New-York tribune., 1878-04-27

(5) that respectable exhibit Of votes IN Ohio and
in New-York at the elections in November, 1877,
aud again in the Spring elections OF the present
year in the same States, when they showed Id
creased strength, gives palpable evidence thas
that party is not myth, but on the contrary,
is constantly growing.
The Trade Union is the agency which the Com
nunists intend to employ to compass the ends ndi-
Gated in the Newark platform; and they will en-
plOy it.
The facts that have been cited show:
/. That the process of aliiliatiOn between Trade
Unionisn and Communism is no chimera.
2. That the iuhexibe purpose of the International
Society is TO overthrow the rule OF capital by the
acquisition Of political power"
3. That the failure of the Communists in Europe
led them to occupy the new field temptingly opened
to them in the United States.
H. That the doctrines of the International Society,
boldly enunciated by Karl Marx in 1917, have been
emphatlcally reafirmcd here in 1877, and put in
practice bv the cOnjOnt efforts of Communists ana
rade-UniOnists.
5. That the vast army of cOOpers, backsmiths,
shocmakers printers, carpenters, masons, plumbers
and other skilled mechanics, defeated again ana
again in their efforts TO coercc the employing class
are now met by ycOunter-c0mbnatlons when refuse
las THE TRIBUNE did last Summer and as the Lynn
manufacturers are doing today to employ Trade
Unionists any terms
6. Thatth Trade-Unionist 10th to lose the power
he once enjoyed, hopes by his affiliation with the
Communist to establish new order OF things upon
the ruins of American institutions.
Ii follows that, if the Nation is to be efficiently
guarded against an imminent peril the Trade Union
must be shorn of the powers it has assumed to ex-
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fulclum the Communist is using. The Trade Union,
which places good and bad workmen on the same
footing which pursues its course relentlessy until
every industry is in turn subjected to paralysis
and loss, which so weakens the apprentice
ship system by absurd regulations that the
coming generation of operatives will be unable
to hold their own against foreign competition, and
which learns nothing from disaster, is precisely
the instrument for the purpose the Inter-
nationalists came here TO accomplish. III IL
be true-and there are few right-mnded men
who will question it-that there sno necessary con-
fict between capital and labor, it ought to be equally
true that capital shall not be the slave OF abor yet
this is what the Trade Union seeks to make 1t, whlle
the tenatl lonalst seeks to destroy 1t altogether.
The employer being necessary to the workman, ana
the workman to the employer, the Communist, with
his crazy notions, is not wanted. lie nurses the
Trade UniOn and controls it and he will continue
to shape it to his own ends long as our employing
cass give vitality to Trade -Unionism by employing
its Iembers and accedins to its preposterous de-
maids.
1t is not extravagant to predict that If Trade
Unionism, now identified with American Commun-
ism, is permitted still to have its own way, the COM
bi ed forces of the two affiliated systems VIII YET
prolucc a serious political compcation-perhaps
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the exclusion of tariffs, financial problems, or other
questions of governmental policy. The signs OF the
times are full of portents and the presence of the
Communist is one of our present dangers. The
Trade Union suppressed, the Communist in America
would die the death he deserves to meet-for then
he might say with Shylock, "You take my LIE
when you do take the means whereby live"
AUGUSTUS MAVERICK.
Ne;c- York April, 1873