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COST our store i, we will ITS. ool Casso- price $12. t. Otlxer iu«l see. ) ALL m , :IERS,” KES3 B t . N. Y, :mind the eir cjlcula- ’ertiiroir of juanlity of JTerBment, patriotic, :etr wealth lives, they • to Caaada ?y that will istralion to li 00 oapi- db I value, ted States id of hard i prevailed luntry was me. Why t for the I were the 1 , perhaps. The soil mere bins vfaeat, and aded down children in while the Jersey tfais ? Be- excbange ere was a fen billion il into oDr any good, over-pro of capsta.1. Hot nn in’ mooey of you wish sounda of iney,-theD, r value is and that alth of the ■f Oiyiliza- :Ty library was once er are not :ntutive of 0 vnlue to ita riches, prime .im- als fell to old time- letic class, ittoreluse d, b a t they itbere who 1 is equiva- irkingman . 0 work for itarve. If ; we claim cn against d any one lad a light a right to led ? Did r the Gov- to men to ) the front on a basis willingly if ng to the leir crops ae-third to ICY. VOL, I, NLMBEE 3. TROY, N. Y., MAY 1 8 8 6 . PRICE 3 CENTS, THE MONEYLESS MAN. ITiUsh’sntliulpo m was coTpowd yean 6y Henry Stanton, MarySTllle, Kw-taclcy.] lUce on UiY laoe ot the et Where bosoms to klndcicse and mercy will heave, wretched ihall ssic and A id the poor reoeivet IS there 10 place Q where akBOCktrom WlU hrlDg a kind angel» op’n the door?; wide w o rn w. Go look In the h s 'l where the chshdll' r light, ts splendor the dirkneee ol night; Where the rich haDgiDgTDgTtlvet Drive 9 off with Its splendor th e 4? rkneee in shadowy told sweeps grtctlolly down, with Its iiimm'ngs o! And mirrors of sllvvr t ike up a id renew, In locgU g if'd vistas the wilderirg vlsw; , Go there in patches, a id fled if you can A wei^waUcg smile (or the moneyless min. Go looklnyeur church o£ the c’oud rsachlcg Which gives h'.ck w thn bua tU aime Uwk o t are. Wncra the erenee and colnm's are gorgeous A id the walls seems as pure asa sculvlthout GO down the losg m e —seethe neb a id the great, II the pomp and the pride ol their wor dly estate Walk down In your p.tehee, and And t( yon car, Who opsns a pew lor the moieyl ss man. Wiihtheecsleo wh-i^ia law wrigheth equity Where he (ruwis on the w eakacdstailesonthe Btr<»g, - ■ And poniautsthe right while he justlflee wrong, W heis jurors their Lpsoa the B.ble have laid, Any law fur t le case of a moheyl.se man. Go l2ok in the bihks whi rv'm°minon has sold B'.Bhuucrtasaiio thousaidsoi alvei a id goi W heiesaie from the h a tds of the starvUg ai Lies pdeupoo pile ot the guttf n n g ore; Walk up to tie coulter—oh, there you may sta Till your Umbe have grown old a id yuurbalr hi tnr.ied gray, And yoh’.i hnd atth'e Withmooey toiendtoamoneyiesB a . yoh’.i hnd a t th bank not one of the clah len go to yoi i6 wife who mr 107.1—BO raven has led ilorg for her bread; Iklssthe death frost Ips ot the aog 1 yonr poverty lo s t - la youragnoy upward logcd, hasHullirfd lolo rg for her bread E n e n down by her pallet and 1 Prom me )li Then tu r n : And bless, while It e m 't's you, only speeia doubt; bar LABGR NOTES. R ivdulionis tbeworkof tbe unknown. Call it good or bad, as you yewn towards the future or tbe p ast.—Victer Hugo. Work ia kept from women in theory. only to be more harshly and elumsil.y iu- fllcled in practice. The brakemen who were discharged during the strike because they considered it dangerous to ^ out on their runs, have been blftcklisled on ovciy nidtoad in the cf untry in the ‘‘interests of a higher order of -ciViHiatiou.” There is net a cow.irdly mom poly sheet in the aonntry tl;at will denounce this inf imour out/ige. Coinprtition gluts markets enableo the ri’Ti to fake advantage of the necessities ol the poor, makes each man snatch the bread out of his neighbor’s mouth, con verts a nation of brethern into a mass of hostile, is< lated units and finally involves capitalists and laborers in one ccunmon ruin.—Grey, The working class is the only elans which is not a class. I t is the nation. It repiesents, so to s-peak, the body aa a whole, of which the other classes are .1 organs. These organs, no re 'great ahd iadisbens^le functions, but for more purposes o f gov- prom, nt the state consists of the vast la- boriug majority. Its welfare ildpends on what their lives are like. Before the Curtail labor invi« igating commilteeal St. Louis, Monday, a large number of employes of the Mist luri Pa- oifle railway company’s shops testified that n o t only had the March, 1886 agree ment been broken, but that its provisions had in several instances not even been put into effect. Eorly school children were killed or injured b y falling timbers a t Kansas City during the storm of Wednesday. TLe tower o n the building had been con demned twice b y the authorities, and the school board paid no attention to the warning whatever. John Burke, who