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VOL, I. NUMBEB 51. TROT, N. Y., APRIL 16. 1887. PRICE 3 CENTS. BLAME IT OX MAGITKE. TH E >tOULI)ERS* STRIKE. m u o t ! imme- lif t the • assort- we will mis I liar. ; 9c. W ta te i} t their ’87. on any in > 0 , ers, iu ^ postponed I D A N A A T A LOSS TO SOLVE TH E PROIILEM. H e A llo w s , for Ouoe lu Hif, illH tory, th e T r u t h to bo T o ld A b o u t Zllm In H is O w n Paper. The boycott wLich is upon the New Turk Sun shows us bow fjr the feeliDg of fra'ernity exists between the greut “leadris of pub ic opinion. I semi yon encloseil an artii'le tiom the conUmporarj of the Sun. It is from tbe Times of to day and rei da as follows: We h.tve from time to time hnd differ* ences with c a r neighbor, the New York Bun. The views entertained by the Sun about ihe silver dollar, about the proti ct* ire turiS, about cinl service reform, and about the president are unlike our own views, anl we commonly't..ke great pleasure in events, tendencies, move ments a nd iriumpbs wtiiL-h cause tbe Run acute suffering. This is because in these things the Sun, as we regard it, is sinfui by n atnre aud made mote so by practice. But we think we know how to put aside aere differences of opinion with an es- teemtd neighbor—who, after all, is human, like tbe rest of us—and >f we diagr correctiy the emotion which agitates us as we write we are capable of feeling a just resentment toward a wreU-h who wonld covertly enter that neigubor's esteemed columns and levila him with his own type. This atrocious violation of tbe luw.s of decency and hospitality was committed in yesterday's issue of the Evening Sun, wbicb g>ve a piominent place upon i.s editorial page to the following verses : GOOD AUVICK TO APYShTISlBS. D elighted ate they who at end ot the day A re bltssi'd with tbe Evimng Run, Sun, N o paper on earth can equal its A nd yet it is only begun, gun, gu 1 t's newsy and bright and able to fight, 8 0 that it will never get left, left, left; A nd every line will eparcie and shine F rom penefU remarkaliiy deft, deft, defl, B Bad alway'', you know, by a million oi A dvertisements in it will piy, pay, U nrivalled by all, it being so small, D lalinctly ' ’ . . . This is an acrostic. The first letters of the hues, reading from the top down ward, mike up tbe wotds, ‘*D.ma is a Fraud,” a proposition wliicb is not only insulting bat true. And the indigna tion mounts higher as we reflect on tbe artfulness with wbicb this diabolic villain didhisw o ik. We have no doubt that be is an onuido contiibutor, but he knew the weak points of his victim. His man- nscript appealed at once to Mr. Dana’s love of poetry and to his yearning for ad veitisements. He knew that after a day ot weary gnawing at tbe Mugwump file, Mr. Dana turns to poetry for refrtsbment as tbe h art to the water brooks. He had scanned also the lean advertisiug columns of tbe Evening Ban. And be used bis knowledg'' loaid bis detestable purpose. His caitiff verses he composed with a akiU wbicb made certain ttieir accept ance and publication. They were not too good—in fact they were bad, very bad. But their imperfections befitted their commercial purpose and averted the eye of SDspicion. It was a contemptible and cowardly way of getting around apoelry- loving and unthrifty old gentleman. Ai d it was an affront to a newspaper editor which the press everywhere ought to de nounce in tbe severest terms. Believing this lo be tbe duty of tbe press, we hereby denounce the knave and his work, and extend to our neighbor, Mr. D jba onr lively sympathy and the assurance of our belief in the libelous statement which he has nnwittingly pub lished against liimself. In tlm ld a tin if Ills E m p loyes. Seven of the Bjllaton strikers were un lawfully arrested on the charge of nolaw- (ul assemblage and were promptly bailed. T h e ir rumor now is that (be arrest of forty other members of the or ganization is to follow, and Is evidently circulated for intimidation’s sake. Patrick Jones, Tom Bobinsou, Wm. Joue<, Frank