Workmen's advocate., 1890-12-20
THE MEETING. THE NEW YORK C. L. F. EN DORSEO BY THE LABOR
 OF DETROIT.

Ringing Speeches by Lucien Sanial
 and Thomas ]. Morgan Sham So-
 cialism Exposed The Class Strug
 gle Explained - It's Existence
 Shown-lts Ultimate Destruction
 the Mission of Socialism.
 The massmeeting called by Luripn Sanial. as representative of the Central Labor Federation. took place Friday evening, Dee. l2, at Jahn's Hall.
 Charles Erb, cIEarmakrr and organ iHer of the Detroit Section, $. L. F.. pre- sided. Before s D. m. the hall was already full to oovertlowing and presented in thls respect striking contrast with the meeting called on the previous day by Gompers and his arrangement com. mittee The Brewers Union came in a body with band of music and their handsome banner, which was placed on the platform by the side of the chair man amid great applause. Many of tue | delegates were present.
 After reading tine instructions which he had received from the C. l.. F., Sanal sailed into Gompers. He said he regret ted the necessity in which he was of taking some notice of that pompous and theatrical gentleman.
 But while the position which Gompers occupied as President of the American Federation would not enable him, or any other mediocrity vested with similar powers, to side track the Labor move mcrt, it might enable him for some tune to obstruct and retard it's advance, 1t was therefore important that every member of the Federation be thoroughly posted and vigilant The speaker then reviewed the issue between Gompers and the C. l.. F., and after a concise state ment of fact, which showed that even the technicalitles of tGe case however hetOgged by Gompers, were plainly in favor of the C, l.. F., he took up the real question involved, :. c. Socialism in the Labor movement. tompers, and with him some gentlemen on the floor of the convention, who were anxious to be sent to Washington by the great Fe iteration as a lobbying committee, had claimed that they admired Socialism very much, nay-that they were Social ists, but were opposed to Socialist me thods, to the Socialist party, and, in fact, to every agency through which Socialism could be advanced. Trade unionism, they said, was broad enough for them. They would not interfere with the right of any one to vote as he pleased, or to shout himself hOarse for any of the plutocratlc parties, They had, indeed, asserted this right for themselves by shouting themselves hoarse for the Governor of Michigan at the opening of the convention.
 Of course, should big strike take place here by order of the Federation, this same Governor, who gave you such nice tatfy last Monday, will call out his plutoCratic militia and give you the rifle diet The usual appeals had been made by Mir. Gompers to the old reiudices against socialism, nursed by the pluto cratic press. One of the most henOus aud hypocritical charges is that the So- Cialists preach the class struggle; where as, in reality, they merely state the obvious fact of its existence; fact that meets us at every step; q struggle that is forced day and night and everywhere upon the wageworkers by the pluto cracy and from which trade unionlsm has sprung.
 The Socialists merely say to you work ingmen Open your eyes; see the strug gle in which you are engaged; see the weapons that the plutocratic class is using against you These weapons are, wealth, which you produce for that resign into the hands of that class by i,,t,. cratic parties.
 T The speaker then depicted the class struggle, showing how the plutocracy was using the political power tO disin herit and enslave the workers by appro. prlating to itself the public property, public franchises, public functions, all the agencies of production and distribu tion, in word ,alI the means of life. He gave statistics. chewing the growing concentration of wealth m this country, and demonstrating that in those indus tries where such concentration was greatest the workmen's poEer of resls- tance was smallest, although their trades ! unions were largest and apparently strongest. All this concentration and its disastrous effects, economic and moral, were the products of sys- tenn which could only be main tained or destroyed by the use of political power. He reviewed the labor movement in Europe, showed it's Socialist character and the inconsis- tency or presumption of Gompers in inviting this thorougly Socialist move ment to send representatives to his pro. posed Anti Socialist show in 1893. He earnestly thanked the many delegates who had personally expressed to him either their concurrence with his views