The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-09-07
CALIFORNIA.
San FRANCIssO. Aug. "a, 1872

San FRASCIsoo, Aug. "a, 1872.
To the Editor q the woRkIsszASs Advocate
AXES To GRIND,
Is also the cry raised here against those
who advocate the cause Of labor, particu-
larly when person does not happen to be
strictly a wages laborer. But ] notice il
il always loudest from the mouths of those
workingmen who, having themselves the
gift Of CAB, expect to make capital out
of it,
have always noticed that the working
men are the most often sold by their own
class, and always will be while they con-
slider that labor is the oHly qualification
that entities a candidate 10 the working
mems suifrages. | should prefer a man
like Wendell Phillips for instance, who
has made lifelong word Of his outspoken
advocacy of the cause Of labor.
This Is the case with regard t. Horace
Greeley, though there Is room to doubt
if Mr. Greeley has always been consistent,
for instance he is sand to favor Chinese
migration, OF importation, whichever you
may wish to call It, the effect is the same,
and everybody here knows that they are
engaged to service and labor before they
come.
Thl4. Chinese question viii be sprung on
the eve II election, and lose tins State for
Greeley if indeed Grant will not carry
the State without 1t, at any rate it ought
to be mooted new, and let us hear Mr..
Greeley's opinion. II the TribHaes edi-
tOrial on the arrival Of the Chinese to
occupy and drive 100 white WI men out of
New Jersey laundary, is republished
here. as it surely will be, and too late
perhaps for explanation, the " Liberals "
will lose the electoral vote If California.
! Taking this and other things into CON
slderation, ] regret to say that the chances
here are slim for Greeley. The Democrats
and Liberal Republicans were too long
officiating, and now the evidence Of trad
ing are too manifest to escape detection.
Grant, we know, is not less favorable than
Greeley to the Chinese. The report Of
his secretary Of the interior, which contem-
plates giving all the lands Of our interior
BASIN "a Cinnamon, proves that and
between them the laborers Of California
have little to choose further than to break
up the rings that have been already form
| ed, and before the next Presidential
Campaign comes on, the decision will be
on the rights Of capital and labor.
| The great land question now is Goat
Island grab or no grab-as far as the
wOrkingmen are concerned, the fight is
between the husband and the bear ~
\ But they don't see it 81, and are sure to
be fooled, while the best opportunity Of
showing their power ever offered is lost
! But the spokesman of the workingmen
Join loudest in the cry against Stanford.
/ How easy would it lie for them now to
say to the merchants and real estate own
ers Of San Francisco, NO MORE CHINAMEN.
As you know, they have already driven
all the white cigar makers out Of the
city, and they are fast doing the same
thing to the shoemakers They are already
superseding as factors and employers the
men who learned them their tirst trade,
and they will soon do the same TO the
shOemakers
1t would not be doing justice to the
General To close my letter without some
/ notice OF TINS nOJcu lADOr hkltAJOT, VINO
has instituted another convention Of his
wonderful capacity. His titles now are
more numerous than the names Of the
Queen u SPANS daughter. The last is
President Of the Mechanics Deiberative
Council All the star chamber arrange
ments Of which he is now the head, and
which are probably composed of the same
individuals, are too numerous and lengthy
for your columns.
The two parties of Labor Reformers
Unions No. I, and 81, unions on paper)
have affiliated This looks like business.
The Enterprise and Cooperative has been
bought out by the Grant party, and this
early and strenuous advocate Of Greeley
and Brown. has changed its banner, while
the rank and file Of the paper are ever the
same identical persons. IL is easier TO
transfer sentiments than individuals.
1t may not be generally known, but |
ought to be, that the bricklayers of San
Francisco have only worked eight hours !
since three years past, and now the thing is
conceded by all the bosses. This is the |
effect % an efficient union.