The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-09-05
CORRESPONDENTS.
FROM MARYLAND.
BALrIAoRE, Aug. %, 1868

BALrMoRR, Aug. %, 1868.
kIrrEs THnD CoxoK RssIosAL DIsrRIor-EIeHr HOUHs
Am rHB CIfT BunDIHos-THE JoUREErNEs CURaIRRs
DEAAzD An ADvAHcn-PoLrrIcAl, &c.
To the Editor Of the wosKIHsNAx's ADVOCATE
rRE LABOR MOVEMENT.
The friends Of the labor movement in this
city are again at work. The vice-president
for this state, Mr. VIM. Gather. has been &C.
lively engaged during the past two weeks en-
deavoring TO arouse feeling in some Of the
prominent workiDgmen of the city; what
success he has met with remains to be seen
The executive committee of the Third Con-
gressional District, ha, issued the follow
ing
To the Trades Unions Of Baltimore, issued
by the Erec1ttvs Committee Of the Labor
Reform or WorkingmGn's Party Of BGlti-
more, Maryland, Aug. 30, 1868.
GESTLENEN,-Believi as we do that you
are part and parcel Of this creative power
that creates all wealth Of our common coun-
try, and at the same time that you, in COM
mon with MS, are deprived, through the
agency of unjust legislation, Of the fruits OF
our creation, by means Of unjust, improper
toned, and indirect taxation, and privileges
granted to individuals, eneroaching in their
tendency upon your earnings, and knowing,
as we do, that We posses the power, in con-
junction with you, as also the comprehen-
sive and infallible capacity of relieving the
honest, hard working classes from the op-
preston that bears them down into state
of apparent freedom, but actual servitude,
not otherwise visible but through its results,
Of which you can convince yourselves best
BY inspection of your ows households, and
ascertaining the accumulated gains and pro-
fits over aud above your daily wants, from
the conscientious, diligen. and unceasing
and Industrious labor Of the past years, thai
might warrant hope in your bosom that
you will be enabled TO support your wife and
yourself when old age should accidenty
smile upon your out-worn frame.
But should you find that there is no such
prospect in store for you under your present
circumstances "although you may be
enabled, through cooperation. to raise your
wages to the highest expectation" the hid
den machinery, commonly called politics,
enables the idle Capitalists and politicians)
to wrench from you the fruits Of your. toll,
BY means Of partial legislstion-then join
our honest effort in relieving ourselves for
the future
We have striven to ameliorate our and
your condition for years past we have agi-
tated the principle Of eight hours OF work,
eight hours Of recreation and eight hours OF
sleep for men, until we have succeeded in
enlightening our politicians In the national
congre Q, and In some of the states, Of its
justice and polity, as lie proven by the fact
that the eight-hour law has been enacted
lately by the national congress and approved
by the president, as it also has been enacted
in some Of the states.
It's true that this judicious law has in
most cases become dead letter, either
through the opposition to it by the men in
Office, or by means Of reducing the wages in
proportion to the hours worked. But this
opposition by the capitalists and the profess
sional politicians to the eight-hour law is
natural one; for IL the laboring classes
should be paid for eight hours work q sufi-
cheney TO enable them to make q simple liv-
ing, instead Of, 40 ut present, ten hours,
then the products Of two hours per day will
be lost TO the idle capitalists and pOliticisas
which products they usually manage TO ap-
propriate 70 their own benefit, through the
means Of partial and hidden legislation.
Fellow-workingmenf We are, in coniunc-
tion with our toiling brothers OF this coun-
try, 70 take step fMther In your and our
own behalf In favor Of your wives, Of your
innocent children. in favor Of your old age,
in favor Of our own wives, Of cur own little
children, and our own old age. We pro-
pose TO legislste In manner that will cause
the fruits Of our labor (wealtbl TO flow 10
those who work, instead of-as at present.
20 those who are idle. Are you willing 70
have faith in yourselvesf Are you willing
to do justice TO your wives, to your chill
lrenf Then join our exertiou for lawful
deliverance Trust to usl-we are your
fellow-oppressed we are your brothers in
misfortune we will endeasor to do Justice
to you, TO ourselves and TO all others, Ia NO
cordance with our motto: sGood TO all and
evil to noners
Friendsl brothers. workmeni we need
your assistance In kind and IN sympathy ii
Some funds and your votes In the next cleo
tion for congress, that the workingmen may
be represented there-whege the life, liberty
and happiness Of the people Is dispensed.
Our candidate ID . workingman rus prin-
ciples are democratic, and We are for 70
pubiioan form of governmeut; but We mrsl
also materialists- believing thai bread, boz |
ter, house rent, something 10 wear, nd
s0netbing left over and shove for y siek o.
niny day, or old age, isas necessary sdiunes |
% or sxisssncs, ind must be pfoYided Ter |
through ~ mesns 6f lsei1lAxf0n, before vel
hall b eneblsd 70 b. fFee, indepenAenk andi