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CHICAGO.
PROGRESS OE THE SOCIALIST
CAMPAIGN.
Its llrond Scope and High Charac
terWork and Impressions of our
National Lecturer The Commune
Celebration Attempt of the To
lice to Create a IMot.
CdiCAUo, March 21, 1891. I closed my
course in Chicago this evening, anil
move on lu Milwaukee early to-morrow
morning. Yet my mind will return more
than once to the liurly burly this city
presents and will not rest satisfied until
the result of the election is known
The nomination of a full Socialist
ticket for the pending Spring elections
here lias broken the slates of the poli
ticians; it has rendered uncertain the
fulfilment of more than one ambitious
dream among Chicago's Four Hundred,
i, e., among her Criminalocraey ; and
what is most important of all, it has
revived in the minds of the exploiting
class the recollection of previous attc nipts
on the part of labor here to enfranchise
itself, the suddenness and the magnitude
of such outbursts on previous occasions,
together with the apprehension that,
thanks to the agitation of the Socialists,
the present demonstration will not be a
flash in the pan, but a solid beginning
of the end. Hence frantic attempts are
being made to cause the abandonment
of the Socialist ticket. All the shady,
crooked corruptionists among the labor
organizations in the city have been
drummed together, money has been
lavished upon them and they have been
brought to meetings where without a
shadow of delegated authority and in
the sacred name of Labor Uuj- h
nominated or endorsed capitalist candi
dates. The capitalist prtss has en
deavored to heap ridicule upon the
Socialists. The politicians affect to claim
the support of labor for themselves and
point to their bogus labor conventions.
Yet the Socialist campaign moves on,
gaining strength from day to day, and
labor is ranking itself quietly behind it.
The recollection of the bigriet"- " the
votes polled here by the Socialists on
previous occasions without hardly any
agitation is both a cause of much appre
hension to the capitalists and a source of
comfort to our friends. The only ques
tion is, Will the workingmen be able to
distribute their tickets throughout this
mammoth city within the short time
left to them? If they can do so, the
vote may be very large. If they cannot,
the vote will fall short by as many
voters of their class as they have not been
able to reach,,
While the campaign is for municipal
offices only, and while it would have
otherwise had none but a municipal
character, the appearance of the Social
ist ticket in the held, especially headed
by Thomas J. Morgan, takes it from a
local and raises it to a national plane.
Morgan is a machinist, proud of the
class to which he belongs, and a man of
noordinary abilities. Through his efforts
ami those of the members of the Section
the issues are all national, the agitation
is national, the argunientsareof national
character, anil the light is carried on on
national lines. This it must be admitted
is greatly aided by the character of his
adversaries. One, Elmer Washburn,
represents the "Citizens," i. e., the most
furious and implacable enemies of the
working class, men whose consciences
smite them, who falsify statistics and
make a travesty of science, and with
the aid of ihe local pulpit endeavor to
to justify the existing maladjustment of
soctety together with their own idle,
worthless existence. Another, Hemp
stead Washburn, is noted for being the
son of the notorious Minister of the
United States at Paris in the days of the
Commune, Hiid who justified the mas
sacro and aided in the calumniation of
the working people of that city by the
brutal soldiery and the wily statesman
ship of France; a man whose whole in
stincts are reactionary and monarchic
and in whose collection of pictures an
almost full-size portrait of Emperor
William is awarded the choicest place
Then, also, there is the infamous Carter
Harrison, who swore he had ordered
bonfield not to molest the Haymarket
meeting, it being perfectly peaceable, yet
failed to unfrock that law-breaking
policeman the moment he learned of the
'tatter's disobedience and the murders he
had caused. There is also one DeWitt
C. Cregier, well known as a willing,
ready tool of monopoly through thick
and thin, whether in municipal, State
or national matters.
The issue is thus well presented. The
capitahs s' attempts to mislead the jeo
ple seem to lose ground. On the other
hand the justice of the Socialist position
is gaining recognition. Many a one,
not a workinginan, is admitting that the
Socialist platform is the only sensible
one in the lield. Furthermore, the
Nationalist Club of this city has come
out flat-footed for Morgan, it has en
dorsed the Socialist platform and pledged
it its support The Nationalists here
have not yet ripened into the position of
those in New York, nor can they be said
to be doing ipiitethe oik of their brave
brethren in Cleveland. Yet they do a
work that is very valuable, Besides
their not stultifying themselves by be
coming appendages to the old and cor
nipt Republican or Democratic parties,
and their recognition of the necessity of
an independent party, their agitation is
quite effective as a means of disarming
opposition. They have access to spots,
men and women and societies which the
Socialists cannot reach, and there they
sow a seed that never could otherwise
have been sowed,
There is one element noticeable in the
lield here that might discourage some,
but that probably is only a symptom of
health No end of clubs exist in the
city where social questions are debated.