has been employed in the Missouri Pacific stock yards, was one of th ^ wituesses called before the Curtin committee. He stated that be received $40 p e r mouth, frequently work ed twenty-four hours a day, and had no fault to find with his treatment. It strikes the writer that a man as obliging as Burke should experience no difficulty in retaining his position, bat he won an honorable discharge for himself all the Ari.itration bills are now before the Now York and Virginia fegislatiires. There are five hundred Knights of Labor employed in the New York post- /)ffice, The flag is in danger 1 Jav Gould is a firm believer in the doctrines of the anarchists, a t least he is an advocate of the blacklist, and if that cowardly weapon of oppressors will not transform a good citisen into a howling anarchist nothing will. A pugnacious employe of the Missouri Pacific railroad company sent wo d to to the Labor Union office [Sedalia, Mo.} a shoit time ago saying that be contem plated paying it a visit, and ‘ ‘Mood must flow.” If the sanguinary cuss will name his day they will make a feeble effort to give him a royal reception. Senatos WDliam Mahone announces himself in favor of the eight-hour move ment, and heariily endorses the Knights of Labor. William is an adroit politi cian,and there is no record of a politician ever having been accused of telling the W hat Is tbe ube of telling a man to go to the countiy and try farming, wuen all the land has been stolen by roilroadsaod foreign land grabbers ? Land Commis sioner Sp.^rks says that the railroads cor- pora'ions of the country haveillegally ac- quired two hundred millions of acres (a territory four times as large as the state of Indiana) of the finest lands in the Jayhawker Amhouy, of the Leaven worth Times, calls for the enactment of laws for the protection of “honest non. union labor.” Anthony pioteels his n on union employesby forcing them to work at a low rate o f wages, and drives them out o f h is office with oaths and horrid imprecations if they enter a protest against his iron-handed oppression. D. R. .An thony ! Why, he has been kicked and MEDITATIONS OF A WORKER. P ublishers o f t h e CY arios :— Permit me to welcome y our new enter prise, and wish it a ll the success which such a paper deserves. May its aims and its achievements be not only to enlighten the public in regard to the objects of our order, but to teach Knigbts themselves the true meaning of Knighthood; to im press upon them the dignify of labor; to show them that the ren. edy for many of the evils from which they suffer 51 cb largely in’ their own hands; to remind them that as workingmen and citizens they have duties and obligations as well as rights and piivileg''S; and to'prove to them that in union there is strength. Well, a successful beginuiug has been made, here In Troy, as well as in other cities, toward the shortening of the hours o f labor. This preliminary skirm ish has been an easier one than I myself anticipated, and it gives us rei'son to hope have additional time to spend ii 'saloons. Now, then, one two things to be said on this point. Is no one’s husiness where oi uffed b; by every decent mao in Leaven- Father O’Leary, editor of the Catholic World, and rector at De Sota, testified before the congressional committee that a largo majority of the strikers were good honest men, and church members. He saw that the company was doing its ut most to crush the Koigbts of Labor, using uuscTupuloiis means to accomplish their ends. Father O'Leary is thorough ly conversant with all the facts m the case, and doee'nt hesitate to place the blame where it rigbilnlly belongs, The demands made during the past moi.th on the bnreau of employment at Castle Gaiden for labordis are altogether beyond its power to meet, The orders come from all over the country and l a - ' cludeevety class ofinduslry.—NewTorfc News. W ith 800,000 workipgmen out of’ employment in this country, the leading ................. n their power the lide of immigrant labdr' pouring in. Aiciibisbop Feehan of Chicago s a p “The Knights of Labor are not one' of the societies condemned b y the church. They have nothing in view that \wiil in- • fere with the welfare, civiT or rdigioils, the individual dr s'oaiety. If there been bloodshed in any place aecom- .nying the existing strikes it'has rather been caused by' the starvation wages given by monopolists than the malice or ill-will of workingmen. The Knights of Labor, ds a society, I do not believe are responribre f t ' this shedding of blood. The workingman has a right to receive just compensation for his labor; as much lopolist so ' as the wealthy fruit from i has to look for capital. It is well known that capitalists v^ould continue to give almost starvation wages to mechanics laborerers if such unions as the Koighta of Labor did n ot