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The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-11
SHAKES" CONSPIRACY"

CHICAGO, September Capt. .haack
has received large number of letters,
in which he and other officials who ere
instrumental in apprehending and Sc
curing the conviction of Spies and Par
sons and their six associates are threat
ened with death in the event that pun
lshment is meted out to them. The ju-
rors are now returning from their lAca-
uons. During their absense from the
CITY they also received thr. at IN NJ let
lers. S G. Randall. one of the jurors,
recelv, d this letter to dav:
Mr.. S. g. Randall:
The workingmen have revolted You have
voted TO murder our brothers in Jail. Tyrants
tremble. The avengers are on your track
The Anarchists will have vengeance. We
have 10, 900 bombs that will be exploded in
this city before our brothers are hanged. II
they die you die with them, Revenge is
sweet.
The above is part Of the conspiracy
Matched in Chicago. The detectives and
police are at the bottom of all these ru-
mors, and Setback either Hrote the let
ter or dictated it. If he did not, and
believes il to be what it purports to be,
he and his friend Rlndall had better
take another vacation. The fear of TO-
900 good, fat bombs would add great
many Shakes to the foul police gang of
Chicago.
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RADICALISM IS PROGRESS.

There seems to be a disposition on
the part of certain class of wearing
economists, who have got to editing
lator(?) papers, to create the impression
that something must be done at the
Richmond convention to rid the K of
L. of the radical and Socialistic elements
which they claim are, as one of those
profound thinkers puts it, gaining too
much Of foothold in the order"
A moments reflection ought to con-
vince those anxious would-be weeders-
out of radicalism that that W which causes
the cApitalistic press so much anxiety
and trouble, lest it obtain foothould in
the K. of L., is something which united
labor should looG into at least before
casting it out.
That which the capitalistic press
warns labor against, that let labor es-
pouse and cling to, as it is the part of
wisdom to do that which your enemy
wishes you not to do.
The very fact that the capitalistic
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Worth Rene m bering.

Editor Little Truth.
In the interest of decent public SER
vice and to expose how some of the po-
lice interfere with the rights of citizens,
we respectfully ask the publication of
the following facts:
July "a, 1886, on Stewart street, non
union sailor attempted to cut a
union man with razor. Police officer
No. 81 was made acquainted with the
facts and asked to arrest the offender.
In the presence of the following gentle
men, Messrs Brown, Bowling Bartel
White, Dolan, Mlllionosky, Berry.
Schuyler and others, he refused to make
the arrest and gave his reason therefor
in the following words:
every man who belongs to the Coast
Seamen's Union ought to have his CUTS
cut out"
Yours very truly.
THE COAST SEAMEN's UNION.
JOHN HAST. Secretary,
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here to ship a certain proportion OF men
competent to act as steamship hands,
fremen included, so that when they
also desert they can be used against the
steamship men.
Under thess circumstances the Coast
Seamen's Union sees no other way than
to strike now, and give these wholesale
violators Of the laws a chance to fill all
of their vessels at once with deserters If
they can. They now violate the law ten
times every day let us see whether
they can do it 5000 times in the next
week and thus deprive us all Of the right
to live in our own country.
We, the Coast Seamen's union, are
further agreed to this That we will not
90 on deep water. Wehave been on, this
coast, many of Us for twenty years; we
are citizens and voters, and we will not
now be compelled to become wanderers
over the face ofthe earth. We will stay
in San Francisco and starve in the
streets before we will yield ourselves
again to the infamous slavery from
which in the past year the union has
freed us.
We demand:
/. That the law be enforced and that
the authorities do not permit the Mer-
chants Shipping Office to be used as
medium to ship deserters on this coast,
2. Either that said Office be abolished
or that the sesmen be given an equal
share in Its operation, they to pay one
half it's expenses, or that they be given
full control and pay all its expenses.
| We have not as yet called for the as
sistance of the other Maritime Unions
but we are we'll advised that when we
do they will respond, and that all marl-
time work from San Diego to British
Columbia will be suspended at once and
at given hour.
We have not yet ordered our men out
at other coast ports, but when we do We
know the coast seaEen, and we know
that they will come out to man.
The other trades unions on this coast
recognize the coast seamen as friends
and allies, and if this fight for justice
and to enforce the laws of this state car
he won in no other Way. we know thai
they also, if ordered by the Federation
will drop all labor of every kind until
the force of public sentiment forces these
man hunters of the waterfront to re
lease their prey and obey the law.
The COAST SEAMEN's UNION,
5134 East street,
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IMPORTANT TO COMRADES.

