Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1873, Page 1

WOLUME 27. ! FINANOCIAL, "REMOVAL. Lizarns Silverman, BANKHEIR, Has this day removed to his .. new office in the Board of Trade Building, formerly oom;.fmd by the Merchants’ National Bank (entrance on Washington-st.), where he will continue to trans- met a general Banking Business, 5 and solicits the patronage of his friends and the publicin general. Chicngo, Dec, 3. 1873. ROBINSON, CHASE & 00. BANKERS, No. 18 Broad-st., N. Y., Yranssot 8 genoral banking businoss in all its dotails, aliawing ioterost apon doposita to BANES, SAVINGS INSTITOTIONS, PRIVATE BANKERS, AND INDIVIDUALS. Particalar attention pald to tho invostment of ESTATE AND TRUST FUNDS, And loformation rogarding tho same furnished upon By aud scll unos SumsiN Gold, Unlted Siatas wé‘ e, and il scouritios doalt {n atthe Now York Stook hahge. Firnt-\ass Munictpal and Rallroad Tonds negotiated. TUGENE N. Ronixaow, THOMAS B. ATKING, . Gronak If, Cuass, WiLLIAx T. Monn CALLED 5-20 BONDS OF 1862 Bought or takon in oxchange for othor Socuritios or Gov- ornmonts, PRESTON, KEAN & 00, Bankers, 157 o 150 LaSalle-at., and Corner Randolph aud Hulsted-sts, BALT LAKH OITY NATIONAL BANK. B. DL, DURELL, Prost, J. M, Bunkert, Cashr, Citas, HEMPSTEAD, Atty. Colleotions mado fn Utah, Montana, Tdali r Arizona, Washingtan, Califarals, and Orego mitted for in aur oxchango availabla in any Unitad Statos and C Iizohango an anAda. {legraph tranfers on this ank ea bo proourad from our Chicago sorremoudent, tha Third Kational Bank of Chicogo. INTEREST ON CITY BONDS, City of Chicago Coupons, dno January 1, 181, will bo O CRy Femvareety Dics 1. Yg;cnnr’lmf prior to 2ih t. 8, 8. HAYES, Gity Comptrollor. Ohleago, Doo. 24, 1874, ROBERT WINTHROP & CO. BANEKERS AND BROKERS, No, 18 Wallat., Now York, exocute ordors for STOOKS, HBONDS, AND GOLD, Alfolv4r¢rcnnnnumul on DE- (TS, and transsct a gonoral Banking and Drokerago usiness. GENERAL NOTICES, OPEIN TO-DAY, (CEHRISTMAS), Ontil 12 DI Jansen, McClurg & Co. OPEN TO-DAY. ‘We shall be open until 10 o’clock to-day with some elegant New Goods. GILES BRO. & CO., 266 and 268 Wabash-av. Grand Pioeon Shooting Match On FRIDAY, Doc, 2, at the corner of Archer aud West- orn-avs,, in tho Geove, ' Tlonty of pixeons on haud at 30 . 3 ng efreshmonts, A = o ey Béimoon & co. Grand Torkey Lunch All doy on Christmas day ; Concert and Ball , in the ovoning, at 330 South Olark Church Notice. ‘The Pows in 8t Jamos Elpiscopal Church, gorner Cass and Huron.sts., be rente on Christmas Day, immediatoly aftor morn- Ing service. Agents Wanted. Ten Lagies In tho city, and twenty Lndics and Gentla. ‘men ta go the country. Good pay and stoady omployment. Dall on or addross PUBLIBHERS, 564 Wost Magison- - Dhicsgo. i SIMEON W. 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OF tho Naturo of the Contract 11 Of tho Form of tho Contract and tho Partios theroto; 111, Of tho Consummalion of tho Gontract; IV. Of tha Subjoot-mattor of tho Contract, and heraln of Insurabla Intorest; V. Of Insurance Agonts, thelr Powers and Du~ VI, Of Warranties; VII. Of Roprosentation; VIIL. Of Uonconlmont; IX. Of Special Provisions of the Oan- tract; Altoration; X, Altonation; XI. Title, Ownorship, Intorest, Tnoumbranco; XII Hoalth, Habits, Occupa- tion; XIIL, Suloldo. XIV. Doath by Violonce, Hands of Justice, in Military Sorvice; Rostriations on Residonco and Travel; XV, Tho Premium and Its Paymont; X VI, Other Insuranca; XVIL Of tho Assignmont of thio Pol. fey; XVIIL Of tho Rlsk, its Duration and Extont; XIX. Of tho Loss and ita Adjustment, and to whom Payablo; XX. Of tho Notice, Prellminary Proof, Particular Againet and Paymont of tho Loss; XXI, Of Limltation of Sull a3 to Tima and Placo; Arbiteation; XXII Of Walvor and Fstoppol; XXIIL Of Accident Insuranco; XXIV. Of Guarantow and other Kiadrod " Insurancos; XXV, Of Mutual Insurance; XXVL Of Remodios, Eridonco, Pleadiug, Bankruptey, Also, Recently Publisheds HILLIARD ON THE REMEDIES TOR TORTS OR PRIVATE WRONGS. Booond