As soon as election time comes, these
clubs, in their anxi"(y to do something
good, join this, that or the other p:irty,
often demanding certain pledges from
the candidates. This method of at
tempting reform is dilettantish. That
the clubs exist, however, shows a dispo
sition to think to activity of the mind
and body. Quite possibly, experience
may teach them the futility of their
present conduct. At any rate the foun
dation of the Socialist party and its in
evitable growth will greatly aid in caus
ing these clubs to drop their nonsense.
That the party is bound to grow here
in Chicago, a look about demonstrates.
This is the city of capitalism without
disguise or varnish. The monument
raised at the Haymarket t the murder
ous police is typical and emblematical.
Its cheapness, its lying inscription
' Raised by the city to its defenders"
its awkwardness and clumsiness, its
undisguised brutality and challenging
show of brute force, denote the rough
est, rudest, most unkempt and swagger
ing instinct that may well be expected
from the pork packing "nobility" of the
place. Ignatius Donnelly laid the scene
of his "Caesar's Column" in New Y'ork,
but a waitv on Uie fdsliiimablo thorough.
fares of this place shows thst he took
his types essentially from Chicago. The
square jaws and hoggish faces of the
women that peer out of the costliest of
raiment are shocking and repulsive,
while looks unmistakably lascivious en
counter you where )ou least expect
them and point to a moral turpitude
that speaks volumes. In New York
there is at least the pretense of refine
ment; here it is Maximin of Roman days
wallowing in vulgarity and proud of his
excesse-. Extremes meet. The very
effect of such a sight produces a revul
sion. True men and women outside of
the working classes are gathering their
forces for agitation and resistance. So
cialist speakers are invited to address
them and are listened to attentively ami
approvingly. 1 was invited to address
one of these bodies, consisting of ladies
exclusively, on Saturday in the after
noon at the parlors of Mrs. Corinne S.
Brown. Some hundred and more were
present The interest they manifested
in the subject of the Labor Movement
and Socialism shows that here, too, there
is that fragment minority at work that
helps to carry society successfully
through the evolutionary crises. The
conception of this meeting was preatly
applauded tiy the rank and ri!o of the
workingmen in the Socialist ranks, Mor
gan and Herlyn especially. It is hoped
it will bear fruit To give one instance,
in closing, of the corrupt condition of
things here, and of the need of an
element to introduce the purely moral
sentiment into the ruling class, the So
cialist p trttj has felt itself constrained to
incorporate, itself under the laws of the.
State. It felt that unless it did so, its
name might be stolen by the politicians
and confusion within its ranks would
have inevitably ensued.
Fraternally,
D. DkLeon.
THE I'OLICE OUTRAGE AT HOEIiBKK'S
II A I.E.
The accuracy of any report that we
might give of a police outrage would
probably be questioned by many, re
gardless of our usual scrupulousness and
moderation in statements of facts. For
this reason we reprint here, from the
Chicago Tribune of the 16th inst., the
report of the outrage committed by the
police of that city at one of the several
places where the twentieth anniversary
of the Commune was lieing celebrated:
"The Paris Commune anniversary was
celebrated yesterday in a festal manner
with speeches, song-, dances, and gen
eral rejoicing by a half dozen nationali
ties of Chicago's citizens. Exercises
ar.d balls were held in various halls.
Orators talked in almost every modern
tongue eulogistic of the Commune and
the memory of its leading spirits was
toasted in ail parts of the city.
'The celebratiou pro(er began Satur
day night, and started in with a row le
tween the fioliee and the celebrators.
Admirers of the Commune had an
nounced for that evening a demonstra
tion with speeches, songs, and dancing
at lloerher's Hall, No. 710 lilue Island
avenue. The hall had been decorated
on the stage and along the sides of the
gallery with red banners. On the stage
stood busts of Spies and Lingg, and
across the busts were draped red sashes.
