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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
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A few years ago, when labor agitation
was at its height and politicians every
where feared an independent labor
movement, law was passed in Connec-
ticut, providing that "any person or
corporation who shall withhold any part
of the wages of any person because of
any agreement, expressed or implied,
requiring notice before leaving the en-
ployment shall forfeit $50, half to him
who shall sue therefor and half to the
State" To any plain mind this law, as
it reads, seems plain enough. Any
agreement, expressed or implied" is
forbidden under a penalty of fifty dol
lars; and it was under this law that a
certain James Nolan sued his employer,
who had exacted an agreement which
required him to give fourteen days
notice before quitting work, or to for
felt two weeks wages in case he should
quit work without notice. Judge Cal
houn, of the Hartford Court of Common
Pleas,-a man, it seems, of very PLAIN
Observation-Disclosures the case in favor
of Nolan.
But there is Supreme Court in Con-
necticut, and there are judges in that
court who can see farther through law
book than an astronomer through an
inverted telescope. They are not plain
people; nor are their sympathies on the
side of plain people. To this great court
the employer confidently appealed.
Here sits Judge Carpenter, of boycott
fame. He it was who made it plain
that boy cotting was crime within the
boundaries of Connecticut, and he it is
who now makes it plain that mutual
agreement between employer and en-
ploye requiring notice before quitting
work, is not in violation of the aforesaid
law, which plainly foIbids any such
agreement. Nolan must lose his two
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Attention is called to the concert and
ball of the New York American Section,
S. L. P, to be held on Sunday, January
H.. at Concordia Hall, for the benefit
of its agitation fund. The American
Section is prepared to do good work.
work that may prove of immense value
to the cause of labor But it needs the
wherewith to undertake it and push
it on.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

a further rise in the iron markets F.; and
they are acting up to their convictions
by being very liberal purchasers of raw
materials. The smaller steel works and
rolling mills have taken up the cue given
by the leaders and are doing their ut
most to buy what supplies they will
need during the greater part of 1890"
Taken altogether, the business situa-
ton is such as to justify the advocates
of the eight.hour workday in enter
tanning reasonable hope of success.
With timely exercise of sufficient acti
witty in necessary organization and pre-
palarion, and provided the condition of
affairs does not change greatly before the
first of May, there is no reason that we
can see why the movement, instead Of
being confined to very few trades,
should not become quite extensive, if
not general throughout the country.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
NO BARRACkS-lET US HAVE
SCHOOLS.

Capitalism needs an army, that it may
keep labor in subsection. Labor needs
education, that it may free itself from
Capitalism
The conflict between capital and labor
has come to be, even in this country, a
conflict between the sword and the pen.
the gun and the speech, the soldier and
the teacher.
In the last twenty years plutocracy
has everywhere developed enormously.
Nowhere has it grown so tall as in this
Republic. But the ground on which it
stands is constantly undermined by
growing knowledge. A return of labor
to its primitive ignorance can alone save
Capitalism from sinking under its own
weight.
Thefore we see the tottering giant
seeking support on a naked sword ;
whereas labor, emerging from darkness,
seeks additional strength in increased
light
What a contrast in the respective
attitude of each party in this conflict
What chasm it discloses between the
class es and the masses
Here, noble aspirations; there, ignoble
conspiracies.
Here, progress in peace and freedom
by education humanity asserting its
common right not merely to the earth,
but to that knowledge which is the most
precious trophy of its intellectual victory
over matter.
There, retrogression to war and slav-
cry by ignorance; self-appointed race
of demi-gods, impudently claiming a
divine right both to the physical universe
and to the intellectual fruits of man
kinds genius, toll and suffering through
all ages.
The struggle may be short it may be
long-who knows? 1t will be hard
surely. But its issue is not doubtful.
Despotsm and its battlements are things
of the past; freedom and the school
house are things of the present.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

