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The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25
O. LordI How ilongt

ELIZABETH, N. j., Oct. Is In this arti-
Gle l will ehdeavor to be brief and ex-
plicit as possible. We are approach
ing an epoch in the history
of nations-a revolution which is
waged war between capital and labor by
debts that have been forced upon the
people by law, whereby we are robbed
oftwo-thirds Of our earnings by a system
of unjust distribution, which is the cause
of the existing evils that have been per
petrated upon the people by interest,
rent and unjust profits. After ascertain
ing the cause we can apply the remedy
that is, by establishing true democracy
a government of the people and for the
people, by controlling the medium of ex-
change, transportation, means of produc-
tion, and equal burdens in taxation,
which should be obtained ON lands
and incomes. We ma y brag and boast
like, but that we cannot have till such
time as we shall have liberated ourselves
from bondage. Fellow workers, we are
neighbors we get up at early morn and
work togetherlike beavers till late at
night. Just preceding an election we
allow those pettifoging LAWYERS and poll
ticians to divide us. ShouId we not rea-
son together and try to educate ourselves
SO that we could be prepared to resist
those frauds. How long, shall we let this
suffering continue2 when one stren-
uous effort on our part, liberty and JUS
tice we could have in reality. II,
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pIrTsBURG.
Dull Times ii the Smoky City,
A Test Case Won BY
Labor. :

PITTsBuRG, Oct. 20. The matter of
wage reductions still agitate the working
people in this vicinity, but the offers Of re-
dnctions of wages as / write are confined
principally to manufacturing establish
ments outside of the large iron and glass
Industries The molders at Britain d
Nimick s novelty works, Mansfield, have
struck against a ten per cent. reduction
Bailey, Farrell & Co. have reduced the
wages Of their employees 15 per cent. The
laborers at Heinz's pickle works have ae-.
cepted reduction of 25 cents They now
get 81 day. The iron workers at Dun
cansville, Pennsylvania, are offered 10
per cent reduction The employees of the
Standard Nut Works, Pittsburg, are on
strike against a reduction. The boys at
number of glass works struck for cents
turn advance and won. The window glass
trade is not brisk, and it is not improbable
that some of the factories will work short
time after the holidays The Connellsville
coke ovens under the pool will work six
days this week. The Hungarians of the
coke regions are going to the Hooking
Valley by the hundreds.
Two cases were tried in court at Holli-
daysburg, Pennsylv wants, last week, which
are of Importance to workingmen. John
Baker and William Kent, employees of the
Juniata Valley coal company, bought
goods at the company's store, and when
pay day came the company deducted the
amount of the goods and rendered them
the balance in cash, which was refused,
and action was brought to recover the full
amount under the law of 1881, which Sc
cures to operatives and laborers in coal
mines, manufacturers of iron and steel, the
payment Of wages at regular intervals in
lawful money of the United States. The
jury brought in a verdict in favor of plaip-
tiffS. y
The coal trade tribunal has not yet fxed\
on a price for mining in the railroad pits.
The miners during the summer were paid
50 40 per cent of the selling price of coal,
and now demand go per cent for winter
mining. The operators refuse, and the re-
suit is dead-l lock. 1t will probably be
settled amicably. The miners in the two
lower river pools are still on strike, but as
soon as there is a big rise in water they
will go to work at the advance they struck
for.
There are many idle molders and car
penters about here, so none need come
this way. The manufacturers of plumbers
supplies have signed an agreement not to
sell goods to persons not regularly in the
business excepting at 25 per cent advance.
Quite a number of iron mills are working
double turn.
The Butler 1oom is not allowed to die
out. Meetings are being held almost every
night with good speakers-in attendance,
o,,I do ,tso d.,
have heavy vote hereabouts. President
Isaac Cline of the Window Glass Workers
union, refused to accept the invitation to
address mass meeting at Salisbury hall,
south side, on the 23d inst. His reason for
declining is that he is now a member of
the Peoples party.-L. II:
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The Sevenfh and Eirst.