Editlon, 8vo, sheop. §7.00 FOR WINTER AND SPRING TRADE. CHICAGO TRIBUNES ANNUA%}BEVIEW Trade and Commerce TOR THE YEAR 1873, Embraclug othor mattar of interest to tho ontira Morcan. tilo Community. . COLBERT, Commercial Editor, USINESS EIEN in all branchos who desire to reach tho cauntrs trado should avai thomsolves at onco of tho Groat Medlum for that purpose. torme, enn naw b sncurad. CIGARS, IN HAVANA CIGARS, Fine Wines, Liguors, and Groceries, X offer the Mant Complete stock at THE LOW- EST PRICES, nnid delivor goods in all parts of the clty. CL.IATTTORA, No. 146 Bast Madison-st. FOR _SALE, FOR SALE AT AUCTION, To tho highest biddar for cash, tho two nice three-story ‘and basomont atono-front 'brick houses, and la Nos. 1018 and 1020 Wabash-av,, At tho north door of the old Court House, fronting on Randolpl-st,, botween Olark and LaSallo-nts., On FRIDAY, Deo. 26, at 10 o, m. 'Tho salo Is by ortier of the United States District Court Abstract and opinion, showing perfeot title, oan bo scon VTG otlico of Daird & sy, & Takalect LYM Trusteo. Speclal space, with AN BAIRD, Desks and Chairs AT COST. 100 MARKEBRT-ST. SCALES. 2 FAIRBANKS' STANDARD SCATLTES OF ALL B1ZUS. FAIERBANKS, MORSE ¥ 00 111 AND 113 LAKE-ST, B FRACIIONAL GQURRENCY, $5 Packages OoF FRACTIONAL CURRENCY HOR BALY AT - TRIBUNE OFTICE. OUR COMMUNISTS. A Brief Sketch of the Socialist Movement, The First Organizations in Chicago. Formation of the Federal Coun- cil--Plan of Operations Platform of the Sections Es- tablished Here. Abolition of Private Ownership of Property. Appropriation of Realty by the State. No Action Taken Yesterday to Re- lieve the Unemployed, The Reliof and Aid Society Will Con- sider the Matter Friday. Threats of F. A, Hoffman to Rip Up the Society. The Report of the Workingmen’s Committec. The Situation in Other Cities. » F COMMUNISM IN CHICAGO. Tho domonstrations made by the unemployed workingmen in this city Sunday and Monday, have naturally led most of our citizons to inquire a3 to the formation, constitution, and intentions of tho Intornationnl Workingron's Asscoiation— a body of Bocialists who have taken charge, and assumed the loadership of, these thousands of Lungry men looking for employmeut or bread. The Intornationalists, or Socialists, in this conn- try, aro of but rocent growth, but in Europe. thoy have been agitating for yenrs, and tho out- rages by tho Communists, who sprang from tho Socixliats, and by tho robols of Cartagona, aro still in overybody's mind, and it is but natural that our citizens should look with dread upon the domonstrations mado this weok undor tho aus- picos of theso men. . . THE BTARTING-FOINT. The origin of this socio-political assoviation begins with the revolution of 1848, when the rovolutionary element of Germany, Franco and Italy were divided in two great camps. Ono wanted a republic fashioned some- what like our own, while tho othor—the Social- ists and Communists—were opposed to thls, thoy boing in favor of toaring. down tho ontire edifice of our presout state of society, and building up & new one under which an squal dis- tribution of wealth could be had, CARL MADX, The leador of theso Radicals was Carl Marx, now of London, who from 1847 to 1849, cditod the Rhenish Zeilung, in which paper he firat gavo vent to his peculinr ideas on socioty and tho Btate. Ho advocated tho interferonco with la- bor by abolishing compotition and wages, lonvivg men to work undor the influance of public spir- it and making an equal division of tho produc- tion, Anothor schome of his was, that no man should be allowed to possess more than s certain amount of woalth; the surplus wealth to go tho State, to be used for public institutions, and to provide for thoso who are unablo to prowido for themselves. Fordinand Lasallo, who was killed in & duol 1n Bwitzorland, » few yoars ago, adyocated the same principles as Mr. Marx, and thoso two men, togother with Louis Blanc, of Frauco, may bo tormod the foundors of tho prosent wide-sproad Internn- tional Socio-Political