Workmen's advocate., August 31, 1889, Image 4

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WORKMEN'S
adyo6ate,
KOplWSAt)VOCATfc
nrrimi jouknm. op the
TRADES COUNCIL
OF NEW HAVEN.
Omre,
781 Chapel Street.
Office Honrs 1) to 10, morning; 5 to fi, after
noon, and 7:' to i, evening.
P, 0 Address Drawer 103, New Haven, Conn.
Subscription $1 00 per your.
Al'(ilT :l,-lsO.
A DEADLY WKAI'ON.
Tlie devil cume up to tin earth one da-,
And he railed on a friend, in a casual
way.
For a quiet ten minutes' chatter.
The name of that friend 1 had het con
ceal. And 1 do it more willingly mnce I feel
That in reality it doesn't matter.
They'd whiskey hot I'm inclined to
think
That whiskey a the fiend's particular
drink
And then they began debating
A scheme for further attacks on man
A diabolical, infernal plan
Which the devil was meditating.
"I want to invent," said the liend, with
a smile,
"A weapon that's cowardly, fierce and
vile,
For madmen and rogues to play
with;
More deadly, more brutal, more cruel,
more keen
Than dynamite, dagger, infernal ma
chine, Or anything Christians slay with.
"I want, to improve on the poisoned
Hhuft,
On the hellish weapons of heathen
craft,
On Europe's most skilled invention;
It must beat the bullet, outstah the
knife,
Its wounds must torture while lingers
life.
Is there anything you con mention ?"'
The friend went straight to his desk and
took
A weapon that lay by his hlotting
book, And held it above him, crying:
"Here's the deadliest weapon that
woundeth men;
Can the devil improve on r. poisoned
pen?"
Suid the devil, "I don't mean try
ing." lie took up his hat, and he said "Good
bye" With a gleam of joy in Iub fearful eye,
As lie thought of the scribes inhu
, man i
aO make pf a gift that the gods might
own V
The deadliest weapon the world liua
known,
And Blab at both man and woman.
Selected.
NEW HAVEN NOTES.
Labor Day next Monday. Take a day
off!
Don't miss the big picnic at Savin
Bock next Monday.
Trades and labor unions taking part
in the parade will meet on the (ireen at
i) a. in. on Labor Day.
Last year the Ikkss bakers refused to
allow their men to parade on Labor
Day without prejudice to their jobs,
naying they would not object if Labor
Day were a legal holiday. Hut now
that it is a legal holiday they still hold
the same obstinate position. Such was
the report of the Trades Council's spe
cial conmiitee.
The Bakers' Union has reduced its
initiation fee from to f l.S in order
to give non uniou men a special chance
to join. A subscript ion list was circu
lated among the bakers recently, and
$26 was raised for the benefit of the Illi
nois miners who are on strike, and
sorely in need of help. The money was
immediately transmitted by the .Secre
tary, Mr. Adam.
LA HO It DAY.
The Parade of the Workers A Short Line
of March.
The following order of parade has
been published by the Trades Council
for Labor Day.
Chief Marshal McMahon and Aides.
FIRST DIVISION.
Landman's Band .
Iron M olden' Cnion, No. f0.
Iron Madera' Cnion, No. "?.
Iron Holders of Southington.
Bakers' Union.
' HieweiV Union.
American Section, S, L. 1.
Horseslioers' Union.
Stone Mason's Union.
SECOND DIVISION.
Branford Band.
New Haven Typographical Union No. 47.
Cigannakers' Union, No. Si'.).
United Order of Carpenters.
Musical Union of Branford.
Carvers' Uidon.
Furniture Workers' Uniou.
Granite Cutters' Union.
Visiting Organizations.
The following is the line of march:
Out of North gate of Green to Kim, to
Church, to t Impel, to allac, to Grand
avenue, to Mate, to George, to C hael
to South ate of Green, where the line
will be dismissed, l'arade to start at 10
in. sharp.
THE NEW l.F.liAL HOLIDAY.
(rami I'ulillc (elchrutlim at the Hype-
rloo To-.Iorrow ICvi-ning.
A musical celebration of the first legal
Labor Kay in Connecticut will take
place at the Hyperion to-morrow even
ing, with the co-operation of the Musical
I'nion Orchestra, Prof. Frank Ficbtl
leading; the llarugari Sinking Society,
the Bergiarhe Harmonic Society; Mr.