It was not a public meeting. An admis
sion fee was charged No 11 igs or ban
ners w ere hung on the exterior of the
hall or building
"The managers of the meeting had
secured a police officer, at the cost of 2,
to he in attendance so as to preserve
order. The officer saw the red flags,
and at once sent word to his superior
officer, Lieut. Euright of the Hinmaii
Street Station. Soon the Lieutenant
with four policemen in uniform strode
into the hall, He ordered the immediate
removal of the red banners and said:
"Take those red sashes olf the busts of
Hie Anarchists."
"The hall was crowded with people,
mostly Bohemians. They protested
against taking down the decora ions.
Hot words followed, when in came (r.
A. Hoelm, of the ArbeiterZeitung, who
is the candidate on the Socialist ticket
for West Town Collector. He urged the
excited people to be moderate, lie de
manded of the officers by what right
they invaded a private assembly and
compelled the removal of decorations.
The Lieutenant was not present then,
but eight officers in uniform and two
detectives stated that such were their
orders.
"The people angrily refused to have
the banners and sashes removed, hut
filially, through the efforts of Hoelm,
i hey were induced, to acquiesce and
amid a sullen silence the decorations
were taken down. The officers left hut
soon returned. They were refused ad
mission unless they paid the door fee.
Finding bluffing of no avail and not
having the required 25 cents they finally
departed.
"The exercises then took place w ithout
the decorations. Had it not been for
the presence and discreet counsel of
Hoehn a riot would have ensued. In
the speeches after the departure of the
policemen the officers were roundly
denounced and the present City Admi
nistration bitterly scored for allowing
what was termed such an exhibition of
intntornncn and petty spite to take place
under cover of law.'
AT THE TWELFTH STREET TURNER HALL.
The colors of a half dozen nations
11 uttered about West Twelfth Street
Turner Hall. The Stars ami Stripes
were intertwined with all of them. The
great hall was crowded. The Social
ists had charge of the demonstration.
Husbands, wives, and children all were
present The hall arid galleries were
crowded. (5. A. Hoehn of the Arbi iter
Zeitunrj called the assembly to order and
spoke briefly on the memories of (he
day. He then introduced Daniel DeLeon.
who was received with a storm of ap
plause. Prof. DeLeon said in part:
"We have met to commemorate an
event that is but one of a large number
of its sort. Inscrutable are the ways of
Providence, Tiswithth pangs of travail
the babe is born into this world. Tis
with the pangs of travail progressive
thought emancipates itself from the
shackles of the past and from the realms
of abstraction, to leap into the present
and the field of action. The track of
civilization is marked in human tdood.
The landmarks of social progress are
huge hecatombs of human life. Such a
landmark is the Paris Commune, its rise
full of promise and its tragic end. Yet
are we not come to mourn, but to ceh -brte.
We wear to-day the festal rose,
noi the sombre crepe; we are marshaled
to the sound of cheerful music, not with
the roll of muflled drums; we meet to
shake one another by the hand in con
gratulation, not to condole. And why?
"The 1'aris Commune, in the first
place, presents an object lesson that
eloqueutly points the path of emancipa
tion. The lives laid down there were
laid down cheerfully to teach the lesson
that the class that produces and renders
useful services to society is, under the
present system, as distinct from the
capitalist or idle class as though the
former were black and the latter white
of skin; as distinct as was Gurth with
his iron collar-band from his feudal
lord as descrilied by Scott. It taught
the lesson that, via legislation, Labor
has nothing to expect from the ruling,
or capitalist class and its political par
ties, but sops which the right hand will
withdraw faster than the left hand will
grant; and that, for the rest, the rille,
the bullet arid the dagger, calumny,
rnisn presentation, suppression of the
truth, suggestion of the false are the
favorite weapons, as it is tit with a
ruling class that flies in the teeth of
science, and with whom honor is a by
word. "Secondly, the Paris Commune is a
monument that marks the close of one
and the opening of another era. In
structed, tutored and enlightened In
experience, Lalor can foresee ihat the
carnage of twenty years ago cannot I
repeated. If the murderous class that
lives uj-on the blood of men, women and
children in the United States, as else
where, should again initiate bhwlslied
it w ill not le the eople, but its enslavers
who will bite the dust."
GOMl'HRlSll.
