Year: 1872

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Convict.


Those social tinkers, the InternNstionals.
having failed to revolutionize the relations Of
labor and capital, employed and employers.
and to control questions Of peace and war in
Europe. have brought their central oreaniza-
ton to this city. In default of acquiring any
decided influence in either of the capitals Of
the Old World where there are grievances tn
be redressed, and where the rights Of the in-
dividual are habitaally infringed for the adj
vantage of monopolies and privileged classes,
they seek to obtain power in this land Of
equal rights and universal protection. Whers
every citizen has vote and is eligible to- the
highest Office there is little need Of and small
encouragement for these philosophers, who only
talk of labor while they ask the workingmem
to support them. So, though the Centras
Council is transferred to New York, its opera
tions here have not caused the faintest ripple
upon the current of our daily life. Political
parties still arrange their tickets without ask
ing the aid or fearing the opposi-
ton of the new element, while labor
and capital make their bargains under the





mand, which worked satisfactorily before the
International was born and will CONTINUES
effective after it is dead It's federal council Of
dozen delegates meet, ventilate opinions and
rehearse oratory with as little effect as the
discussions of debating club Last Sunday
they enlightened each other with crudities
about crime in California, land division in
Morv md ~ o,I,;a of soh;
after which they came to their chief topic--an
impeachment of our law which punishes
crimes Of disorder and violence. One Cham
bers, carpenter, during strike few weeks
ago, went to a shop where fellow craftsman
was earning bread for his family Chambers
and his companions ordered him to drop the
saw. He saw fit to decline. The strikers
struck him. and, as q clinching argument,
Chambers shot him, saying that was the way
to serve those who dared to make their own
bargains and work for livelihood when the
trade union forbade it, Chambers was tried
last week, convicted and sent to State Prison
for seven years. This result the labor reforming
International decries, clamoring against tho
action of the judiciary as arbitrary and unjust.
huu IL dpp6hlS W Uuo ucAuuc0 IuuOKlub AACiA
who lend it an ear to raise fund for contest
ing the execution of the sentence. But the
intelligent workingmen of this free land have
too much sense to submit to the dictation of q
mob under the name of Trades Union They
know that each one of them has right to-
work on such terms as he is able to make,
without let or hindrance from his neighbors.
Individually or collectively Our laws, which
punish such a, high-handed outrage as Cham
bers was guilty Of, protect peaceful labor, and
the great body of the men whose daily toll
creates the, national prosperity rejoice in the
existence of such just laws and will sustain
their faithful execution. If the international
has not more profitable occupation here than
interfering with the protection of industrious
men against the coercive violence Of mob it
had best emigrate to New Caledonia or JUAN
Fernandez.