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PlEBIAN VS.. ARISTOCRAT.

From our English exchanges, we are
enabled to CLEAN something definite regard
ing the propositions said to have been
made by a number Of the repre- sentative
Tories in Great Britain to.the leaders Of the
working classes looking TO virtual alliance
between the two. And although a num-
Der of the labor journals both in Great
Britain and America, regard the scheme
with favor, and predict important results
thereiron, we fail to see any reasonable
warrant tor such conclusions. The prop0-
sitions as published are as follows;
H. The families Of the working classes
Shall be rescued from the dismal lanes,
crowded alleys, and unwhOlesOme dwell
ings of our towns, and planted out in the
clear air, where, each in the middle of its
garden, shall be detached homesteads, in
wholesome air and sunshine, wherein they
may grow up strong, healthy and pure IN
der the influences of well-ordered homes.
, To enable this to be effectually car
ried out there shall be created perfect
organization for the selfgovernment of
counties, towns and villages, with powers
for the acquisition and disposal of land for
the common good.
3. A days labor shall consist, for skilled
wOrkingmen, of eight hours Of honest
work.
A. In addition to schools for elementary
education, there shall be provided schools
for practical knowledge and technical ed
ucatiOn. These schools shall be numerous
and shall be established in the midst of the
WOrkmen's new hOmesteads
5. For the moral and physical well be-
ing of the people, places of public recrea-
ton, knowledge and refinement shall be
organized as parts of the public services.
6. Public markets shall be erected in
every town for the sale of goods in small
quantities of the best quality at wholesale
price.
I. There shall be provided great ex-
tension of the organization of the public
service, on the model of the post office for
the common good.
The agreement entered into is, that each
plank of the platform shall be drafted into
a bill, introduced in the House of Lords at
the commencement OF next session, passed
and sent down to the Commons as speedily
as may be.
Attached to which are said to be the
signatures Of the Earl of Litchfeld, the
Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Henry Lennox,
Sir John Pakington, the Earl of Carnar-
ron Lord John Manners, Sir Stafford North
cote and Claiborne Hardy on the one side,
and that of Messrs. Applegarth, Allen,
Howell, Hughes. Potter, Broadhurst, Barry,
Latham and Scott Russell on the other
1t win be observed that they are to q
certain extent the embodiment of the ideas
Of John Ruskin, with the exception of the
9 hour provision, and one or two minor
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vided he win take the full amount of the
due-bill In goods they have to sell; and he
ID obliged, through necessity, to submit 10
ali this skinning process caused by the
order system. These are some of the evils
remedied by the infiuence of Trade Uniona
Instead Of deprecated orders on Saturday
night, the workman receives his cash to
buy where he pleases. And even now, in
some Of the mining and manufacturing
districts, the same system of robbery is
kept up, where unions for selfprotection
do not exist.
Fellow workingmen, are these not facts
how doyou like the picturef These things
have happened, and this old system would
be revived were it not for the influence OF
your trade organizations. Other reasons
and benefits received by keeping up your
unions will be given in the next issue Of
the ADVOCATE.
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CHICAGO, SATURDAY. NovEMBRR4. ISL
National Labor KeOrm Party.

To whom it may Concern:
At the session of the National Labor
Congress, which convened at St. Louis.
August 9TH, 1871, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted -
Resolced, That it is the opinion of this
Congress that the time for the assembling
of the Convention for the final organization
of the National Labor Party At Columbus.
Ohio, should he extended TO the third
Wednesday of February, 1872, instead of
the third Wednesday of October. 1871. and
that this resolution be given to the press Of
the country, and forward to A. NJ Pueti.
chairman OF the committee Of one from
each State and Territory having tie bu-
siness in charge
In accordance with the spirit ofthe fore
going, notice is hereby given that the Con
vention Of the National Labor Reform
Party will meet in the city of Columbus
State of Ohio, on the third Wednesday in
February. 1879 at 10 A. NJ, for the purpose
Of nominating candidates for the Offices 81
President and Vice President 81 the L nited
States, and the transaction Of such other
business as may properly come before
them.
Each State to be entitled TO one delegate
for each member and senator in the Con
gress of the United States and one dele
gate from each Territory and the District
Of Columbia.
Delegates shall have the certificate Of
the chairman and secretary Of the Conven-
ton appointing, and also the endorsement
of the member of the national committee
Of their respective States and Territories
that they were duly elected, and that they
endorse the principles and purposes Of this
call Delegates coming from districts
where no convention has been held, or NJ
member Of the national committe resides
will be subject TO the action Of the Nation
al Convention when organized
A. NJ. PUETT.
Chairman n L. r. Committee.
Greencastle, Ind
A. CAMPBELL, Secretary La Sale Ill
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TRADES UNIONS

