New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-03
THE SNARE OF ANARCHY.
LABOR UNIONS SAID TO BE THE DECoY.
IS SOCIALISM BEING UNDERMINED BY PLOTTING
DYNAMITERs 7-cHARGEs AND COUNTER


DYNAMITERs f-CHARGES AND COUNTER
CHARGES.
The news that Hronek, the Chicago Anarchist
d been convctcd NJ conspring against the lives Of
Judce Gary and Inspector Bonheld was received mere
with satisfaction by law abiding citizens, with COM
narrative Indifference by the Socialists ana anger ny
The few Anarchists who are SIN mere h'ono"'
Chleboun and Chapels, are the three bohemlah usn"
miters whose arrest in Chicago caused sensation d
The time of the Anarchisuc ag.tations which ioo"eo
he hanging of the Chicago Anarchists. lironck was
scntenccd TO twelve years Imprisonment and yet the
,spers Yesterday were full of fresh developments OF
,narchstic plots and cabals which are now terrifying
The people of Chicago This has again directed puonc
attention here the Socialists and Anarchists OF this
,.ty The Anarchists have been unusually quiet since
the second conviction Of John Most, but there has
been a steady progression among the Socialists. 1t
has been Quiet until recently, when 1t suddenly became
more open and pronounced. Yet the public has moth
ing revolutionary to fear from activity among the
socialists IL would I'm the case Of the Anarchists.
The Socialists are generally well educated men, and
though holding extreme ideas, are strongly opposed
n Anarchists and ridlcule them as much any
ncople do Nevertheless there are extremists among
socialists and II has been charged number OF times
that they are cooperating with the Anarchists to Keep
the Central Labor Union within their grasp
The soclalstic element has always been active for
the last two or three years in that body socialists
able a year ago TO compel the union TO put their
paper, The Leader" in the hands OF the Socaisuc
Labor party, which Edward Hall for secretary OF
state against Henry George who was the LABOR cand-
date for that office They were able to carry their
points in number Of instances. and 1t is now SAID
by Edward Finldestone, who was recently president
Of the Journeymen BARRIERS National Union No. /,
that "a junto of secret iniquity called the Dutch
Home Club - a secret ring within the union,
directing its policy This ring he says, Is destroying
the Central Labor Union and that body, which was
once respected, is in the grasp Of Anarchists and
Socialists who at heart Anarchists.
GAINING A FOOTING IN LABOR UNIONS
When Mr. Finkestone resigned his place as presf
dent Of the union, which he organized, he wrote
letter in which lie declared that men of the stamp
of Chicago Anarchists had gained footing In the
Central Labor Union" lie specified his charges, and
says he prove that the Anarchists are destroying
the Central Labor Union and are determined 10 commit
1t before the public their programme of Violence or
to ruin It, His story is that when the Central Labor
Union was organized In 1850 1t was a conservative
and respected body. About eighteen months ago,
however, wrangles and discord were common, and
the employees lost confidence in the union Mr.
FnhIestone maintains that the weakening Of the union
due to the Vaccinations of the German Fedora
ton and that the only purpose OF this organization
is to control destroy the Central Labor Union
The German Federation OF Trades IS composed of
delegates from German unions. which are radically
Anarchists opposed to the Central LABOR Union
The federation organized two years ago, oSiensbly
to maintain the labor press. but Mr.. E1nAlestone
charges that II has worked TO destroy every labor
journal which would not spouse the cause OF anarchy
Indeed. that it is supporting /" The Alarm" Of
which A. r. Parsons was editor, and whose present
editor is Dyer ID. Lum blatant Anarchist 1t has
boycoted peaceabc labor papers, and its leaders
are such men as Most, SEevch, Jablnowski, Meatens
Cuno, Huber and other notorious agitators, whose
motto is: Down with all aw!"
THE WORK OF THE GERMAN FEDERATION.
Mr. Finklestone shows how this German Fedora
don has received Carpenters Union No. T. the Lock
smiths and Iron Railing Makers and COniectloners
Unions after they expelled had resigned from
the Central Labor Union. and lad taken up their
quarTols with that body He makes the point that
nearly every member of the German Federation is
delegate in the Central Labor Union and receives in
strucons how TO vote in the union at a secret meet
ing Of tie German Federation held on Sunday morn
ing before The Central Labor Union meets. In this
way the Anarchists control the Central Labor Union
These Socialists attempted 10 force the Central Labor
Union to indorse the SOcialsiic Labor parys ticket
at the last election. 1t was the German Federation
which planned to have the Central Labor Union
manage the Anaichstic meeting in Cooper Union on
November IL. 1t this same organization which
paradcd that nlclt with craze the American flag,
with mufted drums, with black and red flags held
hgh-all TO honor the memory Of the hanged Chicago
Anarchists.
Finally, Nh Fnhlcstonc says that in Chicago the
Anarchists and socialists have about destroyed the
Traio AID Labor Assembly. and TWO weeks ago the
streci-car Union. 1000 men, Withdrew frcm the
Chicago Trade Assembly, because they would
stand csc men. The general programme comes from
Most and b. and lis gang wanted the Anarchists of
Chicago TO be hanged. because they wanted some
martyrs, 50 "a to pccpitac the coming social rcvoll
ton
Theodore F. Cuno. of Tho yolks zetung" the
Socialist paper here said IN reply 10 Mr.. iinkcs tones
charges, that the barber was sOFchcal." The
Socialists in control % ihc Central Labor Union
JGs as IN any labor organization where there wele
thinning men. Vi no started the Central Labor
Inont" he asks. who was socialist when the
Progressive Labor party moving! = Edward
] inkr stone" he arcs. lie adds that there Is 10
secret Juhio. mt that the Uutcl German Trades had
taken land In trouble. If tie lJcllslnths and
ttOH railing makers and directed them how
in the tenilal Lahc: Union. M. CunO would like
the socialist. in control Of the labor organizations
and TIE Socialists Vcrs in politics now.
The roci8ls,s here threw i iaIgcr vote than the
rr0Ab. ionists. and they interd 10 force their way
onward by capturing labor organizations and In
that way prCinu .ac tlclI dOcrints. There are not
enough Anarchists herr 10 do much harm Ii is the
STEADY undermining Of labor and Soclastic organzar
lions which may make is influence felt