ITS AGENCIES AND METHODS
IN BOSTON.
braphie Picture of the Men Who Did
(iompers' Dirty Work in Detroit
Frank K. Foster and His Cro
nies. We have had in hand for some time a
-s of information, till to the same
t.'ect, concerning the gang of political
1 lers and schemers who .vent from
1 -ton to Detroit to do Compels' dirty
vork against the Organized Labor of
his own city. As Ibis is the last number
of 'he Workmen's Advocate under its
1 resent name, we do not feel warranted
hi withholding it any longer from the
public, although we did not intend to
) uhlish it until we had completed our
investigation
The following extracts speak for them
sel ves:
First in order the Central Labor Union
elected its delegate. For this position
there were three candidates; two,
Messrs. Abrahams and O'Sullivan, open
and avowed, and the third, Mr. Frank
K. Foster, seeking to procure by stealth
what he dared not attempt to win in an
epen and manly fight. Yes, to this
strait was the mighty Foster reduced,
lie, who has so long figured as the back
bone of Sam. Gompers, dared not beck
cpenly what he had hitherto obtained
without the asking He dared not go
before a body over which he had lorded
it so long and so ruthlessly and say,
"Gentlemen I ask your suffrages." The
act is that Mr. F'oster has shifted and
t imed so frequently, he has been this
thing and that thing so often, he has
lent his voice to so many different poli
ticians, he has received pay from so
many dilferent political parties, lie has
in the last political campaign spoken
with such eloquent versatility for the
1 K-mocrat Russell in Massachusetts and
' r the Republican Delamater in Penn-
i' aiiia. he has so often of Into publicly
proclaimed nis voiuuipl fui l.iah.th cto
pliant tools, arid last hut not least be
lias so often defrauded them of their
rightful share of the spoils, tha he has
at length raised rebellion in the ranks of
his adorers. In short, Mr. Foster lias
lost his grip; he is played out. And, to
use a very emphatic phrase, in Boston
he is a back number.
Of these three candidates Mr. Abra
hams was the successful one, but at the
outset he was confronted w ith a very
difficult problem. Under the Clinkard
regime and that of its successor com
inittee expenses were so great, the Fid
eration ball had been such a costly fai
lure, and above all Foster's printing
bills were so enormous, that the treasury
of the C. L U. was empty. An appeal
was made to the affiliated unionsaiid but
t'.ve'ity dollars was realized this way;
hut, lieing an honest as well as ambi
tious man, and not desiring to procure
money in an underhand way as he
knew his collogues would he used
seventy-live dollars of his own private
funds (which has since been repaid to
him) and came back to Boston as clean
as when he left it.
Of the other unsuccessful candidates
Mr. O'Sullivan announced himself as Un
delegate of the Sailors and Firemen's
Union, of which he is the reputed IV Hi
dent. What the real strength of this
organization is it would be difficult to
say. "Tens of Thousands'' President
O'Sullivan says, "throughout the coun
try, and thousands in the city of Bos
ton". It would be well if it were so, for
surely none need the benefit of organiza
tion more than the unfoitunate beings,
"who go down to the sea in ships."
Further to conlirm thiH estimate, at va
rious times when the gang were m need
of special votes Mr. (Sullivan has been
in the habit of leading a numler of new
delegates from his organization to the
C. L. U., numbering all the way from
ten to twenty, and their votes once re
corded their faces were never seen again;
so that, with this proof of statement,
Mr. (Sullivan's estimate might be ac
cepted; but to the fair-minded man it is
very significant that at a well advertised
mass-meeting remit ly called in Faueuil
Hall to protest anainst the cruelties
practiced upon seamen, though it was
on a Saturday night, there was assembled
there a total of only to hundred ami
fifty three persons, most of them known
to be outsiders; which would show that
the membership of Mr O Sullivan's
society is largely overestimated, or else
that !.e tailors and Bremen of this port
take but little interest in it affairs.
Mr. (J Sullivan leitig thus provided for
as a second rw-mU-r of the gang, Mr.
I rank K. Foster had himself announced
in good time h a delegate from the
Federal LaUir Union. Now in its pal
miest days the membership of the Fed
eral Lalx,r Uuion had never exceeded
four; this quartette comprising Mr. Fos
ter himself, Mr. O'Sullivan, who lias
always Iwen the loyal hen -hmun of Mi.
