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BLACKLISTING.
There has been some talk in the
local y iperu of lute in regard to blaok
listing work intiH'ii. arising out of
tlic ease of one Thomas Mcancy who
says ho Ims been blacklisted by rail
road corporations, and has brought
suit against them. These corpora
tions, if they acknowledge having
blacklisted Mr. Mcancy, will
no doubt also say that
they did it. not to injure Mr. Meaney,
but to protect themselves against an
incompetent man, or, if the man is
acknowledged to be competent, it
may be insisted that he was an "agi
tator," a dissatisfied man, or a disa
greeably inan,at least in their opinion,
and they only use the right of em
ployers to combine to protect them
selves against such.
This blacklisting looks very much
like boycotting, and as boycotting
lias been declared to be a criminal
conspiracy in this State of Connecti
cut by a jury (juricH decide as to the
law us well as the facta in the Nut
meg State) we cannot see why black
listing by employers should not also
he deemed a criminal conspiracy.
On the other hand, it has been
decided by a judge of the Superior
Court (Stoddard) that boycotting is
not necessarily a criminal conspira
cy not if the object of the boycott
is to benefit the boycott era or their
friends even if the business of the
boycotted party sulTcrs by the with
drawal of patronage or by the refus
al of certain people to have further
business relations with them. We
applauded the judge's decision and
called him a just judge. The jury
in the case of the hoyeottors decided,
however, that the object of t he boy
cotters was to injure the linn or cor
poration boycotted.
Now, in the case of the blacklist
ing railroad corporations, the same
judge might make a similar decision,
and we could not consistently do
otherwise than approve; yet the
same jury might also, if they were
consistent, decide that the corpora
tions intended to injure Mr. Mcancy
l , , I i i i , i
and, consistently also, inui iiicm
guilty of criminal conspiracy.
While, according to the able judge,
men have a right to work or refuse
to work for whom they please, it
seems to us clear that a corporation
or tirm has a right to employ or re
fuse to employ whom it pleases, un
less indeed, tnere is some provision
in its charter that would limit its
power in this direction.
What then ': Are workingmen to
be subjected to the wanton will of
the owners of railroads or other in
dustries? Hy no means, unless the
workingmen permit it; and t hoy do
permit it when they allow private
ownership of industries.
There is but one logical and jossi
ble remedy the State, that is, the
people in common, must own and
control the land, the means
of transportation and the means of
production.
COMBINED AGAINST US.
It will be interesting for many of
our readers to know that one of the
results of the political movement in
New Haven was the combination of
the capitalist parties against the La
bor Party. To lie sure, they had
each a candidate for Mayor, but, as
far as Labor was concerned it was
tweedle-dee and tweodlo-dum be
twixt them.
One of the lirst objects of the po
litical labor movement is to force
the enemy to unite against us, and
to make a clean and plain issue be
tween the class who honest I) be
tween that they were born booted
and spurred to ride over their weak
er neighbors and the people who
honestly believe with Thomas Jeffer
son, "that all men are created
ciial,"and should be guaranteed
bv Society an eijual chance for liber
ty and the pursuit of happiness.
The mass of voters who divide
their patronage between the two
corruptly managed parties, hoping
continually for a change for the
better, only deceive themselves
while they support a set of scheming
politicians in ofliee. When the
masses discover that there is no ne
cessity for choosing between the two
no ideal evils, hut that there is a
straight, honest and practical coursi
to pursue, a course that promises to
"lead them out of Kgypt,'' they wi!
only too gladly throw olT the yoke of
party and join in with Organized
Labor. This done, there is but one
course for the "booted. and spurred'
to pursue, and that is to unite for a
death struggle with their "inferiors'
and
di
UNREASONABLE ORDINAN
CES.
Of late attempts are being made,
in different States and under various
isguiscs, to break in upon time
honored customs and liberties of the
people, partially by legislative enact
ments, but more frequently under
color of police regulations. A decis
ion of the supreme court of Michi
gan, rendered October Sth, is of
more than local importance. An
ordinance of the city of (irand
Uapids providing that
"No persons, associations or organiza
tions, shall march, parade, ride, or drive
in or upon or through the public streets
of the city of (irand Rapids, with musical
instruments, banners, Mags (ni ches, llam
heaux, or while singing or shouting,
without having lirst obtained the consent
of the mayor or common council of said
city."
was held to held to be unreasonable
and invalid because it suppresses
what is, in general, perfectly lawful,
and leaves the power of permitting
or restraining processions to our un
regulated ollicial discretions. Mr
Justice Campbell, giving the opinion
of the court, aiming other things,
remarked:
"It has Iron customary, from time iiu
memorial, in all free countries, and in
most civiliod countries, for K'ople who
are assembled for common purposes to
narado together, by day or reasonable
hours at night, with banners and other
paraphernalia, and with music of various
kinds, I hose processions lor political.
religious, and social demons! rat ions are
resorted to for the express purpose of
keeping unity of feeling and enthusiasm
and frequently to produce some ell'eet
on the public mind by the spectacle of
union and numliers. llievnie u natural
product and exponent of common aims,
and valuable factors in furthering them.'
