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r l * o f iway, !1«87. » Vifi rfo u r K ^ t j i e ^ w lU 9 c . 12. fte .i l ' V O L . I , N U M B E S 5 2 , TROY, N. Y„ APRIL 23, 1887. P R I C E 3 C E N T S . S0.ME MGHT ON THE SUN. OVVKIER ELrDE.«l THE VKJILASCE OF 1>ANA’3 OFFICE CiAT. Jchwab, has been the victim of another lutrage. Tiie police secri-ted themselves ilmut the premises, burst open his door id found—nothing. and found—nothin It seems strange th.it to dure to think and to speak os one thinks should subject one lo such out* imo ol th e Siuiotiim W ays Tlint An Diii-k luul T ricks T h a t A re Vain I sert t»y till' Ec lipsed Orl>. T u b C lauion , no d o u b t, has seen in the New York Sun this week a revival of the bitter attacks upon and misrepresenta tions of tlic Knigh's of Libor, which charucleriz *u u s policy tow.mi them pre vious to the coal strike and which brouglit on the boycott against the Sun throughout this and other states. Duna calls it an alleged boycott, but it cert.dn- ly must be as app irent to him as ihu nose on his face, eise he woula not tie so fran tic in bis writhinga. There is really nothing origin il iu the methoc^-of attack a topitd by the Sun. It is simply a rehash of the pli.yedi.yed ' pl out stock in trade which the disreputable ele ments have to barter, and the colerie of unprincipled reporters and disappointed tricksters who woul 1 have traded on their connection with the order for their per sonal ben fit, are alone responsible for it, ■ In their eagerness to seize upon any thing which promises to we.ikeu the pow erful org’inizatiun of tue Knights, the newspapers have so frequently lent their aid to the element referred to that they have rather overdone the matter, and the readers of the.se missta'ements, having been grossly deceived so frequently, take all th< se utterances with a v> ry laree grain of salt. The whereases and resolutions o f 1). A. 64—the printers—are cxcitiog a world of indignation among Knights here. I t not be gi-nerally Known outside of York b u t that leally very “sm air’ organ iZBtion known us Typographical Unioi No. 6 is the pi.wcr behind D ist'iet 64 and the latter is only a tail to tue union kite. Hence, the old selfish spirit of the trade union cr.>ps out and the •HntelligenT' printers, who believe the:r trade has a monopoly on all the lutehi- genco which exists among the wage workers, true to lh>‘ir mrrow natures, otuateu. tfie idea of s striving to perpot 1 aristocracy of labor in their attempts to throw ducrc-dit on all eilorts of other callings to administer a lasting rebuke on that most deadly enemy of working men, the New Y'ork Sun. The printers are building very badly, and when their atructnre falls of its own rottenness it will very likely ciush its designers. As for the Sun, days are numliered. Occ.isioually, however, we arc treated to some edifying statement-s or allusions in our newspapers which, being inad vertent, are a confession of the me,ms tney rtsort to to cust eranized labor into disrepute. The following appeared in the World andconiaios nothing of note save the sentiment expressed in the head ing, which road: '‘Labor Accused as a Matter o f Course.” uml it then went on to say that in 8t. Louis on Saturday 1-isl “ R udoljh Btcclnr’s cooper.ige was burned this morning; loss, $70,000. The fire is supp'jsed to be of mcemfiary ori - gin, as the building was on fire in sev eral places. The. proprlctct has had much trouble with its employes on ac count of the iLtroducti'.n of labor- saving macLinciy.” tjo much for inaUveit ni admls^iolls. I t is safe to say tb .t the Judas labor reporter of the New York World had nothing to do with that beading. I was emvb'eJ the othei ic sooiH of ihi' 1 sanctum, iu lee Sim’sim’s yT vigilance of th S very sickly cat. It U that the Lord w, o rules f the iKBiiniei a portion o f the iKsiinies of the Sun.