combel them by peace ful persistent demands to give an amount necessaiy for the support of themselves and their families. I am willing to pub lish my views on this capitsl-iabor ques tion so far as they relate to better pay for the workingman. And because the society known as the Knights of Labor has but this one object, the securing better wages for the toil of its membei and because it does not interfere the religious belief e f its members nor as sume the position of a religious teacher, and lor the furrher reason tbvt i t has no religious ceremony in its ritual, the church has n ot end does n ot forbid Cath olics from joining i t ” ipated, and it gives as rei'son to tliat the victory, when the general en gagement begins, will be quickly won, Employers are angry, of course. They lave bad things all their own wsj ODg, that it teems to them an unwarn ible presumption that a workingman should ask for anyany pri'viiegesi'' in life save pr toilingoiling lee opp<pposition movement does not all comeome fromrom the privilege of t from muming till night that another may reap the reward. Rut strange to say, th o to this c f eu ;e-worker, and I beard a Knight at that, say tl hood the world has ever seen—to prove to the world that reason, not force, is the wisest law with which to move the world. L’.t these men be dealt with as the law directs, but n ot in a vengeful spirit. Let us look to the p ^ t and see what has de veloped the spirit c f lawlessness iuithcpi- Long continues of oppression and degra daiioD, which from generation to genera tion has crushed out every spark of true manhood, and made them consoious only of pain and injustice, has so warped tbcir natures that they are iiicspable of clear vision or of unbiased ro u s ting. 'We cannot make over men in a mibate. They are what they have b een made by a cruel past. Let us remember this ana prove our personal supeiiority, and the superiority of our antecidenis, by dealing with them wisely and kindly, and patiently. They are to be pitied as well as blamed, just as we pity and make al lowance for the misconduct of those who are ill or who are suffering physical agony. So believes the U nknown K n ight . VAN WYCK ON GOULD. Senator 'Van Wyefc is one of the brightest men In congress. He has a number of ideas, original ones too, on whatever question comes before the sen ate, and he m'anages once in a while to deliver a speech which attracts attention. The other day the interstate commere bill was under discussion when Seuator wage-worker, and a |''''yok rose and said that the basis that thosc men who j railroad charges was “all that the were asking for two hours more of leisure j bear,” and that, although day, only wanted them that they m ight business depresrion prevailed, all btan- Idltional time to spend in the beer ^nes of trade must be drawn upon by the man cboos.-s to spend these two hours, a u d it has no bearing whatever on the argument between capital and labor. Secondly, it is not true. There are many men to whom it will give addition al time with th a r families; others who will welcome the increased opportunity for studies or for some favorable pursuit; and btiU others who will employ it wisely railroads in order that dividends may be paid on watered stock. Tne price of grain, beef, etc., might fall one-half, but raOroad charges remain unaffected. Senator Van 'Wyck said that the people were not demanding the commission feature of the bill although the corpora tions were. Railroad and telegrapbrates west of the Missouri river were about four times greater than rates east of the river. For years capital had been or. ganized, unscrnpulous and rapacious, and well m physical exercise. ’ Thirdly i moving as Gould had moved, according drunkenness will be decreased in th e : bis sworn testimony, and as Hunting- same proportion as we lessen the hours top, according to his own written history, of labor. One prolific cause of d n n k ; bad moved ou state legislatures, the among working men in the state of utter the courts and congress, unblushingly exhaustion in which so many find them -! purchasing judges and legislators. But ing 1 . for stimulants. Statistics show that in- wrong. Could the nation be made to nng ju( selvesafter ten Lours ot continued and ' ^be crisis was coming. There was a fatiguing labor, and which seems to call repressible conflict betweeu right and at in. wrong. Could the nation b e made to temperance thrives most among those believe that th.e$4,(Kl0,000,00Oof watered whose hours of labor a re the longest and stock and bonds were honest property de- who are paid the least. Fourthly and serving protoctioa from courts or legisla- or that.at thehe $300,000,000300,000,000 clainlaimed t $ c by Gould were honestly obtained ? The Gould’s recital, just as a boy would be by ; reading the exploits of Jack, the