In about twenty days l will be leaving
home. l am going to attend the session
of the General Assembly of Knights of
Labor at Richmond, and may be away
from home a month. Before going de-
sire to put my house in order that is,
want to straightend up things nicely
around the Office and 50 arrange that
the paper will get along all right during
my absence. In furtherance of this
wish | now call upon all whose subscrlp-
tons have expired or will expire during
the next few weeks to make remittances
without delay and urgently request all
comrades who are able to assist the en-
terprise to do so at once. need not tell
you that funds are needed to keep the
paper going you are aware of that fact ;
but | do feel 1t necessary. and ny duty,
to warn you that unless you do some
thing substantial the paper may not get
through all right while l am away.
You may say, We'll, why 60 away ~
70 that reply. feel it my duty to go,
and those who are familiar with the sit
uatiOn agree with me, and, as | am not
in the habit Of shirking duty, inlend
to 60. If you do not feel it your duty to
help me, as l have requested in the fore
going paragraph, that is your affair but
if you admit the obligation, then take
my word for the situation and act at
once. Jos. R. BUCHANAN.
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A LITTLE HISTORY.

Here is bit of history which will in
terest some: In 1888, the New England
Non Residence Society was organized.
Will ,m Lloyd Garrison was one of its
first officers, and wrote its constitution,
A part of article two of that document
reads:
That no one who processes
to have the spirit of Christ can consist
emily sue a man at law for redress of in
juries, or thrust any evil-doer into prison !;
or hol any office In which he would
come under obligation to execute any
penal enactment or take any part in
the military ser, ice or ackno Wedge
allegiance to any human government"
What would the Chicago thugs have
done with William Lloyd Garrison 7
Perhaps, though, he might have recon-
ciled it with his conscience to obey
them, on the ground that theirs was an
inhuman government !
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sEAmEN, TAKE NOTICE

The Coast Seamen's Union is the
Backbone of the Pacific Coast Labor
movement. Capital has subscribed
large sums to break it up and threatens
to Import men from the east and abroad.
there are on the Pacific Coast now three
men for every place. Winter is coming
On and soon thousands will be out of work.
Therefore keep away from San Fran
cisco. THE COAST SEAMEN's UNION.
July l. 1885. $500 strong.
BURNETT q. HASKELL, Chairman Adyis.
ory Committee, 5l34 East Street, San
Francisco, California,
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ANY man who has self-respect will not
patronize barber shop that keeps open
on Sunday. There are some greedy
the Barbers' union and opened their
shops for Sunday business; but if there
is any respectablitY and humanity left
in our citizens those fellows will soon
feel like they had over-resched and
tumbled and cracked their necks, in at
tempting to strip the tree of its last
Dlum.
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THE LAW AND ORDER CAPTAIN.
CoHated from the Republican.

Collated from the Republican.
Wilson S. Swain, ex-cap tain of the
police land murderer of Fitzgerald ar
rived in Denver yesterday. Swain is
employed by ThiePs Detective Agency
and he has been in command of several
hundred armed men in Washington
territory. The presence of 80 many
armed men is needed, it is said, bv the
Northern Pacific Railroad company.
This company Is engag ID in building a
road between Ellensburg and Seattle.
A great number of men are necessary,
and as white labor is said to be unusually
scarce, 1t was necessary to employ Chi
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JOHN HAST, Secretary.
Social Life in Berlin.