The guardians of the peace, eager
to make work men's processions and
the display of their banners a pun
ishable offense, will please taki
notice. o. n.
PROPHETIC !
It is not often that a poem appoa s
in the editorial columns of a
newspaper. but the following,
by Alice Carey, is so pertinent and
so applicable to the existing social
conditions, that we believe it will
appeal far more forcibly to our read
ers than would columns of editorial
comment and explanation upon the
same subject.
Under the present social system
there may be Maid to esist three
claxsM'H of jH'ople, corresjionding to
the three bugs mentioned in the
poem; the class of the capitalists,
the class of the professional poll-
tician, and the class of the wage-
worker. To-day we find the capital-
ist and the professional politician1
snugly ensconced beneath the rugs,
while the wage-worker is left out in
the cold.
1 he moral of the poem is so
pointed and the ultimate result of
the present conditions so graphically
predicted therein, that we are con
strained to call the attention of our
opponents to the same as a lit sub
ject for their serious considciation.
It will be well for every workingman
to cut the poem out and paste it in
a conspicuous place on the wall,
where it will not be likely to escape
his memory. We clip the poem
from a capitalistic contemporary:
111 OS IN A HASKI'T.
"Three little hugs in u basket,
Ami hardly room for two!
And one was yellow, and one was black,
Ami one like me or you.
The space was Hinall, no doubt for all,
Hut what should three bugs dor"
"Three little bugs in a basket,
And hardly crumbs for two;
And all were Hellish in their hearts,
The same as I or you;
So the crafty ones said: 'We will eat the
bread,
And that is what we'll do.'"
"Three little bugs in a basket,
And the beds hut two would hold;
So they all three fell to quarreling
The whil e, and the black, and the gold;
And two of the hugs got under the rugs,
And one was out m the coal ;
So he tha vm left in the basket,
Without a crumb to chew,
Or a thread to wrap himself withal,
When the wind across Him blew,
Pulled one of the rugs from one of the
hugs
And so the tpiarrel grew !"
And so there was war in the basket,
Oh, pity, 'tis, 'tis true !
Mut he that was frozen and starved, at last
-4 slremth from his weakness dreir,
And pulled the rugs from both of the bugs
And killed and ale them, too.
"Now, when bugs live in a basket,
1 hough more than it well can hold,
H seems to tne they had better agree
And share what comes of the beds and
1 he white, the black, and the gold-
crumbs
And leave no hug in the cold !"
Alive Carey.
GOOD FOR THE SOUL.
JV . .... . .
Don Leilli.mf nroninif rf t ti
wu, v, """t'"-
ary, the Hnjidcr ("dem."), blurted
out editorially the following "honest
confession' the day after election:
Ihese. uen the workingnie.il have
too often been given a stone whe
isked lor bri'ml. I hev have not liM
their confidence in the principles of dem-
ocracy, hut they have U-couie diseoiir-
aged at the mellicien.')' shown l.y the
leaders of it. And to speak out honestly
and frankly, we do not blame them. We
are somew hat discouraged ourselves.
There, there don't take it so
much to heart, neighbor. Don't he
discouraged. We're not downheart
ed at all, nor discouraged.
Things
nrn i in i n-i o-1 n i r If uri nnnltl bnve un
, ,, , .
election every month and increase
oui i"ii- in un o.mii lunula
at this election, the "principles of
......
i h.nioei-iiev won , soon heesta i is hei
;,. ti.;.. ,.;.. iti ... hi-.. ,
,' . .. , ,. ,, . ,
l"-", "'"
man road tin Wokkmkn s Apvo'te
regularly, hood the wholesome les- employed always at the call of Or
ison d therein contained and then ganized Capital, what is to be done:''
honestly help advance
the
prm-
ciples of true democracy, and thus
hasten the good work,
NOTES.