Workingmen's Associntion. The Communists of Paris and the rabels of Car- tagona wero also International Socialists, but, coming into power, becamo fatr more radical than tho prosent Internatioual Bocicty. THE COMMUNISTH, ‘While tho former intend to intorforo with the 1aws of labor and wealth only, the Communists who aro reprosonted by such mon as 8t. Simone, Tourior, and Rochofort, propose to abolish in addition tho relations of husband and wifo, slong with the systom of domestio govern- ment which is founded on the parental suthority. The Bocialisls in this oity omphatically . deny that they have anything in common with tho Communists, and declaroe it thoir only aim to ameliorata and bottor the social condition of workingmen, to have thom educated and cmancipated and bo préparod for just buch crises s tho presont, HOCIALISTS IN CHICAQO, ‘Tho Socialisfh in this city numbored about 400 men up to the prosont timo and consistod of six seations, threo Germau, one French, one Polish, and ono Scandinaviau, But like tho Socialsts in other citios in this country, thoy took advant- age of tho presont orisis und offered their assist- auce and aid to tho thousands of unomployed luborers, and books woro opened for all tho un- employed to ul?n their namos, thet they might” bo orgauized into o grand united body. ‘Lho unomployed, although not Bocialints, atill joined thom for fhe purposo of gotting bread for their sinrving families, Over 7,000 workingmen in this city have inscribed their names on the books of tho Intornatiounls at their hendquartors at No. 68 West Lnke stroot and No. 130 West Polk Stract up Lo tho present, and new namos are daily added. ~That theso mon aro not yot educated up to tho ideas of the So- cinlisty, aud joined thom for no other purpose than to secure brend for their starving familics, i bost_seen by the quiotness und poaceability with which they have mude their demonstrations, in #pite of the incondiary conncils of tho len alra of the International, Workingmon's Associ tion. FINST ONGANIZATION MERE. An Intornational, Soclul, Polition], Working- mon's Assoolation was first formed fn thiy city in 1868, undor tho numo of Allgemeiner Doutsch- or Arbeitor Voroln, Abont 1871 the vamo was ohanged to Boelnl, Political, Workingmen'a Association. T'hoy having be- como quite numerous by that time, thoy divided again futo three acctions, with a gonoral section oomposed of tho officors of the othor thrae, whp, as a Local Committee, have charge of the mahagoment of tho Assooiation in tho city, and tho most prominont of whom aro Houry Htahl, John Hauson, Karl .l(liug; Mr, Pipol, Christiun Krang, A, L, Hernsux, (r., Michowslinski, and Mr, Thorsmark, most of whom will bo readily rocognizod an tho most incondinry speakors of Sundny's meoting. 'THE FEDLRAL CONGIESS, The firee Iederul Congross of tho Interna- tlonalists of tho Unitod Btates was hold in Now York on tho 6th, 7th, sud 8th of July, 1872, whon the following laws and rules of gavornmeont were adopted : ¥ TIE FEDERAL COUNOIL, 1, A Federsl Gouncll of tho Inieruational Working- mea's Boolety will be elcoted by tho Congress for one 1¢ ahall havo authority to_ 1 its own vacanclas, ut tho numbor shall not oxceod five, 4, 1f the calling togother of & Genoral Cougrons ix for 1o other purpono thun tho_elsction of n Foderal Councll, n new Council may bo_elcted for tho noxt year by a general voto of ail tho Bocictiea, 1o% Tho dutfesf tho Fedorol Gouncil iall bo a8 fol- own ¢ To organtze and centralizo tho propaganda, To roproscnt tho organtzatlon at oo nud sbrond. To colloet tho dugs and remt the propor smount to tho Genoral Conucil, g T2 mibmita montfly reportto Lacal Commiticen anc octions, ‘To mako a quarterly roport on tho financial condi- tion of tho organization, 4, Tho Federal Council can_ refuto admission in tho ‘| Federation to Bociclies and Soctions, or expol thom, Tue_Counell, howover, I not_authofized o divest them of thoir International character, but can rocom. mend euspension to tho Genoral Couniefl, : 