Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-09
LABOR TROUBLES APpREHENDED.

cry of fraud dispelled by an inquiry into the
count of the Florida elections.
LABOR TROUBLES APPREHENDED.
Fears are entertained in portions of Penn.
sylvania, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Baltimore
and other prominent Northern and Western
cities, that there will be another uprising in
those localities of labor against capital, SINH
lar to the great strike Of last summer, but on
a more extended scale, and under more thor,
oughly organized leadership. 1t seems that
the associations are regular communistic or.
CARNATIONS, under the leadership and control
Of those who participated in the Paris com.
mune at the downfall of the French Empire.
1t is asserted that the coal regions of Penn.
sylvania are alive with lodges of the commu-
nistic movement, and in that section it means
return to the scenes of last summer. Father
James Bridgeman has denounced the order
from the pulp warning the Irish and Ger.
mans to leave it. lie is the first priest in the
region to do so. On Thursday the up-passen.
ger train was obstructed at Reynolds by stills
securely nailed to the track, as was the Shen-
andoah down train near Mintzer's crossing.
This is evidence that the movement is alive
to villainy and we'll trained. The first or
ganization took place in Tamaqua seven weeks
ago, and the branch at that place takes in
over two hundred members They number
nine hundred in Mahanoy City, and nearly a
thousand in Shenandoah. The headquarters
are in Pottsville. None but workingmen
can join. President Gowen, Of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad, has private de-
tectives in the field, but the movement is
strong, gains daily, and seemingly de6es de-
lection. The Philadelphia and Reading
Company seems to be the object of attack.
Politically, the members side with the Green
hackers.
A telegram from St. Louis, May 1, says
ut has been stated in public prints here that
members of the Socialistic party have been
drilling in the city for some time past. An
to-day with Mr.. Cairlin, city editor
of the Volkesstemme, organ of the German
Socialists here, and who was very active in
the riots of las: July, and was arrested and
imprisoned therefor, verified this statement.
He said some two hundred members of the
Sociaistic Workingmens Protective Associa-
ton have been drilling once week. Their
arms are Springfield rifles. When asked
what these armed men proposed to do, he said
they would protect the meetings of Socialis'
tic workingmen from the police, prevent ar
rest without the warrant of law of men who
have the constitutional right to assemble and
discuss their grievances. He said the party
numbers from 5000 to 5000 in this city, and
from $4,000 to $4,000 in this country, all
sworn members. Besides these, he said, there
are as many men in active sympathy with the
organization, who are ready and willing to
give it aid at any time, but who do not wish
to enroll themselves because Of fear Of losing
their situations"
The Baltimore american, speaking of the
organization in that city, says the mem
bers are composed Of three nationalities-
Germans, English Cor American) and Bohe-
mians. Other nationalities are admitted, but
the three sections existing in the city are
known as the above. They are by no means
composed of mechanics or even working men
exclusively. Many of them are saloon keep.
ers, bar tenders or mere idlers, while portion
of them are laborers and but few are artizans.
The object of the order is, in their language,
the organization of a political party which
shall enact laws to suit their own views in re-
gard to the functions of the State and the
allotment of property. They meet weekly,
and their gatherings are we'll attended.
Such reports as the above come from the
cities named, though in New York fear of
trouble is not seriously entertained. A letter
from that city to the Philadelphia Ledger
says:
Parties here who are in position to be
we'll informed as to the communistic move.
ments and other mischiefs of the sort (the
secret detectives whose business it is to watch
them rdicule the sensational stories that are
coming over the telegraph from Cincinnati,
Chicago and other places at the West, as to
their preparations for what is spoken OF as an
armed uprising. One Of the oldest and most
experienced of our police authorities remark
ed to your correspondent this morning that
1--WE have here in New York probably as
many real Communists as all the rest of the
country put together, and the worst sort Of
Communists at that; fellows that glory in
telling how they helped to sack Paris, and to
put the Archbishop and the priests to death,
but we have the names Of every one OF them
on our books; their habits and haunts are ia
miliar to our men, and we know them to be
as helpless and harmless ao the saloon keep.
ers who serve them their beer. The idea of
these people arming, or contemplating an up
rising agains: anybody or anything, therefore,
is preposterous. How it may be at the West
we cannot say, but as we are all the while in
communication with the police authorities of
Chicago and Cincinnati, the silence of these
on the subject is an indication that they at
tach little or no Importance to what will no
doubt turn cut to be simply first or second
class newspaper sensation"
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
HORN.BLOWING.
FORREST COTTAGE, S. c., May 2, 78.
Mr.. Editor: I am glad to see that Ozark
Corner" has correspondent to come forward