The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-06-30

not saddsply given way and precipitated both
The indignant women into the water.
They scrambled out on opposite sides and
the hen sat perched on an apple tree and
cackled In triumph.
Tho ladies shook themselves, and BY con-
since. I'M 80
The hen disappeared, and was not seen
until three weeks afterwards, when she
nede.Aer appearance with eleven nice yell
low chickens. She found some other fowls
nest, and had set in spite Of fate. ~
But although not "broken ups herself,
she broke up two matches-for Cynthia
hennett vas not a home the next time Tim
fothy called, and me- Henshaw never foreave
Helen Tor havip', such temper.
4 ~
fHhe 4asfo1nl H4@Asee Gonyenilon.
The won't % mutually Understood and
5conprcAdnsivcpiAn of a6kion by the work.
ingmen OF the country has been made clear
| ~ apparent by the history Of the strikes Of
the pest three or -four months. The work
Ifnginen of different localities have shown
energy and spirit and enlightenment enough,
in connection with the Eight Hour strike
in New York, to make it safe to conclude
that, with pre-arranged plan of operations
they are capable of maintaining such a
strike and carrying their point against all
the opposition which employers, even with
unlimited use of capita, can bring to bear
against them. There was spirit enough
shown by the New York shipcarpenters to
carry their strike through if they had been
sustained by the other trades and the
trades showed NO lack of interest, aud could
have sustained them without feeling the
cost IT an organized plan had been adopted.
A very small levy weekly upon the members
af the various organisations in the country
would have snfhesa.
This unity Of action cannot be had with
cut national organization Of all the
Grades; and therefore we are looking to the
Convention proposed to be assembled in
Baltimore on the twentieth of August, as
the first practical step towards the accom-
pllshment OF this object. That Convention
may not contain very full representation
of the Trades Unions of the country; but
let MS make the best of It we can. If it
does nothing but meet and talk and call an
other and more general convention ut an
early day, Il will have FASTENED the work Of
organization, for want Of which, at a very
important period Of the reform, our pro-
gress is retarded.
There is much for National Convention
to do but the first thing to be done is to
combine the efforts of the different Unions
into one systematized effort to introduce tn e |
light Hour system, - which must be effected
ON the plan Of q divide and conquer" One
trade established the Eight Hour system, it |
will he easy 70 follow 1t with an other and |
indeed when the great COON Of Capital sees
Labor 90 well armed, and knows its power.
q will come down without further trouble.
There should be an Eight Hour Striking
Fund raised and put in the hands of a Ma |
tiOnai Committee, or perhaps held in the !
treasures OF the several Unions till required |
for use; and Just as soon as possible the |
collection Of the fund should commence.
A political organization TOO should be |
effected, or policy adopted which would |
secure the force Of the workingmen where
i will best tel for the general cause We
want to bring them all into line at the fail
elections, for Eight Hours.
We have been long enough disintegrated.
We have spent msney enough in ill-consd- |
cred and unsuccessful strikes. Let us pre-
pare now to work understandngly and uni |
teddy. We need not fear any evil conse-
qnences. II we want to perpetuate strife |
and get the worst Of it, the best course we |
can take il the course we have taken-ofI
local. and unorganized effort. The end we
propose is not selfish, but designed as much |
to benefit capital as labor-to benefit the
whole community. We shall have, when
we 90 to work in concert, all the moral force
OF the nation on our side, as well as the |
political principle and the spirit of the age.
We war with nothing but what is out !
worn and in decay. We have only to dis |
lodge the serpents and the owls and the bats, |
to remove the unwholesome ivy, to cleanse
away he mould, and let the sunlight and the
free airs Of heaven visit the places from
which the selfishness and ignorance Of man
have excluded them go long, and all the peo-
pie will clap their hands for joy.