The result of the election last
Tuesday was a gain of about 1,000
votes for the Libor l'artv over the
, .,, , . . I i nere ougm to oe no lac h. oi pay
vote at the State Meet .ion last month. T u..ri. f,, ...,-,.), i ;
The Avelings are doing much to
make Socialism hotter understood
by the American people, and tho
rapid formation of American Sections
of the S. L. 1'. speaks as well for
I faithful work of our distinguished
visitors as for the appreciation of
"a good thing" by our people.
The Springfield (Mass.) Socialists
and, indeed, all who are interested
in the discussion of social and polit-
ical economy there, will no doubt
have a fine treat at the debate soon
to take place in that city with Com-
rades Aveling and Shevitch as the
champions of Scientific Socialism,
It would be well worth a trip from
New Haven to hear them.
Next week we shall print the last
of the series of " Kxtraets from I ! roii-
tind's Co-operative Commonwealth"
with which the reading matter of
the Wokkmkx's AliVOr.U'K has been
enriched since its first issue. The
valuable book may be had at the
ollice of the Advocate, and those
living in other cities can order it
of the Secretary of the National Kx
ecutive Hoard. S. L. 1'., Mr. W. L.
Rosenberg, 1 First avcime, New
York City.
Brother I'inney, of the U'instal
Vtvw, says: "One thing we are sorry
to see totally neglected by our friends,
the labor reformers, and that is civil
service reform." Hut Friend I'inney
does not mean "the 1'harisaical and
pedantic little monster nursed by
the school marrns or the mugwump
fraternity." He would have tin
people within the precinct of an ofli
cor nave mo rignt to elect mat 0111
cor. Agreed. We Socialists, at
least, are truly democratic in this
matter, and go even a step further
when we call for the "imperial man-
date, which gives me people me
1 , M 1 1 ' I I 111
power to recall that ollieer and replace-him
at any tine. We join
with our Wi listed friend in recom
mending the consideration of this
matter to the Cincinnati Conference.
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
A DANOKKOL'S AUMY.
The Croat Army of the Unem
ployed. This is the power that
breaks strikes, reduces wages, and is
an evor-stanuing menace to me
workers everywhere. It is an un
organized army but, driven bv its
necessities and manipulated by Or
jranizud. Capital, it has in many a
tight worsted the disciplined forces
of Organized Labor. The great
Southwestern strike was won by Jay
t i 11 1 1 1 ' ' A 1 1. "
"oum "V caning in tins great army
I fit i I , n fi n i -nuX I 1 nntn 1 llnvtw
Jl, UK- V llUliilUlUAAl UIH IIIV'IVIVU
r. . . J .
the Chicago packers used it to do
feilt the eight-hour strike; every
where and always, in fact, it is the
Unorganized I ncmployed that are
I , '. )lsnilt;(lllt, (lf tieir
workmen for better conditions.
Not long ago the national bureau
0f la()or estimated that this army of
.inemnioved numbered one million
souls, while other authorities put
the number at about two millions.
Think of it an army nearly as large
as the Knights of Labor and trades
unionists combined ! A hungry
army, anxious for work to gain
money to keep the starvation wolf
from the door ' No wonder men are
found ready at times to betray the
m ()f i;lbor by "scabbing, as in
in icago ana elsewhere. it is a
credit to unorganized, unemployed
i i ii. .i I . .. .. i i i
lauor mat, miner sucn communis
and such temptations, there is com
paratively so little of this industrial
treason
With this great army of the l'n
1 ho only reasonable answer ever
vet. nimle is this' First, cot this
t ;lnuv of umvjjjn!, idlers organ-
i.od. 1 hen, working through
peaceful moans at. the ballot box
mrougu legislatures, assemblies
ana unions so reiorni me maus-
trial and social system as to give
those idle an opportunity to earn a
ih, llvin? honest labor.
which as vet averages "but seventeen
or eighteen
inhabitants to the
s'piare mile,
Ibit there will, must
be. this lack, so long as tho raw ma
terials (land, mines, etc..) as well as
the tools of production and trans
portation, are monopolized by Organ
ized Capital. Shut out from the
soil bv land-grabbing corporations
and private speculators shut out
from opportunity to employ himself
by the great cost of machinery and
the imjiossibility of hand work com
peting with it 'the workingman is
rapidly becoming a mere wage-slave
who must "huinblv bog his lordly
ellou'-wonn to give him leave to
toil. And if this boon is refused,
what can he do?
There is no end of work for a na
tional Labor party. And this is
the reason such a party is bound to
oine to the front. Umnd Hiipulx
II I '' Hill l.
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imlurril :ii n r in luiilri- tin' i liviiniM.iinvv
Tii tin' W'nrL'iiini'n Alltlltl:
A t last we have an Knglish party organ.
