Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
A CONNECTICUT CONFERENCE.
An Attempt 10 Create n Union Labor
Party in thi. state.

An Attempt TO Create n Union Labor
Party in this state.
Notwithstanding the fact that long
experience has demonstrated the fallacy
of using presidential election as a
means for building up a labor party, our
good friend, Henry c. Baldwin, has
issued the following call for confer
enCe;
TO all who are dissatisfied with exist
ing economic conditions, and who recog
nize the necessity of independent pollti-
cal action in the approaching National
and State elections, that protest may
be entered against the methods and
maChinailO of the two sO-Callcd great
political parties in the interest Of mo-
nopoly and vested wrongs, and with Il
view to unite the now scattered forces
and efforts of refOrmers all aiming at
the same common end, CdH is hereby
made for Conference and Mass Con-
ventlon, if 80 ordered, to be held at
Hartford in Talcott & Posts Hall, july
4, 1888, at II m, for the purpose of APP
electors if deemed best, and for the
transaction of any other business proper
to come before the meeting.
For the accomplishment of said object
all Land and Labor Clubs, and other
labor or reform organizations are re-
quested TO send representatives; and in
dependent voters in general Of the State
are requested to be present and take
part in the work of the conference, and
also the convention, if it shall be deemed
best to organize the same.
IA. &. BALDWIN,
Member Of the National Committee of
the Union Labor Party.
have called this conference at the
special request of several of the indie
pendent voters of the State, who desire
to vote for principle, and protest against
the false issues and sham patriotism of
the day. 1t is to be hoped that AS many
as can possibly attend will do SO, that
whatever we decide to do may be done
understandingly, and done together.
II. G. b.
High noon on the Fourth of July is
certainty pinnacle Of time, and Hart
ford is the capital of Connecticut. Both
day and place are suspicious. But, after
all, as long as the local elections are neg
lected, local interest absent, and the inn
portant town and State offices allowed
to be divided between the political hacks
of the old parties, IA protest in the shape
of IA vote for presidential electors is of
little avail. And what is of more inn
portance, the vaccilatlon of professed
reformers, drifting here and there with
every gust of sentiment that may tenn
porarily prevail, is not conducive to the
"union" which some Of them so plain
lively invoke. a Labor Party was or
ganlzed in this State few years ago,
and several towns organized TO carry on
permanent party movement. A State
Committee was regularly elected, and
that committee in turn elected a chair
man. That ended it all. The chairman
became enamored of II. George and the
single tax fake, and neglected to attend
to his duties Nv chairman of the State
Committee. We refer to Mr.. K, Pyne,
of Hartford. Now another political
breeze is blowing, and he is no doubt
waited into the ranks--no, there are no
ranks yet in Connecticut $780, coterie,
rather, of what is styled the union
Labor party.
The workingmen of Connecticut had
better attend to their duties as citizens
at home before they waste their time
with protesting" in presidential cleo
ton
That is our opinion, and we believe
that most of the workers in New Haven
share it, Still let the matter be dis
cussed, and may the best argument pre-
vail