— I mean Editor Loid—has received i: } fromrom head'eadquitters ders f h to att ck the Knights of Labor lo .my manner aud at any time, seemly or unseemly, iiuthfully or untruthfully. “No matu-r how, but attack the Kuights of L bor,” is the edict. And so Mr Loid, iu tun-, is-^ues his mandate to his satelli'e, .Mr. Maloney. The later, I have heaid claims to be a member of tue Onl>r. If that be the case, it was a choice wuh him to obe^ the dictate or rolinqiish h'S no. very lucrative position. From the p.dicy the paper hms pursued it is very evilent that Mx. Maloney has chosen the former course. Wlietber in ritaiem g hU posi- lioa i'.t. Maloney continues to tetain the respect of honest men is another oonsidcratiou altogether. That much persecuted man, Justus race. I t might b e mentioned, en paren thesis, that Schwab m ten ye ira has been arrested thirtv-twc limes on this, that or the other ttumped-up charge and baa never once been convicted of anytliii.g. I do not know how you are progressing iu your vicinity in the m itt-r, but “Boy cott tlie Sun and the bun’s son,\ is the watchword here, and it is being done with a vim. O uyuier , New York, April 23. W II.\T SORT OF OUK.VSEf The Evil E x tent ol'Food A d u lterntloii itly Shown. Periimbiilating painfully about the torn up streets of Cinciimitl you will see in the windows of c ertain corner groerr- i( B the following gleesome legend: “Pure Countiy Butter, sixteen to eighteen cents.\ Now if the cows, whether Jer.-i or Alderney—and 99 IbO of the Al neysure Jerseys—who h id to do with the, making of that butter could be brought up to face the aforesaid legend, ana could he made to comp rehead its □leaning, they would st once strike for eigiit hours work aud 24 hours pay. They ■would koow very well that they could not furnish butter at any such price. lence, then, does it eomef Why, from one-tiiird honcj-t butter and two- thirds of oleomargarine, butterine or suinc, as the case may tie. In uo countr.y in the world is the adul teration of lood so grossly c.irried on ns in this one. Car-loads of buckwheat husk'-,absolutely worthless for auy legiti mate use, sell in Oincinuati markets for a handsome price to make ground spicos of. Hundreds of cars of dried apples, with heit juice or t-uffren and glyc ri.ie. go into the ira'iiifac ure of red and yel low wines. Ground bla-k pepper, put up in tanev packages, sells lor K-lf the pric-.' that you t ave to pay for the same bought by the berry. Beer, wine and spirits—ah, well, perhai>s these should not be mentioned, as it ia quite clear that they ought not to be drank.—Exchange. IT SPEAKS VOLL'MES. A Reform In th e Couiitry'H Sliylock Tra<I<>. Give us a government p.iwushop—a Tjciliamt. They have such institutions all over Europe ; and in Germany alone the revenue from this panushi ducted by ana under the surveillance of 3 government, averages eight millions nually, though no more than one per cent per month is charged for interest. But no thief can pawn anything, as every person must be identified fully and truly before an article is accepted, just the same us if a man wuiits to cosh a check in a bank wlicre be is not known. We want national Leibamt, a national bank, a natioonl railroad aud a national telegraph, and our national debt will be peid off wi'hin two years We might possibly add a national lotttry, as we are a na iff gamblersamblers anvnow,uvbow, and we could tion o g a loan England fi'ty millions every year ai two per cent.—Public Opinion. It Is M istaken, As Tsiial, The Sun, whose rays consume Ibe ob stacles p u t in the way of tbe cayitaliatio wants, is trying to fool the workingmen by making them believe that the pro ducers ot uiillt>es liavc a fight with capi tal. Tha* is untrue. Wo have no fight with capital. Land aud labor produce wbst is known as capital. We have no fight with our own production. Havl the Sun said that there was a fight between the capitalist and the worker he wou'd be nearer right. But mistakes will creep into the columns of the kinking Sun. C ertainly, IIo Is u Fraud. So, M i . D.ma is a fraud? Out noon such au assertion, even if it is published by the New York Suu! Wby should any le heed the silly ravings of the Sun? It not responsi le for what it published, It called its chief editor a fraud? If that 18 true, anything published in that paper is not worth perusing. “Bei nothing published by a fiaud” is au vice to the people who work. XTie Urew-efH. The schedule of wages presented by Unity Assembly to tbe boss brewers was pvomotly signed by Fitzgerald Bros, and )a!y.