tural for a stakeholder to love the insti-
tuition of chattel slavery, and it is quite
natural for millionaire to love the in
stitution of capitalism. But the slave
cursed his chain, and tie wage-worker
hates class oppression.
True, we have some institutions of a
political character which deserve to be
cherished in spite of the bad use that
has been made of them. Universal
suffrage is one; but there is no need of a
league of millionaires and politicians to
nurture the love" of it, or to "pro-
tect" it. The people, throughout the
Republic, are now showing a greater
attachment to it than they ever did; an
attachment that grows every day as
they realize more and more that in the
American institution of political equality
they have the means of abolishing all
those un.American institutions, pro-
ductive of social inequality, which pre-
vious leagues of unpatriotic millionaires
and politicians have been allowed to
establish.
We may greatly wrong this so.called
" National League; yet we must say
frankly what we think of it.
Aware of the strong feeling that
rightly exists in this country against
sectarian schools, ard seeing that the
workmen of this city, through their
School Conference, were bent upon pre-
serving their fundamental right to
public education, a number of politi-
clans and millionaires imagined to con-
tiscate the movement. Having first made
their League popular by their advo-
cacy of popular measure, which is in
no need of their services, they will
subsequently use its power over the
ignorant to oppose the progress of
Socialism.
In other words, the final aim of this
League" is the same in every respect
as the aim of certain other educators"
pro fessors of capitalistic economy
"humbugologists" "bamboozlosophists,"
ETC., who are everywhere organizing
with Wall street subsidies for the pro-
motion of tomfoolery, and whose
schemes we shall undertake to expose
in our next issue.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
BEWARE OF THAT LEAGUE.

1t is announced with great flourish
that National League has been formed
"for the protection of American institu-
tons" It's immediate object, we are
told, is "to prevent the appropriation
of money by the Nation or the States
for sectarian purposes, especially in aid
of sectarian schools; while its ultimate
purpose is "to nurture patriotism and
tie love of American institutions"
In so far as the immediate object" is
sufficiently explicit as defined, we can
say that we are in full sympathy with
it. Such is also, in part, the object of
the School Conference recently insti-
tuted by the labor organizations of this
city,
AS to the ultimate purpose" clearer
definition appears desirable. Patriotism,
as usually understood by the common
people and as universally promoted by
the ruling class, is a remnant of barbar-
ism. In England it is apt to take the
form of jingoism in France, of chauvin-
ism in America, of know-nothingism.
Patriotism in that form has done MOI e
TO arrest progress and consolidate des-
potism than any other agency of retro
erosion. But there might be patriot
ism that would consist in so elevating
the moral standard. and so developing
the material welfare of the people, that
the Nation would not only be prosperous
and happy, but would conduce by its
noble example to the prosperity and
happiness of all mankind.
Remarks of the same import would
also apply to the "love of American
institutions" There is no way i'll which
this love can be developed but by max
ing those institutions lovable. II the
National League means to do that, its
purpose is truly patriotic.
But we are not quite satisfied, by
merely glancing over the list of its veal
thy incorpora .ors, that the League will
agree with the masses of the people as to
the kind of institutions which are, of
| themselves, lovable. 1t was quite ma
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
JANUARY 4, 1890.
THE FRAUDULENT ISSUE.


For many years all questions of actual
importance to Labor have been success
fully cast into the shade at every Pres
dental and Congressional election by
the fraudulent issue, "Protection or
Free Trade" With cunning I'M
equaled in the history of politics, the
various statesmen who succeeded
each other on the Ways and Means
Committee of the House of Represent
atives never failed to force it to the
front at the proper" time, while max
ing it appear that it was forced upon
them by conflicting interests. OF course,
to touch the tariff, or to simply speak of
touching it, is to stir a hornets nest
When the capitalism of a country has
adjusted itself to certain fiscal system,
any change, or fear of change, by
which any of its component parts may
be benefited at the expense of the other
parts, must naturally produce a commo-
ton. And, although the change cannot
in the end benefit labor-for the simple
reason that when capitalism has adjusted
itself to the new conditions, it is as
despotic and avaricious as it was before
yet, during the period of REIMBURSEMENT
labor may suffer considerable loss
from lack Of employment Hence the
interest that workingmen are made to
feel in what we are thoroughly justified
in calling fraudulent ISSUE The
hope of some to be benefited by the
increase of employment in their particu-
lar trade, and the fear of others to be
harmed by the suspension of work in
their particular industry, divide them
and array them against each other, to
the great delight of the old political par
ties.
That the wrongs of Labor are substan
TALLY the same under protection and I'M
der similarity of its condition in free trade
free trade is evident from the growing
England and in protected America. ANY
difference that may still be noted in
favor of this country is clearly traceabe
to other causes than the difference of
fiscal policy. Were it otherwise, the
condition of the working classes in pro
tected Austria, or in protected Italy,
would be better than in free trade Eng
land, whereas the reverse is true.
But if we want to see the wrongs of
Labor under free trade Capitalism, we
must go to England; if we want to see
its wrongs under protected Capitalism,
we need not so out of this country.
And in so far as the tariff discussion
which Is now taking place in Washing
ton before the Committee on Ways and
Means may cast some light upon the con-
dition of American labor, it is of the
highest interest to the working people.
For instance, a few days ago dec. 26),
George II. Ely and d. S. Witherbee,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