Giant ’ Killer, or Kidd, the Pirate. Modesty in- ' duced Gould to refrain from telling one feature of the history of his time, said the | senator. At Kansas City he was once | overtaken with another religious spasm ; and wrestled a second time in prayer, j telling the people how happy he was and ; that he wanted no more money. He had purchased the Miasoiui Pacific only for the good of mankind and should use It only for the glory of God and the ben-fit of the people. As he w.is con templating another raid he felt the neces sity of another instalment of divine grace, so he went “ short” on the prom- ise by pretending that hs would not benefit himself by the blessing. It was to be hoped he would not indnlge in a tjii'd prayer ouearth. Should be in the end secure an entrance into the New J e rusalem he would be soon conspiring there, from force of habit, to buy a rail road, and when be snonld have torn up the shining avenues the angels could not restrain him from stealing toe golden pavemeuts- TO THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR OF AMERICA. 'W atebtoed , N.Y., April 29, 1886. To THE K nig h t s of L abor of A merica : T hermometer of C ivilization D aily W age T hermometer . ... ford, N. Y,, has been considering tJ propriety of organizing in Waterford National K. of L. Co-operative Lim Collar aad Cuff Manufactory. Situated, as we are, on the Hudson river, almost directly opposite Troy, N. Y., the great headquarters of this indus try, ahd our assembly being attached lo D. A. 68, of Troy, N, Y., and being strongly urged to said action by D. A.68; and also being assured, after a careful that such iuduatry in this irive and prove helpful to ot labor, and furnish employ- those in need, we have therefore or^nized the National K. of L. Co-opa- ratiye Linen Collar and Cuff Company, of Waterford, N. Y., on a basis of tflS.OOO capital to be taken in shares of $2.50 each. \We propose that the profits aris ing from this enterpr.se shall first pay 6' percent, on the paid up co ital atock, and the remainder shall be divided be tween labor and the oo-oper.rtive fond of the General Assembly. Thus, while help- or co-ojft ration. — a Lite and a sup and place tolav toobead. Generally lots ot CQlldren. — Contractors'WAges. Uving -. - in gangs No n emta ^Fremng point. CMneese As the hour ot labor corneaI i etsr goes up-—Boston Globe. down the thermom- ASSOCIATED LABO C incinnati , May 17, 1686. The eight-hour question, or strike, Las been a success in Cincinnati, notwith* standing the fact that 4,000 men are still but with every prospect of a settle- is probably not one who cares whether it u j «uuju liuucouj uuwuuou . -j be true' or not,’ t r who would not be per- owners c f these fictions should accord ottGofio.r *i,Qf - decent treatment to the remainder of ! uemhir We are auxiuus to commence n tutm g b v J u n o 1st, and invoke fluence and help of all truh kni{ghts. lastly, of all who use this argument there tures, _ . . _ __________ .'nesily request: fectly satisfied' th a t -the workingmen' treatment to the remainder of ! semijly respond to our appeal by k n i to iterpiise. We Lditional penny fence d ividends and interest, j how w s propose raising the money . T.ilk like this coming from smember o f I First—The members o f Uie assemblies saloon if it only put in their own pockets. I t seems which labor at 7 30 and best. Beginning a half hour later and prolonging -work Until 5, really gives a m an'but'a single additional hour in the people in congres’s, but upon day, since the morning hour can scarcely themselves. When the conviction h be used to advantage. The 7.30 rule forced itself u p n , a man like Van W jc upon a nian .8 interest t< to his work, and bis wife a little more gosj: tirhe for rest before preparing the mom- this country hfi? -..-.i.f i.~ .... Mbute to a gang allows him a little more leisure iu getting that is to h is interest to proclaim the little more gospel that . proJuqtive industry^ in • gang ofi;o of the nuiuddle years been • paying 'er barns worse n ages, is it not J meal; and at night he has an btoken hour ,and a half. Another way in than those which it seems to me the matter might time for the people,to risem theirmight be satisfactorily adjusted is tf> commence and proclaim that the day to corporate w o rkotT in the summer and S in the ' power shall end, and the rights-of Amer- winter. ' ican freedom be restored. Is it too late in the day to say a few ' Continuing his remarks on the bill words in reference to the recent outbreak ! Senator Van Wyck said thot the senpte ofAnarchists in Chicago? I hardly need ' could take an example from Jay Gould, assure an enlightened public that this The senate committee on education and ontbreak had nothing to do with th e ; had industriously obtained from present uprising of labor throughout