New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-31

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TIM SpJRIT or TRADES CNiONISN.
Several millions of people. who did not know
what Trades Unions meant month ago. know
to-day. Mann Thousand members OF such
Unions. who did not know the meaning OF
oaths they had taken, understand 1t fully now
The Infamous "MOlly Mcguire" association
WAS the first TO make full exhibition oI the
real character of such secret Leagues. Fifty, 1t
is the last to hold out against the laws, the
mosi reckless i'm destruction OF the property
which keeps its members from starvation, and
the most desperate in defylns 6n authority
which ought not to rest until it has swept
down every resisting mob with grape-shot, and
made every ncendiary or assassin corpse or
n hunted fugitive from justice. These brutal
creatures can understand no other reasoning
than that of force. That they know as little
of humanity as Of law. their cruel aud cow
ardly deeds have proved; and their own na1it-
ual appeal to violence III every dispute SHOWS
that common sense and the majesty OF law are
wasted upon them. What they need IS force,
and enough of il to he remembered among
Iem for many generations. Ihoy are h"t
Americans. OF all our inn ortations from for
cie,p soil these banded aSsaSslns have shown the
least comurt hensiOn OF civil order, and the least
fitness for FREQ institutions. But-lot members
of Trades Unions everywhere take notice
these very men. Because they are brutal, un-
reasoning, violent, cruel and GOV ardly, cllng
to TIades-U nionisiI most obstlnately, mus
trate to the utmost its virtues and It's wees
its power, and its certain destruction in any
society capable OF freedom or OF CIVILIZATION,
for their spirit is that of Trades Unionlsm
its-lf.
This and much more, men are learning as
they read the news IN these unhappy days
They are learning that the primary, essential
and controlling object of Trades Union Is To
compel an employer to hire mer mt their own
terms, by preventing the employment oil any
other men. At bottom, that Is all there Is OF
the Union. 1t says to the employer, tive
"What we demand, or those OF us who are able
"and willing 10 DO yonr work at your own
"p1ce will refuse. and shall he torced 10 re-
"fisc." Ii SAYS TO abOrcrs, Join TINS league,
"su.reEdc, your manhood, abandon all hope
"of succeeding 10y virtue of any sUperiorliy
cover other wOrlmcn, or employers VIII refuse
"to hi1c you, and shall be t0rced 10 refuse 1t
saws to society, "Pay us what wages We de
"mand, whether our labor in fair comparison
with other labor is worth it or not else we
"will stop railroads, and if necessary destroy
| .'thpm: stop factories and ii necessary burn
"thom: stop mines, AMI if necessary flood
"them Employers and workmen alike shall re-
fu,,. to serve society except ut our terms; cap
''ital aLI labor alike shall submit to our dicta-
ton, at the penalty of the inccndiaries torch
for resisting cap.,al and the assassin's bullet
for resisting labor" That is the controlling
spint. Sometimes It speaks, and is known as
! the foe of all civilized society. Sometimes it
/ is silent ard then Is the more dangerous and
| deadly. Tne liotous mob arOuscs society
quickly but the deadly cancer OF conspiracy
| against freedom of labor and fir edom of cap
! ital works night and DAY among us, and COOL
! men still d0ubt "if tho wrongs OF labor DO not
"need sympathy and aid " Indeed they ds,
when labor is free ard does not cOnspire
! AGAINST its own freedom. Indeed they do,
when labor is law-abdlDg and does not make
! war upon the peace of 81. ETY.. But such
| labor il abandoning Tr1dts Unions, as men
drop a weapon more likely 10 explode in their
faces than to r;rm foe.
II is well ina, the impo.tcd miners of the
coal region have rot too much sense to show
rs what Trades Unionism meant in other
! lands, and what, if tolerated it must mean
here. The hest woTkmen cannot afford 20 sur
render freedom and manhood; therefore they
stay out of or abandon it. The worst work
men are enabled by it to drag the best down
! to their level; therefore they throng into and
control The leagues The most noisy and des-
pcra.e do the talking and catch the mob, aud
get the mthinling votes; therefore, day by
dny, the Unions degenerate into tools of the
! b9scr aud more reckless men. The Older and
stronger asS0cations-the "M0lly Maguires -
! tells us what they become Even the newest
of them ALL the Traiumen's Union, organized
early in this month by AmmOn, a dismissed
cmployG of the Fort Wayne, and Donahue, a
dismissed cmploye OF the Erie. and other des-
pcratc mon i- them, true TO the law of de-
generacy winch rules all such cOnSpiracics
against order and freedom, began nearly at
the stage of brutality and lawlessncs5 which
the Molly Maguircs had reached. Men Of the
workshops the mine and the railroad il is
| for YOU to arrest this conspiracy to array YOU
again,. civilization. Here labor is free. II is
| unnecessary here that man shall run the risk
of being an outlaw in order to earn his bread
by labor. Put an end to these conspuacies
against the laws and the labor of a free cou'l-
| try. for your own sakcs and quickly.
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