Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
THE PACIFIC COAST SOCIALISM s WORK AND PRO-
 GRESS,
ScCCsSion-Thc lnternationnl.' .' The Labor Organ iMti0ns- German Comrades -- The Socialist Labor Par.
 ty is Justified.

Pursuant to the instructions of the National Executive the San trancSco Section $. h. ?. has di- rec ted me to report to you the con dition of the movement on the Pa citic coast
 To do so in an intelligent manner 1t will be necessary to make a brief rev few, extending back some few years more or less.
 Taking the secession of the Eng fish speaking s, ction from the ranks of the s. l.. F., l will endeavor to trace up to the present time the leading incidents that have had more or less influence upon advanced thought on this coast.
 The cause of the split between the En gllsh'Speaklng section is probably kno VII to you already so l will sim ply state that 1t had it's origin in the difference of opinion between those who could not see any other method of fighting the wrongs of the producers save by the force of arm s, and those that adhered to the platform and principles of the $. l. P. and sought to attain their ends by Intelligent political action.
 The seeding members formed what has become known to the world as the North American Branch of the International Workingmen's As sociation modelled in a measure after the original International founded by Karl Marx, of which original or gani zatlon there were among them several members.
 They accepted the doctrine that the end justified the means" and in the earlier stages of their existence open ly advocated the use of violence us the only means of attaining their ends, rldlculing the ballot as a delu- sion and snare. They were all things to all men, and there was scarcely an organization of any note but which was, III q greater or less degree, made to feel the effects of their propaganda.
 The Federated Trades and Labor Organlzatlons of the Pacific Coast was the direct result of their efforts, in which, however, they were assisted by the Section in a very great meas ure.
 The people of the coast, particu- larly the producing classes, were work ed up into state of agitation that caused the powers that be grave alarm, and it was only after the most persistent efforts that they sue ceeded in "hagging" the people from of the true course. Paid emissarles and stool-plgeons sue ceeded in diverting the attention of the m asses again to the Chinese, and we had rehash of 1878 upon q smaller scale, with the exception that tho political bosses did not lose control of the movement, but sim ply castra ted it by a non-political reso- lution and left it to die a natural death, the ant.poJitical charac ter istic of the l. W. A. preventing it from making any effort to save the movement, as well as the fact that it had been diverted from it's original purpose, 1t was probably not con- sdered worth the saving.
 This will bring us up to the con gress held in San Francisco in 1886 by the l. W, A. Here the fact was developed that they had run ahead of the people, and nothing remained for them but to begin thelr work of education and propaganda over again. TheIr policy of violence was abandoned and became one of agita- ton only. The financial question had often offered great difficulties and now became so urgent that 1t had to be met. Previous to this congress many members had already advanced various schemes of aspecu- lative character looking to this end i, and a resolution declaring that the