BERLIN, August l6.-The semi-annual
report of the census bureau, just Issued
develops peculiar picture of the social
economical AID religious life of Berlin
Out of population of 100000 more
than 150, 900 are receiving public charity.
In 1870 10 Per cent of the population
lived in cellars and 25 per cent IN
crowded apartments Since then the
population of Berlin has been nearly
doubled, and rents have increased
greatly, so that the poor are compelled
to pay nearly half their earnings for de-
cent shelter. In summer great numbers
are forced to sleep out of doors. The
danger to 60 through the streets un-
FranCo-German war, has subsidized with
severe treatment of the rowdy element,
but petty riots and conflicts with the
police are still frequent.
More than half the population OF
DCAllA alO WI Mig p0OplC, duu I1c CIGf
has become the center of the Socialistic
movement. The opportunities for the
suppression of Socialism are certainly
more favorable here than they are in
the United States. Bismarck has tried
the enactment ofsevere laws against the
Socialists, and almost every month wit
nesses a convection of some of the ex-
tremists, But it may be gravely ques-
toned whether these prosecutions have
not str enlightened the Social Democrats.
Hostile factions have been united into
one com t'act party, and the convicted
men are posing as martyrs, and actually
feel themselves such, which is a great
source of strength to their cause. There
can be no doubt that the vigorous cam
pa1gn of Bismarck against the Socialists
has made propaganda for them and
drawn to them the sympathles of we'll
meaning people, Divorces have in
creased to l5 per cent of the number of
marriages solemnized. The attendance
at the churches has decreased to 2 Der
cent Of the adult population, and of
$4,000 funerals last year nearly 10000
were performed without any religious
ceremonies whatever.
Women flock by thousands to the citv
to obtain employment, and, failing to
get what they want, large numbers fall
and are lost. This evil has become 80
great that strenuous efforts are being
made to avoid it. The law of consent
has already been raised in similar way
as it was done in New York and in En-
gland. By such legislative enactment
some sort of protection is extended to
girls up to the age of IS. Lodging houses
and benevolent institutions have been
to aid working women, and
society of ladies has Geen formed
charged with protecting, sustaining, and
counselling women up to the age Of 35.
But much remains to,be done In that
ine,
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THOSE newspapers which are contin

THOSE newspapers which are contin-
ually quoting the wages of the eigh-
teenth and the early part of this CEN
turv, and comparing them with the
princely salaries of the workingmen Of
todly, are respectfully requested to Civ
US an occasional comparative table of
pauperism and tramps. All your figures
don't displace the horrible truth that
100000 men are out of work, and that
thousands annually starve.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-11

THE editor of the Washington Post
has joined the G. A F. Grand Army of
Fools. He is spreading himself on
"the divide up schemes of the Social
ists" He fears that the fools will get
as much as the intelligent" He need
not worry he'll quit winner by the
transaction, along with few Colorado
editors
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-11

THE coming session of the General
Assembly of the knights of Labor,
which begins, at Richmond, Virginia,
October 4, promises to be the longest
ever held by that body. There will be
800 delegates present, and it is probable
important matters will keep them occu-
pied until the first of November.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-11

THIS number of TIE ENQUIRER is GER
tainlY very fine one. You wouldn't
think that concern which can get out
as good paper as this one could be in
need of the dollar or two you owe; but
it is. Now, don't wait for ten story
warehouse to fall on YOU.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-11

A STREET CAR horse fell dead in the
traces one day this week. The driver
was not 80 lucky; he is made of tougher
stuff than the horse, and still works six
teen hours each day.
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CARPENTERS.

Carpenters Union, No. IS, of the Brother.
mood Of America, meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. ALI good Carpenters
are invited to join.
E. c. WALLACE, President,
T. r. LARIMER, Rec. Sec,
A. E. GILMAN, Cor. Sec.
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PLAsTERERs' UNION.

The Plasterers' Union, Of Denver, meet.
every Monday evening at 7:3O O'Clock, in ST
osephs Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE, President.
CHARLES NJ. McCABE, Secretary.
Address, 160 East 18th street,
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RRICKIAYRRa

11lickiayers lnternatlona Union, No. /, OF
Colorado, meets the second and fonrth Non
day evenings in each m onth, at No. S79 Iari-
mer street, Denver, Colorado Wv
JAMES COOK, Sec'y. M. SULLIVAN,
uozo blaKe street. President.
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REVISED EDITION.