6, Tho Fedoral Councll fa authorized to minke such recommendntions from timo to timo s they may deem proper, ‘wheso recommendations will bocomo biuding, If fhey are nccopted within o month ntter pblication by a majority of Sections, 4. ‘Tho Federal Councll shall appofit o Genoral Seca retary who hias to sign all documents, make a correct copyof nll papera coming from tho Fedoral Councll, and pregerve the same, 1o shall bo hold reaponsiblo for tho proper performanco of hls duties, 7. Tho Federal Councll shnll sond to all Sectios two moaths previous to tho nssembling of the Congresa thio order of tho doy ond the propositious to Lo ds- cussed, 1, T g tho amo ) d be- . Ten persons, spenkiug tho same Janguago an lmu'i(llg to the lnboring l‘l[lflfl shall bo entitled to or- ganizo o Section ; should there, howaver, bo another gection of thio aamo Ianguage within a mllo of this one, {ho upproval of (hint Scction must bo_obtained, befora tlio new ono ean bo organized 3 should tho approval De witliheld, an appeal muy be taken fo the Federal Council, This ruo howover, {8 not applicablo to Tradea Unions, 2, Threc-fourths of the membors of o Section must bo sworklugumen recelving wages, f 3. Nowiy-orgautred Soctions shall anply for ndmis- #lon to the Federal Counctl, and, at tho eame time, pay tho duca for tho flacal year. A comploto lst of et borship, containing tho full name, resldence, and oc- cupntion of each member, ohall ‘slso bo subinitted, They must show whether'tho membera aro working- men receiving wagen or not, A formal declnration thit thoy will acknowledgo and defend tho {denn and Juwa of tho Intornational Working Men's Association, and copy of Lhelr Conatitution, faalso required, 4, Boctions shall bo numbered by tho Federal Ggun- 5, Boctions aro cautioned to keop stzlotly within tho Hmits of thefr pecullnr flold of labar, viz.: To organize and contralize the working mosscs for thelr mmutunt I\Ir’ulncllfln, their advancement, and comploto 1lber- ation, ' 0. Each Soction'ein proposo to the Fedoral Councll rules nud measttres of o general character, which within six weoks must bo subimitied to tho dlfferent Sectlona, provided tho Councll doems thom politic, An appeal from the dociajons and actions of tho Fed- eral Councll can bo taken, If tho chso cither ba sub- itted to Sections, n majority volo of which is sufil. clent to reverse the doclsion, or if it 8 laid beforo the yearly Congress, 7. Each Section ahall, on tho third Bunday of each ‘month, aubmit to tho Local Commitlee, or Whers 1o Local Committeo exists, to the Foderal Committee, correct roport of all its actions and resclutions of tho yrovious threo or four weck, with a true record of the dates of meoting, and tho flnaucial condition of tho Bectlon,: 8. Fach Seolion shall make s regular statistical canvasa of the condition of workingmen and their work, and tho formula adopted by the Congresa liall o used for this purposc. 9, All Scetfons aro required to keep on good rolu- flom with Trades Unfous, and help in thelr organizae o, LOOAL COMMITTRES. . 1. Whero moro than ono Section exiats, tho total meimbershin of wich s not Lelow ity Tocul Com- mittoes with proper powors shatl be constituted, 2. Bactions of the same city shall assemblo together at least onco avery thiree months. DULK AND TAXES, 1, Each member of {he organization shall pay to the Federal Conneil o yearly tribute of ten cents, Tho duics to the Genoral Council aro not included in tho above amount, but will bo collected soparately, 9. Thy Federal Council shall Lnve tho power to maoke an extraordinary sssessment of five cents per annum for cach momber, if circumstances should require it, Should these five cents not be suflicicnt, lll.‘mlllcnunn for assistanco must bo made-to the Bec- ons, 3, All Scctions are requested to establish roliof funds for tho purposo of alding membors who lost their om- ployment tlirough zeal for the assoclation, and for othier purposes, OENERAL RUGULATIONS. 