The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
Labor Notes.

Throe Revolutionary Socialists have
been elected to the municipal council in
S.. Quentin, France.
T4re are said to be 100000 men Or
ganized in labor unions In Chicago.
Several thousand people, most of them
men, went to Cooper Unro1 hall, New
York, last Monday evening to hear DR..
Aveling and Wilhelm Lie5knecht, the
Socialist agitators. ABOUT 500 crowded
into the hall, and a great many went
away unable to get inside the doors.
The platform, aisles and floor were
denselY packed and every seat was, of
course, taken. The audience was thor
oughlv orderly and quiet. The visiting
orators received tremendous ovation
when they appeared, and large share
of the hand clapping and waving of hats
was meant for Mrs. Aveling, who accom-
panies her husband and has her own
speech to make as we'll. The vast ma
iorlty of the audience was composed of
Germans, utthere was fair proper
ton of natives. among them several who
are active IN the K lights of Labor.
The speeches were in large measure
didactic and not inhammatory.
The nineteenth annual session of the
British Trades Union congress has Just
adjourned. One speaker described the
Knights of Labor ike in America as
failure. Another speaker thought the
time had come for worlds federation
oflaborers. Thenewly elected president
defined capitalism as the source Of pow
erty, and declared the existing social
system oc England rotten 10 the core.
He advocated that labor missionaries be
sent abroad to advise organization.
Steps were taken to inaugurate an ac-
tive campaign for the election of labor
representatives in parliament The
combination of trades unions and land
reformers is to be brought about.
The Dominion government proposed
to establish at once bureau of labor
statistics at Ottawa.
Four assemblies have just been organ
lied among the farmers near Ft. Worth,
Texas, and two have been organized
among the homesteaders near Hubbard,
Minnesota.
The recent strikes and lahCr troubles
IN Belgium, coupled with the continued
depression in the trades generally, and
more especially in the small-arms man
ufactories of the province of Liege, have
led to the appointment by the Belgian
government of a commission to inquire
into the causes of the miserable condl-
ton of the workers in this trade.
Capitalists would give $lO,OOO,OOO to
nut the trades unions and Knights OF
Labor in open antagonism. Beware,
therefore, of those who try to array the
great trades unions and the knights
against each other
CHICAGO, Sept. 28.--Attidavlts to sup
port the motion for a new trial Tor the
seven condemned Anarchists were hled
bv their attorneys to-day. The usual
nlea was entered that the verdict was
not supported by the evidence, and 1t
was urged that the counsel for the state
employed a form of argument which
was calculated to prejudice the jury.
The chief point that was urged, how
ever, was the story telegraphed from
IndisnaDolis shortly after the conclu-
sion of the trial to the effect that man
entered a saloon in that city one or TWO
days before the haymarket massacre
and exhibiting satchel, lntlmated that
a slaughter would occur IN Chicago IN a
few dsys. The theory of the defense Is
that this mysterious stranger had
quantity of dynamite bombs, and Is the
person who ia all likelihood threw the
bomb into the ranks of the police 1he
manner in which the jcrY was sum
moned before whom the defenoahIe
we're tried is also objected to.
LE1PsIc, Sept, 2S,-Four hundred 10
cialists to-day made demonstration by
marching through the streets with tne
expelled Socialist leader, Schumann' at
their head, waving red flags and de-
nounciug the government. The ponce
attacked the procession and ateempIeu
to capture the red flags, but the Social
istl beat the officers back and after
stubborn fight, in which many on DOLL
sides were wounded, the police were re
iuforced and returned. This time theN
succeeded in dispensing the Socialists
and capturing seven, Schumann In
cluded.
PARIS, Sept PA riot took place To-
day during the unvelling and dedication
of the statue of Armand Bsubes, a Ket
Republican colleague of Blanqui at Gar
osssone in the department OF Aude
The committees having the ceremonies
in charge were nearly all Moderatists
The Revolutionists became provoked a