The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-05-29
rHE NArIoNALLABoR CONGRESS.

THE NATIONAL LABOR CONGRESS.
hs he time draws nigh when the Third
Session Of the National Labor Congress will
convene, i Is essential that The frien Is Of
form throughout the country should be up
Ala doing, and strain every nerve to make
its influence commensurate with The inter
gs.s id is proposed to subserye. From pres
cn. indications, the attendance will be large
the visit Of MessTs. Sylyis and Trevellck
through TIE Southern States having aroused
tle greater portion ot their people to a reali.
cation ol the fact that I s only through and
hg CHE triumph Of the principles of the La
b0r Union that their present doplorable con
dillon can be bettered; that, So long as the al
mos. l-.kguFt planter IL compelled u pay lor
the use VIZ money twice as much as the pro-
ducts Of the lands will Yield under the name
of Interest," o long will the white and cJlored
iabarsr continue in a state Of yassa.age, and
tLo fa.rest portion Of Gods heritage present
q scene of hopeless desolatiou.
From the East ana West, also, TIE note W
preparation ~ sounding. The people have
hoped uH "hope deferred hath made the
heart sicb, and until they have become
convinced ttat TIE time has, ~ length come
when y hrm, consistent, unyiclding course
must be taken, f even the semblance OF 5
Republican Government would be preserved.
Nor IS 5bis movement confined to what are
known as the working classes Some of the
abIgst ana mos, sagacious If our statesmen
have bal lhs wisdom and honesty 10 sound
the tocsir M alarm, and warn the people q
lhe impen ling CRISIS and, il every instance
where such a champion Las appeared, have
the principles enuuciated in the Labor
Platform received an honest and hearty en-
dors0mint.
But 1t is not enough that the results Of
our efforts have, So far, exceeded our expecta-
uons. We must continue To press Cd to the
goal or our ambition. There must Be no
turning .0 the sht 81 ~ the left. IF these
principles were wise and just, and their de-
cIarati0n necessary. in 1867, how stands
The case to-day? Let the events Of the past
two years present The answerl The fact Ii at
the capital press have, with few exceptions,
denounced tAe entire scheme, and that their
mouthpilces 10 Congress have re-echoed
their sentiments, Is, in itself, an overwhelm-
thy evidence lhat The knife has been felt at
the root Of the cancer, and that, should the
producing classes prove themselves equal to
the emergency. special egislation--our
greatest bane-must soon become an institu-
zion 81 tie past.
We hope. therefore, our friends will spare
no pains to make the forthcoming conyen-
ton a grand success 1t is all-important that
they shonld. Let our labor unions and
leagues see thai they are resented, and
represented, too, BY the men they can
produce. Let our farmers take time by the
forelcck, az We feel satisfied hearty vel
come awaits them. In short, let every man
and organization whJ IS IN favor Of destroy
ing the reign Of corruption and tyranny
which now prevails, aud awarding to labor
its honest due, work as though success
depended on their individual exertion, and
the results wnl more than justify the effort
In our next, for the benefit Of those
desiring Information, we will publish The
constitution adopted at the New York SEES
sion, in full.
LEGALIZING OF TRADES UNIONS.
A few weeks since, we announced the de-
feat in the upper branch Of the Pennsylvania
Stale Legislature, Of bill legaliziDg Trades
Unions, the popular impression then being
that the bill had failed. It now transpires
that our announcement was premature. A
letter from Gov. Geary to the Workman's
Association Of the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
informs the people that the bill passed the
Senate, jus. prior to the adjournment, and
that it has since received the governors sig
nature, and is, of course, now law. We
maze this correction gladly, and in justice
to Nr. David Foy, representative from the
first district, who was the father Of the bill,
enf who, by perseverance,, succeeded in