Si-bermerhorn, John Oalligan and John J. Byan weie the first Tictims. la Detroit one thousand molders of the Devlin Local Assembly have deter- mined to strike on Monday next if the difficulty of their brethren iu Ht. Louis is not 8 tiled by that time, 'ihe obnoxiona moulds, it was resolved, should never bo touched by tbe men of Detroit. Tbe patterns have not y et been ordered there, but tbe Detroit Stove Company signifies its iutcDiiOQ of taking them in that event. I Ihe Executive Cjmmiltee of tbe Na- lioDjl Defensive As-ociatiou m<t Friday momirg. After an informal talk of some length it was decided thut an order .sbontd be is-ued to the members of tbe Defen sive Aeseciolion throughout the district to commence woik at oore cn tbe St. Louts patterns, which have already been [ placi d in each of tbe csUbliskments, I Ii is pretty certun that the c..nclusion I of tbe Devlin Association will resnlt in a [ strike involving fiom 6,500 to 8,000 men of Detroit. 'The patterns, it is reported, h:ive been already di-tiibnted smong the foundries in Cievelanl, Cincinmiti, Pitts- hurg, WbHeling, Zanesville, Louisville, Shdron, Pu., Akron, Hamilton and Marietta, Ohio and Lawreocel.urg, Ind. FROM IHIRT HENRY. Obv .-vatlons o f t b e W e e k F rom Our KeATular C o rreepondeut. A large rock fell on tbe D & U. fi. B. one day last week, which delayed the morning sleeper abont font hours. Edward Disobell had one of his fingers smashed last week so that it had to l>e N. Berman, grocer aud gia.ssware dealer, presented tbe K. of L. of this place with a lump for their rooms. TheK . of L. held their meetiug last week in the Opera House Hall for the fir»t time. After a'few needed improve ments are made we will have as flue a meeting ball and reading i.io a as there is in this section. I understand that W. C. Hathaway is cuntemplating the erection of a n w house on Church street, G. Btanelle paintsd a very striking and illustrated sign cn one of the bill bi'arda for the lecture. H. K. Fields of Willsborongh was here Monday. C. £. Craeg presented the assembly with a very fine clock this week. U makes a useful oruament for the reading Tbe E. of L. at Mineville had a dance hist Monday evening. About S175 was the result. Our Mineville Irienos alwsys lake a success of what they nndertake. Knights, let os ail do our duty aud tbe liquor traffic, many a lalioriug If tbe rum busin'ss is ever done away with, the oountr? will be better off, and the people hippier for it. This is the wish of an O bsbbvsk , E d u c a tlou In I>. A. -!». The school of D. A. 49 met last B in- day eveniog. Tbe aabject, ' ‘Does Labor Create All Wealth?’' called forth many bright thoughts on what is wealth. During tbe debate a young man not yet out of bis teens said; “ Nothing w wealth which does not contain the ele ment of n tilitr,” and proceeded to show tbe amount of utility coutained in a dia mond, proving that it was not as nsefnl as a pound of fi >ur wbicb would always allay banger. The illustration was veil received. He also rem irked that there was no sneb thing as naiural wealth. He said that should there be a gold miue in tho center of the earth and it had not been discovered, would nnyone call the undiscovered gold wealth. Where Bould be its value to society if it were not discovered! In conclusion, he said that tbe political eeonomi^ts of tbe past have defended the right of landlords 10 charge rent for natural wealth— to- called-and that we deny Ih-it right to do so. as God made the suhstratam upon which man exercises his physical powers. We were much idified and thought if each D. A. had such a seboul in which a nuificatioD of thought might be attained it would hasten tbe emancipation of the wage slave. R e d u c tion o f Tim e . The iron work era of the South Troy puddling forge, Bnrdens’ steam mill, have been bleared with a redaction of the hours of toil. What a blessing that seven ds}8 a week are no more—till they come aguin next fall, wbentbesummer is gone. Sunday work this tear is done away «ith earlier tban usual by three or four