The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-11-07
The Labor Reform Association.

AS this association is rapidly making
itself power in the land, it will be inter
osting to our readers to know what it is
that the society propose to accomplish
The following extract from letter writ
ten by r. f. TrevelliclS, the President of
the National Labor Union, states their pur-
poses very clearly:
Gin our Declaration of Principles, we
say that labor is robbed of its Just reward,
by false and wicked money system; sys-
tenn that has been and is robbing the peo-
pie. Labor and money together are pro-
ducing eleven hundred millions per year,
and money is taking of that amount seven
hundred and fifty millions; only leaving to
labor three hundred and fifty millions for
all its toll and care. IT is the false system
of finance which our Government upholds
of which we complain. 1t is this more
than wicked system of specie basis, that
has caused bankruptcy and ruin so often
III the past, and gathered into the hands of
capitalists the results of the laborer's toll
for long years. 1t is this foolish system
that has shut up our shipyards and driven
our commerce from the seas; and to-day
we are only saved from panic and ruin, be-
cause we still have little of the peoples
chor which saved us from despair within
the last few days, as they did during the
dark hours of war
The system is not perfect; yet it saved
the nations life What We want is, that
the Greenbacks shall be made payable and
receivable for all debts, public and private,
and convertible into bonds, and the reverse,
at the pleasure of the holder. This is what
labor reform means, and what we want
We do not want TO be compelled to pay three
times as much for the use of money rs the
neople of Europe. We want to be able TO
tjiiild our own ships, and our own factories
and machine shops,s so that we can compete
with other nations in the markets of the
world.
We do not want to be paying interest to
Europe for the full amount of all we sell
per year, and add all we import TO our fix
cd debt. We do not want to see the Stew
arts the Cooks, the Vanderbilts and the
Packers gathering up their millions, while
our paupers are more than keeping pace in
number with the poorest countries OF the
world. We want TO be able TO utilize the
blessings which kind Providence has Civ
on-us. We want to mako our own iron,
and use our own coal in its manufacture.
We want constant employment for our peo-
pie, and want the producer TO receive the
proceeds Of his own labor and not pay
three-fold interest tor the use OF capital.
We want the officials at Washington TO
work for the interests Of the whole people,
and not TO concoct plans to rob them. We
want the lands that God has given us kept
for The settler, and not stolen. as they have
been, by millions of acres. We want the
highways Of commerce controlled by just
laws that laws should not be passed sole
ly in the interest OF the monopoies, and
against the interests of the people. VIZ
are tired of being robbed OF millions of oul
labor land we arc determined 10 work til
this is remedied, however long it may take
II those at the head Of affairs will not rem
edy these evils, we will elect men who
will" t