What doth it profit a barber if he
shaves a dozen or 80 faces on Sunday,
and sits around with the Police News in
his haDds the remaining six days of the
Upak
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THE brains of Colorado were centered
in Denver this week. This is not self
praise; the editor of The ENQUIRER is
not a member of the Colorado Press
association"
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FEDERATED TRADES

I'll iaesataquarters OF the Representative Coun-
ell OF the Federated Trades and Labor Organ
lzauons @ Of the Pacific coast, is at Huddy's
nall, sO9H Market, San Francisco, California
FRANK RONEY, President
Z. D. MCKINLEY, Cor. Sec.
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IRON MOLDRRa.

lion Molders' Union. meets every second
ana fourth Tuesday Of each month at Reno
I, nall' 1"enty-seVenth and Holiday, at 7:30 p.
m' ]. J. SMITH, Cor. Sec,
l0l5 HOlladay street
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TAIIORS.

The Tailors' Protective Society. OF Denver,
meets in Judge Jeffries' court room,
O'Clock p. M, on the first Monday of each
month: OTTO KRAUZ, President.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
Room 58 Skinner Block,
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The Trades Assembly OF Denver and Vicin-
ity meets on the second and fourth Sunday
OF each month, in Police court room, City
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
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"LABoR-DAY" was celebrated in most
all of the large cities In the country.
Denver belongs to that class, and did it.
self proud.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-11

ATTEND the anti-Chinese meeting at
the city hall tomorrow afternoon-Sun-
day, at 2 o'clock.
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TRADES ASSEMBLY,

BRICK MoULDERs' & Settlers UNION.
Meets every Thursday evening at 557 Down
ng avenue, at o. clock. p1l-l-S6
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THE OTHER SIDE.

Il enclose you 81 for next six months.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-06-18
The Council aud the Levee.

A correspondent wants to know If the
City Council cannot borrow money to
make levee. how they are going to buy
the st. Vincent College property,
The correspondent should have read
the papers, which stated that the st.
Vincent property was really to be ex-
changed for the Spring street City Hall
property which was to pay for the st.
Vincent's, and that no money was to be
borrowed for the purpose of the trade.
The city, in that case, would incur no
new Indebtedness.
In the matter of the plans of the L. A.
& s. G. V. r. K. about the levee the
HERALD is not informed. That corpora
ton is an owner Of twenty city lots in
the flooded district below the covered
bridge and is OF course interested in its
protection, but whether that corporation
will choose to let their franchise and
their land go, and refuse to build the
levee, nobody knows but the managers
Of the railroad company who keep their
own counsels in the matter, and give no
information to the newspapers.
In 1884 the city expended about
SIC, 900 from the general cash fund for
benefit of the food sufferers, but in
1885 voted to borrow all that the char
ter would allow, $245, 900, to he appliedto
sewerage, zapjas, city hall, and bridges,
but not cent for levee. The people
voted for this appropriation with their
eyes open, aud II the result is not salts
factory they have no one to blame but
themselves. The columns of the HRR.
AID were daily filled before the election
with caution and warning against voting
away the whole credit Of the city, but
the majority decided otherwise and will
now have to depend on railroad or pri.
vate enterprise for making the levee.
While this Is unfortunate, it is the
only resort since the election for the is
suance Of city bonds for $245. 900. The
people by that vote bottled themselves
up and then re-enacted the process by
permitting mob law to drive men from
their work when they attempted to
make the levee.
Had the late Chief of Police protect.
ed the men at work on the levee there
would have been no food sufferers in
1886. A flood Of communications have
been sent to the HERALD office concern.
ing this matter. and large number
have had a hearing in these local COL
umns, but there seems to be no result at
tanned and no practical plan pointed
out. Ali begin and enl with If. IT
something isn't done something should
be done. II the railroad should not
build levee it has forfeited its fran
chise along the river. If it has forfeit
ed its franchise what is to be done? "
the railroad will not build it aud the
city cannot, who will! These Us should
have been considered before the "bond
election" last year.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-06-18