There are but few practical mechanics
dependant upon their individual labor and
who are possessed of an ordinary amount
of intelligence, that will question the utility
of Trades Unions, or that can successfully
maintain the argument advanced by some
employers and echoed back by a few
sneaking scabs of journeymen, that they
are calculated to work an injury instead of
a benefit to those engaged in them. Many
of the readers of this article can look back
to the time when it seemed as if all en-
ployers were combined together and each
striving who could the most effectually
trespass upon the rights Of those he had
in his employ, who were dependant upon
him for their daily bread, by exacting the
greatest amount of labor for the least
amount of wages-and those wages paid
in every conceivable kind ofmerchandise-
and the unfortunate toiler as he wendell
his way home on Saturday night, weary
and sick at heart, with dollar or two in
money and his hands full of paltry orders
on some corner grocery, whose principal
stock in trade would be salaratus, bar soap,
rusty herring and mouldy tea, and he
spread before the proprietor of the store or
his clerk the scrip of paper, the total result
OF weeks hard work, on which paper were
the conspicuous words, Pay the bearer
- dollars in goods at your store, and
charge" &c. Yes, all right" says the
clerk, what will you havey Buyer, do
YOU keep sugar y I" Yes, but we do not
pay sugar on orders" Have you -four p
Yes, but -four is cash article" Now,
what can the unfortunate man do? He
has dollar or two in money, but he wishes
to send his child to school, and in order to
do 80 a pair Of shoes is needed to protect
the feet of the little one from the cold, or
school books must be obtained, but bread
must be had, and he is compelled to pay
his last dollar for -four, and he receives
from the merchant a scrip of paper, which
reads thus, Due the bearer dollars
in goods at my store" &c. He goes across
the street to the shoe shop and tries to
purchase pair Of shoes with the due-bill.
He Is there told that he can have them at
an advance on the first price asked, pro-
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THE OHIO ELECTION.

By the election returns. we learn that the
Republicans have carried Ohio by 20 600.
and that they will have a majority OF nine
on joint ballot, which secures the re-eIec-
ton Of John Sherman to the Unittd States
Senate, the 0pea and rEdi~ql;s,d opponent
Of he .frdhcsH prtnoipls- u TIE National
Labor UBioH For this result the leaders
OF the Democratic party in that State are
directly responsible No sooner did il be
come apparent that the Platform adopted
by the Democratic Convention-whichw was
simply Teiteration of the labor platform,
had taken hold OF the popular heart. than
the immense influence Of the monied pow
er was brought into requisition 70 defeat il
at all hazards In this crusade. the gam
blers of Wall street found n more ardent
co -oporators, Than some Of the WV men
who in Convention had voted for the
adoption Of the resolutions.
The campaign opened under one pretex
or another, the army of skulkers II men
who were afraid 10 commit Themselves
grew larger day by day At last MIR.
Groesbeck had the moral couraRe-and We
honor him for him for his pluck-to leave
the beaten track, 70 assail the yery
measures upon which the success of
the Democratic party depended One
by one, the small fry appeared in their
true characters. The success Of the Dem
oeratic ticket meant the election of Gen.
Thos. Ewing 10 the Senate, 1.-THE only
man with the exception OF Gen. Cary
who had presented the living, vital issues
of the hour and this was more than the
grangrened Jealousy of the fossils could
stand. Groesbeck's policy was followed bv
Others, until the strange spectacle was
presented Of men denouncing the very
measures upon which the campaign was
being fought.
Finding that it had such supple tools in
the Democratic party, the administration
determined to do its part Boutwell, was
despatched with all available speed, and
though his logic was as full Of So
phistry'as 40 egg is full ofmeat, there was
little II any danger Of its exposure, until the
die had been cast. Every bIatherskite who
could be spared, was called into requis;-
ton, and the administration journals were
instructed to repeat the old twaddle about
an inflated currency and show up the alb
surdities OF a system which proposed to pay
one obligation, with another promise to pay.
In the meantime the unequal contest was
being waged Against the monled power
both of the Republican and Democratic
parties, and even against the perfidy Of
his own party Gen. Ewing conducted the
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-11-04
LABOR ITEMS.

