Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-08

can be found were F. K. FOSTER. those which grew B. O. HASKELL. out of the political movement of 1899 in New York, Massachusetts and three or four other eastern states. In that year the Workingmen's party was or ganized and several weekly journals espousing it's principles were estab lished, but they were not sup ported, and hence were short lived In 1S32 about the only paper of this class existing was The New England Ar tisan, published at Boston. It was the official organ of the Workingmen's par ty, but it soon went the way of the rest from lack of support. There was slight revival in this direction in the forties, and papers were established in several of the prominent eastern cities, The Voice of Industry, which made it's first appear ance in Fitchburg, Mass, being the most noteworthy.
 But these papers, like those of the earlier movement, and like the purely labor paper ever since, had precarious existence and died young In 1874 monthly and weekly journals devoted to special interests were quite numerous, the machinists, the iron workers, the shoemakers' and the coopers' unions each having their official journals. There were also other and more general labor papers established about this time, among which was The Workingmen's Advo- cate, of Chicago. Some of these papers lived only few months, others survived for two or three years, but none of them are as much as remembered by the rank and file of the labor movement today. The only journals of this class that were started prior to 1880, which are issued to- day, are The Labor Standard, of Pater- son, N. J., edited by Joseph P. McDon- nell, it's present editor, and The National Labor Tribune. of Pittsburg, founded by Thomas J. Armstrong and conducted by him until the time of his death. some what more than year ago. The latter paper is now managed by the widow and brother of its founder.
 The great boom in the field of labor journalism came in the years of 1882 1886. during the time of the phenomenal growth of the trades unions and the Knights of Labor. Towns of 10000 in- habitants, and in several instances of less population, had their weekly papers, some of goodly size and some very small some ably edited and some otherwise. In several cities dailies were started, notably The Leader, of New York city, which was among the first to go when the decline began. Now three or four German and as many English daily pa pers in the United States are devoted exclusively to the interests of labor. Though many of those established during the boom did not live to celebrate an anniversary, there were in the United States in 1886 not less than 300 such pa pers. Quite goodly number were de- voted to the class interests of distinct callings and were issued by the author ity of unions, and many of those are still being published; but the greater number were for labor, whether skilled or un- skilled.
 Several were pronouncedly socialistic, and three or four went so far as to fly the banner of anarchism. It is not essential, if it were possible, to give the names of more than a small proportion of the labor papers of three, four or five years ago, few from each section as representa- tives being sufficient In the east there were John Swinton's Paper and the Boy cotter (now The Union Printer), of New York; The Craftsman, of Washington; The Leader, edited by Frank K. Foster, of Boston; The Labor Standard, of Pater- son, N. J.; The Examiner, of Hartford The Tocsin, of Philadelphia.
 In the middle country, The Tribune, The Herald and The Commoner, of Pitts burg; The Ohio Valley Budget, edited by John Ehmann, of Wheeling; The
 Workman, of Cleveland; The Labor Leaf edited by Joseph A. Labadie, of Detroit The Unionist, of Cincinnati; The Signal of Indianapolis; Tine Knights of Labor of Chicago; the Union, of St. Louis.
 Southern Industry, of New Orleans and The Labor Herald, of Richmond
 Va., were the leading southern repre- sentatives.
 The Labor Enquirer, of Denver, edited by Joseph R. Buchanan (who conducted a paper of the same name in Chicago during l877-78); The Hayes Valley Ad vertiser, of San Francisco, and The West ern Watchman, of Eureka, Cal, looked out for the west. The Denver paper wa radically socialistic. Truth, of San Fran
 cisco, edited by Brunette c. Haskell, paper which attracted considerable at tention because of its pronounced social ism, suspended in 1884. The public
 already more or less familiar with Tn Alarm, of Chicago, which was foundeC
 by A. R. Parsons, one of the men exc
 cuted Nov. II, 1887, for participation il
 the Haymarket meeting.
 Since 1886 there has been a steady de
 cline in the number of labor papers, an
 at present there are not more than 13
 published. Most of the distinctly trad
 papers have survived, and several hay
 been recently added to this class. Thi
 is due probably to the great growth c the trades unions during the past thre years, while the decline of the othe class may be accounted for in the re
 markable decline of the order of Knight of Labor.
 The pathway travelled by the labo movement is lined with mounds who's slabs bear the epitaph: "Labor Paper Died from Starvation.
 Among the leading papers takin special interest in the New York COT ference are Labor Standard, Paterson N. J.; Truth, Buffalo; Union Printer an Workman's Advocate, New York city
 Labor Tribune, Glassworker and Con i moner and Glassworker's Budget, Pitts burg; Labor Signal, Indianapolis; Crafts
 man, Washington; Critic, Baltimore Examiner, Hartford; Labor Herald
 Richmond, Va.; Labor Press, Brooklyn
 Labor Bulletin, Decatur. Ills; Workin
 World, Atlanta, Ga.; Workman, Brocl ! ton. Mass: Leader. B1ston: Free Pres: