Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-27
COMMUNICATIONS.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Write plain;
boil down your letters; make them short,
Write Uuly on one side Of the paper. BE as good
natnrod you can be under the Circum.
stances.
10 the II 'orhmcn's .Adr0cate,
In peruslng the report of the proceed
ing4 of the Convention Of the CorneCti-
cut State Federation of Labor in No, 4
of the WORKMEN'S ADVOCATE, was sur
prispd to find that there were no unions
of the Journeymen Tailors' National
Union represented, though the Meriden
and Hartford Progressive Tailors Unions
were represented. 1t surely was not
lack of money that prevented the Jour
neymen Tailors' Unions Of New Haven
and Daubury from sending representa-
tives, nor lack of time at this season.
Are the Journeymen Tailors then SO in
dependent that they prefer to stand
alone?
1t was gratifying on the other hand,
to see the Progressive TailOrs' eXhi-
hition of iraternal spirit with work
men of other trades in joining with their
fellow wOrkmen in the deliberatlon of
| the Federation. The tailoring trade has
! greatly changed, and the disadvantages
to the tailors have been greatly aug
mented by the silent and stubborn add
hcrence to the eyery-one-for himself pol
! icy of the conservative men in the
craft. The time has come to adopt more
scientific measures, IN accordance with
the changed conditions, in order to
benefit the workmen; but by negligence
and stuhbOrnness nothing can be accom-
| pIi9hed. TAILOR.
To he U'orkmen'S Idrocdte;
In your criticism of the platform of
the Connecticut Labor Party in last is
sue, if indeed it can be called a criticism.
you say You cannot see why men who
are admittedly convinced of the correct
logic Of the Socialist Platform, and the
illogical land tax scheme, should not
come ont boldly and proclaim their con
victions'
You appear rather arrogant in your
superior wisdom and that of the social
| lists. who, | assert, are not perfect more
than other mortals Whose fault is it
but the socialists that they have not
come forward with their platform and
their own ticket instead of encouraging
more conservative political movements
in the past. thus making their principles
and aims more generally known; They
have lacked the courage of their coWic-
tons; in that respect they have been but
little in advance of many who now sym
pathize mildly with the labor movement
but hesitate to vote the ticket for fear il
may not make a respectable showing.
You well enough know the plea has been
I'VE are not vet numerous enough, OF
the time is not yet ripe for it, they
were afraid of being laughed and jeered
at. Had they been possessed of the
courage of the old abolitionists, they
would have voted socialist ticket anc
no other for the past two years, and 50
Cialism in America would have been faI
in advance of what it is to-day. Thuus
alds who are exercising their ingenuity
to devise platforms which shall be in ad
vance of the old parties and not too So
cialstiC would instead toe enthusiast
cally voting the socialist ticket and Ell
dorsing their platform.
If the socialists are so much incline,
To 'plainly and plumply agitate for tn
> abolition of the wage system and tn
, introduction of the cooperative system,
why did not the socialists of Connect
cut come into the labor convention a
t New Haven, September 4th. and agitat
- for the endorsement of the complete :,
t cialist platform: Every mothers son q
= them would have been welcomed, as tn
only test was that of renouncing tn
: democratic" and republican partie,
# so-called had they done so the platforl
r ! would have been enthusiastically eI