Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-05-18

Chicago Express.
But how to organize; what is the
better way2 An old friend of The
Express, Mr.. Kellogg, of Vineland,
New Jersey, puts the question in this
shape:
"Your paper has been full of the idea,
Organize, Organi2e, Organize and | be-
lieve that every friend of labor feels that
the time has come to ORGANIZE and yet
we are like sheep scattered over the coun.
try without a shepherd. What we need is
a plan of organization as effective as that
of the Land League in Ireland. There
may be an organization already estab
lished, such as the Knights of Labor or
the Grange, which we can adopt. If this
be done, and the country canvaSsed, ii
would take only few months to enroll a
majority Of the people,
So far as political organization is
concerned, nothing has yet proved so
effective or promises so well as the
Call to Action. In the hands of ener-
gelic and determined men it can be
so used in almost any locality as to
enroll majority of the voters for
political action. But the idea is
growing in the minds of the people
that there must be an organization of
Labor more thorough and effective
even than an organization to vote-an
organization which will serve and
protect the people, not at the polls
alone, but at every point where their
interests are attacked. The extraordi-
nary situation calls for extraordinary
means of organization. One which
will give prompt effect to every legiti-
mate demand of labor, and overthrow
every outrage and imposition upon the
useful classes. An organization to
secure adequate wages, reasonable
hours and steady employment for labor;
to prevent the eXtortiOns of middlemen
and monopolists; to develop such sys
tens of cooperative industry and dis.
tributiOn as shall in time put all bust
ness transactions upon the basis OF
equitable interchange; to influence,
and if necessity demands it, to cOerce,
intimidate and boycott, in lawful and
peaceful ways, the public press and the
public servants into just and respect.
full attitude toward the useful classes;
to carry the battle to the polls and
demonstrate that the people 1ule; to
Prove to legislatures, courts and gov
ernOrs, to congress and to the presi.
dent, that at their peril only can they
serve the extOrtiOnists and the monopo.
lists.
No organization of Labor will be eff
fectiye until it isas perfect, as intricate
and as resolute as the present dominant
Combinations of Greed. To organize
Labor is TO take the crude ore Of the
hills and make it into bars of iron and
steel, into levers, cogs and wheels; to
take unorganized force and make it
into mechanism 10 move the world,
the elimination of all human inven-
tiOn, machine TO make man himself |
effective.
The organization which seems to be
growing to this dignity and height is
the knights Of Labor. 1t is the cloud |
by day and the pillar of fire by night TO
the men of toll. In many localities it
is already impregnable. It's member
ship runs into hundreds of thousands.
1t ought to be millions; it can be made
millions within the current year. II is
open to all who work; il is adaptable |
to town Or country, to all localities and
to all countries. II is an universal
brotherhood. 1t is Il stronger and
more perfect form of organization even
than the Land League. We urge upon
every friend of the rights of man to
push forward the organization of the
Knights of Labor. Those who are un-
Informed about the order can receive
a pamphlet containing information by
sending Il three. cent stamp to William
Hally Organizer, 81 Washington street,
Chicago.