The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-01

because these men dare stand by their OBJ
liGnsion, they u ust be denounced for their
ignorance and demogoguic partizanship
The only organization Of Workingmen In
the country, with possibly few exceptions,
are Trade Unions they are organized into
National trade organizations, and now that
an effort is being made, which you emphati-
cally endorse, to establish a National
Trades Assembly, you kill the effect Of
such endorsement, by denounclng those
who are laboring for its success, as demo
gogues and partizans, as ignorant and blg
oted, simply because they cannot endorse
the effort made to make Trade Unions pO-
litical machines. Allow me to say that the
financial propositions Of the ~ L. o. were
endorsed BY the N. L. U. when il Was a
purely industrial organization and when
you assert that those principles are being
endorsed by members Of COn-r-ss, ! Will
risk the further assertion, that had the N.
L. z remained purely industrial organi-
zatiun, rallying around its standard the
entire body Of organized workingmen /; that
the prospects Of that financial proposition,
soon becoming the law Of the land, would
he far ia advance Of whatever they will be-
if We depend on the N. l.. u, las il is, t.
bring it to fruition. The n. l.. L. is dead
that it done good, | am willing 10 admit
that it became d hot-bed for small poll
ticians, to the detrlment vi the few true
men who stood by it, none can deny; that
All organization that will embrace all the
true men if they are willing be
reared on its ashes, ! take the risk of af-
lirming Instead Of endeavoring to resur-
rect the defunct, let us throw all our efforts
towards the organization Of a representa-
tive body that will embrace every organi-
zation in the land.
Education is what the people need not
the education Of partizan policies, but edu-
cation III true political and social economy.
We denounce men for their adherence u
the Republican Or Democratic parties
call them blind partizlns, and yet, az the
same time. ask them to become bind partl-
zans III the Labor Reform party 1t IL not
pretended that they understand why they
should be labor reformers, but because trr
know they should, they are denounced for
not beng such. Therefore. | say again.
let as throw our whole weight in favor Of
our great schools Trade Unions to our
high schools the National Trades Assem-
bly, Let us through these bodie4 teach
their memberships, and the day Of labor's
redemption will be far III advance Of what
1t ever will be by endeavoring 80 force men
into political party, whose doctrines they
may know by rote but know nothing by
intuition or study.
No Labor Reforaer is asked to chang,
his creed his creed will more than likely
he the creed Of the National Trades Assem-
lbly, but we will insist that men shall be-
b'ome members uf the Labor Reform party
hf their own free will, and not carried
Rn bodily, As was attempted at Cincinnati.
fUu give a Specimen III the men VII,
were permitted 70 enter the councils IF the
n. l.. U. in your article, i A Slight Mis-
take How many delegates we're at Cln.
cInnati, To whose names might also " add
Ell 4 triCksters and demagogues. and yet
because Trade Unions ami Trade UnIOnists
as such, refused longer to meet with just
such men, because they denounced them,
and because they believed IN keeping th,
n. l.. I. purely industrial organization,
you use such language towards them l.
Just quoted.
4 The platform OF principles Of the n. l.
N., | believe to be the true doctrine tol
1.-THE elevation Of labor but ] do not be
ieve that 1t is imperatyely necessary that
every Trade Union, or amy of them, should
become political machines to secure the
adoption of those principles lnto the gov.
eminent of the country. / believe a per
feet organization of labor into Trade 81
Labor Unions, and these consolidated uH
der one head, J. e.. a National Trades As
senbly, to be the only true course tor
the work incDupp ,tf the [ uItpI STATES Ia
Apursue. II. J. MALLS.