Workmen's advocate., 1890-06-14
THE CALL
ISSUED BY THE SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY OF NEW
 YORK.

All "Bona.Fide" Labor Organizations
 Invited to Conference, to be
 Held in Clarendon Hall, on
 Thursday Eyeuing, July 10.
 The following is the text of the call issued by the Socialist Labor party:
 HEADQUARTERS SOCIALIST LA
 BOR PARTY.
 % East Fourth Street, New York. To al Trade, Labor and Socialist Or
 gana2ations of Neec York City.
 In view of this years election the question arises whether the workingmen of this city will again, as so often here. tofore, throw their votes away, in cast ing them for parties not only utterly corrupt, but ecessarily and in every way antagonistic to the interests of la bor
 There are few things more certain than that the working classes can only be emancipated by themselves, an axiom that has been recognized by our brethren in the rest of the civil. ized world. The idea that our coun- try differs in this respect from other countries has long been acknowledged as erroneous, No matter whether the "boss" tleeces his hands in monarchical Germany or in the republics of France, Switzerland or America, he will never increase the wages of "his" men even cents value or shorten the hours of labor minutes duration, if he can help 1t.
 And the servants, not of the people, but of the capitalists, viz: the Demo- cratic and Republican politicians, will do their utmost to defend the inter- ests of their masters, the capitalists, who are actually the Kings of this coun. Hry and mightier than the Czar of Russia or the Emperor of Germany. Now then, i'll the struggle between labor and capitalism, the workingmen of many countries have, under the leadership of the Socialists, gained important vic- tories in Germany the socialistic work ingmen are actually the strongest politi- cal party in the empire and have suc- ceeded not only in defeating their bit terest enemy, the powerful Bismarck but in making the labor question the most important, nay, we may say, the only question in the deliberations of the German Parliament.
 In England the Socialists have also taken the lead in the labor movement, and under the lead of men like the So- cialist John Burns and others the British workingmen have wrung from the re- luctant hands of their oppressors one concession after another.
 Under the leadership of the Socialists and in pursuance of their resolutions adopted at the Paris Congress of last year, the world, on May 1st, saw for the first time in the history of mankind the wonderful spectacle, from Mel bourne to London and from Vienna to St. Petersburg, in every centre where toilers congregate, of the working masses assembled to give expression to this one idea, that the shortening of the hours of labor is the first effective step towards the final emancipation of the working classes.
 In this city and country it was the Socialist Labor Party that of all other so-called labor parties energetically up- held the banrer of the Eight Hours workday and marched in the vanguard Cf the movement.
 These facts cannot be denied. But why is it that the Socialists alone enjoy the confidence of the working classes? Why is it that under their leadership alone any lasting victories are gained?
 Because they are, as one of their enemies recently called them, fanatic ally honest" as party, and because their science has taught them where the root of the evil lies and what are its remedies.
 Every other political Labor Party of the last p years, no matter what its name OF platform, has collapsed, be- cause it proved unequal to its task or because the corrupt elements in its midst were too powerful. The Socialist