^ Jtembers of the Order lember this, us the other boss brewers ndd vicinity,icinity, so far,ar, have refused of Troy an v so f h to grant the request. A word is good iu time. A MockluK I.te. Po'.ilicai liberty without economic freedom is a mocking lie, a corpse with out life.—Schwab. THEEULLEia-ffiURENCO. AN Al>VKKTI8EMENT WHICH W’E OIVE THEM GRATCITOL'SLY. A n tlpatliy of t h e I ’cople to 8cab Goods AVtII HviMitually OblUorulo an E rst- wlillo IIlvo of liHliisti-y. For Tue CLsnon. One of the most gigantic schemes c r organ'. tbe present one of the Stove Manufac turers' Lefense association, with the c-intract-Iireaking firm of Fuller & Warren Co. at its h-ad, who ore now attempting to iiavo the scab paiternsof Bridge, Beach & Co. of St. Louis mide in union shops. Tho patterns which Bridge, Beach A Co. are sending throughout the United States by tbe orders of the contract- breakers, the Stoye Manufacturers’ Defense assoclatiuu, are of ancient design, and were used some tiiirty years ago, having been out of date for a quarter of a Century. They are of no earthly use, willill un.-^wer^wer thehe but they w an. t purpose which tha Defence association intend&l they should, namely, to create a strike in every stove loundry in the couutry and thereby create a demand for the goods, iu order that the F uller & Warred Co. may procure a market for their scab stoves, iges and hca'ers, which, at the present time, they are uuable o gi-e away in some porii'jus of the United States. Let any oue ao doubts this pay a visit to the wo.iis of the Fuller A tVairen Co. and idspeot the lof<s iu whicl. thousands of stoves are stored away, a n ! the floors are groaning under the w n g h t piled upon them; let them visit the molding depaitniont where a tew year.-, ago men were piled on top of each othe.\ to enable the firm to m.inufacture stove.-- enough to meet their sales, and where at the prescut time dry rot seems to have taken ruet. Of the four hundred muldurs ouco em ployed there only about one huudrgd are now given employment. Iu tt.e spring of ISBC, alter tbe contract was signed with the General Executive Board by that eonceru, and after the molders had resiiuied work, Mr. Warren addressad the molders in las employ and told them that he hoped in tbe future when they had any trouble with each other that they would settle the matter right tuere and not go to some outside party, meaning by this the Oreneral Executive Board, who assisted in settling the molders’ trouble, when within one week from that date he openly violated the contract entered into with the General Executive Board; and where do we now find this able and etficicut vicc-presid>-Dt and general manager of the contract-breaking Fuller & Warren Co. ? In the far west steering the Stove Manufacturers’Defence associa tion boom; and now a word in conclusion to the Knights of tho west and the trades- at you c sign any contract with him, for if you do will get the same dose that we :ived at their bauds in tbe shape of H contract. As the Ucripture says, “ As ye sow so shall ye reap,’’ and to their sorrow they are now reaping tlieif reward. The mills of the gods grind slowly yi grind they exceedingly sm ill. H azel . receive M A d llSEU V AS A FACTOR. IlB Pow e r O nly Now Kcelnulun; to Be Kecqifnlzed. The power of machinery as a factor in industrial production is only now begin ning to be recognized. It should, how ever, be studied by every workingman in order that he may know, as be himself is a unit in production, as to bow far he has to contend with a power which is co pie eiy insensate. I t has been caioulai by Professor Tindale that hod-carriers cend laddeta with a load of 93 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, equiva lent to 5,400 pounds one foot per minute. This has been designated us ‘.iie« equiva lent of mechanical force, o;. as some I'reo lintha for Troy. The boys in Troy would benefit constant, this lifUog capscit.. of a most robust laborer was taken as a unit in me chanical science to represent the muscu lar power of man. And as a horse-power ID steam engines can raise 83,1.00 pounds one foot per minute, one steam-horse, whicn is a mechanical or maeh.ce power, . -j » , , . ^ ' to the g.meral good healt IS atm said to be equal to the muscular ; 1 ^ 3 , oulnce of W n i n g power of leTen re n . Practically, h 0 7 - keeping in motion any kind of machin ery for eight to ten consecutive hours every day, steam power will supercede 14 laborers gifted with the muscles of the most perfectly trained and highly devel oped athlete ami send them early from histlei in de- over-exertion to the grave, wh rtsion, and feel as fresh ai ever. But, with an extreme regard for moderation, we shall take it for granted that one me chanical horse-power la equal to 10 men only. If this be the case, we ought to acquaint ourselves wiih tneso great forces which are con tained in the general term maohinoty.—Easton Labor Journal. THE L^VNl) THIEVES. Exeollcnt Siieelmeu Wlili-li Siiows W liat loindloi'dism Is. The possessions of the marquis of Clanricarde, comprising upward of 50,000 acres, are situated in County Galway, one of the middle-western counties of Ireland. This estaie comprises nearly ono-tonth ot all the tillable land m the country, and has been selected by the Irish people as a specimen lo be held up l«fore the world to teach it what landlordism is. When the present owner cime into possession tbe rents were raised aud cruelly collected by his agent, Blake, until he was killed upon the public highway in daylight. Though two yeirs have elapsed no one has bei.'n punished, aud the present agent can only appear iu the county um police protei-tion. This county preset all the worst features >.f landlordism in ... impoverishing effect upon the people, the diminuliuD of popuI.>tiou, aud the engendering ot hatred, and the Clan- riearde estate is the typical exnnple of the whole aystem. Diiriug tho last thirty years the populution i f the county has decreased more than 60,000, being twenty per cent, while the city of Galway ha-i diminiahed nearly one-half. Althou'^h tbe present owner ot .the Clanricarde estate has other property which yields him an annual income of $200,000, his poor teuantu are pul under the screw and pressed to starvation.—Canadian Work- FKOM PORT HENRY. Uliaorvatlons o f th e 'Week From Our R e g u lar Com -spom leut. The Furnace company intend to com mence filling the new furnace stack this week Saturday. Our lecture and dance last Friday id success. We clet about $140. Brother Junio in his spech said that with T.V.Bowderly the Knights are bound to win. Tbe success of the amount may easily be seen by the largo ; ($128) taken in at the door. The speech was a grand one, plain truths which the most prejudiced against the Knights of Labor cannot deny o r explain Frank Dupont aud wife In Plattsburgh with friendj Loca's aie as scarce as strawberries Our many thanks are extended to aU who helped to decorate the hall and fur nished thehe refreahments,efreahments, etc. •Shed t r The roof of the new furnace casting house IS nearly completed. O bsbbvkk . . I t t'auiiot Toll tho Trtvtli. It is said that a Knight of Lalior wrote a report of a supposed quarrel between C^uinn and something c.dled a scab, who remained at work in a shoe factor beverage tlie Sun’s young man used to ital power. It must have had a terrible influen stimulate his falling the TcpoiU-i who claimed to be a Knight of Labor. It niiisc have been the same gei>tk-miD who reported tUe meeting of shoemasors in New York city. scab shoemasors in New Workingmen rrfuse to read a paper that cannot tell the truth. Gooffiro B lair Donount-od. At the last meeting of the Central Labo: Union of Jamestown and vicinity the following preamble and resolutions were uuaninftiusly adopted: Whereas, In view of the fact that George Blair, ef New York city, is claim ing before tho legislature of this S’.