Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-01
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Bismarck defeated IN the Reichstag
His anti Socialist bill knocked ont of his
hands by vote of no to 9S! What do
you think of this, American Bismarcks?
Down with ignorance Away with
the source of political dependence and
industrial slavery!
No armories, no barracks, no tyranny
No imprisonment of Children in fac.
tories and charitable institutions
No charity, but justice to those upon
whom the charitable live in luxury.
Give us light and right; compulsory
education law without loopholes, and
schools where it can be enforced.
Come to the grand mass meeting at
Cooper Union, February 12.
The engineers of the Vanderbilt system
are demanding increased pay, They will
get it. The engineers of all the "sy stems
should do likewise; they would succeed.
SO should the conductors and the brake
men and the laborers and the clerks and
everyone that is employed on those
systems of robbery. Now is the time
boys. Go for Vanderbilt and for Gould
and for Willard and for every princey
pauper American or foreign, that owns
ashare of stock in those perverse systems.
The total railway mileage of the
United States on January /, 1890, was
161 ,270 Illinois heads the list with
1909 miles, while New York comes
sixth with 1852; Kansas, Tex as, Iowa
and Pennsylvania taking precedence of
the Empire State with 1915, S,494, S,455
and S,417 miles, respectively. AS already
stated in these columns, only 5, $50 miles
were built last year, and these were
mostly extensions of feeders. From
this it would appear that our railway
magnates have SO far succeeded in con.
solidating their respective systems as
to be able to prevent the construction
of competing lines. But, as matter of
course, they encourage the building of
Improbable feeders by small companies
that they will buy out for song when
these shall have become bankrupt.
Baltimore capitalism, through it,
trade journals, boasts of having exported
last year four times as much corn ani
cornmeal as in 1888, twenty times al
much oats, twice as many cattle, fou
times as many dried apples, twice al
much leather, twenty per cent. more
oil, seventy -fve per cent. more lard
twice as much corned beef, twice a
much tallow, three times as much bacon
nearly twice as many hams, forty-seve
times as much cheese and four times a
many cigars. Did the people whit
actually produced all that surplus &c
their fill of bread and meat and chess
and other like comforting stuffs, or wer
they more or less starved, that TIN
Baltimore and kindred capitalists nigh
exchange these compulsory ''savingS
for the foreign luxuries which tn
"pauper labor of Europe by the sam
process of starvation, is compelled t.
save?
1t is, perhaps, needless to say that un
) derSocialism the use of machinery woul
be far more extensive than it is to-day
The only machine that Socialists woul
break up is the capitalistic machine
through which labor saving instrument
are converted into labor killing engines
The object of the employing class in in
creasing the mechanical power at it
command is certainly not to lessen tn
toll of its wage-slaves, but to SO dispens
with number of them as to make all
by competition among themselves fo
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