The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-01
WAR upon SOCIALISTS.
Declared by the Sohn Most Anarch-
lists Of the City Of
New York.
Terrible Things Will Be Done II
tho Programme Is
Carried Out.
Dire VcnEonce VIII BE Doalt Out With
. Merciless Hand-They Have
Thus Sworn.

MerClless Hand-They Have
Thus sworn.
The anarchists have declared war upon
the socialists. And the followers of John
Most in New York threaten that before they
get through with the believers in the teach
inRa OF Karl Marx and Ferdinand Lasselle
they will not leave them a peg to stand
upon. Their programme is to smash tho
Central Labor federation and make its Or
CARNATIONS more side shows of the Interna-
tional Working Peoples association. Then
they propose to break up the Socialistio La
Dor party by creating feuds in the various
sections and branches. Next they will force
the trustees of tho Labor lyceum, at 25
East Fourth street, to give up those head
quarters and join hands with them ut Wilt
zie's hall, in the same street. And, finally,
they hopo to destroy the circulation of the
New Yorker Volkszeitung, the daily organ
of the socialists, and Der Socialist, the
weekly one. and have only as the newspaper
of the German progressives in New York
John Most's Frieheit.
This information was impaired to q re-
porter Of the New York Sunday News by n
prominent but badly broker up socialist,
who believed that should all this come
about the sun and tho moon might just as
we'll stop illuminat ng this earth.
when these particulars first came to
u.s. said this red-fiag leader, we could not
believe it credible that the International
would dare attempt any rash proceedings.
but there is no doubt of these being their
S,karkiopa frho nnovrbistu hovo CNap1v
unmarked their batteries upon us since
John Most was lately, upon the court of
appeals rendering its decision, sent to the
penitentiasy to serve out his time for in
csndiary talk. What has that to DO with
it, you ask? You ought to know that for
years past the anarchists have thwarted
with interest, their ideas being very dis
similar to ours and interfering with the
agitation we have been doing in New York
for nearly twenty years.
anarchy believes in the propaganda of
deed or revolution by arms and dynamite.
trial organization, or the ballot ratherthan
the bullet. In the words recsntly of Prof.
Daniel Dc Leon as 10 Most's followers:
They entertain for us an inveterate hatred,
imputing our deliberations and peaceful
methods to cowardice. On the other hand
VIC lSOl SlChbly ouuldSVu up VAOlA aVAhko
which we consider delay the movement?
Now, Immediately upon Most being put in
to a striped suit, a mass netting was held
at the Cooper Union to sympathize with
the blatant disturber. TIL socialists were
conspicuous by their absence, to the annoy
anco Of the anarchists who always. al
though hating our people, want us to
identify ourselves with their disorderly
movement.
Then they swore dire v%eneeance," con
.naorso tbs action of tho California group,
which consists Of August Delabnr, who was
chairman of this Most meeting, and Henry
Weissmann and w. G. Owen, who were
speakers at it, when you consider that
Weissmann out-Mosted Most in his FIRE
excited men to con ace arming them
selves with rifles, fc. othing could settle
the labor question but actual wal. Such
rabid shouting as that was incendiary, and
of course We could not tolerate it or the
men using it. Then at that meeting they
formed a Free Speech Defense Fund COM
mittee. Hero again the socialists refused
aid. Next the clique went to work to have
Delabar, who is a state organizer Of the
American Federation of Labor, sent to the
Brussels international Labor congress as
the delegate of the United Central Labor
federation of New York, Brooklyn and
Hudson county. Owing to another intern
perate speech of Weissmann and Delabar's
coquetting with the anarchists, he was de-
feated by a majority of over two to one by
George McVey of the Pianomakers union,
and q native American to boot.
This happened at the United Fedora
TONS joint meeting of the 18th inst. and
since then We have been in turmoil. Owen
opened the ball at the American sections
agitation meeting. at Cooper Union, last
Friday wesk, criticising, sneering at. and
pitching generally into the socialistic labor
patty, because it would not endo' SO his tree
love theories, among other things. Then.
under the insriration of the other two Cal
%lfornians, Delabar and Weissmann, a mass
meeting of seventeen nnRrchistio %confec-
TONERS passed all kinds of terrible resolu-
tions against the United Central Labor fed
erations, daring to send Lucien Saniel. edi-
tor OF the People, as q second delegate to
Brussels, even if it did not cost thema cent,
rs his expenses would be paid by the social
lstlc labor party. .
"Wsissmann, acting as Most's successor
end on behalf of the Confectioners' union
No. Z, from which he has been illegally
elected a delegate, not being n member of j.
sufficiently long, opened his guns upon the
soo1al's,s lat Sunday" their advocate pro-
ceeded. "But his powder missed tiie, Just
as other little mrnoeuyras of his had done
IN California, and the confectionery lesolu-
tlons got into the soup, or rather were
snmmarily laid upon the table by the Now
York Central Labor federation. Doubt
less tneY Will be brought up again ut the
next Meeting OF the joint federations. The
mass meeting of seventeen confectioners
also wanted the American Federation OF
B~ookkeerers and Clerks ii ed out of the
Central Labor federation, but "a that is a
national trades union of tho American Fed
Grafton of Labor, | think the bakers have
cooked n cake rather bigger than thev can
swallow. The crime of tho book
keepers was that they voted for
Saniel, aud their delegates sup
ported MONEY! and helred to defeat Dolnbar.
Besides. their organization has from time
to time furnished the corresponding. record
ing and financial secretaries to the g. l.. F.,
as well as being stray socialists. 40 they
have been suppressed, says would-be Boss
Weissmann.
But the pria cipnl nnarchistio efforts are
being directed against our newspapers the
socialist continued. Here again. these re-
cent arrivals from the Pacific slope have not
cut their eye teeth AZ to New York. The
Nolkszeitung is a cooperative newspaper,
and owned by workinGmen. For too many
long years have they supported it to permit
1t to be destroyed by. outsiders. or course,
they will deny this to be their intention, but
we have positive info nation TINT IN an
hrchlstio conspiracy is OH foot, and that the
Jobs arc mt uD mt MiitZip's hall nv iptar.