, 1892-03-12
NEW YORK NOTES.
A1Arb" Jots Down n Few Points on
Things In the Big Metropolis
ISneclal CnrrasnondennA

u IN ~ oAk "choPSA
Especial Correspondence.l
The Socislistic Labor party of New
York is constantly in a row with some
branch Of organized labor or decorating
its wounds made by limbs torn from its
own body. The latest example of the
latter is manifest in the give and take
humping which is going on between
the leaders of the party and the members
lately expelled. Miss Ida Van Etten.
w. G. Owen and three others who were
recently expelled from the American
section" have issued a pamphlet round
~ criticising the methods adopted by
the party managers. The pamphlet
charges that the Socialistic Labor party
In New York has been run by narrow
minded cranks, who have not the wis
dom to conduct an educational move
ment, which is what socialism is II any
thing.
These foolish managers have antago-
nized the great trades union army by
attempting to run it instead of attending
strictly to the business of ~propagating
sound, economic doctrine and leaving
the unions to regulate trade matters,
which is their business and not the bust
ness Of anybody else. By their course,
says the pamphlet, the managers Of the
Socialistic Labor party have driven out Of
the party men of education and fnf1u-
ence, and that there isn't any such thing
as an agitation on American lines to
reach Americans, and that the party is
losing rather than gaining in strength.
The authors of the pamphlet have or
ganized a rival to the S~ocialistic Labor
party, calling it "The Socialist League
of America"
Attention is again being called to the
compulsory education law in New York,
and the "child problem" Of New York
city is under discussion. A peculiarly
exasperating state of affairs in connec-
ton with education is made known by
the statement that in this wealthy me-
tropolis there are nearly 100 900 chill
dren of the school age for whom there
are no school accommodations; and
these are the figures after allowing for
the filing Of every schoolroom to the
legal limit. Comment is unnecessary.
In the Investigation of the mai rob
berry which occurred recently on one
Of the Hoboken ferries it was learned
that the drivers of the wagons from
which the bags of mail were taken re-
ceived the muniicent salary of seven
dollars per week for twelve hours daily
work. The government official who is
supposed to have charge of this depart
ment says, 1--WE let the contract for
csrting the mail to the lowest bidder,
and it is non of our business what
wages they pay their drivers"
General Hustled, member of the New
York legislature, has written his name
indelibly upon the memory tablets Of
New York's organized workers. In the
discussion at Albany the other day ON
the Pinkerton bill, the general became
so bitter in his opposition to the meas
ure, probably actuated by zeal in the in
terests of his employers, that he lost his
head. He said ''the professional work
ingman Is a professional thief" and by
professional workingman" he gave
everybody to understand he meant Off
Gals of labor organizations. The general
vas badly beaten at Albany, but moth
ing like he will be showed under IL he
eve again pops his head up where labor
ing men go to the polls. JARB.
New York City.