The examiner., 1886-07-17
THE NEW LABOR PARTY.
CENTRAL LABOR UNION PRE.
PAIRING FOR a CAMPAIGN.
Their Future Aims and Objects Set
Forih-A Declaration of Their
PrtucIplea.

AEA0CAPAe1s
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE leaders in
the Central Labor Union have already uu-
dertaken, in pursuance of Sundays meet.
ing, to unite the various labor organize
tons represented in its COUNCILS for inde-
pendent political action. 1t is proposed
to organize committees in each of the
. Assembly districts, and every man who is
entitled to vote, and whose name appears
on the membership list of any trade or
labor organization will be enrolled. The
present intention. as expressed by some of
the men who are in earnest, is to non.-
mate a candidate for the Mayoralty
and TO put up candidates for
the Asse mhly and Board of Alder
men. They are of the opinion that every
man who belongs to union will come
into the movement, and that their candi-
Sdates- are sure to receive a unanimous en-
dorsement- But the politicians say that
the political movement of the Central
Labor Union will end in q rumpus and
that nothing will be gained for the work
ingmen except the enrichment of few
who intend to jump in and assume control
when the scheme is ripe. 1t is the gen.
eral opinion of those who follow politics
for living that the whole thing is simply
adodge on the part of a very few members
to further their personal ends, and sell
out their party at the polls.
The great Central Labor Union of this
city, in which is concentrated the strength
of 1S5 organizations of mechanics, labor
ers, clerks, and bookkeepers, all repre-
senting over 100, 600 working persons.
In the preamble adopted along with the
new constitution there is declaration of
principles in which is held:
That the soil is the social and common
inheritance OF the people, and hence ali
should have an equal access TO it without
tribute to landlords or monopolists
That labor produces all wealth and the
laborer is, therefore. entitled to q full
share of the wealth he labors to produce.
That it is self-evident that, as the power
of capital combines and increases, the po-
itical freedom of the toiling masses be-
comes more and more delusive farce.
That there can be no harmony between
labor and capital under the present indus
trial system for the simple reason that
capital in its modern character consists
largely of rent, interest and profits wrong
fully extorted from the producer. who
possesses neither the land nor the means
of production.
That the organization of trades and
labor unions is one of the most effective
means DO check the evil outgrowths of the
prevailing system.
That while trades and labor unions
hitherto have struggled for higher wages
or shorter hours of labor, they have prac-
tically protected themselves as producers,
but not as consumers and citizens. The
ruling moneyed classes have meanwhile OBJ
tanned legal sanction to wiring from the
workers all the benefits that strikes and
resistance gained, and this they have done
tic corners in grain and provisions, and
by monopolizing the issue of money. They
have used the police, the militia and even
the Federal troops against the workers
whenever they felt their capitalistic inter-
lists in danger.
That we regard 1t as the sacred duty of
every honorable lauoring man to sever
his Affiliations with all political parties of
and attention to the organisation of his
ton of all unions into one solid body for
struggles-political or industrial. to resist
every attempt of the ruling classes directed
against our liberties and to extend our
fraternal hand to the workers of our land
and to all nations of the globe that strug-
gle for the same independence"
That the emancipation OF the working
classes must be achieved by the working
clatses themselves, as no other class has
any interest in improving their condition.
The combined wage-werking class repre-
sent the great majority of the people. In
their hands rests the future of our free in
stitutions, and it is their destiny to replace
the present iniquitous social system by
one based upon equity, morality and the
nobility of all men of labor"