But these do not belong In the witches
cauldron; they are OF higher origin. 1t
is the real superstition that causes much
unnecessary suffering and sorrow.
There is enough genuine affection In life
without making misfortunes OF tribes.
Ambition is also found boiling In the
oanldrnn. We think our present eur.
roundings not quite good enough for us,
and make ourselves unhappy striving
for the ''greener fields in the Distance.
An ancient philosopher gravely tells the
man who is miserable that it Is neces
sary that he should be 40 to keep up the
harmony of the universe, aud that the
scheme of Providence would be troubled
and perverted were he otherwise. In
stead of consolation this gives despair
"Discontent the divine spark which fires
progress has always benefited the
world, but "ambition that breaks the ties
of blood and forgets the obligations of
gratitude has ever been the cause of
sorrow and disappointment. The one
we find far above the eauldron; the
other in the very midst of the boilin g
mixture.
The worst and most powerful OF all
the ingredients are jealousy, malice, en-
yy-the ''blind worms sting" that de.
stroys the happiness of home and
friends.
The purpose of the witches is the in
jury of human beings. and many times
they accomplish their designs; yet there
are some who pass through all trials and
emerge at the end uninjured.
As the gold cast into the furnace
emerges pure and shining, so those char
acters which contain the ultimate prin-
ciples OF infinite truth, plunged into the
circling mass OF the witches cauldon,
energies therefrom purified, respl .ndent,
gloriiied, like the gold at the moment
when from the surface Of the molten
mass is perfectly reflected the image Of
Him who stands and watches that the
cleansing fire may not transcend it's
ministry
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-06-18

SAN Francisco, June is. 1856.
EDITOR HEEALD.--In Malaga the
grapes are dried on earthen floors about
IA feet wide, and having pitch Of from
As to so degrees toward the sun. The
descent towards the sun is not consid-
cred a positive necessity. but they are
always arranged SO that no water can
get inside Of them. These floors are
walled up permanently, and provided
with covers. After the second or third
day the raisins are covered at night.
This protects them from the dew and
retains the heat of the soil, thereby ex-
pediting the drying process. On or
about the eighth day the raisins are
taken from the floor and laid down
again on the same side, thus leaving one
side which has not been exposed to the
sun. They are particular which side
they put down, a. there is right aad
wrong side to the grape-the right side
showing handsome appearance, while
the wrong side has the rough stem, and
is dried on the earthen floor. The only
object in lifting the grapes on the eighth
day seems 10 be the removal Of the
small fruit which gets dried in that time.
The drying is continued until the If
teenth day, when the raisins are packed.
1t will be seen from this short recapit-
ulaton that the curing process In Nal.
aga is different from that followed here.
Labor can be obtained there at from Is
cents to 80 cents per day. This enables
them to handle the fruit by hand, which
cannot be done here.
There has been considerable discussion
amongst the raisin producers Of this
State as to the best method Of curing
some have commended that artificial heat
wa better than that of the sun. The
raisin that the producer here must meet
and compete with is a sun-dried raisiu.
1t may be that artificially cured raisins
are most desirable than sun cured, but
commerce is educated to the sun.dried
article and ii ia question whether the
California producer has the time or in-
clination to endeavor to change this con.
dition Of affairs-we can say from our
own personal knowledge that the Cali
fornia product meets ready sale as now
cured. Its worst enemies are those
packers, who being filled with big ideas.
attempt more than they have ability TO
carry out, wreck themselves, and hurt
their neighbors by their badly conceived
and worse executed enterprises. As
this class is being weeded out we hope
that in the future. careful purchasers
will not be compelled to suffer in price
and reputation from any such unjust
competition in the way Of rain-soaked
trash as they have the past season.
Oranges-The arrivals for the week
have been meagre, but fairly sufficient to
supply the market as the demand is
limited and there are plenty of Tahitis
here. We quote seedlings in good order
81 rs to $3.50 per box.
Lemons-Within the last week de-
mand has sprung up for bright. clean
fruit, and we quote that character Of
fruit at from 81 IS to $3.25. We think
it not improbable that they will go
higher.
Limes-No arrivals.
Yours truly, A. LusK 4 Co.