the ^ Ihct worthy a complete history erf his A small band of revolutionists ; fife, probably for the country. and political malcontents from Europe are alone connecti'd with it. But there is a lesson involved in the matter if we but seek for it. I heard a man say that if h e had the power, he would torture every one of these rioters to death, and I thought to myself as I heard him say it, that he was manifesting the same spirit as they, and proving himself not one whit better. TTiey disapproved of certain things, and resorted to violence and murder to m a u if^t their disapproval, while this man, their critic and con- de^ner, would do. no less. I t is the mission of the Knighthood of the nine teenth century—the worthiest Knight- amitte-mittee of America to imitate. The com bad trem blingly and beseechingly implored him to ^ v e him an account of bis daring ex ploits, and he unblushingly consented. Early in life, when hard pressed for din ner, he adopted bis sister’s method and went behind the blacksmith shop to pray. The blessing came m great measure. In a few years the tanning bsniness in which he was engaged was in financial stress so overwhelming that his partner was driven to suicide, while be himself bought a railroad. The wrong partner had committed suicide. The senator remarked that the com mittee was dazed by listening to Jay e especially desire that each sssem 1 a body shall take a t least one share. . .We hope that you will not delay matter one week, but act n 'Send your sifoscripiions postal order T . . by check or ;al order for thq amount .to.Edward Van Kleeck, Water/orU, N. Y.. who will lediately issue to you certificate of stock iqr the same, N. B.-l—Employees lo work eigbt.hours with full pay in this shop. BOYCOTT LIST The Knights of L 'borhava resolved to boycott, the following firms: New York Tribune. Brennan & ’White, shoemakers, Wil liamsburg, N. T. Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company, Perkomen, itson, hat manufacturer menufacturers, Milford, Mass. Mutual Aseocla- imore canned goods pnt up m cans made John B. Stet Philadelphia, Pa. Colburn •& Fuller, shoe Derby Depot, N .H ., and Help the Can Makers’ tiou by buying no Baltic except such as are by che association, Spinney & Co., shoe manufacturers, Norway, Maine. Twenty-five thousand men men are .now working b ut eight hours a day in 8t, Louis. The wage-workers of the fiffure great, crovraed themselves with glory. out, b ut with every prospect of i ment favorable to the s trikeri The fur niture workets p resent the largest num ber of the trades that have not yet been successful, but they are firm. The safe . workers arc the next largest number of men that a re still idle, but they have rea sons to believe that they will be victor ious. The settlement in most trad » has been effected, by concession on both sides. Some trades receive ten hours’ pay for mno hours’ work; others receive un advance of from 10 to 20 per cent, for ten hours’ work; while others wiil work but eight hours for eight hours' pay on the ten hour schedule of remiiDcration. The street hands employed b y coLliact- ors who ate paving -the streets with’ granite, h-tve been beaten toisome extent by not; being permitted to argue the qnes- - > tiOD of fairness witn those who took. ' • their places, tiie result of - which will be . '• that the work on the streets will be d o se •' in a manner that the swanite pavements ' ’Will b e * feilute ha this city.; Many” of pkvera. who have ,thus lost their work • have done little, during,., the pact two years, and of course this action of the ”• bonlractors will fall.heavily upon'them. - -• • OLD FACES IN NEW MASKS. ’ .- There i s * swarm, o f-bogus “ friends” ” hovering arpund this r a w army of -labor ' just DOW. 'We see shams and shysters ’ who have for years been the enemy’s scavengers, shifting aides, -iid, with ' shiney faces, popping up for “leaders”’ of the untemfled host of wage-workers; We see than delivering hifaiilting “ora-' tions” amid the cheers of the grsenhoms, aad stalking around as though they were - on their native heath. If these fellows were really converted, or if they had any sincerity about (hem or if they had ever sat for five minutes ou the stool o f repentance, we should fire a salute on their appearance in our camp. We welcome every honest recruit to the ranks, and do not scan his grain too closely, if he gives promise ot good ser- We were not refernng to that kind, but to the shifty humbugs who begin to suspect wbicii way the winds blowing. There are scores of them. They are scores of them. They are ready to talk with both sides of tbeir mouth, and to take advantage of every turn of the weather-cock. They ate poor leaders, and it is dangerous to}take their double- tongued adviees, or to put them where they have a chance of selling out.