weeks. May seven working days stay awny for ever. They are not wanted where slavery must not exist. O uskbvbb . THE FULLER & WARUEX CO. ights. endeavor to h which is the A S ADVERTISEMENT W HICH W E GIVE THEM GRATUITOCSLT, A a t i p a t h y o f t h e P e o p le t o Hcab Goods W ill E v e n t u a lly O h llteratn a n E r st w h il e H iv e o f In d u s try. For The ci>non. Things are beginning to look black for the Fallen and Wairen Co. During tbe pa-t four months the firm has done noth ing in tbe way o f manaf-.tcturing or sell ing any of their goods. Their agents have been absulnu-ly driven from tbe pi .cee in which ihej formerly sold their wares. Letters are daily comixg m from all parts of tbe country encouraging ns to keep the fight going and that their united efforts would be put forth to de feat the contract-breaking firm. The firm of Fuller & Warren Co. are now resorting to every mean and contemptible act imaginsblo to mislead the public as to tbe true facts of tbe case between them and the Knights of Labor. Paid emis saries are now going tbrongbont the country denying that any trouble exists atpresei.tm tb d r works, while tbe or- ganizition of scabs which was formed by their instructions are issuing manifestos railing the boycott on their goods. Poor foois ! How much longer will they per sist in their foolishness t The condition of the firm at present can be more plain ly iilnstrated by the conduct of (he firm the past week when there was danger of Ihe big' water entering the molding shops, t .ey told the molders that if they wruld pLce tbe sand out of the reach of the water without pay tuey could do so, otherwise they would let the saod lay there until it would dry out of its own accord. Shame on a firm who claims to represent $11,000,000 to want men to work for nothing. How liberal they have hecc-me toward their employes. They are willing to allow them to work for noth ing, and tbe latest move now of the Ful ler A Warren Co. is to create a feeling among their employees in order to have them fight and thereby give them a rea son to close their works. But it won't work, for tbe people have bcKUD to un derstand their tactica But of this more anon. H azel . FROM BALIJTl'ON. ProKiN^a o f th o S t r ik e In UoorBo W e s t ’s M ill. The report that there was a riot in Ballston is untrue. Tbe strikers behave in a n orderiy manner and do not create any distorbance whatever, Tbe small boys of the village make a great deal of noise yel.iog and booting at tbe two men engaged lo lake the places ot tbe s rikers. Mr. West owns tbe two papers published in Saratoga and the true state ol sflaire is not made known to tbe publia In the first place Mr. West claims that the lowest wages paid in bis mills a r . four dollars and a half per week. This b not BO. A good many only get three dollars and a half per week. The fathers of tbe striking girls and boys were also dis charged by Mr. West. The girls and boys have the sympathy of most of the people in Balbton. What they ask is only Jiut. One dollar per day b all they ask. All tbe Saratoga cfficere are in BaUaion armed with revolvers to protect two men engaged by Mr. Westfrom being assaulted with snowballs in the Lands of little boys. It anyone gets h nrt it will be tbe small boy, for the strikers are orderly and well behaved. 8358. Iron and S t e e l M a rket. The domestic iron aud steel market for Ihe week presents no marked change. It b reported that large orders for r a ib are yet to come and an increased demand and prices are expected abroad. For the week ending April 8, 1887,No. 1 anthracite iron, ton, was quoted at$21@ $ 2 1 5 0 ; bar iron, reflat'd, pound. 