New-York tribune., 1870-08-25
THE LABOR CONGRESS.
IT'S POLITICAL BANTLNG.

POLITICAL PARTY RGANIzERs-H HOBBY
RIDERS-THE LEADERS IN THE CONGRESS
FINANCIAL sCHEMEs-THE LAND QUESTION
REsOLUTI0NS-CHINESE, COOLIES, C0OPERA-
TION.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 20.--Since the second day
OF the Congress it has been evident that the majority OF
the delegates here primarily to seek the organza
ton OF new political party. The Trades Unions, as
such show the careful instinct of sefpreservatloh '
their British brethren have done in similar emergencies
Only under the white heat Of the Reform h'o'o en-.
there John Bright. Potter and Others aple ~ 50
ont a Trades demonstration I'm favor OF bousenoiu
frage Up 20 this date supreme emergency . nc :,
fected the American Unions The uneApec'ou 80 ~ On
the Massachusetts, Labor party last year wa -. :,
apparent or real denial TO the CIispns OF uio iiS
t,, g., a.cor1odr always to capital in the multi
fro posas wherein IL is employed whenever IL seehS
legislative advantages. Hadthe miners oi re' ''l
failed with their bill for better pfoecuoh VI mo "
mines &C. last Winter. they would nave hau grew
ance sufficient to have given their class-Vo'es
direct and powerful influence But the great
nv NJ the Trades Unions are organized for
.er than potcal modes of action. Therein, too. lies
fbe yaue which, as organizations, they are capable OF
developing outside OF their direct object But the
delegates in great part had predetermined on the
organization of a separate national party. in pursuance
OF this policy too many of them exhibited great deal OF
intolerance. Every who opposed these IDEAS was
at once denounced emisary Of capital or an agent
Of one or the other political party the Republican party
being most generally meant. There were two or three
unfortunate delegates from Washington against whon
tie yas this iberal wrath were most ireey opeheu
shrewd and fluent speaking printer, with name sug-
gestive OF melancholy associations-Mr Cofin-seemed
to arouse especial anmosity He fought the extreme
views from point point with equal tenacity and but
little less bigotry than his opponents exhibited Mr.
Peters from the city, steadily on the Congress
by his simple nanlness of manner and direct cearness
and force Of statement strong argumentwas made by
i1n tfrQfl for
the annual cOnvening of this similar body as
purely industrial Congress- devoted chiefly to questions
Immediately affecting the conditions OF labor while the
political party now called into being is hoped should
40 on with its work In brief, the idea was political
party for labor founded the National State and local
Labor political Unions and Industrial Congress- meet
ing annually representing the trades and discussing the
the interests and conditions of its centage only There
was a decided minority, embracing some OF the most
respectable talent in the Congress, who were quietly
opposed TO making this movement anything but an
advisory and deliberative assembly.
Last night however after several hours of somewhat
sharp debate In the main one side, resolution pro-
viding for the appointment Of National Committee of
the Labor Party passed by vote of 60 to L.
The appointment Of this committee was engineered by
8. p. Cummings Of Massachusetts, His colleague,
Mclean President TreveIick, A. c. Cameron editor OF
the organ of the movement Mr. Browning OF NeW-Iork
and Conrad Kuhn of the Arbeer verein with all the
Cincinnati delegates the anti-C Cooe men from Cal
fornia the settler representatives from Kansas,
were active. OF the d0cfRGreS Of the Con-
gress were strong in its support.
SOME CHARACTERS.
There are several elderly gentlemen in the Congress
who seem to have hobbies TO ride, and who ride them
with a vengeance. Alexander Campbell of Illinois and
Puett Of Indiana are the financial leaders, would
be such. MI Campbell is the real cooper who put TO-
eether the wonderful tub, without bottom, which this
body offers for all our monetary and fiscal
evils The most remarkable team consists of two dele
gates Missomi-the Hon. John Mcguire and Thomas
N Nelson Of st. Louis The latter the formers ardent
and volunteer trumpeter for whom he claims the merit
of discovering truth in the science Of government more
important than the discoveries Of Bacon Reper, Calico
Columbus and Harvey. Modest Nelsonl modes
Maguire, who has ardent friend. The great dis
covery is the occupancy Of the lands shall he so ar
ranged that every man must have "sufhciency'
thereof, always inaenable and unsaable and tina
when the feet are the SOIL Government must provide
to keep the citizen with a suicieney' Of the money
token to enable him, with land su6icency to be vel
satisfied that he has "suficieney to be independent
and never likely to become pauper In short ont
would imagine in listening to these theorists, that Law
could not merely give value TO worthless paper, and
thereby make all rch but could also produce
abundant harvests and increase the size of Tho
planet, wherever the needed "suieiency" of evil be
comes insufficient for the increase Of population
Besides there Is a Washington extremist known for hi
devotion TO spirtualism and the Indians Fortunately
neither have been broached and the result so far ha
been quiet on the supne friends part except as to nu
merous points Of order, usually well taken, too. Th
solitary reverend in the Congress exctes good deal
irreyerent laughter The old gentleman takes his rebuk
in the Christian spirit-f smitten on the one cheel
be turns the other.
one the leading minds here Is outside OF the Con
cress He is lawyer and the author OF work on Banks
giving quite thorough historical analysis Of their insti
tuition and its relations His currency theory has capt.
fof fhaVn
least They are strong enough to shut of reasonable de
bate and what has been had forced from them Hat
il continued another day there might not have beer
anything like the ready acquescence II found at last
While there quaint oddities in and about the
body help being struck with the great amount
OF natural ability manifested yThat speech should be
ungrammaca; that phrases born Of the workshop ard
the mine, coarse and raey often, of the
earth, earthly" Railways yet pithy and Wig
orous; that the ideas expressed should
often crude and rawa these things forgotten
in the face Of the genuine earnestness always and vgO
ous sense sometimes displayed But there men here
who are not ignorant, ungrammatical They well
informed and handle their views with skill. Take the
Massachusetts, delegates Cummings has great power IL
the art putting things. HS has worked at the shoe
bench until recently; now Crispinism and insurance
agency divide his time. His colleague, Mclean, is a
Scotehman working pasterer, and the international
head Trades Union. He is Of vigorous brain
with mind so stored with extensive reading that his
speech would be almost pedantic in such an assembly
this but for the fine imagination and magnetic TEN
perament which makes this eloquent and
will yet secure him recognition Of the most efec
tive political speakers In the land. There BI owning
and Toup, both young men, possessed o considerable
talent. John siney, miner is strong He is English
from Yorkshire great in limb and sinew, with a long
head curt speech and great deal Of executive ability
This Is the who leads the anthracite miners Of Penn
syvaniaSO0Oo members are, believe, claimed by that
organization. One Of the sbarpes and sensible OF