Who will not rejoice at the realization
of this long felt need and not try. now
that we have such a powerful weapon, to
agitate and educate with redoubled ener
gy? The Socialistic Labor Party is a
parly ot agitation and propaganda ami
tint il it has gained solid ground among
the American laborers its work is of cir
cumscribed value. We congratulate
ourselves, therefore, on the appearance
if the Woiikmkn's A I'VOt atk as a l'artv
organ, and also thank our National K.x
ecutive ( 'oinniittee for its efforts to real
ize the general desire of the 1'arty. We
have a ditlicult task before us; the soil,
tho' fertile, is uncultivated as yet; the
understanding of Scientific Socialism is
very ram among Americans, and the
Wokkmkn's Anvoc.VTK will have a dilli
cult task to perforin. Therefore, com
rades, let us be up and doing; let us
spread the seed of truth, hoping to reap
good fruit. What is needed now most
of all is to popularize Scientific Socialism
and to show the fallacies of doctrines
current among American laborers, such
as "private co-operation," etc. And
there could not be a more favorable time
for agitation of Socialism than now.
The workingmen of America have awak
ened from their slumber, and have shown
themselves capable of independent politi
cal action and we must "strike the iron
while it is hot." The splendid ell'eet of
the lectures of lr. Aveling and wife will
certainly help a great deal towards the
reception of Socialism. To work, then,
comrades ! We are armed now, we have
a powerful champion in the Wokkmkx's
Aovck'atk; let us then do our duty and
we shall conquer our greatest enemy
ignorance. At the same time I take op
port unity to make a practical suggestion.
Most of our American Sections are yet
very young and probably many of them
inexperienced. Would it not be well,
under such circumstances, if all the
American Sections form a closer union
through the Workmen's Aivocatk by
interchanging their views and opinions
about practical organization and agita
tion '! 1 would propose that somebody
connected with each American Section
send a detailed correspondence to the
Workmen's Aovocate, stating the con
ditions surrounding this organization,
the mode of agitation, etc. tt would not
only bring all the Sections into closer
connection, but would also be of great
practical value to young Sections and
those of limited experience. Let us try
this plan. We can lose nothing and cer
tainly gain much.
Fraternally, (1. M. Prick,
Of the Hulfalo American Section.
7b (' Workmen's Atlrncitte:
I have just finished reading the Work
men's AnvooATK all through, advertise
ments and all, and am pleased to find it
good, healthy reading. There is not a
word in it to which the most law-abiding
citizen can object nor is there a senti
ment expressed therein that the most
sincere Christian can refuse to endorse;
even church-members will be hard set to
find anything in it to censure. Capital
ists and the capitalistic press will no
doubt deprecate its appearance and cen
sure those who circulate it and those who
read it inasmuch as heretofore they have
persistently instilled into their minds die
idea that Socialism is all bad and all
wrong, whereas if you continue to keep
your paper up to its present healthy tone
and high standard the people will read it,
and will ere long learn that by uniting
under the Socialistic system there will
he Work enough and Bread enough for
all and that there would be no dilliculty
to obtain them now were it not that the
capitalists unite to concentrate in their
own hands the means of living which
rightly lielong to no one class but to the
whole people, and that Soeialism simply
aims to give to everyone that which lie
has a right to, viz: the opportunity to
earn his living by labor and to secure to
him the full product of that labor. May
every success attend you.
Yourssinoerely,
Al'AM liAMAill'..
I'l'.VoKK. M ass , lee, t!.
NKW BEIH'iUili SLAVES AUAIN.
7'o the Workmen AilrtHitte:
In your New Bedford letter last week
a mistake occurred. The case is this:
The second hand in tht weaving room left
his place, to take a higher position in an
other mill. But Ufore leaving, of
course, some resiect must lie shown him
by. the slave weavers, over whom he
used the whip for the tienefit of the cor
poration who employed him. It was the
fixers who made the collection to make a
present to the second hand driver leav
ing the mill. The tixers, of course,
would be expected to contribute; 1'iit ii
inis the joir trearrrx, whose wages aver
age from eighty to ninety cents per day.
and not the fixers' wages, as stated in
your hist issue. The sum obtained wa.s
and a gold watch and chain was
bought and presented to him. The
name of the receiver is Hersame. and the
new second hand, if he is ambitious, will
use the whip more vigorously than his
predecessor, in order to get tiro gold
icatehr and violin when lie leaves his
place. M. S.
New Rkmmrd, Iec. 6.
THE SOCIALIST SPIRIT.
H.rtract from Uronlund'n "Cu-operatm
( 'ominoitirealth,"
cilNTINI'Kll KIlilM UST WEEK.