A Labor Union was recently formed at
Red Bank, Mississippi and the following
officers were elected President, Llewelyn
w. LLOYD; First Vice President. Gear NJ
Hardy; Second Vice President, IT, A. Bot
tom; Secretary, A. G. McCutchean Cor
responding Secretary, L. b. Smith Treas
urer, 7. c. King.
THE International officers of the Knights
Of St. Crispin have issued a call to the
Subordinate Lodges for aid for the Girls
pins Of Chicago,
A branch of the International Working
mems Association has been formed in Phil
adelphia.
THE Journeymen Tailor's Union OF New
York CITY, numbers over one thousand
Jour hundred members, and has funeral
fund of eight hundred dollars, and a gen
eral fund Of a thousand five hundred.
Hon. II. +. TREvELICK, President of the
National Labor Union, is in Massachu-
sets, where he is to speak to the people IN
til after election. He will then visit
Maine and speak in Portland and other
places.
THE Journeymen Tailor's of New Ha-
ven, have resolved not to sew another
stitch until they get an advance CT twenty
per cent on their wages.
The result of the meeting of the machin.
lists and blacksmiths of Boston. on the eve
ming Of the 10th ult, was the formation Of
Massachusetts Union No. L. under very
favorable circumstances. j. NJ. Mason pre-
sided and an address was made by Angus
tus Dow, Of Syracuse Union 9.
The Labor candidates on the State ticket
, in Massachusetts embrace men employed
in vari )us branches ofindustry as follows
Hotel steward, carpenter sawmill business
shipwright. lawyer and shoemaker
strong team of workers.
A Labor Union has been chartered a
Bridgeport. Applications for charters car
be dhde TO E. NJ. Graves, 32 Russell Street
Hartford, CT
THE workingmen throughout the STATE
Of California, are holding large meetings
and circulating petitions for relief iron
Chinese importation.
An impetus seems lately tn have beer
given TO the Trades Unions Of Philadel
phia- At recent meeting of the Plumb
ers Union OF that City, report was pre-
sented that all the hands were employed
lf3 in number. The Treasurer's repor
showed a balance ON hand amounting 'C
31IO0
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FROM MASSACHUSETTS,.

The following is the State ticket placed
in the field by the Labor Reformers of
Massachusetts. The candidate for Cover
nor, is the same gentleman who ran for
the same position on the labor ticket two
years ago.
For Governor-E. NJ. Chamberlin, of
Boston.
For Lieutenant Governor-Allen Dean,
Of Westf1eld.
For Secretary of State-H. B. Maglath-
lin, of Duxbury.
For Treasurer and Receiver General
Henry T. Delano, Of Charlestown.
For Attorney General-Geo. L. Ruf1n,
Of Boston.
For Auditor-Geo. p. Sanderson Of
Lynn.
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COOPERATIVE.

THE Workingmen's Cooperative As
ISOLATION of Fall River, Mass, has just de-
clared dividend of Is per cent.
THE Crispin Cooperative Company Of
Boston, is now organized and the stock
subscribed for. All the officers have been
elected except a practical business manager.
A full success is anticipated.
THE new cooperative plan to secure
cheap houses for the workingmen in Bos-
ton, seems to promise success to its origina-
tors, and to be worthy Of imitation else
where. Fifty houses, 70 cost $4,000, are
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IMPORTANT TO MINERS.