Foter, Mr. Geo. McNeill, and Mr. Cyrus
Field Willard, a quondam socialist, re
cently a nationalis , and at present a
believer in theosophy, This Federal
Labor Union was formed in the first
place to enable its members to take a
seat as its delegates up ji the lloor of the
C. L. U.
But with Mr. Foster as its delegate to
the Detroit Convention, where could
Mr. Geo. McNeill come in V Now it w as
of supreme importance to him that he
should le a delegate. He had hut re
cently received one hundred dollars of
Ihe Federation's money from Mr. (Iom
pers; he had received it under peculiar
circumstances mid for a special purpose.
and it was a ma'ter of necessity both to
him and to Mr (iompers that he should
be on the lloor ready to defend the ud
vance in case such a defence was neces
sary. Besides, as a man of all around
ability, he would be u -fill to Mr. Gum
pers, who distinctly was not a man of
that kind. It was a painful moment to
him, hut very generously Mr. Foster
resigned in his tavor, and the next day
Mr. McNeill was announced as the dele
gate.
But Mr. Foster having c:ist his bread
upon the waters set about finding the
tenfold return, and he did find it in dis
covering the Tackmaker's Union Now
this Tackmakers' Union, which is cre
dited in the report of the Federation
with a niemlership of four hundred, is
undou'itedly an honest organization, but
it had no intention of sending a delegate
to Detroit. But when Foster offered
to represent it there, pay his own expen
ses ami have union label officially recog
nized, its members would have been more
than mortal to have refused what cost
them nothing and what might greatly
inure to their good. And they did not
refuse, but gave Mr. F'oster permission
to act as their delegate.
Of this sweet smelling quartette, then,
Mr. Crowley, the fourth and not the
least odoriferous, claimed to represent
the National Clothing Operative Union,
with a membership of at least two thou
sand. But the most patient research
has failed to discover more than one
hundred names upon its rolls. And this
one hundred, be it furthermore known,
were tricked and coerced into joining
the affair. They were all employes of
one large firm, and their monthly dues
were deducted from thoir wages and
handed over by an agent of the firm to
Mr. Crowley as secretary of the asso
ciation. I would further state that Mr.
Crowley makes a living by peddling the
union label to any clothing hem w'.u
thinks it worth the purchase; and the
purchasers being, so far, plentiful and
the peddler persistent, lie has been
enabled to do quite well, neither toiling
nor spinning, yet being arrayed quite as
fashionably as Solomon in the days of
his glory,
These gentlemen then were duly accre
dited as delegates; but the most of them
having no money, and all of (hem quite
unwilling to part with it if they had any,
it only remained for them to get their
expenses paid by some party or parties,
who wou'd deem it a sufficient recom
pense if only labor were kept quiet and
conservative; and this w as a compara
tively easy task to gentlemen of such
wonderful ingenuity, who, led by
the redoubtable Crowley, could tdo
quently argue the necessity of sending
to Detroit a delegation pledged to keep
the Socialists from interfering in trade
union affairs. To crown all, the corpora
tion that runs the Fitohhurg Railroad,
at the intercession of Bro Skellington,
very generously presented the whole
gang with free passes to Detroit and
return.
Some of these s'atements, no doubt,
the gentlemen will deny; but, before
they do so, will they state when they
were elected, when they were elected,
and by whom they were elected; who
were the rival candidates jnd when and
where and by whom the money was
appropriated to pay their expenses'
Flections for delegates to such .impor
tant conventions are not held in the
dark, they art; not held without contests
for the position, they are not held with
out previous wire pulling, and never
without being matters of public noto
riety. Yet in these cases it would seem
that they were all lield as quietly ami
secretly as in the case of Delegate
O'Sullivan of the Sailors' Union, where
the very executive officers of tl." Boston
branch of that society knew nothing of
his election until they had read that he
had started to Detroit.
Of their action at the convention it is
hardly necessary for me to speak. It is
now a matter of world wide notoriety.
But I would say that already in this
city anger among even its most con
servative workingmen is the predomi
nant feeling.' He who looks back into
recent years and knows how all honest
efforts were frustrated by those men,
how the Central Labor Union of Bos
ton has lt en made worse than useless
by their management, how the name of
this body ami even of their o n unions
has Is'en prostituted at every political
meeting where meiuliers of the gang
could catch a dollar for speaking, may
deplore, hut without surprise, that this
once great I tody is now in the- last stages
of decay; that the powerful society of
plasterers have withdrawn, even though
by so doing they withdrew the president
of the C L. U.; that other societies have
given notice of their withdrawal, and
their action has won the approval of
every honest man. lie who remembers
all that, heard without surprise that the
International Union of Plasterers (falseb "
claimed to be allili ited with the Amen
can Federation of Labor) at their annual
convention, held lately In Boston, dis
regarded the urgent request of Samuel
Gompers and said: "We will not join
you, we will have nothing whatever to
do with you, until you depose your
present leaders and (ill your offices with
honest men. '
Michael Lynch.