The Seventh Ward Butler club held
its regular meeting last Monday evening.
Some of the county candidates, Mr
Adamson, our next state auditor, Dr.
Button, Mr.. William Howell of Fremont
county, rising light of the Peoples
forum, Brother Tom Stuart and others,
addressed the assemblage, which, al
though small, was ':worth while" Why
is 1t, brothers of the Seventh ward, that
we can't see more of you at the regular
cIass-meeting? l know you all work
hard, and it isn't as though you merely
rallied "between drinks" and on your
winding way from one saloon to another.
It's some trouble, particularly when a
man is tired, to black your boots and put
on fried shirt and go from the home
that YOU see so little of, but never mind
the blacking and the shirt, unless you
really feel more respectable in them.
Come anyway. Election is a duty that
is taking higher place in the working
mans life, since he begins to see that it
is his profit that calls him forth.
1t was a rousing good assemblage
though at Justice Stanchfeld's Office
Tuesday night. Mr.. Howell, of Fremont,
pounded out some of those tough truths
so fat that you could see through them
anywhere. Especially good, and wish
he would often produce this, was his de-
lineation of the condition of Egypt un-
der the wise and great kings W ho relgned
during that season of prosperity when
no calamity of any kind came for centu-
ries, and in the absence of great organ
- I,,o+r;o, oDd cooporno cunh ac
we now have, to occupy the people and
keep them from the enervatlon and in
diligence of luxury and sensuality that
might result from great and universal
wealth, the pyramids were built, as store
houses and monuments of such litera-
ture, history, science and art as they had
at that day, the moral being that peo-
pie, even under monarchial rule, if a
wise and Just one, might be happy and
comfortable and yet have ample time to
heap visible evidence of their surplus
time, SO that succeeding ages should look
and wonder. Those monuments being
but the evidence of labor, from which
neither war, pestilence, famine, or greedy
power had drawn that surplus-those de-
structiye agencies that follow the neglect
of the people to provide themselves with
their own safeguards.
Mr.. Adamson, Father Young, who is
up for the state legislature, John Lennon
and Mr. Bailey and others, added, much
entertainment and instruction and the
crowd seemed serious and thoughtful
At the close;it was determined to have q
mass parade of the working people on
some evening before the election, tc
turn out in their work clothes, with din
ner pals and implements of their toll
Locomotive lamps ON wagons will fur
nish the illumination, and other wagons
will bear the emblems of commerce. the
liberal arts and sciences. \
The work of preparation was put lntt
the hands of able committee, and the
farm population in the vicinity OF Den
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Another Grea, victory.

Two of them in fact, and our army
camps on the field All quiet along the
lines, and thirtytwo g. A. R. veterans
and other old soldiers of the Union army
ares their old familiar work, throwing
gravel for Uncle Sam not for rifle pits
this time, however, but for foundations
for the new postoffice. 1t is no loncerf a
disadvantage to the workingman to wear
the gun-metal star of the Grand Army.
and there is a prospect thatV sections
I744-45 of the United States revised stat
utes will no longer be dead letter on
the books. L.. .- l...... N 3
Incensed by the insulent attitude of
the officials to whom they appealed for
work, one OF whom had the gall" to re-
ply that ''the old soldiers have no inffu-
ence, and the demands Of the politicians
must be met" the Veterans Rights
union forwarded, few days ago. a formal
protest to the proper department at
Washington. and in due time certain
gentlemen of responsible position, in
charge of government interests, expert
enced a new sensation, very decided
one, too, to judge by the change of heart
manifested byia circular which, on Mon
day last, informed the various comman-
ders of posts that certain number of
soldiers would at once be pat at work if
provided with proper credentials. The
result is as stated above, and now the
country is safe again.
The other brilliant sortie was made
on the council, with John D. McGilvray
and Alderman Kelly as hankers. the OBJ
ject being to intrench Comrade Phillips,
one handed veteran of Farragut post,
in the3engineers' department of the city
government, during which the opposition
took water like little men, refusing at
last or perhaps fearing to 90 on record as
opposed to veterans rights.
{ There is the right feeling among work.
ingmen generally, who know their own
turn may come to defend hearth and
home. Long may the veterans be able
to WELD pick and spade, and when they
fail IN the land may worthy sons succeed
them,
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The Man We Want.

OswEGo, New York, Oct 2O.-Seven
Thousand persons heard General Butler
make his speech tonight. R. G. Hol-
brook, of the Vulcan Iron works, intro
duced the General. In speaking of law
lessness and murders in the south, the
General excited thunders of applause
He said "F you will elect me presi-
dent will either go into my seat or into
my coffin and will either stop these
murders, north and south. or III have a
lot of first-class funerals to keep me
busy" ~ Il H.
Of the Parsons story, the General said i:
He styles himself General Parsons. He
may possibly haye been suttler in the
confederate army. He did not like me
then, and he does not like me now. He
could not beat me then, and now he is
trying to get even with me by telling
lies" h., '.ss .E-..,. -.s-
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The Miners mt StnrKVille.
Editor Labor Enquirer.