J. J. Donnellv, the tenor, will King
Nonever. In addition, the musical
voice of Ldward King, the nopular
lecturer, will be heard in an address on
the "Fight-flour Movement." Admis
sion free.
BOSTON.
The meetings on the Common last
Sunday afternoon and evening were
both well attended. One of the at
tractions at the afternoon meeting was
a Mrs. Hugo, from England, who de
livered a fine address. Geo. E. Moultou
presided and made one of his telling
speeches, which always find the heart,
reach the lireside, and leave the au
dience some food for reflection after
adjournment. J. It. Simmons, Karl
Schultz, E, Nortis and Karl Friede all
made good speeches, and Comrade
Wentworth, of the Lynn Section, made
a telling speech, in which he pointed
oht the certainty and nearness of the
:tming revolution, and urged his hear-
ors to read socialist literature and pre
pare themselves for the changes. The
day was tine, and the size of the au-
lience and tiie energy of the speakers
all did the occasion justice.
Mrs. ). II. Mernhed did not appear
until the evening meeting, being en
gaged elsewhere in the afternoon, and
she received her usual warm recep
tion, and as usual made a telling speech;
and the Important feature in her
sieechaa is that each seems to be better
than the last.
It cannot be denied that the Boston
taction is bringing out some of the best
talent in the movement. Oolite a num
ber of copies of "Looking Backward"
and the "Co-operative Common wealth"
are sold at each meeting, and these
books are doing good work.
A very large per cent, of each meet
ing is made up of new faces, yet the
converts often return to several meet
ings in succession, and a little handful
of the old stand-bys are always there.
The spirit of socialism seems to be find
ing its way to the hearts of the great
hulk of the community as never before.
H. W. B.
COMMUNICATIONS.
NoTlOB TO COIMMPON DINT. Write plain;
"boll down" your let ten; make them short.
Write only on one side of the paper. Ho as good
natured as you can be under the uireutn-
Ht UNCUS.
To the Workmen's Ad twite:
I read your reply to the owner of the
machine-repairing shop in your issue of
last week with great delight. Yet,
while it throws light on a. question
which has always been a pu..le in my
semi-socialistic mind, your answer does
not seem to meet every case which the
mentioned question would embrace if
put in a more general way. Take, for
instance, the barber trade, to which 1
belong. Will the socialistic State con
gregate all the barbers of a given
town in one monster barber shop, and
thus compel the residents of the sub
urbs to travel several miles for a shave?
Another thing that I should like to
know is how and by whom the barber
will be paid ? a bauhek.
In the first place the principle of econ
omy in human energy which is a feature
peculiar to a socialistic commonwealth,
would hardly be interfered with by the
barber shops being distributed through
out the town, so as to be within easy
reach of every citizen. There would be
little or no gain of labor in having the
whole tonsorial fraternity of the place
ply their scissors in a chorus under the
same roof. In the second place, the
comfort of the citizens is the first con
sideration under a socialistic arrange
ment. It is in the procuring of such
comfort that considerations of economy
would be consulted.
As to the question of remuneration
it is, of course, immaterial where or in
what form the services are rendered.
The small local barber establishment
like the gigantic factories, would lie the
property of society, and the barber
would receive in payment for his work
a check acknowledging the actual
amount of labor performed, expressed
in time, minus his share in the public
expense for the support of those mem
Wrs who are loo old. too weak, or too
young to work; for public schools, libra
ries, museums, parks, etc., while the
citizen who called for a hair-cut would
cither pay to society a check represent
ing an amount of labor performed for
society by himself, and equal to the
labor of the barlier jik.s the proportion
ate share of the labor absorbed in the
manufacture of lh barber's tools, fur
niture, etc., or enjoy.the barber's ser
vices with. nit directly paying for them,
as one of the necessaries which, like
water, light, education, etc., the State
would equally furnish and charge to
every citizen. An illustration is pre
sented by a comparison between the
poht-ofllces and the public schools under
modern governments as to the source of
their maintenance. While the former
transports for two cents per ounce, paid
at the time of the mailing by the sender
of the letter, the public schools charge
no direct tuition fee to the pupil, de
pending, as they do, for their support
upon taxes borne by every citizen, c.
