Show I j LABOR TROUBLES j The relations oflabor and capital and I I luwvthey should be adjusted are grave I important questions questions that have never been fatisfuctorily answered I itl and probably never will bo The question of the tru relation of labor to capital extends ex-tends itself throughout the whole social system it is i a question which recurs 11 more often than any other and although al-though at times it presents itself in a new form there arc still attaching to j H 4 the same old difficulties Trades un I ions have much ameliorated the condition condi-tion of the working classes hut they have i grown to such proportions and have bet ii be-t come feo powerful that they have changed q l their character of protector to that of I dictator they have become a danger to L the State and a menace to the working ii classes They issue their orders as supreme 1 su-preme mandates and what is more they enforce obedience to them Protective labor associations are totally different l from what they were originally and today to-day they are very much tinged with the I the theories of Socialists and Anarchists I in fact it is almost an impossibility for any considerable number of workmen to assemble to consider and protest their I i grievances without degenerating into apolitical I a-political meeting of the anarchist type I Labor troubles in Denver have developed the presence of Dynamiters in that place not merely thuoratical Dynamiters who d l I make long harangues but practical ones j who place dynamite upon the railroad I track to destroy not merely the property I j of railroad companies hut to destroy the 1 lives of the traveling public Such things 1 are growing instead of decreasing Only so lately as the 11th inst there was an Immense meeting in Cleveland Ohio of Dynamiters Socialists and all that class of persons who may be designated desig-nated as the organized enemies of organized organ-ized society At this meeting there was j a transparency bearing this revolutionary revolution-ary motto Under the stars and stripes I we starve under the red flag we live This meeting MS hi Lll in theoratorimn I of Monum nal Park tlu occasion beiti I to express sympathy tor William J Gor such a leading Dynamiter of Jleveland on his release fron jail The first speaker I was August Spies the editor of a German Socialist paper published in Chicago The following extracts from Spies speech will plainly indicate the nature of it You know that in this city there are such vampires as you will find everywhere every-where individuals who devour the workingmen work-ingmen beasts who suck the blood of the toilers who have no conscience and who openly declare that men are cattle 4 It is a notorious fact that the wage workers are being robbed and that the capital accumulating in the palaces on your avenues in the banks warehouses ware-houses and stores is unpaid labor and therefore bold robbery and those who hold it will never think of delivering itt it-t you unless you take it by force Is not that robbery If you have a different differ-ent definition of the word you may name it Ihave none At this point Spies was interrupted by the arrival of a procession composed of fomc hundreds of strikers headed by Gorsuch Mrs Gorsuch was carrying the red flag of the Commune and another woman bore the stars and stripes The following extracts from his speech will suffice to show its nature The first extract ex-tract is a repetition of his Nowberg speech for which he was placed in jail In the days of the revolution would have been no crime to hang King George and according to the same theory it vould not be wrong to catch the Vander hilts the Goulds the Chisholins and hang them They tell me I advised the people to use the sword and guns Let me ask you which is better to have a bayonet or minnie ball through your heart use dynamite or starve I would prefer the other because it hurts more to starve to death than to be blown up by a little thing about the size of an orange More than eighteen hundred yetrs ago Christ advised the people to be free to bo anarchists and communists for that they nailed him tothe cross Hjra in this di3tii y took an exponent of anarchism and tried to nail him to the cross but friends stepped infriends whom I had never met beforethey came to my rescue res-cue furnished me with legal talent that prevented the trinity of rent profit and interest to nail me to the cross and when the trinity is sent down to everlasting jjiell see that t is i never againv resurrected resurrect-ed He ended 1 his spech with this advice Join the wo kingmens union and fifty of us anarchists can tell the down Hrodflen workingmtn to tto to their homes save themselves from the clubs from the Winchester rifles from the Gatling gun and these fifty men can see what efficacy there is in the little thing about the size of an orange When he had finished Spies arose again and gave the assembled multitude this advice Instead of spending your little 3cent pieces for ber Isave them until you have gathered sufficient suffi-cient to arm yourselves against your oppressors I I op-pressors Buy rifles and if you cannot I aflord to lay out 25 for a pun save up 25 I cents for dynamite During tho course of his speech Gor Hiich spoke and argued against trades unionism saying that any man who does not because ho cannot pay his dues regularly reg-ularly is put down as a scab and fought harder than the capitalists The present trouble on the Wabash system will likely develop some such meetings as theone at Cleveland and the oilow ing order from tho General Executive I I jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj t I I Board of the Knights of Labor goes to show that what we have said about trades unions and their mandates is true OFFICE SEOBETABY AND TnEAsmuill sT Louis Mo August 181S85To all whom it may concern greeting Owing to the persistent per-sistent fight of the Wabash Company against the Knights of Labor the General Executive Execu-tive Board deem it ndvisame to issue the following order to all Assemblies on the I Union Pacific Railway and Goulds southern system I To all Assemblies on the above lines of I I Railway All Knights of Labor in the employ em-ploy of tho Union Pacific and its branches and Goulds southwest system or any other railroad must refuse to repair or handle in any way the Wabash rolling stock until further fur-ther orders from the General Executive Board and if this order is antagonized by the through any of its officials company ordered your executive committee is hereby ordered to call out all the Knights of Labor on the abovenamed system without further order By order of the General Executive Board FBEDEBICK TUBNEB General Secretary and Treasurer When labor associations can issue such mandates as these and know that they will be obeyed even though those who obey them may suffer more or less there is certainly danger ahead in America |