The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-20
GREAT RRJTAIN


The Scotch miners are fairly salts
fed with the vote on the eight hours
bill. By the time another Parlia.
ment assemblies the majority from
Scotland in favor of the bill will be-
three fOurths of the members.
The "Clarion" devotes a leading
article to showing up the meanness
and cOwardice of the British capitalist
press and the amount of talsehood
and SANDER it has perpetrated with
reference to the Socialist "cOnspir-
acy' at Wolsall. This paper says.
The fact of the case at Wolsall, if
we may accept them as facts upon
such weak evidence go to show that
a few ignorant and foolish men have
been duped and misled into the
manufacture of handgrenades for
use in Russia Or other foreign coun-
tries. This at the worst is all there
is of the terrible Wolsall "conspir-
acy." But the chance was a good
one for the INSCRIPTIONS hirelings
OF a corrupt press. The nefarious
plot at Nolsall was at once connected
with Socialism. A Newcastle organ
produced a false and scurrilous article
in which Socialism and Nihilism were
artfully mixed up together and in
which we were coolly told: owe, al
ready know enough to be entitled
to say that, whatever was the ex-
tent of the alleged plot, it has a
certain connection with Socialistic
movements and is stamped with
the Socialistic spirit"
Now everyone ought to know by
this time that Socialism and Mini
lism are not only distinct, but an
tagonistic. English Socialists do
not advocate violence or revolution,
much less the use Of dynamite, but
the capitalists on seeing the coming
success Of the working people are
doing all they can to discredit their
movements whether they take the
form Of Socialism, Trades Unionism.
or what not. The Anarchists whom
the London "Times' classes as ga
fraction OF the Criminal Glasses" are
small body in England but as far
from being what the "Times'' re-
presents them they are actually
regarded by advanced Socialists as
being to idealistic They are dis
cribed by Mr.. Sidney Webb in his
book on Socialism" as being too
good for this world. Their desire
is to abolish all laws not to estab-
fish a lawless conditions of society
but to secure universal freedom
brotherhood and peace.
GERMANY-experinced workingmen
say that the lack of employment
in the Baking Industries OF Germany
is now greater than has ever been
known. According to reliabI infor-
nation 1000 of the $500 Bakers
OF Berlin are out of work and there
is no immediate prospect of a change
for the better.
The Arbeiter Freund gives some
details OF the issue OF about 100
strikes in 1891. The result in II
OF them was favorable to the work
ers but some 81 ended in favor of
the employ ers. SO strikes were I'M
dertaken against a reduction of
wages and % were to obtain better
wages. The chief cause of the num-
erous defeats was the large number OF
"scabs." At Hamburg 5000 tobac-
co workers were locked out by the
employers in Rheinland and in West
phalia 1000 coal miners; at Erfurt
237 shoemakers. In some cases the
lockouts led to the creation OF coop
erative undertakings. Only in few
cases was the strike a general one.
10000 working people are out of
employmentin Vienna. This is near
] v one-fifth the number OF workers in
the Austrian capitol.
The. accounts of anarchist conspir-
acies which come from France, Spain.
England and elsewhere, increase both
in number and details intended to.
terrify that portion of the reading
public which is content to swallow
whole whatever fishy tales the CAPT.
taIistic press may see fit to publish.
1t is worthy OF note that this increase
grows with the approach of the LIST
of May. But why do not the powers
which originate these would-be blood
stories intrust their details
to somebody gifted with 3 lively i'm
agination who can give an air OF re-
ality to them? Deaths heads marked
in phosphorus on the door OF
lonely hut in a marsh with a couple
OF bombs in construction reposing
comfortably inside, robbers and MUIR
derers VINO kill themselves off by the
wholesale just in the nick of time!
These details smack too much OF the
dime novel. The police really ought
to engage some first-class literary
man and pay him well to construct
their plots for them.