22@25o. ; steel raib, ton, $39@$40. For tbe first quartet of 1887 tbe pro- dnciinn of pig iron in gross tons was: Charcoal, 127,662 ; actraehite, 539,432 ; bituminous, 1,600,952; total, 1,668,086. Tbe onilook for the entire trade is favor able for tbe whole sesson. F e a r less E x p o n e n t. “The Duwn,\ of Biughampton, b a t hand and b a bright and fearless expo nent of b b o r’e iaeues. THAT DAXGEHOUS BOILER T h e F e a r o f E x p losion C a u ses Tlie E m p loyes At T im 's to R u sh In to th e S treet. Far The Ciirlon. The boiler in Tim.s collar factory on Sixth street presents iia utterly worthleu condition so clearly to even the most ojrele^s observer, that one has cause to W'ondtr bow the employes can muster Ihe courage to hourly risk their livts in Its vicinity simply for tho tithe of wages they receive lor their arduous labor. Faclwy Inspector Franey was requested to attend to the matter immediately. lie did so, although Mr. Tim eviuced his displeasure at the visit in no oourteous manner. The inspectors findings in the factory show a ata'e of affairs thut indi cate anything but a proper stt- ulioo to duty by the boiler inspectora. For in stance, on Thursday Tim said to the fac tory inspector, legardiug tbe boiler, “I intend (o put in a new one, (ostiog $3,000 AS Boon as I can decide uoon the panicular make I sliall adopt, which will be shortly.” Now, if Tim by this state ment inadvertently ockuowledgcs the dangsruus conditioB of the boiler, why did the boiler inspector pronounce it all Quoting our interview with Mr- Froi we cite his words from memory. “In charge of the lioiter which has caused so much trouble there is an old man who siys be has been thirty-eight years an engineer. The lioiler was le--ted by the insurance company last Friday, and while tbe r ^ u la t writtm report has not been sent to tbe firm, they tell me that the boiler insptctor pronounced it ali right. I t oariics sixly-five pounds of steam ot tbe farthest. There is an old s< wer bach of Tim's to which the atten tion of yonr local board of bealth should he called. It is very b ad.” With this, Mr. Franey retired and our reporter proceeded to the neiabborbood of Tim’s, not withont considerable mis- ^ivinge, it most he con. eased, after bear ing these alarming and conflicting state ments. The reporter was nut long on the ground, however, before he became con vinced that the cause for alarm was well grounded. Questioning a coterie of the fema'o employes who had just hastily emerged from tbe factory with perturbed lot*-*, tney stated to our representative that the shriek of escaping steam from the boiler had so frtqnently terrorized them that it had been no uncommoa occurrence in tbe conseqneLt demoralizati-in to cause them to ruBU from the apparent danger in a body to the atre t. T he C larion de mands tbe fullest inveetigution in this matter, and will see that it is had. OCVEIER. BUS-SO-AMERICAK LEAGUE. Its FroteHt .tfraliiat tlic- O u trageou s T r e a ty Made by T h is C o u n try. There exists a Bahian-American league with headquarters at Stephens-Fenimore Institute, New York. One ol the alms of the League is the collection of funds fur the support of politicil prisoners and Si berian exiles iu Ru.ssiA. All Ru-aiae refugees outside of New York are invited to communic-ite with tbe headquarters ot the League to organize their locil branches and devise means to collect con tributions to (he funds. All Bussians ere invited to agitate a protest against t'^e raiifica'irm of a treaty of ex radiiion of poliiical prisoners, recenily conclude! bstween Ihe governments of the Uuited, States and Russia. T h o V a i lean's D e c is ion . BoMK. April 14.—Tbe congr< gation of the Holy Office has decided in favor of the tecogniiioD of the Knights oi L ibor in accordance with Caidiual Gibbon’s re Cardinal Gibbous will go to London on Mondny and remain there a fen days to consult with Cardinal Manning lions affecting the Knights oflAl Y. World. Kacuiriiizeu M erit. Tbe Bosses’ Journal of Amsterdam (some call it the Democrat) did T. B. McGuire honor in an issne of lost Tucs- dav by ordering the public to take off their hals to him. We are pleased to imcnd tbe Demoirat of autocrati\ ten- Irih* i > i ; r f e (. t l y i ’ x . a i x . A n Open L e t t e r to Mr. W e st o f liallKtoii. Y'our bombastic actions show that they a e dominated by the advice of that con temptible part of the Americana (gener ally free born ones) who bring so much disgr.ice on Ameiioans by their toadyism. In the first place your action in regard to the officers shows that yon have been .'S.