The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-02-11

talent nor bravery. Few men nave
over eombatted the accuser with the
terrible logic Of truth, and met the
threats Of tyranny with the Chrlst'like
resignation and unanswerabie argu-
ment that the little German giant Neu-
mayer used Oberwinder, Scheu and
many others have ,recsived their SEN
fences Of Imprisonment and exile. The
Austrian gendsrmerie are on the alert
to arrest all violstors of the DEGREES
against organisation, and the press Is
watched with jealous scrutiny. Yet
Notwithstanding all these barriers Of
progress the International 10 gaining,
though it has to buffet q fearful antsg-
onism in every part Of the empire.
In the absence of legalized right of
open organisation, there have sprung
into existence great numbers of Each
vereine or trades unions, which pro-
fess to affiliate with the Lassallian So
cieties, and are called the Arbeiter-
bildungs-vereine. These, tolerated
ON account Of their schools, exist in
immsase numbers 10 Aus ria and sym
psthize and connect-so far, as the claw
alIows-with, the international Asso-
citation Of WcrkiDgmen. Within .
few years the liberty of the press has
been extended 20 that the advocacy OF
their labor doings was being pushed
With great zeal when | crossed the
Austrian empire, yet the tone Of con-
versation among them was very differ
ept from that of their press. There
exists no means of suppressing the ut
terance of verbal opinion, but the rad
ical opinions of the labor press are
still almost entirely interdicted and
the labor papers Of the empire printed
in no less than FIVE languages-Ger'
man, Czechisn, Hungarian, Italian and
Krainish-are still obliged, for the
most part, to confine themselves to The
publication OF events and PHILOSOPHERS
Of labor, rather than the propaganda
of their real object-the principles Of
the International. The advocacy Of
these principles is most brutally pro
hibited by the authorities. TOrecipro
cate with the International Associations
Of Workingmen tits necessary to ex
. change papers. send delegations OF
committee business across the Austrian
. lines into Prussia and Switzerland
! send representatives to the annual con
grcss, &c. This is strictly forbiddeI
by the authorities. There is Law
, making all intercourse wAh this gFea
and popular society treason. Lieder
r sdOrff who, at the timsg saw him wa
again under sentence of four years
, imprisonment, is one of the many mar
VI vi tttft xAAASIUdSeOA0s ANC CENss
-rf.srsfI,seqfs. yeSs m 'sr rvi
; heeled Oligarchy Of kings, and Rer
: chant and agricultural and feuda
, princes, the most astonishing fruits
From the example of every sacri6c
: and martyr there springs,phoenix- like
4 a hundred fresh sections of the grea
4 cosmopolitan labor bond, and the &C
3 cret Oaths of allegiance are as count
D less as the trees oil forests. The oster
: sible bearing Of labor organization
!. loyal and acquiescent, but an angr
7 turbulence within, astOnishes the ini
l tiated visitor, suggestive Of great de-
! Lucrative ability, heroic contempt o
: personal danger, and unAinchiDg per.
! sistency in carrying out that whicl
caution and thought determine shouIt
be done. was never so impressed witt
q conflict Of the spirit Of liberty agains
oppression. America is truly the lane
of loyalty to the soul, for in that grea
Capitalization of tyrannicsl elements
, the innate instincts Of manhood are
smothered and the manumission of III,
soul becomes a punishable crime.
terrible massacre OF workingsnen tool
place ut Reichenberg, while was OF
my visit, which resulted from a strike
4 About twenty men were shot down by
the soldiery for the crime of remon.
stratlng against a system Of labor il
which they were utterly deprived Of
all management, and by which they
were unable to obtain their bread. A
vast demonstration had been held q
few weeks before at Vienna, resulting
in the arrest and imprisonment of four
teen Of the most celebrated propagan-
dists of the international. A fierce
effort at open organization had just
been suppressed at Triest, on the
Adriatic Sea. Powerful organized
forces had received their quietus at
Pest on the Danube; and the attitude
at Gratz, Marburg, Ninstsdt, Lubianna
and Prague was sulIen AZ the aspect
of hostile legiOns on the eve of con
tiict. 1t is this ogriug eloquence Of
allegiance between threat and defiance,
caution and attack. impetuosity and
restraint, that gives nourishment to the
germs Of the International Association
of Workingmen. Not an act of ty
ranny but has been graft that il at
this day shooting into ominous exist