The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-20

/ blindness and their ignorance thev at
tackled McCormick's building. 1t is no
disputed that said the words.
Now, if these men had understood a.
Socialists understand they would have
known that it was foolish and ridicu
lous to think that thev could better their
condition by attacking persons prop
erty. If they had understood this social
question as Socialists understand it they
would have understood that 1t WAS the
system and not the instrument of the
system not the victim of the system
II claim that Mccormick, Jay Gould and
William 81. Vanderbilt are as much the
victims of the system which obtains,
and which claim is an unjust one, as
are the beggars who walk the streets
and crowd the station houses to keep
themselves from being frozen to death
In the winter. And it is these particular
classes which are arrayed against each
other. True, one of the victims gets a
better share of the profits of the system
than the other. Tnev are no less the
victims, and the conflicts aud the quar-
rels that exist among them effect them
both more or less. Therefore l say that
when said, Men in their blind rage
attacked McCormick's and the police
shot them down." II was carrying out
that idea, which was intended to be con.
veyed to these people, that it was the
system which projected Mccormick g
interests.
But as I went on I said When
Mccormick attacked their interests the
police did not attack Mccormick" l
had claimed that the present social sys-
tenn Is sustained more in the interests Of
one class than in the interests Of an.
other. I claim that it Is necessarily 30.
Now, McCormick's g factory NAV be said
to be his tools, if you please-his means
of getting living. And certainly when
the rioters attack his factory they attack
his means of livelihood The police
came to McCormick's defense.
believe, your honor-aud am we'll
acquainted with the policemen in the
district in which l live-there is not
one of them who believes entered into
conspiracy to kill policeman. have
no better friends than the policemen
who have travelled that beat. And do
not say that policemen 60 to attack
rioters because it is their desire to do 80.
It is because they are the preservers of
peace under the present social relations,
and they were sent there to keep these
men from destroying the m cans of live.
linood of Mccormick. I have frequently
said that there was conflict betwlXt
two classes of society. They must nec-
essarilv come into contact with each
other under the present regulations.
And there are times when Mccormick
in his blind conception of what he
thinks is his interest, attacks the means
of livelihood of those who have no prop
perty and no machines. l said that
when this side of the case was presented
to the present organization, which main
tains the present social relations, there
was nobody that came to the assistance
of the classes which were attacked bV
Mccormick. I drew the inference that
the ARRANGEMENTS were wrong, because
of the fact that those who protect McCor-
mick when he is attacked, do not pro-
tect the working classes when they are
attacked by Mccormick.
They will necessarily come in conflict
under these regulations. How Some
times Mccormick has reduced wages.
Wages are the means of existence to
those who have no property and who
are compelled to live by the sale of tn eir
labor. 1t is their machinery and the
police have never come to the assistance
of the working classes when their means
of living have been attacked in that
wav. Sometimes they are attacked by
a machine. Do not understand me to
say that l blame Mccormick for buving
a machine, because under the present
social system and industrial system
men have the right to buy machines, if
the system is right. But if the system
is wrong, they have not, and it is the
system that is resp onsible, and not they
I am given to understand, and believe
1t to be true. that about year ago
Mccormick introduced some nOldln0
machines. Mccormick employed about
125 molders before the introduction OF
these machines. Before that time he
had strike of his men owing to a dis
pute about wages, or about the regula'
tions of the union to which these
molders belonged. Mccormick had &C
ceded to certain terms. He had to dc
1t because of the strength of the union.
He could not get any molders TO do the
work because the union resolved that II
would not work without its terms were
acceded to. But there was something
else which Mccormick found out that
was not subject to any union, That was
a molding machine.
ITO be continued.
Bnyonet and Ballot.
For The Enquirer.
The Chicago Times Of November 5