I' rum another source we receive the
following information, corroborative of
the above:
Foster was first elected delegate to the
Detroit conven ion of the A. F. of L
from the Pioneer Federal Lalior Union.
A rumpus was expected and he was ad
vised to let the Federal Labor Union
a one and ullow McNeill to represent
thai organization.
Foster then entered into correspon
dence with the tackmakers. They ha'-.?
not elected a delegate, but inasmuch as
I'OHtcr would pay his own expenses he,
by some means, induced the tack
makers to give him permission to reifr-
sent them. '
The Federal Labor Union had not held
a meeting m nine months at least prior
to the Detroit convention. After the
tirst two or three meetings of the
union no record of its biuiness was key7
and its charter was permitted to
around in the ruhish in Foster's printinV '
office, and when the meeting was heuf
at which Foster was elected a delegate
no oi knew where the charter was.
1 here are not at the present time niore
than three bona tide wage earners in the
union outside of the two newspaper
men who find it necessary to Btand in
with the gang.
What is this Federol Lalior Union?
It is a place of refuge for men who
cannot obtain their ambtious desires in
a trade union. It is an organization
where the schemers meet for mutual f
admiration and protection. Nearly
every member of this delectable body f
belongs to some of her labor organization, 1
and for fear that he won't be able to
keep on top in that body he joins the ''
Federal Labor Union. Frank K. Fob
ter, who is a member of it, is a boss
printer, Cyrus F. Willard is a newspaper
man, Kean, the sergeant-at-aruis, is an
advertising agent.
This is a fair sample of the construe- '
lion f oHo" Slid i.-vnrt who now
largely run the trades unions of Boston.
It is the same crowd that burst the
Knights of Labor in this State. Nearly
all of them sell their services to the
politicians during each campaign. They
generally contrive it so that the political
aspirants of both parties get bled. If
they do not dare to come out openly
in favor of some candidate they go to
his opponent and agree to keep their
mouth shut for ample remuneration.
In one instance it cost $400 to keep one
of the gang from talking.
McNeill, who was finally chosen to
represent the Federal Labor Union at
the convention, got his expenses paid
somehow the men who can tell won't
tell. A very significant item can be
found in (jumpers' report. It reads:
"McNeill, lioo for organizing." It
would be mighty interesting to find how '
and where he organized. Perhaps it
was at Auburn, Maine, where the Boot
and Shoe Workers' International Union
was induced by the great Mogul of that
body to pay him $25 for one speech?
It is said, however, that he rode over
the Fitchhurg on a free pass, and that
merchants looking for favors were in
duced to contribute the balance,
UNITED C. L. PS.
ruoieediiius of tlir iiieril Executive
llouril.
The General Kxecutive Board of the
United C. L. F.'s covened March 18, at
Hi") Allen street.
Delegate Gillian, of Hudson Co., pre
sided. In order to aid the Cloakmakcrs it was
resolved to request the O. L. F.'s. of
Brooklyn and Hudson Co. to appoint
committees as New York did and ask
unions for contributions.
Brooklyn reported in favor of lifting
the pool beer boycott. Hudson County
favored it likewise, but after a ler.gthy
debate the matter was laid over until
the next meeting.
Brooklyn ordered O.OdO circulars and
posters against Feigenspan, and all
Unions were urged to push that boycott.
The Tinsmiths were organized in
Brooklyn on Marcli !J0,
Hudson Co. reported that the Bar
tenders' and Waiters' Union was in
creasing in membership and had suc
ceeded in gaining seven parks as union
places.
Mr. Carstens, who keeps a scab sailors'
boarding house in Hoboken, told the
Hudson Co. committee that h had or
ganized a union of German sailors and
liiemen, which would join the Federa
tion. The Sailors' Union wi 1 be notified to
have a dele-ate pent at the next Fed
eration meeting.
I.rooklyn will arrange a 1st of May
oeiuonsuauon wun the S. L.. I'.
Donations were received as follows:
from the (,, U r. of New York, $5
irom the o. L, t.ol Brooklyn, f5, .
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