STARKvILLE, Oct. 22.--It is well known
that the Colorado Coal and Iron com
panv and their employees have not been
on friendly terms for some time, for rea-
sons we'll known to both parties. That
the miners working for that company in
Coal Creek have been ON strike for over
three months is also well known, and not
until they had made long and despar-
ate struggle did they call for the assist
ance of their brothers who are working
for that company in Walsenburg.
The miners of that place are not with
out their grievances, Last Monday no.
tiCes were pasted at the mines calling a
miners meeting, which was held on the
picnic grounds close by. Their many
grievances we're discussed, the most i'm
portant of which were the discharging or
several good miners without cause, eX-
cept that they entertain certain ideas
favoring labor unions, etc, and less COM
petent men had been hired in their
places. They wanted Check-weighman
to assist the company weighman IN
squeezing a little more than a ton out of
5000 pounds of COAL They were op-
posed to giving half days wages TO sup
port doctor, as they didn't believe in
making calculations to be sick, in ad-
vance, and If they should be so unfortu-
nate, they claimed the right to secure the
most skilled of that profession to be
found in the state. Thev were opposed
to paying blacksmith for doing the
the company's work and their own, both,
as 81 per month would pay his full wages
and $50 to spare. And further, they were
opposed to doing anv more work until
the company had made peace with the
Coal Creek men. A committee was ap-
pointed to present their resolutions. to
the boss, Mr. Charles Lamb. the commit
tee to report at meeting to be held at
o'clock same evening. The committee
met Mr.. Lamb, who presented the ap-
pearance of having bowled up freely
that dav. After reading the resolutions
he flung them on the ground replying
"God damn you and your resolutions"
The committee not wishing to further
continue aninterview with such an igno-
rant, degraded specimen of humanity,
and lest patience should cease to be a
virtue, the interview ended, except that
he told them to meet him that evening
for an answer. A meeting in the after
noonthe committee reported the con-
temptible manner in which they had
been treated. NC.
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Personal.

Judge A. J. Miller, of Gunnison, the
Peoples candidate for attorney Gen
eral, has been in the city portion of
the week. Mr.. Miller understands the
situation thoroughly, and can explain it
with perfect ease. He has been work
ing hard in the cause, and will not pause
in the good work yet while. -
Lewis Hawkins, of Silver Plume, can
didate of the Peoples party in his dis
trict for the state senate, gave The En-
oUIRER pleasant call this week. He
reports good organization in Silver
Plume, and says the vote there will be
agood one. 49, -.
William Howell, of Coal Creek is in
the city on important business. Mr..
Howell is war-horse in the labor move
ment. and is one of the old stand -bYs.
He is for Butler and the Peoples party,
of course, and has been doing some
foreible talking at the club meetings
while IN the city.
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Buffalo,
TBy Associated Labor Press

BUFFALO, Oct. 20-Florian F. Donovan,
state deputy of the International Typo
graphical sunion, visited Buffalo last
week, on tour through the state. He
reports organization in exceedingly pros
porous shape, and expects to see num-
ber of new unions established, particu-
1arIy in Rome, Watertown and Sehenec-
tady. ,. s- ~
~ At the meeting of the Central Labor
union, committee was appointed by re-
quest of Thomas Gawley and John Fra
ney to investigate charges of bribery and
corruption preferred against them by
Sunday Truth. They have sued the
Truth for $4,000 damage each. The pub
fishers of Truth announce their readi-
ness to substantiate their charges in
court.
There is some improvement in the
building trades. In the iron industries
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TBy Associated Labor Press. |