^DO KOI! A BOODLE DOG! THE LOAFIXG LORILLARDH AND THEIR FOllJLEU. j ,ui i reading the reports of bow Jay Goitl and other scoundrels hdd got np rio and gut their names in the papers as having coDqceied tbe KuighU of Labor. | But you had other material here to deal h.,d to wiihdraw the and yon h id to wii ?, didn’t youou ? Yovou y ? Y are niw enter ing upon the third week of the strike, and tboogb you fill up entirely during the week, theyhey haveave madeade a - - t h m a splem >nd have tiught you a leai never will forget. But up dU’ing the week, les, they have the boycoit left, and tiiat ba» won more b ittles for the Knights Herald that you pud your help every Saturday, when you did nor, lor you hold back a week’s pay always, and in your country mills you pay but once a month. You state that your emploves took undue advantage of you in striking while you were away, when there was lo one HUihurized to raiee wag'-s. Did you not once slate that D. W. Nabee had full uiithority in the bag mill t Did you DOC stale in I be interview that you had been consulted several limes in regard to the sirike ? Did you not dodge whenever possible any aitempts lu consult witii you ? Will you sivear that you had not an inkling of the fact tb it another demand was to be made u on just before you left B<i suddenly I Why did you leave So i-uddenly, and yet knowing uotl ing abont the strike coma back witn a couple of scabs to run tbe maobiues ? Yuu stated tbit $4.50 p er week was tbe lowtst any uf yuuc girls g-d pec week, didn’t you? And the only ones who receive any more le two forewomen who get ju-vt 10 per day more; don't you f Now. llom-Nt ■\Voiu«-ii Rolibc-d and Fined to I'ay F o r th e Arlatooratlo* Extravagance. Pur The Cl iriOA In the wmtt-r of 1881 -82 there was u Ririko at L rlllard's tobacco fdC'ory in .T.'r.sey City. About the same time Lor- lllarj lost a poo lie. That circumetanoe I'alled forth the following article from Peck’s Sun,which ii well worih recalling; “ L irillard, the New Yi;rk tobacco man, .gjQQ I bss had a poodle dog stoh n and has of fered a re>iarJ o ' 8500 for the arrest of the ihii-f,.jtid I e lofurins :< newspuper re porter that he will -^pend 310,000 if nec- ,ye. essiryfor tbs conviction of the thief, inlervifw in the [Applause.] Tbe applause marked iu )ur help iu full tbirc will he from human tkve tim e rs cents per day more; don’t you I have spoken thus plainlr to that TOu will know wbat the se. of tbe people of Ba:Ucon are ou your course. You need some plain talk after ali tbe naus-ating gush which Uus been policed in your ears. A word to tbe wiseise, w etc. P cblic . I'ROM E.VST DORSET. •St. F a r b ish e n Ilia Ideun and M a k e s a DNcove*ry. 1 am much pleased that “A Dreamer” was joking. I was also pleased to learn thiougb your valuable colnmns that 1 was not tbe only reader that could not see the joke; and as we are a lot of thick tbinkets and cannot see a hole through a millstone, wby would it not be well to p rint under such slightly veiled satire \This is a joke.” Then it would save time having to explain them. When Borne was being burned by the erderof Nero be fiddled. That was a good joke, but few v ^ u were being b.iro- ed to death appreciaud it, and so it is to- diy,—simple, plain language to simple, plain people. We are not ull supposed to understand even Webst-r, i,nJ, if 80 , wbeu a man sliouts fire, we a'o nut to expect a fiood of water is coming. You must most assnrcdly have made a mUtake in beading my aiti- cle as you did ; but let it g o ; it may set people to thinking. 1 can give and re ceive hard hitA And n o w l would say l a m pleased to see yonr pa er improving. 