Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-28
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Stories by popular authors, and other
features calculated to make it both
A PLEASANT FAMILY COMPANION,
AND
A VIGILANT, HONEST AND FEARLESS
NEWSPAPER,
DEVOTED TO THE WELFARE OF THE
TOMING MASSES.
It's Politics-Published in the interest
of the working classes by the New
Yorker Volkszeitung Publishing Asso-
citation, and edited in all its depart.
ments by the ablest and most compe-
tent American writers, THE PEOPLE
will sustain in the English language The
principles which the T0lkszeitung itself
has so successfully, for the past fourteen
years, propagated among its widespread
constituency of German birth or descent.
1t will, therefore, advocate and pro-
mote, by all the means in its power, the
organization of Labor-not only for pur-
poses of mutual protection in daily con-
ficts with the Plutocracy, involving the
daily crust of bread which is called
wages, but for complete emancipation
from the Plutocracy and its Wage
System by Independent Political Action
At no time in the history of this coun-
try was the working class in greater
need of bold and watchful defender of
its rights--a defender that no threat or
persecution could silence.
II is literally true TO say that in this
so-called free Republic we live under
reign of terror. Pinkerton bandits in
the pay of corporations kill with i'm
punity inotfensive men, women and
children; through the criminal avarice
of such as Vanderbilt, enriched by
public franchises, thousands of people
are annually slaughtered the press, the
legislature, the courts even are deaf and
dumb. But let the picket of a trade
union refuse to obey an illegal sum-
mons, or strike in self-defense, the press
wilfully distorts his act into a heinous
crime and the courts send him to State
prison for years. If, perchanco, a plu-
tocratic jury affects compassion, the
judge instructs it to be merciless.
If such is already the state of affairs
we may well conceive what it will be
after the 1st of May, when all the agen-
cies of terrorism at the Plutocracy's
command will be set in motion against
the Eight Hours movement.
Accurate in statement and regardless
of consequences, THE PEOPLE will hold
up to the broad light of day the hypo-
crisy of the press, the Partially of
judges, the venality of politicians, the
crimes of plutocrats, and the misery of
the people: not to incite riot and blood
shed for we leave this disgusting task to
the police agents of the Plutocracy); not
even to obtain justice from a class that
in the nature of things is bound to COM
init more and more injustice; but to
unite on election day the almighty forces
of Labor.
WoRKlNGMEN!-lt is for you to say
whether such paper is more deserving
of your support than is the capitalistic
press, whose wealth and power, built
upon your patronage, are Systematically
used for your impovershment and degra-
dation.
Should you realize at last the necessity
of standing by your own press, THE
PEOPLE (Which starts as a weekly Sun
T day paper with a subscription list of
, several thousand subscribers from all
parts of the country and has come to
stay will soon be converted into a Daily.
{ Dated New York. March IS, 1891.
Nec Yorker Foikszehung.
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