In our last we omitted to mention that
the subscription list of the Miner, wi ich
the ADvocvTE promised to supply, was
burned up in the recent fire. If agents to
whom this is sent will have the kindness to
forward duplicate list of their subscribers,
we shall endeavor to repay their kindness
at future period.
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to be built; of this amount $4,000 is to be
paid down, and the remaining e65,O0O to
be secured by mortgage. Each occupant
il 10 pay $500 per year for seven years;
thus paying off the entire debt, and leaving
surplus Of eI3,l67 70 the credit of the
association.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-11-04

Al Cincinnati the United States grand jury
has induced erjsmin r. Davidson, an army
contractor, for making and presenting frsHdu-
lent vouchers fer forage, amounting 70
10000
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We clip the following interesting table,
from q a recent issue OF the New York
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-04

Law MAKING ~ observation-disclosures
ais that find 80 much cause for censur-
ing the Legislature Of this State. can
ind . prolific subject for continuing
tllo!r articles on the following dispatch
showing the way things are managed
in that unimpeachahle law-making
power which dominates the entire
country:
Tho House Commute on Appropria-
lions do not get much credit for its
laDors this session and has lost nearly
all the reputation il gained last wear
Tor vigilance, economy and conscien-
liCus work. itS members have shown
jhiS sessions dispoSitionto monopolize
business properly belonging 10 other
committees, and dividing themselves
INTO subcommittee have spent their
nm IN conducting half a dozen inves-
legations no within their proper prov
luee, instead OF working on appropria-
ton bills. scrusinizing estimates and
cnccaNoring TO reduce expenditures of
the Government. When the $50. OOg.-
obu Omnibus bill came up in the House
three members of the committee pro-
iessed entire ignorance Of an item of
~So,aoo,OJo To pay claims for war ex-
pelses. which some Of the States are
supposed TO have, but which have
never been preferred. In fact every
member Of the committee appears to
have slipped whatever suited him into
the bill without the others taking the
trouble TO read what they had agreed
70. 10 extravagant and ill-considered
an Appropriation bill has not been
brought into the House tor years and
the reouke the House gave the com
rnlttee by tabling the bill on Monday
aud by passing il yesterday with sII..
ovO,cVo stricken out of it was well
deserved.
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PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS.

The New York Tribune has been
prognosticating in relation to the pro-
liable result OF the next Presidential
election, and its conclusions have been
caught up a sweet crumbs of comfort
by nearly all the Radical papers who
affect TO believe that they can plainly
see the certain defeat of the Democra-
cy in the contest of 1872. The figures
they give from the Tribune show that
there will be 326 votes in the next
electoral college, of which I64 will
constitute a majority. They claim 10
Of these, and concode TO The Democ-
racy the remaining ~. These fig
ures are not safe to rely upon; the
Democracy have TO gain only Il more
votes than i conceded them to secure
the necessary majority to elect.
In the Tribune's calculation are
placed on the Radical side the States
of Arkansas. Florida, Mississippi and
Texas, which are morally certain To
throw their - votes for the Democrat
ic candidates and ensure their olec-
ton; also the States Of New Hamp-
shire aud New Jersey, which stand
more than an even chance Of going
Democratic; and Louisiana aud South
Carolina, with all her negro voters.
which we do not vet give up as wholly
lost to sin and Radicalism in lS72. The
calculation includes PENNSYLVANIA.
too, in the Radical column, with her
p votes, which gave a Democratic
majority last fall on the popu-
lar vote, and which has since
been increased by a Democratic gain
Of over 300 votes in a senatorial dis
trict. If no change should take place
III the political complexion OF Penn
syivania In the next two wears. and we
are assured That none will IN any de
gree favorable to Radical!siu, she
would clcc; the national Democratic
ticket with 5 votes 10 spare, even if all
the other States mentioned above.
should he found supporting Radical
ism. Any calculation which places
Pennsylvania in the Radical column
in ls72 is faulty, and any calculation
which does not place her there shows
l Radical defeat. Even did the lie
mocracy fail to carry all the above
states, Pennsylvania included. mad
simply succeeded in carrying ohio in
addition 20 the States conceded them,
which is not an impossibility, this
would insure a Democratic 20
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LAKE BIGLER.