1 hope aud trust you may make it of greater size iu tbe near future and that you may make it fu l o f news and break up the old i-ystem of newfpaper mouopuiy. We expect to b-ar fiom D A 68 next week, as we Wtre represented there F r i day, and tnikt when better acqu linted we will make it warmer for the fues of free speech, tq iu l rights sud free lalior. Sr C lose . soutJj Ti-oy XotOB, The puddlersin Burdens' works flx-d their furnaces Monday morning, but the fires were not started, the water in the river being too high, and so dirty Itiiat the boilers could not be fed. One of the new blast furnaces on Breaker I “l-ind will start in a few days. Tbe wages of tbe iron workers in BuidenV mill. South Troy, are to be raised. Tbe men in Coming’s works cODversatou with their manager. It is hoped that they will sgree on tbe sub- Tbe bars were drawn from the msrch mt mill luruiCcS in Buideus’ steam mill sbortty after starting the fir<-s. The horse shoe depirtmeut was aho idle on onnt of high water, and operations ra steel woras were also discontinued tbirc will he from humau tkye tim e rs who hive forgotten that only a few weeks ago sevetal hundred girls who iiad been working in Latiliard’s factory wi-nt on a strike because as they ulieged, they were treated like dogs. We doubt if ihi-y were treated as well as this poodle w. I treated. We doubt, in case one uf these poor, virtuous gills had 1-eeu kionappe-l, if the great Lorillard woud off r as h g a lewiitd for Iba conviction of the bumjn thief as he Las for the conviction of the pots >□ who has ilopcd with his po.,dle. We hope ihat the aristocracy of this country will ni.ver get to valuing a dog higher than It docs A Lu-nsn being. When it gets so that a rich person would not permit a poodle d< g to do the work in a tobac co factory that a poor girl does to sup port a sidk mother, bell bad hitter be opened for summer boarders. When gir.s work ten boura a day stripping nasty tobacco and find ut the end of a week that ihe fines for speakin-{ are larger than ihc wage.s, and the fines go to pay for the ounvictioo of tbkves who hteal the giri's mastei’s dog, no one need come around here lecturing for a dollar a bead and leiling us there is do bell. When a poor girl who has gone to her work at daylight looks ont of tbe w in dow' at noon to see her maiter’s car riage go by, in which there Is a five hundred dollar dog, with a hund-ed d ol lar blauket on and a collar set with (hamund . lolling ou satin cushions, end the girl is fined ten cents for looking out of the window, yon don't want to ft ol away any time trying to get u.v to go to heaven wuere such such heartless en-ploierx me expected. I t is seldom that the Sun g ts on Its oar, but it can will work poor girls like slaves aud psy them next to nothing, and spend ten ihcu-and dolUis to catch a dog thief.” If Ibesu seutiments are sinful, and for expressing them we arc a candi date for fire and brimrtone, it is nil right, and tbe devil can stoke up and make onr bunk when be hears that we arc on the through train. It would be worth lolen burning n -lice of admission to stand with o hack to ihe fire, and as we began to smeil IS we began to smeil tho pistol p ocket, to make up faces a t t e thuusind-uoilar dug luiliionaircs th a t we e p u ttin g on sty le at the o ih e t place. ” W e m . rely j )t this dow n to serve as an item iu the Li-tory of th e lelationa of Ihe L.irillards tu tiu i r “ hju<l8,” since one of them h s lately ex^reastd him seli—throug'i mi>;aziii'- H te-ature— as having the pu j I' o g o d f in-raost ia b,8 mind Butrres. .k C'ori-oapomlent W ants to Know. W ho helped “ b)g C to bojeo tl Tonsev' am t brought him to term s V b., W ho help, d “ big 6” to boycott th i Y'ork Trill m-' iitidi on j of its ‘ IU cejiti-.i ’ a |i«>litic;ii posilion •ciiig rh.' ilea', q i i i ( K of L. WoODtiEV. Tlioise VVhui-ciiai-s, That Itcsolutlou Whereas, We. “ i.ig 6,” the only ot gam**;d uodv in the world, aud :«iiized lot oferan^. Whereas, A ili.-org socia'ists, anarchists, e c , h boycott ou Ihe New York i-Vi-ning tdilion; iherefore K.siAVid, TUit we ral-e WOOOSEY. Fi-om tiiiH 'nbush. James A. D.ickbee ims uccopted the mm'naUon to- Prtsidi-nt of Gi'-iubush wh ch was tendered him by the S e .iubli- cans of ihiii vidaus.
