New-York tribune., 1878-04-27
TRADE UNIONS-COMMIrNJsw

| ANCE-SUPPREss THE ONE AND THE OrHEa
Will SPEEDILY DE-
To the EdHOr Of The Tribune
SIR In the Summer of 1871, NJ. jules Fayre lSsuAa
an official circular which was intended TO mt tbo
French people on their guard against n mis-
chievOus element in the politics OF Europe II wa,
| evident from the tone of his declaration that bo
possessed more information than he cared to reveal
He contented himself with setting forth in general
terms the character and aims of the "Intenational
Society,"" adding that at that time seven years aeo
| ithad committees which met in privacy in Belgium
England and Switzerland, for purposes subyersiye
of law and order NJ. Fayre directed attention 10
the facts that this society had been organized in
| 1S62-that its avowed basis was atheism and Com
munsm-and that in its first formal declara-
! tion IN 1869 it had announced its designs
! in the following terms, viz: The Alliance
| declares itself athest it seeks the abolition Of
| worship, the substitution of science for faith OF
human nature for Divine Justice and the abolition
of marriage; 1t demands, above ALL the abolition Of
the right of inheritance and that capital shall be at
! the disposition only of workers. For u.s." the
declaration continued, the red flag is the symbol
of universal human love-"
On the 4th of March, 1872 ip the course of de-
bate in the French Assembly on bill imposing pen.
altes upon members of the international Society,
J
eanizaton, in which he confessed that its purpose
was the overthrow of constitutional government
In the same month, the Prefect of the Department
of the RhOne asked for military renforcements for
the maintenance of order, which, he SAID, was "men-
aced by the rapid increase of workingmen's clubs
and Illegal secret societies Dthese being two Of the
forms assumed by the International in its plotting
The month of March, 1872, had not gone by when
the French Assembly adopted bill which declared
it TO be criminal offence to belong to the Interna.
tional SOciety--the vote on the section which i'm.
posed severe penalties for entering into such mem.
bership being sol yeas to 10f nays.
At the same time, the French Minister Dufaure
publicly said that the International was A" a stand.
ing menace"
These official acts and official warnings inspired
by the tragic scenes which grew out of the brief
reign of the Commune in Paris. were not fgments
of distorted imaginations. They illustrations
of absolute truths.
The present writer now proposes to show. by
authoritative citations and the collation. of recent
events that the International Society, having ignO-
mnIOusly failed in its attempt to subvert European
Governments, has deliberately undertaken to
overturn the American system.
In order to trace this new movement step by
step it is necessary to go back again to the histor
cal records.
The first successful attempt at International COM
bination proceeded from small number of German
workmen in London, who had been expelled from
France in 1889 for taking part in an emeue at Paris
London Times, October 27, 1871 At that time
several German wOrkingmens societies in France
and Switzerland were in constant communication
with each other, and their chief aim, ayowedly, was
the propagation of COmmunistc theories. The little
group that had gathered in London founded a
/. i - Aln IL In
February, 1910, under the title of "The Deutsches
Arbeiter Bildungs Yerein." Its rules were printed
in German. English, French and Swedish; its
members were chiefly Germans, with fair muster
of Hungarans Poles, Danes and Swedes. One Of
the few English members was Ernest Jones, who
afterward became shining light among the agtat-
Ors The earliest affiliations of this society were
with the English Socialists, the Chartists and the
French Democratic Society. Out of this friendship
grew the Society Of the Fraternal Democrats" of
which Julian Harney, who opposed Lord Pamerston
at Tiverton in the election Of 1S47, the corre
spending secretary.
In November, 1S47, a German Communist Con-
ference was held in London, at which Dr. Karl
Marx, then living in Brussels was present. At this
conference the old Communistlc theories were
announced in manifesto drawn up by Karl Marx
and Frederick Engels. one passage of which was as
follows:
Tho Communists no particular party in contraGs
tincton from other workingmen's parties They have
interests separate from the interests OF the Whole
learat and set up no particular principles according 10
when they intend 10 model the prOletariau movement
They distinguish themselves, the hand from Other
workingnen's parties by defending the common in.
forests, which Independent OF nationality, OF the
whole class in the various national struggles; on the
other hau by representing the interests OF the
movement at the different stages OF development
through which the struggle between the wages laboers
and the capitalists has TO The immediate aim OF
the Communists the same as that OF the other proeta
rian parties-he orert9r OF ne Tue ~ ne capitalists W
The acquisition Of potteaI po'rsr.
THE acquisition of political power" and " the
overthrow of the rule of the capitalists was there
fore the summation of the programme. Remember
that this was thirty years agO-Noyember, 1917.
Have the Grangers of the West and the Trade
Unionists of the East tried to carry out American
soil in 1877 the programme Of the professed Com
muDsts set forth in England in 1S47-or have they
not
But to proceed with the record.
Following the general plan indicated By Kari
Marx and his fellows the Fraternal Democrats
made preparations to hold public international
Congress in Brussels in the year 1913, TO which the
Democracy of Europe was to be invited but the
Revolution of February hndcred that design Sub
sequently an unsuccessful attempt was made to
create an international alliance among the exiled
Revolutionsts who had felt the weight of the hand
of Napoleon Ill, and who troubled France no more
during the whole period of his reign. Banished,
without organization leaders, all the Govern
ments ofEurope banded against and watching them,
the French Socialists fell into close but secret rea
tions with the German Communists in England. The
years 1S49, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855,
1856, 1887 and 1S5S-exactly one decade-passed
away without any notable outward manifestation
that Socialists or Communists existed in organized
bodies. The public records Of that period will be
searched in vain for reports of the proceedings OF
Congresses" or Leagues" or BrotherhOods,
such as have filled many columns of European and
American journals during the period from 1901 10
Che end of 1877. But it subsequently came TO DC