Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
POLITICAL ACTION
QUESTIONS TO BE SETTLED
BY THE LABOR CONFER
ENCES.
Important Meetings to be Held This
Week and Next Week-COnditi0ns
of CO-Operation--Progress of the
Movement.


Movement.
A joint meeting will be held on Fri
day, this week, by the New York Sec
tions Of the Socialist Labor Party to
finally determine whether the political
labor conference held under the auspices
of the party-which conference is to
meet again next Thursday, August IA,
shall be advised to take political
action.
The preponderance of feeling among
the Socialists of this city appears to be
in favor of such action, provided it can
be taken in cooperation with the other
labor conference held last month under
the auspices of the Nationalists and
which is to meet again on Thursday of
this week. The conference committees
of the two bodies have met and the con-
clusion was reached, that, while cooper
alton was essential, the interest of the
movement would best be promoted by
maintaining the autonomy of the respec-
tive bodies. There should, of course,
be one ticket only-in other words, the
candidates should be approved by the
two conference.-the the demands" of
both should be substantially the same.
Likewise, mass meetings and other de
monstrations during the campaign
would be held under the auspices of
both organizations.
The action of the Sections next Friday
will therefore largely depend upon the
platform that will be adopted by the Ma
tionalist Conference the day before. 1t
had been suggested that the point upon
which all bona fde, independent honest
workingmen are thoroughly and un-
questionably agreed, regardless of their
more or less advanced ideas-that is, the
primary and paramount necessity of
united action against the plutocracy
and its old political machines should, to-
gether with strong arraignment of the
existing parties, constitute the chief and
almost the only feature of the said plat
form and that it should be taken for
granted that when the wealth produ-
GERS had resumed the political power,
they would naturally exercise it for
their total emancipation from pluto
cratic rule. The object of the suggestion
was to prevent needless discussions of
the fundamental principles upon which
the labor movement obviously rests, or
of the obvious end to which it leads,
whether the more conservative or more
timd in the ranks of labor see it or not.
The argument in favor of such plan
was that it would tend to unite and
finally advance certain honest but III.
sufficiently educated and therefore ultra
cautious elements, which might other
wise keep away and remain beyond the
reach of the movement and that, at
any rate, the campaign would have to
be fought by the speakers upon radical
ground, for it would be found, as usual
that the most energetic utterances were
the only ones that moved the masses to
elf-consciousness. This idea, however,
was abandoned, aud it is likely that the
Nationalist Conference will adopt a COM
plete platform of principles and de-
mands.
In relation to the progress of the
movement on that side prominent Ma
tionalist was interviewed by the WORK
MEMS ADVOCATE and said in substance
"Since the call for a convention of
Labor and Radical bodies to take politi-
cal action this fall, the organization of
Nationalists in this city has received
healthy impetus. More than five new
clubs have been formed, and most of
the previous ten have undergone trans
formations that look like the clearing of
the decks for action. The Sd, 4th, 9th,
18th, 10Th, 18th, 18th, 10Th, 21st, 22d,
23d and 24th Assembly districts are now
organized; organizations are being per-
fected in the others: and three of the
former clubs, No. 8, No. 8, and No. 4,
may continue an independent existence
as bodies of agitation only.
1.-THE material that is coming into
these clubs is significant. 1t will be