"SHAKE."
To the Workmen's Adtwute :
Will Comrade "Zeno," who, I have
iiecn reliably informed, is a cood bona
fide socialist, and one who haa in this
city rendered efheient aid for our cause
during a grave crisis, accept the right
hand of fellowship, and with it the as
surance that he has somewhat misappre
hended me on several points?
I do not like him to labor under the
impression that I am a .bigot; for if
there is anything in the wide world that
I cannot tolerate it is intolerance, and I
value Zeno's good opinion too highly to
run the risk of forfeiting it on grounds
which do not exist.
While I fully stand by everything I
said in the communication to which
Zeno refers, I, nevertheless, regretted
the writing of it for several reasons, and
wrote to the editor, requesting him to
suppress it. My letter was received too
late and the communication appeared.
I wish to say, however, in self-justification,
that I do not think that an hon
est attempt to establish our identity in
the public mind us socialists and to keep
our propaganda unmistakably distinct
and separate from all other movements,
in order to avoid tiie confusion, can
justly be pronounced bigotry. I think
we owe it to ourselves to make our atti
tude and aims so clear and definite that
we cannot possibly be misrepresented.
And while we do not shrink from bear
ing any odium we may incur in tiie
propagation of our own principles, do
not consider that it is either just or
right that the cause we love should be
compelled to sutler on account of the
opinions of those who are possibly with
us, but certainly not of us. We have
our own position to defend, our own
principles to maintain, and they are so
essentially at variance with those of the
revolutionary class that any affiliation
with them must necessarily lead to a
popular misaprehension of our proper
work. Holding, as we do, that indus
trial emancipation can only be achieved
by a system of universal co-operation,
and that agitation by means of political
action can best serve this end, it is nec
essary that we keep ourselves distinct
from those who believe that industrial
evils can only be removed by a general
extension of the competitive system by
means of force and a destruction of
everything that stands in its way. In
brief, our watchword is co-operation,
construction, evolution theirs, compe
tition, destruction, revolution.
Now, in the language of Scripture,
I ask, "How can two walk together ex
cept they be agreed?" "What fellow
ship hath light with darkness?" Grant
ing for arguments sake that our oppo
nents are right and we are wrong, still
while the objects aimed at and the meth
ods of attaining them differ so radically
and fundamentally, it it surely far bet
ter for both that there should be no at
tempt at fusion. I regret that Zeno
should suppose that I would depend
upon the capitalistic press tor my infor
mation touching the Cooper Union
meeting and the speech of Pentecost.
My authority for the statement I made
was the subjoined item from the Advo
cate's report:
"There are signs of a forceful revolu
tion in this country. In Braid wood, 111.,
children died of hunger in a strike re
cently, and the parents hadn't the man
hood or the womanhood to throw a
brick to break a window, though they
would have Uen justified in doing so. '
1 see no objection to Socialists cele
brating the Fall of the Bastille, but I
maintain they would have done better
to do so as socialists, in which case they
could not have been held responsible for
t he speeches of those whose propaganda
is of a different order from our own.
As to the red flag, I am aware that it
can lie made to represent very different
ideas from those for which it stands in
the pooular estimation, but since it is
claimed by the revolutionary party as
their proju'r emblem, and so regarded
by the public generally, 1 hold that no
good purpose can lie served by our
adopting it, but that by doing so we
place ourseives in a position to be mis
represented, and hence we would be
. justilied in letting those who ordinarily
appropriate it enjoy a full monopoly
of it. In conclusion, I would like to
suggest to Zeno and others that it is not
well to "let our good be evil spoken of."
s. WOODMAN.
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First and Third Sundays in each month at
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Delegates to the Trades Council reoelved at the
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(Iraniti Cutters, 3d Saturday evening.
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Iron Moulders (), 1st aud 8d Thursday evgs.
Iron Modlbeks (77), 1st and 3d Friday evening.
Joi'bnetmem bakers', 2d and 4th Saturday at
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Htone Masons, 1st and Sd Wednesday evenings.
Tailors, 2d and 4th Mondays, 8 p. nj. '
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Wood Cabvehs. 1st and 3d Tuesday evenings.
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