The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-10
FROM THE OLD WORLD.
PROGRESS or the LABOR MONUMENT.

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!. IConpHsd from cur Esr ope.n EsbapsssI
THE INTERNATIONAL woRKINGMEN'
!, association
General Council meeting, Tuesday
j August i6, Mr. John Hales in the chair
, In answer to an appeal to aulhorise tn
council to postpone the congress, letter
were received from the executive of tn,
German Social Democratic Party, anC
the Central Council Of the Gershal
speaking section of Switzerland, con
senting to the postponement and leav
ing il to the council to appoint tim'
and place. A proposition to remov,
the General Council from London hal
been rejected by both sections.
The following was commune atet
from a private letter TO a member o
the Council I'll express to you my
thorough admiration OF the address
put forward by the International Work
ingmen's Association with respect Il
the present war 1t is in my opinion
far superior to any Of the papers which
this deplorable struggle has brought
forth. Ones only consolation is thai
there will be an end to Napoleonism---
for do not expect his Imperial Majes
ty will ever rally the French around
him or his dynasty again. Experience
shows that liberty has better hopes
under military reverses than at pros.
pect Of military success, besides which
am sure the war il not populaI
The Secretary Of the Alliance Cabi
net Makers Society handed in a sover.
eign granted by his society towards the
expense Of the next congress, and the
president OF the London Cigar Makers
Association stated that his society had
voted e for the same purpose to be
RENTED whenever IT was decided when
! and where the congress win take place.
From a Paris communication was
received that the secretary and twenty
four members Of the Iron Moulders So
clety had been Imprisoned with view
to intimidate the society to abandon
the strike and to sever its connection
with the International.
At Vienna all the WorkiDgmen's So
cieties including twenty-six trades
unions, have been dissolved on the plea
that they had violated their own rules.
A 1eputation waited on the Govern
ment lawyer to ask for explanations,
bat all the satisfaction they could get
were they had overstepped the bounds
Of the rules and the law. In answer TO
that one of the deputation observed
''but there is one society i'll course of
formation whose rules are not adopted,
yet has that society, too, violated,
its rules" "No," said the law
yer, "but we are sure il would do SO ii
the rules were finished" lie then made
clean breast u il and told the depu-
tatiOn that the societies had been dis
solved because they talked politics at
their meetings, and corresponded with
societies in other towns, which, if tol-
Grated, would make all government i'm
possible. Such is liberty in the capital
of Austria
THE ANNUAL CONGRESS.
In consequence of the war, the Gen
eral Council, resolved unanimously :-
That, in consideration of the advice
received from the continental sections
of the associations, the meeting Of the
Fifth Annual Congress be postponed
till the earliest opportunity.
TIE Annual Trades Congress for
1870 is finally arranged for. The Con-
gress, which il the third Of its kind,
will assemble in London on Monday,
October cath, and will last all the
week. The committee have decided
that the following important subjects
shall be submitted for discussion
I. Trades unions and legislation.
2. Mines Regulation Bill; the truck
system and weekly payment of wages.
,. Employment of women aud chill
dren in agriculture, factories, and
workshops.
4. Convict labor rs. free labor.
5. Application of arbitration and
Cancellation in trade disputes.
6. Reduction of the hours Of labor.
Z. Cooperation and industrial part
nerships.
E. Taxation, imperial and local.
Q. Education, primary and technical.
10. Direct representation Of labor in
Parliament.
IL. International differentiation of la
Dor, war, standing armies and their in
furious effect on industry.
IL. Utilisation of waste lands and
unemployed labor.
Each subject will be opened BY pa
per read BY one of the delegates, and
then will follow a discussion, and sub
seqnently a resolution viii be passed
upon it. Efforts are being made to
make the Congress both large and in
fiucntial, and delegates are expected
from every important trade in the Uni
ted Kingdom.
The London Operative Bricklayers'
Society has just issued its twenty first
annual report. The society has up
wards Of two thousand members and
fifty-two branches The receipts Of
last year amounted to e23T7, and the
expenditures was fI90O. The repor
complains of a decrease of members
which is owing to the uncertainty O
the trade, as the merabers cannot rely
on many months work in any one dis
trict, and they are constantly on tn,
tramp foY work. The society is no
connected with the Manchester Societ,
of Bricklayers, although they hav,
some fraternal understanding, and en-
deavor to work together for the benefi
of the trade. Trades unionism anon
the Bricklayers is not just now in
very hourishing state. Why this is "
cannot state. As a trade it has tol
merly been up to the front, ard "
trust its declension will be only tempo
rary.
TIE operatives in the various brancl
es Of the cotton trade have commence