New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-18
TRADES UNIONS.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION II
PARIS

have seen good deal, Is NOT s''hSuHhe as "
mediate results in the form of International coihpi-
nation. but thinks that good will arise out OF the ex
change of ideas which has taken .place during the
week between the delegates of England frahco
spain and Italy. was an interested spectator oil
nearly all the meetings. The object the delegates
had in view was not in full harmony with the doc
tripes of those free-trade economists who are for
letting natural law, quite irrespective OF human
convenience have its way everywhere and IN every
thing. They wanted to take means for protecting
operatives who have attained good position III 'he
labor market and risen TO a civilized standard ol
comfort against those capitalists who would beat
them down by importing shoals of poverty stricken
creatures from States wherd the brth-rate Is ana
has long been livery high. In short, the superior
kind of working people in England ana france
want to defend themselves by means OF mIeih'-
tonal trades-unionism against the hordes of Rhen-
ish Germany, Italy, and the Belgian cities fopu-
lation swarms in the boot-sbaped peninsula that
runs into the Mediterranean, and along the hhino
from the Lake of Constance to the German ocean,
Tho oorer classes there have the same effect upon
the labor markets of France and England that inc
Chinese have upon those of the Paclhc states VI
America Immigration from the Grand DuchI VI
Raden keeps the printers tariff from risihg lIshei
than if was in 1913. The boOt-nakers' owing u
the iurnsb of Belgians do not earn more imam 'her
fathers earned fifty years ago. Inc TACT was oS'o
lhed At the Congress that in their trade fourteen
hours work per diem brings in wage OF 81 ooc'
While salaries are kept down, house rent ana the
nrice of food and drink rise rapidly. Inc more
foreigners flock in the better 1t Will be fOr the owl"
ers of house property, and for the butcher ana 'o
baker. There are 220, 200 foreigners Ill Paris. vi
these not more than forty thousand are III mde-
nendent circumstances. The rest have come to
hpr Is
thev come pouring into France. Italians are the
cnrse of the Marseillais and the Lyonnais. There
are NOW capitalists who find it cheaper to SEND
leather and cloth into parts of Germany where
wages are very low get them made there INTO
boots shoes. coats cloaks ETC., and brought BACK
AZ IN he worn. than to have them done by workers
established here The growing hatred toward Uer-
mans and Italians in this country arises from 'ic
manner in which they press upon the laDor maihe''
The Legislature is too cumbrOus machinery u NC
bronpbt easily into action too lneIastc lor IS inter
ference not to be dreaded and too much III tle
hands of the upper bourgeois class 1or IL 10 give
relieve exactly where the shoe plnches ReNOlutloh
is a cure that is nearly as bad as the disease ana
so il is agreed to give trial. so lar as IL Is possloe
to international trades unions.
But. unless in England, this possibility Is very
restricted 1t is hampered in France by the Dufaure
70 organize international meetings" as criminal. In
1877 a French printer was prosecuted, fined and
imprisoned for going to an international congress.
Some friends of his were similarly punished for at
tempting to call in Paris trades union convention
in which several States would be represented L
belieye the congress which has been holding meet
ines in "A cafe in the Palais Royal was not inter
fered with, because Mr.. Broadhurst. one OF the
English delegates is an NJ. p, and had with INN Il
letter of introduction from Sir Charles Dixie 10 NJ.
Clemenceau. These facts were brought out III me
London Ne,cs TO the correspondent OF which Mt.
Broadhurst was warmly recommended by Nr Jom
Morley At the house of the journalist III question
the English delegates this morning lunched III the
company of NJ. Clemenceau. They were denghteu
with the eloquent Deputy for Montmartre, who
was very gay brilliant and full Of anecdotes, ana
was extremely sorry that trades unonism such as
EXISTS in England has not far been acclimatcd in
France He conversed for nearly an hour after
hreasfost with Mr.. BrOadhurst and Mr. Burnett,
who represents great Newcastle trades union and
Is n member of the committee which Parliament
now consults when legiSlating OH wOrking-class
affairs.
In italy there is no law analogous to that which
hears the name of the late NJ Dufaurc Nor is there
any special enactment against trades unions. Bat
II is taken for granted that all InternatonastS are
of the rck-burning school, and they are prosecuted
under the common law.
In Spain the legislation against workingmenS as
sociations for the purpose of making war against
capitalists is very severe. But it is spasmodically
applied. When Conservative government comes
into Office or an advanced government has been
long enough in power TO become Tory in its feeling
operatives who unite against their employers TO
tract higher wages from them are hunted down like
wild beasts
The Italians sent hut one delegate, Andrea Costa
He is by trade a house painter, and though quite
Young is Deputy for Ravenna in the Italian Parlia
ment. For several years he worked i'll Swiss hotels
He then was prosecuted as an lnternationallst an'
sent 10 prison for eighteen months. klO these TACT
he owes his seat in the Parliament at Rome. Cost
sneaks Italian Spanish and French-the latter wit
a strong accent but with fuenCy and idiOmati
and grammatical vigor and correctness He is al
able sneaker but the most india-rubber-lookin
human being that ever laid eyes upon. His fgur
fakes the oldest curves imaginable whether sittm
down or standing mp and one would say that ther
is not such thing as a bone in his spine. lie dl
not use the formula Citoyen or Delegate bu
GCompagnon," the English equivalent OF which
wonld he associate" There nothing what
ever inccndiary in his speeches. and he did not a
near to sympathize with tie resentment espresso
by the French at the capitalists flooding the labo
market with poor wTetches who accept foreIe
wages. Why should hel Italy is swarmin
hive. The more Italians that leave it, the better
will be for those who remain He drew some yer
black pictures of the condition of the poor O
Naples and of some of the mountainous regions O
his country. They are too ignorant to learn abou
trades unions, or to understand their advantage
But there are municipalities where there is hig
level Of wOrkmg-class intelligence and wonderful
capacity for union in pursuit of a common object.
There were two Spanish delegates, Seniors Pamia
and FelmerOso. The former came from BarcclOn
and is the editor of a democratic paper there.
there is any truth in physiognOmy, he is man VII
means what he says, who thinks much and deeply