
Gompers and others argued that cum
pulsory arbitra'ion might provta dan
gerom weapon against labor interests
should it fall into the hnnds of cupi al.
The question was fiaally settled by the
adopum of a substitute which empha ic
ally approved the principle of arbitration
but recognized its icopoten y where the
workers involved are not fully organized.
The president was instructed to visit
the coming national convention of ma
chinists for the purpose of endeavoring
to harmonize the two conflicting bodies,
which ai e divided by the recognition of
the color line in one of them.
President Compere' salary was in
creased from $1,500 to $1,800 per annum.
Before proceeding further, resolutions
were adopted recommending (he chiefs
and superintendents of the government
bureaus be selected from the trade in
which the skilled workmen employed in
the bureau are engaged, favoring mu
nicipal, state and national reform, favor
ing the free and compulsory education
and instructing the executive council to
prepare a bill to that effect.
The salary of the secretary was in
creased from $1,200 to $1,500.
President Gompers' re-election was
unanimous. Christopher Evans was re
elected secretary. John B. Lennon was
re-elected treasurer; J. C. McGuire, re
elected vice president
A large number of boycotts were in
dorsed by the committee to whom they
had been referred, together with the
recommendation that as a boycott is be
ing made ineffective by indiscriminate
use, that hereafter none be approved un
less requested under the seal of the
affiliated body.
Chicago secured the convent'on for
1893.
The resolution favoring direct elec
tions by the people was passed unani
mously. ' c.
Resolutions were ooncurred in favor
Jing labor representation in the inspection
of Chinese immigrants certificates, and
to prohibit the Japanese immigration.
Final adjournment was then announced.
Grangers' Resolutions.
Springfield, III., December 16. The
Illinois state grange adopted the follow
ing resolutions last night:
Resolved, That this grange demands
the recall of the American members of
the monetary oonferenee low in session
at Urutsels.
Resolved, That we are in favor of gold.
silver and paper an money; that the na
tion! government alone shall issue the
money of the people, and tt-at the unit,.
whether of go d, Mlver or paper, should
be a full leal tender for all debts public
r private, we are opposed tihoon
ilnuance of the public drbto-tbeusu
ano of re bonus, e'.iht-r state or na
tional, bearing imen-st as the baia of
any banking system; we believe the
greenback, baed on the wealth of tbe
natirn and ti e faith of the guvirnment,
to be good enough fur the people and
grmd enough for th money lenders.
R-eolutions were also adopted declar
iog in favor of tbe free coinage of silver.
Lansing, Mice , December 16. The
Michigan granger, who have been hold
ing a convention here, adopted r-eolu
tioiis last night protesting against the
free encage of ei'ber sold or silver.
If Stubbs is entitled to a certificate of
election, whit right hns Higgins to with
hold it, as he says he is doing? And if
he is not so entitled, does it not follow
that Rosenthal tt entitled to receive it?
Or does Mr. Higgins claim the right to
declare a vacancy when the necessities of
his party require it? Is Higgins above
the law, as he seems to think he is? Jef-fersonian.
The newly elected secretary of stats of
Colorado is a Populist, and ' the Kansas
City Star says he is a graduate of the
nanaaa cute university. i
SOMETHING HEW.
The Workingmen of the Whole Country to
be the Capitalists.
Cincinnati, 0., December 17. A move
ment is on foot in this city which will
cause quite a stir among the wage-earn
ers and business men of the country when
the details are made public The scheme
is being discussed quietly, and details be
ing gathered by a few leading trades
unionists, and no one but trusted mem
bers of organized labor have been ad
mitted to the conclave. The promoters
did not meet with much encouragement
at first, but the idea has steadily gained
ground, and now hundreds of working
men are among its supporters, eager for
a chance to give it a trial.