weeks wages, to the great delight of
the employing class throughout Con-
necticut.
The morale of all this is plain enough.
Can the plain people of Connecticut
see it?
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

What does this unreasonable weather
portend? Apple trees are budding, dam
delions blossoming, grashoppers jump
ing, honey bees flying and matrons
clipping. Has old Blizzard gone on
strike? Is the North Wind disguised
with American civilization and the coal
mono poles? Has Jack Frost more pity
for the poor than our billionaires have |?
Or is it all sham and fraud-a COM
bination of Nature with Old Hutch to
kill the winter wheat and advance the
price of bread?
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
NOT ES.

For us, common people, the last week
of the year is like the first. To wish
each other "happy new year" is mere
derision. We should wish each other
sufficient good sense to come together
and make for ourselves a happy new
world.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

1t is matter of general remark in the
trade papers that in all branches of pro-
duction there are very few labor disturb
ances. Probably many workingmen
who have long been idle, either partlG
or completely, are only too glad to get
work. The fact is, however, that no
better time could be selected than the
present for a redress of grievances. This
we stated in our last issue, and we
reiterate it now in the light of the addi-
tional facts presented in our article on
the "Capitalistic Caldron."
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

Influenza La Grippe!! 1t is coming.
1t has come. 1t spareth not the
mighty. Howl, potentates. Sneeze, bill
lionaires Know ye misery and wretched-
ness in splendor.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

The tendency of ideas among people
of the ruling class in this country is
significantly shown by their undisguised
hostility to the Brazilian revolution.
This is not the first time that their un-
American love of Imperialism has been
impudently and indecently exhibited.
Not to speak Of their frequent purchases
of European coronets-vile bargains in
which their daughters and sisters are
prostituted to notorious debauchees-we
may recall the Grant movement for
third Presidential term. Many of our
plutocrats supported it simply because
they saw in it the first step to the esta-
blishment of Casarism on the ruins of
the Republic.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

While the New York lines are carrying
wheat from the West to this city at the
rate of twenty-five cents, the Baltimore
and Ohio is hauling corn to Baltimore
at seventeen cents and making big
profit. This extra tax of eight cents
upon the bread consumed by the work
ingmen of this city goes into the pock-
cts of Millionaire Vanderbilt and his poet
Depew.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

We noticed in our last issue the re-
markable fact that orders had come
from England for ten thousand tons Of
American pig Iron. The demand could
not be supplied by the furnaces of Penn
sylvania, because they are taxed to their
utmost capacity by the requirements of
the home market. Three thousand tons
of Alabama iron, however, were actually
purchased by an English firm and will
be shipped MA New Orleans, from which
point moderate freights can be obtained.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

Alaska is valuable portion of the
public domain. By what right is a
monopoly of sealing given, or..sold for a
song, to the Alaska Commercial Com
panyF Have we not ships enough be-
longing to the Government, and sailors
enough paid by the people. to carry on
this profitable business of seal-fishing?
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

The Grand Jury has at last indicted
an Official of one of our murderous cleo
trio light corporations for manslaughter.
That he will ever be tried, we do not
feel certain. That he will be found
guilty if tried, we doubt very much.
That no adequate punishment will be
inflicted upon him if found guilty, we
dare to predict.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, b, ]. GRETcH
Secretary, q East Fourth street, N, Y
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Interesting correspondence solicited from pro
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