Those of the working classes who be
come enrolled in our ell'ective minority
can do no better than strengthen these
trades unions in every possible way.
Through them their fellow-workers ure
sine of getting Socialist hearts the So
cialist heads will come indue time. And
bear in mind, that it is these organized
labordiattalions that are to form the
lever by means of which the new ideas
arc to move Society.
Just on account of these organizations,
and because they will become invaluable
skeletons on the establishment of the
New Order (as we have emphasized in
another place,) we think that the United
States, but particularly (ireat Britain, are
nearer the realization of Socialism than
generally supposed.
Most Americans renieinlier the rising
of the workingmen in July, 177. That
rising was to Socialists, also to those who
held aloof from it, a most promising sign.
The first revolt of American white slaves
against their task musters !
That it was accompanied by excesses
by the most neglected stratum of Society
was unfortunate but unavoidable. This
stratum is just the worst heritage which
capitalism leaves on our hand.
In a very short time we shall have
another series of years of hard time.
Remember what we said about "Crises"
in the second chapter. We expect an
other revolt then, more serious than the
lirst. That most likely will also he sup
pressed with comparative ease.
A few more years elapse. Another
"crisis," yet more severe, shows its hide
ous head. The screws of distress are
turned yet more on the wage-workers.
Another most serious revolt. Possibly
powder and shot will suppress that, too.
But in the fulness of time w e shall have,
a labor revolt that will not be put down.
Then is the time for the energetic Social
ist minority to exert its influence. There
is nothing that the people in such a
crisis hail more than leaders, nothing
they hunger and thirst more after than '
clear-cut definite solutions.
All the horrors of the French Revolu
tion and the sad fact that Napoleon the
First became a necessity were due to
the circumstance that the revolution
had no leaders. We do not mean to
say that the revolution was a failure,
for it did accomplish every one of
its objects: the abolition of privi
leges, the dispossession of the land
owners and free competition, but the
price paid was exorbitant.
In our civil war, on the other hand, it
was the abolitionists that successfully
assumed the leadership, and probably
exerted all the influence to which they
were entitled.
That the Socialist minority must do
when the crisis comes, and make out of
a revolt another revolution.
Be conlidentthat the people wifl follow.
In such times men become awake, shake
olT nightmares; the experience of years
is crowded into hours. Novelties which
at first sight inspire dread become in a
few days familiar, then endurable, then
attractive.
That is one way in which Socialism
may be realized.
Again, we have heard of the "anti
monopoly" movement. That is a war,
political and otherwise, of one class of
fleecers against another class of fleecers;
of industrial and mercantile cannibals
against moneyed and corporate canni
bals. There is no love lost between the
two classes, just as little as between two
veritable cannibals. No one can tell to
what extremities the war between them
may not go. But the following corres
pondence to the New York S'iki from
Titusville, l'a., of Nov. 4th, 1878, uia'
give us an idea of possible comi.ig (
events:
"The fact is, the State of Pennsylva
nia has had a narrow escape from an in
ternal civil war. 1 lad certain men given
the word, there would have been an
outbreak that contemplated the seizure
of the railroads and running them, the
capture and control of the United Pipe
Lines property, and in all probability the
burning of all the property of the Stand
ard Oil Company in the region. The
men w ho would have done this, and may
do it yet. ore not hriHirer or trotnpx."
The ( 'oming Revolution may arise out
of a similar struggle lietween our fleec
ing classes. Revolutions, however, have
no precedents. The wisest of us may
err as much as Ulrich Von Hutten did in
the days preceding the Reformation.
Ulrich was far in advance of Luther
when the latter took hold of his
mission. Then he wrote in a letter, still
extant, to the effect that he heard that a
monk had liecome rebellious. "It de
lights me." he W rote in substance, "to
hear of a rebellion in the bosom of Holy
Mother Church. How I w ish the two
parties may tear each other to pieces !''
Vet it was just Luther and not the clear
sighted nobleman whom the logic of
events selected as it$ organ.
Just as impossible it is to say, when
we may expect the Coming Revolution.
Rut is w orth retlecting on, that a prudent
man in 1S5: would hardly have taken
upon himself to foretell the aliolitiun of
slavery in ltti:.
But the (treat Change is coming.
In the words of Carlyle:
"Will not one French Revolution suf-fn-e,
or must there be two? Theru iil
lie two if needed; there will twenty if
needed; there trill l jnitt as many as
needeit.
The "democratic" sheets reflect the
sadness of their capitalistic owners.
Those confounded workingmen are at
the bottom of it.
I