-ne that he is a representauve o f the laboring people, end by this stand is doing the utmokt to -defeat tbe wishes of the laboring people in their demand that tbe county plan bill be adopted for our peual institutions; therefore be it Besolved. That we brand George Blair as an imposter and fraud ; and we ask 001 iu tbe legislature to pay c'aimings of said George leprosei no heed to tbe greatly were there a free bath house established on the river side this coming Asideside fromon their coutributlon summer. A fr to the general good health there would be I less chance of drowning oases. WOOOBXT. .MILLIOX.VTIJKS’ CAPKICES. ENJOYING LrX L 'RY AT THE EX- I'EN'SF. « F MISERY. I*. IjorllJaial Biiya lllx P leasure at th e Cost of tlK- Lives, H e a lth and V irtue of Coiisiimptlve Girls. For Tue clarion. I am at this moment seized with a desire to give you and y our readers just a faint idea of the caprices of some of our American nobility, as witnessed by a Laokmau some years ago. One beautifni starlit winter’s night, in 1882, I think, the bell rung at the office of the livery st.ihlo where I was employed. It was my turn to answer and I did so. The book keeper hand< d me a card on which was wntton the number 889 Fifth avenue. I knew the bouse; it was located on the northeast corner of Thirty-sixth street and Fifth avenue. I knew who lived there. It wiis P . Lorillard, the millionaire lobaceonist, who only a few short yeais ago compelled every female in his employ to acknowledge herself a thief and submit to a a»atching process before she k f t the factory. lie is alhO a great turf man, who owns some of the beet horses on the track, and, last but not least, he is tho new convert to socialism who a few mouths ago, in tho columns of a monthly magazine, paraded himself as a disciple of the expounders of socialism, and pathetically prayed that the workingmen of tbe n iiion may cast aside tbe ignorant and auarchisticHl leaders (I suppose that he meant those bcodlums who bad already embraced socialism or some other ism) aud take unto them.aelves new lead>rs, men of brains {cunnimj deception), men of tact and understau.ding (men of dis honesty Bad avarice), and under their wise guidance tho lot of the laborers would be made more h:ippy. Well, this P. Lorillard was the owner and he and his family were the occupants of the house I drove up to on that winter's night. It was 11.30 p. M. I bad been at work since 8 o’clock that morning. 1 was anxious to get away with my passenger that I might the sooner g e t liack to the stable, pm up my rig, get homo and have a few hours repose that I m ight be refreshed for the morrow’s labor. I Immediately notified the democratic mdividual who 80 ably presided over the door that I was ready for my paesengera and hoped they were ready. I accordingly requested that he notify them as quick as possible. I am positive that be did so. Tho demo cratic atmosphere by -which ho was surrounded was so thick as to render disolwdience on his part impossible. I waited. I got nervous. I walked. I became tired- I grew impatient. I got angry, I fell like jumping on the box of the cab and driving to the stable. I was about to do so when I remcmberpci tiiat I was a wage-slave; that it was beyond my power at that time to burst my bonds. While I was arguing tlie matter pro and con with myself the door opened and a man ami woman appeared. They came towards the cat*. I jumjied on the box. The woman got iu. ’I’ho man said good night to her. She looked up at me, aud, litter a lew uiccotigns, managed to say, “Drive to 5 East Thirty-sixth street,’’ I did so. iSbc got out. It d id not take oue second. The distance was not one kundrtd paces. It was the first honae around tha corner. I turned my horse around. The clock Bt Thirty-seventh street struck two. I had waited two hours and one-half for Mrs. Tayl< Lorirard's daughter. The cost was I asked mys-'lf how they could afford it, ylor, I is $2.7f ughter when suddenly there rose up before my visiia a picture of misery and despair. I could see in that picture the st irvt’d, ragged and consumptive girls emerging from his Jersey Oily tobacco factory. I answered my own question by saying: “They pay for it and for all the other luxuries of this Lorillard mansion. They pay for it with their life, fer ninety eight per cent of all ihe giris that died for the past ten years who were employed iu factory died of consnmpti ory died of consumption, poisoned by its loul air. They