The followin g report explains itself:
Mn. president: The standing com
mittee OH Judiciary. to which was re-
ferred Assembly Resolution No. gD2,
relative To the diversion of tie waters
Of Lake Tahoe, beg 10 report that they
have a~Scertaiued from inquiry tina, a
company has been formed in the State
Of California for the purpose OF divert
ing the waters of Lake Bigler through
the Sierra Nevada mountains into the
valleys OF that state, which they pre-
sumo to be the same diversion referred
TO in the resolution under considers
ton.
The committee have TO further Sav
that in their opinion the threatened
diversion would be unlawful. and can
be restrained upon the application OF
any riparian proprietor OH the Truckee
river, who would be materially injured
thereby.
They therefore have to sucges that
in their opinion no legislation is nee
esSary on the subject.
Respectfully, etc.
TToS. II. WILLIAMS, Chairman.
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REPUTATION

The editor Of the Caucasian raises
the banner of reputation in the fol
lowing h]yperbolical and mctaphcrical
style:
Talk about paying ii Qhe public
dehtI of! Ila, ha! Bald a worm
fence around a herd Of comet,-Storc
a Winters supply of summer weather
M yuur coal biu-Nhcei muonShiuc
enough in Il hand barrow. into vour
cellar, la have turned Egyptian dark
ness into glorious day-Bip an he
Norwegian Mci>trom with one OF
Buffers stolen teaspo0ns-Break the
hurricane of the Indies to work i'm har-
ness beside q mouse co.OreG donkey
stop the mouth of Nesuvius with n
cham pagIe cork-Rock .heear!huuakc
to sleep in a nursery crtdle-IaS>o the
royal tiger win a spider web laria;-
Catch the spcrmacc'i whale in an old
stockcn lcg-llivc the stars i'm a Niger
preachers Stoyepipe hat-liang the
ocean OF a grape vine TO dry-Put the
Great Sahara 10 soak. i'm a raura-
Qucnch he'll with asyringe full Of rose
water-tnbuckie the hally-hand OF
Eternity-Aud paste ITO Let npon
the door-posts of the Universe-But
never. never, NEW speak. think.
dream OF paying what i beyond all
computation, or comprehension, Away
With the lGnaiic who whispers it.
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DISPATC HE'S
FROM san FRANCISCO.
Sax FRANcIsCo. March 3.

Weather very dry. wind Of the
order Of san Francisco zephvrs and
dust equal to July.
Indications of rain were abundant
this morning but have disappeared.
At San Frar-isco, the Western
Union TetegrU III office has been re-
opened.
Eureka Mining Company at Grass
Valley, pays a dividend Of two dol
lars for February.
Senator Cassccly t~eleCraphs that
notes for the san Francisco GOLD
note Bank would be forwarded next
week.
The Columbia River 1Tanufactur.
ing Company purchased the bark
Rival, recently in the Puget Sound
trade, and will put her in their line.
Ii Is now positive thatthe Meadow
Mining Company will not paw a
dividend for February. 1t is ru-
moced that Il OF the leading officers
OF the Company who has gone on a
tour abroad tor his health has sold
out the bulk of his stock.
Sales Mt the evening Board were
as follows Crown Point. $40 a: Bel
cher, $751;; Alpha. 50: kentuck.
S60; Oyerman, So; Yellow Jacket.
Sf3lg =: Imperial. SO Savage. so:
Ophir. So; Chollar. S74l4 :
Meadow Valley, S24l4.
On the trial of b. Il. Thaver. in
the Municipal Court. to-day. an in.
dIctment charging him with perjury
Ill the matter Of an affidavit which he
made IN answer 30 a complaint in
civil suit for money claimed to be
due a broker, on orders for purchase
of american Mining Company's
sock, the prosecution failed. and
Judge Lake told the Jury that no
case had been made ont. He said
lhayer answer upon the swearing
10 which the charge of perjury was
based contained matters of law and
90 fact so delicate that thew will not
warrant q man being found guilty OF
perjury. II he had committed an
error III swearing to them. the cues
lions OF law were nice and difficult.
and i would not do to saw that a
party would be guilty OF perjury if
Ar made n mistake in swearing to
sUch questions under such circum-
stances. The jury rendered a ver-
diet of arquittal without leaving
their seats. This case has been
pushed with considerable feeling.
ana attracted much attention from
the position occupied by the re-
spcctlye parties.
The trial OF Sheriff jackson. of
Trinity county, on an indictment for
violation OF the fourteenth and fif-
teentA amendments. in collecting
mining tax from Cinnamon. will oc-
cGpy several days, and in case of
conviction, will undoubtedly be APP
pealed.