The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-07-26

| 1Sh1Dhy u~S eFoty AcSltlin8to meAuM In tueAr
power, to make the movement a. set forth
in your circular q success, so that it may
result In bringing gether in council, the
labor of America to work out the great pro-
blem Of its amslloration.
| JOHN NOLAN.
| T. W. CARTER,
JOHN HEwITT,
Committee.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, July Is, 1873.
To H. J. WALLS and others of the Indus
trial Congress, to be held in Cleve-
land, Oniu, July 10, 1873.
GENTLEMEN: Your circular has been re-
ceived, and read before this body. We
heartily endorse the objects Of your con-
vention, and regret very much that circum-
stances will not permit us to be represent
ed. You have wisely said whittier are we
driftingi When, ~ you say, one-fourth Vi
the labor Of the country Il laying Idle all
the year round, and when the average loss
of supporting a workingnans ta'nlly IN
Mass, is S154. 06 more than his average
earnings. When III the City OF New YORK.
Ia one tenement on y lot 70 by 100 feet,
Ives 307 persons, while thirty thousand are
Obliged to 90 without their dinners daily,
and one hundred Thousand are forced to
live on public charity, and all this misery
within half mile of the residence Of our
| Vanderbilts and Stuarts representing their
thirty or forty millions Of dollars each,
while the farmers in the West, are
Obliged to burn their corn for fuel, IN CON
sequence Of the INSCRIPTIONS railroad
III lnopolies and banking corporations,
whose corruptlnginAuences have eaten the. =
way into our Legislative halls, bribing our
public servants and undermining the very
structure of our government. les, when
We look back to the days Of Washington
and Jefferson, and contrast the unselhsh
public and private records Of the men oi
those DAYS, with the selfish, mercenary and
corrupt practices of the public men Of our
times, and the greedy, grasping tendencies
of private capital, we may well pause,
and ask ourselves whittier arr We driftingi
Gentlemen. that your deliberations may
he conducted with that harmony that will
enable you to unite the producing masses
Of the country in one grand whole, on a
platform that will crush out all monopolies,
and restore to the labor Of the country
their rights, which capital ('through cor
rupt leglslationO has wrested from it, is
the earnest prayer Of all connected with
the Monroe County Wnrkingmens Assem-
bly, f New York; and assuring YOU that
whatever action you may take, you may
count on our hearty cooperation and sup
port, remain yours in the cause of labor,
CHRISTOPHER KANE, 26 Cady st., Cor
Sec, of the Monroe Co, ". NJ. A.
New YORK, July llth, 1873
Messrs. VIM. Satin, John Fehrenbatch,
NJ. A. Foran, and H j. Walls. Com
mlttee:
GENTLEMEN: Your call for delegates to
attend Trades Congress, to be held at
Cleveland, Ohio, July 10, 1873, has been
noticed by the Workihgmens Contra
Council Of the city Of New York and vi
entity.
In accordance with instructions gwen To
me at our last regular meeting relative to
said congress, regret to state that our or
ganization is unable to send a delegate,
having but recently organized. and every
man has his hands full Of business. Our
sympathy, however, is extended in your
earnest efforts to give to the labor question
some National shape, the great necessity
of the hour. Trusting that your dehbera-
tions will bring forth good results to the
laboring masses generally.
| am yours in the cause
GEORGE BLAIR.
Sec pro tenn Workingmens Central Coun-
cil, New York, and vicinity.
NATIONAL LABOR CoUNCu
OF WoRKINGMES,
WASHINGTON, D g., June 1. 1873. !
II. J. WALLS, Esq.-SIR: Your connnu-
nication in answer to an inquiry By Mr.
Roberts. Ia member of the above counclD,
with reference 70 the Trades Convention
to be held at Cleveland, has been received
IL vas rea at the last meeting Of the
Council, on the 18th inst. Messrs. Rob
erts and Williams were elected delegates
10 represent the Council at Cleveland
Sir, | would put you on yo6r guard
about a combination IN this city calling it.
self the National Labor Council Whatev-
er it may have been III the past, it has now
certainly degenerated, having become a
nest Of broken down, unprincipled politi-
clans.
The Council will be glad to get any fur
Their information in regard to the coming
Convention. Yours,
J. P. MCMAHON,
Cor Sec, 71o Ninth street, n. W.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June IA. 1873.
H. J. v ais. Esq.-My Dear Sir: Seeing
letter, &c, from you, sent TO one c. NJ.
Roberts, of this city, and knowing that it
was obtained, and believing it was intend
ed to come to the National Labor Coun-
ell, | wish to inform you that its use was
wholly perverted and turned over to few
men, Just such men as have disrupted the
lab II movement and defeated the accom-
plishment of substantial and beneficial
results. If you will let your
memory 60 back to 1858 you will remem-
Der whether OF not l was true 10 the cause
Of labor. | have done nothing but support
the cause, and have advanced our interests
whenever opportunity offered. beg leave
to inform you that the great show made Of
''spllt" is an invention Of the Republican,
Of this city, a hypOcritical paper Let us
keep this movement in the hands Of its
true friends, who have been tried and not
found wanting. The corporate monopo-
lies Of the land tremble. The Shylocks
begin to read future that will deprive
them of the satisfaction Of demanding
their 'pound Of flesh" And we begin to
see that justice to each may be demanded
and obtained, if we are yet little longer
true u humanity. Tours truly,
A. K. REDsToNE,
President n L. G.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. July 3, 1873
FRIEND WALLS -
am in receipt of your circular Of your
Industrial Congress. must say it is the
best circular | have seen yet. am very
glad that men everywhere are still deter
mined TO look after the laboring mems in
terest. | have been very much interested
in that cause for some time. Yet it has
been rather against me As you must know
First, l have been connected with the st.
Crlspin organization, and here in North
AdaTs We have the Cinnamon, and as they
have been sustained particularly more than
any other race ever imported into this