The movement is designed to prevent a
repetition of the disasters which followed
closely upon the look-out at Homestead,
the Buffalo raiWosd strike, and the min
era' strike in Tennessee and Idaho. It is
proposed that when a strike becomes
necessary, or a lock-out is precipitated by
a corporation against unionists, that a
general order shall be promulgated call
ing upon every union man in the country
to withhold from circulation all funds
that he may possess or control, so as to
cause a stringency in the money market,
and thus compel the business men of the
United States to bring such a pressure
to bear upon the corporation having a
strike on his hands, that it will be forced
to yield to the demands of its employee,
or show a disposition to settle the differ
ences between them.
This plan, when put in operation, will
be far reaching, aud the effect, it is
claimed, will be frit in every bran h of
trade throughout the land. St id a trade
unionist on the subject: u Heretofore
when a big strike or lock out bBs been
inaugurated, we have found ourselves on
the outaide of the chops or works, idle
and without an inomt, consuming our
savings, or mbeisting on strike benefits,
orstarvirg. Un-er the proposed plan,
we will be at work earning v-ngee. We
will withdraw our savings from ouildina
associations, banks and other like insti
tutions, and hoard our current wages.
The large funds of the various interna
tional and national bodies will be with
drawn with the other money. We are
informed that the business of this coun
try is transacted on a money circulation,
in coin and paper of about $10 per
capita, and taking everything into con
sideration, we think we can smash things
more successfully this way than by any
strike or boycott I don't think the
militia would be of much avail in such a
state of affairs. Another thing if a
financial crash should be precipitated on
ua, our savings will be safer in our
pockets than in any savings or banking
institution."
-Of what benefit will this be to the
trades unionists? Will not the hard
times consequent on a financial crisis be
felt more by them than by the rich?"
" Not necessarily. Heretofore when a
few speculators have cornered the money
and a crisis precipitated, the wage-earners
have been caught without any money
in their possession, and the savings insti
tutions have absorbed their hoardings.
This time we will be the moneyed men,
and will be enabled through joint stock
companies to become owners of factories,
shops, etc. Who knows but what we may
be able to convert the bullionista to tha
tenets of the greenback faith. I believe
the scheme is well worth the trial."
Justice Must Wait.
Since it has been reported that the
Populists might call on the supreme
court for aid in rectifying certain iiregu;
laxities growing out of the late eleotion,
the republican leaders have become
alarmed lest such proceedings should re
sult in the organizing of a Populist bouse
of representatives, and it haa been whis
pered about Topeka that any such move
ment would be effectually blocked. It
looks now as if the alarm caused by the
report may have been the cause of the
following pdict which wai put forth last
Saturday and sent to the attorneys in
terested in the January docket:
IntheSujrn6Cfwtofthe S'ate of Ktnsa.
Vkrk'a Office. Top ha. Kan , December it 8U.
The nupreace court wilt meet on Tues
day, January 3, 1893, as provided by
ktatute aud as anuounced in the p ioted
docket for January, but on account of
the retirement of Mr. J nstice Valentine
from the bench early in January, Dobui
neHS will he transacted by the curt dur
ing that week except reh Brings on caee
already ot-cidd, olivrioir opinl n,
rulugapon tuitions nlieadv suhruitwd
und admit' io attorneys The o. pea on
thf docket assigned for Jauuiry 3, i, 5
ai d 6. 1893. i.l rn hfard on January 10,
11, 12 aud 13. ea :h dav'a business, as now
asoignori, bejng continued one wk.
U. J. Bkown, Olurk Suprene Court
Phil Armour, the aiea y millionaire of
Chicago, has taka a lesson from the life
and death of Jay Gould, and has given
$1400,000 to the city f Chicago for an
art and science institute to be established
there. In this way Mr. Armour has pur
chased lots of praiee and flattery from
tbe Chicago pap rs. f
Tie American Land and Immigration Co.
of this city, is the leader among the reli
able land companies doing business in
Kansas- Its object are to sell land, im
proved or unimproved, invite immigra
tion, etc. More than 2,000 farms ia
Kansas are offered on the cheapest and
most reasonable terms that could bo
asked. Mr. J. II. Brady, general man
ager, Topeka, to whom all communi
cations should be addressed, is an index
to the membership of this trustworthy
firm, and an exponent of Kansas enerr
and rim. Write him rezardinz a farm.