. CINCINNATI, Oct. 2O-Nothing interests
the people in this locality to the extent
that politics do Trades unionists are
particularly jubilant over the fact that
the Democratic candidate for sheriff at
the last election, who refused to pledge
himself to give no official patronage to
the rat" Volksfreund, ran more than
1000 votes behind his ticket. This was
accomplished by means of printed cir
ulars distributed under the direction of
a Joint committee of printers English
and GERMANY. Many unionists voted
against the whole ticket in consequence
of the refusal of the candidate for sheriff
to pledge himself as above stated.
Trade with the shoemakers is still
very dull, many of them being without
employment. The different K. of. l..
Assemblies in this trade are all in good
condition, Notwithstanding the dull
times.
There are at least one hundred mol
>ders unemployed in the city. All the
foundries are in operation, but there are
not the number employed now that was
before the lockout. The molders anti
cipate no improvement this year at this
point.
Since the disruption of the Carriage
Makers Union the men in that trade
have received poor pay, with little en-
ployment. The state of affairs IN this
trade has been the cause of those in
other trades holding their organizations
solidly together.
Wood carvers, cabinet makers, uphol-
sterers, wood turner's and parlor frame
makers are still without regular employ
ment. -.
Work with the building trades has
Stacked up considerably, with the excep-
ton of the carpenters, who are all en-
ployed. or nearly SO. M. D. G.
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1,oSDoN. England, Oct, !. 1884.


The Socialist agitation is making good
progress here. Branches are forming in
all parts OF London; many in the prov
inces, and the Scottish Land and Labor
League, which is the Scottish section of
the Social Democratic Federation, is
steadily organizing for the winter agita-
ton. The Social Democratic Federation
in London will shortly start an agitation
among the thousands of unemployed
workers to organize them so thatastrong
demand shall be made, that the govern
ment find work, food and housing for
them. The idea is new one of the de-
pendence of the people on the govern
ment in times of necessity, and should
we succeed in convincing these starving
people that the ruling powers are in some
way responsible for the misery preva-
lent among the workers, we will have
put new phase of the duties of govern
ments before the politicians. The dis
tress in London this year is almost I'M
precedented, and while it is quite certain
that Socialists sntend to tell the people
why they starye amid so much wealth,
it also probably that the help OF the
Socialists. may be necessary to restrain
the people. &.
The papers announce the invention OF
remarkable model of the world where
different social phenomena are repro
duced bv mechanical agents. Running
of railroads and even street scenes are
said to tie reproduced. The whole affair
is set in motion by dropping coin into
the model. Fere is not only model OF
the world which shows high mechanical
ingenuity, but one which shows model
2t social life. Money, unfortunately, is
as much the moving power in this real
world as = the model. Wherever coin
Is glveL Or withheld, there poverty and
misery or wealth and happiness ensues.
And the chief mischief ensues from the
TACT that this money or moving power is
IN the bonds of class who use it only
Ior the spoilation of the people.
Edward B. Aveling, Division Secretary,
has now definitely left the Bradlaughists
organization, and Joined the Socialist
Propaganda. Until quite recently DR..
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TO the voter. Of Ar.p.hos County,


Editor LABOR ENQUIRER:
BROTHERS: As have been nominated
by you on the Peoples ticket for the
state legislature. and not being able to
wait upon you personally to explain my
principles, and cannot afford to do this
by proxy. being like yourselves a work
ingman, embrace this method.
Although / have resided among you
Eabout fourteen wears, / am we'll known
only to few. But am we'll ACQUAINTED
with your wants, and if elected by you
to this very honorable and important
office, it shall benny earnest endeayor to
serve YOU as have always endeayored
to serve my employers, giving you my
best service.
Amongother things, you need an inn
proved lien law, giving the laborer the,
firstiien upon his work for his full wage.
You also need better garnishee law, SO
as to allow you S75 exempt from garn-
ishment, so that you may have the
means of living. You also need to be
put upon an equal footing with all the
other states in the Union, by giving you
a good exemption law.
/ will also help to pass into law an act
to compel employers of labor, of fifty
persons or less, to pay their employees
every week and corporations and others,
who employ over fifty persons, to pay
wages in full every two weeks. THE
laborer is worthy. of his hire"
And if protection is good for nation
it must also be good for state, | will
vote to protect all home manufactures
against foreign competition and railroad
discrimination, such as shut down our
iron, steel and nail factories in this state.
by excepting such buildings and grounds
from state, county and municipal taxes,
breweries, distileries and criminal man
'ufactories excepted. You will allow me to
use my own Judgment, IN keeping with
the spirit of the above. If any voter
desires anything more definite, Ishall be
happy to furnish the same, as have
nothing to conceal.
l stand square upon the platform of
the Peoples party. l have sought no
endorsement or combination with other
so-called labor or anti-monopoly parties.
From principle l object to all trlrkery or
deceit in politics, or trimming of sails to
catch votes. If you approve my prlnci-
Piles l shall be happy to serve you.
l am, brothers, yours in the Peoples
interest, THOMAS YOUNG.
$50 South Eleventh Street,
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yer is especially invited to join With hay
wagons, rakes, reapers, splky plowa, farm
animals everything that can swell the
parade in numbers and importance.
tits hoped that this demonstration
may equal those grand and significant
reviews that in the autumn of 1860 fore
cast the uprising of great and earnest
movement toward national freedom.
Next Tuesday evening mass meeting
is called at West Turner hall. Many
good speakers will be present. Turn out
workingmen and friends, and show your
hands. ]. d. M.
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Boiled Down.