pay for it with their honor, for twenty por cent of them leave and go on the streets every year. They pay L r it with their misery, fur oue hundred per cent of them have neither sufficient food nor clothing,” Bat, Mr. Editor, ia there not soma hope for them, now that Mr. Lorillard has been converted to socialism. Does not his ceaversiOD prove that man after all is a isivesive animalnimal ? W hathat g iantiant strides progres a ? W g 1 he has made m five years? From the drawing-room and the wine-cup to the student of socialism; from the race track toto thee magazine,agazine, therehere too expoundxpount the th m t t e rights of the producers; from the factor slave-driver to the humanitarian who s ably and generously counsels working- beWBroeware of demagoguesemagogues andnd men to b of d a select men of respectability (bourgeoisie) too conductonduct theirheir affairs,ffairs. i willill followllo' this t c t a I w fo up, with your jiermission, as I have a batch on hand I wish to dispose of. New York, April 18. G avkochb . REMAKK.VBLK SFKC^l'AfLE. Politicians 'Who Fore© l>c*]ieu<iants to Vot© ut AVIU. This is what the press dispatches term the assembling of tbe police force of Chi cago to listen to instructions from Chief ■rsold how to vote in the municipal election. There ia notbiug remarkable in the occurrence except its publicity. The men were ordered to vote for a certain ticket. They were deliberately lied to as to the real points a t issue. Their animal and class prejudices were appealed to, in stead of their reason. AU this is too com- to cause even a passing comment. Many employers of labor consider their employes their peons who are bound to vote as the employers direct. The better the laborers are paid, clothed and fed, the greater the implied obligation. This ia exactly the position of these policemen. Upon their votes depended in a great measure their remaimug on the force, In moio sendee than one. Had Nelson been elected they would doubtless have been called upon to render an account of their gross and brutal violation of the law in firing upon a peaceable and lawful assem blage. To prevent this, they are solcdialy adjured by their chief to “ vote against anarchy and in tbe interests of law and order. These red-handed murderersl What satire!—San Francisco People DANA’S UECLINTNG DAYS. Tlie Now York Sun of April 19 printetl the following; ‘•There was born to Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan P. Bead of New York, at 55 Avenue Marceau, Paris, France, on March '24, a son. Mr. Beail is a recent Harvard graduate, studying diplomacy at the Ecola des Sciences Politiques of Paris.—Minns- “though bom in a foreign land this baby is probably ehgible to the office of prei^- dent of the United States.” If the babe, or its father, evinces no belter diplomacy than C h a tl^ A. Dana baa done neither has much chance for political prefer ment. Woe to the ambition of the politician who is cursed with the support (?) of the Sun or its editor. Workmen, the Sun ia your deadly enemy. Til© Biuek J.isl. There has been a system 'going on amongst our organized manufacturing associations to blacklist organized labor, but it did not work quick enough to suit their greedy appetite. So they have adopted a more effectual plan by import- iug all the pauper labor of Europe, such Poles. Swedes, Hungarians, Bohemi ans, ltalian. 1 , &o., to debar the producers of the nation from obtaining an existence. Who is to blame for this ? Our local and national government. Shame upon them for the injustice which is meted o u t to the producer ana defender of the Republic. L aborbk . Alliniiy Notes. Local Assembly No. 6129. stove- mountecs, had great success with their ball at the Lark street skating rink. Over 800 couples weie in the grand march. I t was one of tho largest gatherings of laboring people in the city of Albany. & Co. are running to Bathbone, Sard & their fullest capacity. District Assembly No. 147 of Albany r set worth over $ T'he «tovo Moltlor.-i’ S trlku. At this writing the “scab” patterns have n o t yet been introduced in Troy or Albany. As soon as the St. Louis < reference to Detroilt. 1 upor ; 1