Mr.. Peter Adamson, candidate for aud
itor ON the Peoples ticket, will undoubt-
edly get the full strenth of the coal
miners vote throughout the state.-Coal
Creek Enterprise,
A Big butler club has been organized
in Como, and they have banner hung
over the prominent street.
John G. Coy, Larimer county's relia-
BILE, reports great activity there. He says
the organization is strong, and the Peo-
ple's interests will be well cared for.
~ Durango is in the procession. They
will need bundle of state and national
tickets.
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Gone TO Work for Reid.

COLUMBUS, Oct. CIV. P. Reid, of Chi
cago, addressed the striking miners al
Corning 10. dav. About 1000 were pres
ent. He explained at length why, he
could not pay the advance rate which is
demanded, and when he had concluded
the miners adopted a resolution extend,
ing vote of thanks, and deciding to go
to work to morrow morning.
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Petershnrg hIee1inr.

John Hipp, ,Dr. Button John T. Hender-
son, ]. Harrison Mills and Brother
WANT went to Petersburg and addressed
the work1ngmen on Wednesday evening.
The hall was well filed and the approval
manifested may be taken as definite
endorsement. In fact some enthusiasm
was manifest in friendly facilities afforded
for. grand assemblage for tonight, Sat
urdaX when bonfffes and outdoor speak
ing will be In order. The outlying pre-
cincts are naturally ours.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25
Hamilton.
[By Associated Labor Pressl

HAMILToS, Ont. 20.-T v. Powderly,
who is doing Canada, paid us visit on
the seventh, and addressed an audience
of six orlseyen hundred, many Of whom
were capitalists and manufacturers, he
spoke for nearly two hours. and did not
fail to make an impression upon his
hearers. Since the boundary award
questionwas settled in favor of the Grit
government of Ontario against the Tory
of the dominion, Canadian
politics have been dead, and Sir John
Macdonald finds that he is not such
power in the landIas he thought he was.
u r. - n Eas HEft p, OF L,
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Official Organ Of the Trades Assemb Iy
The Assembly is Non-Political.)
BoVcott Them.

P. H. Riddell and ]. Dawson, contract
ing plasterers of this city, are ordered
boycotted bv the Trades Assembly, be-
cause they do not employ members Of
the Plastefers' Union. The attention
of all good citizens is called to this, asN
the request is made that patronage be
withheld from the above-named.
TRADES ASSEMBLY.
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ACROSS THE DEEP OCEAN.

The Weekly Budget of News and Comments
from 1.-The Enqujrer's"> Special Cores
pondent-D Depiorabie Condition of London S
Working People-Progress of the Demo-
CRITIC Feaeratoa-Royements of AichneI
Dayitt, Edward AVeGng, Andreas SchUa,
Eleanor Marx AreIing and Other Champions
of the Peopie-A Few Words About Miss
Helen Taylor ard Mr. BrdIaugh.
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Reward offered.

Lost, at the democratic procession, on
Saturday evening last, October Is, some
where between the corner of Fourteenth
and Larimer streets and the democratic
headquarters on Fifteenth street, a gold
headed ebony cane with name aud 1881
engraved ON it The finder will receive
a suitable reward by returning same to
News Office
The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25
The KeterRns

The Veterans Rights union, at Goody
hall. last Sunday, endorsed the soldier
nominees Of the various tickets. This
brings to the support of certain of our
nominees on the Peoples ticket a large
and worthy element. The veterans are
nearly all workingmen and naturally be-
long with us.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25

WILL AND MUST SELL the stock rather Iv
dozen AWeol California Scarlet Ladies' Underwear 81 actual value $o slOo
shirts and 90 Blue Flannel Shirt NooGoo
n "A. Lar
sreetbe streets