1. Correspondenco between Beclions *aud - Qummite: tees, shall paas through the hands of the nuthorities conatituted for this purposo—the Federal Council and Local Comumittees, Exempted from' this rule, are complaiuta or charges ngaiust the authorities, 13 the Iatter caso the Federal Councll or Local Commitic must, howover, bo given projier notice of such action, 2, e ramo Fulea aro applicablo to correspondenco with tho General Conncil, 3, All ofticors and authoritics, Commitiees and Qounclls of the organization, can be_expelled from their position at any time by o genoral volo of their coustitucnts, Buch vote must tako placo within two ‘weeks from the day notice of such desiro has been fizvcn ; tho request for taking such step, howover, must made by onc-fourth of the actual constituents, 4, Incaso of n proceasion, cach member 18 en- titled to memerslip In tho next Sectlon of that town, 5. Expulslon from o_Scction shall b binding for tho'entiro_organlzation, provided the proper Local Committecs aiid Federal Council havo aiirmed such action, The princlplo of solldarity makes it a duty for all members of the orgunization to ald cach other morslty and materlally in'easo of distress, Such cases of distress ean bo promulgated by the respectivo Bectious, Local Committees or tho Federal Council, 0, This Coustitution can bo sllered by fhe yoarly Congeess if two-thirds of 1he delegates agree to such change, OENERAL LAWH. Tho general laws and regulations of the In- tornations! Workingmon's® Assacistion of all countries, which wota adoptad by the Goneral Congross of 1866 and 1869, and the London Conforonco of 1871, are profacod by the fol- lowng : 7 WinEas, Tho emancipation of the luboring class must be woh by the laboring class itsolf. ‘Wiaeneas, The strife for ‘the eraauncipation of the labaring class I8 not u Laltle for preferment of classes ar monopolies, but for equal rights and obligations, nn:} for the unnibilation of all suporiorily of clusses, an ‘Wieneas, The economic submission of the labor- {ng mun to the rules of the grabber of workiug-matee riala—which are the fountains of life, constitutes tho ground-work of alavery n all ity varied forma—tho soctal privation, eplritial starvation, and political de- pendence, and Witenas, Tho economic emancipation of the labor- 1ng clees s, therofore, the great final purpose to whicl cvory politfeal moyamient to furthior our ends must bo subordinated, aud Whkneas, Al offorts mado towards this end havo {nvariably fulled on acconnt of haviug no unity smong tho different branclies i cach countey, and the wbe senco of a brathierly covenant among’ all clavacs of Iaboring men jivtho diffcront, connirles, and WHEREAS, The omaucipation of the laboring class is nelther u lucal nor natlonal problem, but u socinl one, ‘which includes all countries in which tho modern socit ty exists, aud the solution of which depends on the practleal'and theorotical working togothor of enligt oned cauntriess and Wienias, Tho present renowed movemont of tho Taborhg cldss § tho most Sudustrious countries of K~ Tope, Whilo 1t wwakens now hopes, at the samo timo fived o solemn warning sgatust o refapso fnto old mis- tukes, aud forces nu jmmediato unfon of the still di- vided movements, For theso roasous haa the TInternational Working- ‘meu'a Assoviatlon been organized, Resoleed, Thut oll soclotier and fndlviduals who join 1t reconizo truth, Justice, tud morality us thelr rule of nction_towards “each Othor aud faward all men, without g o colo, rliion, oF nalouaity, No vbligations withiout riglits, 'snd no righis with- ont obligations, Aud in 14 splrit tho following Jawa avo boon pre- pared: - Ant, 1. Tha present organization hes been organ- 1zed to ostablish a central polut of unfon aud sn or- ganized combination of nx(ullu" workingmen's soci- stica of thie different countrius, ull of which perstio tho aamo objeet, namel, Proteetion, advancement, and tho complete cmnncipation of thy l.nlmrln% clags, - An, 3, Tho name of tho socloty s the Internatiorial ‘Workingmen’s Aesociation, Anz, 3, A geueral Workingmon's Congress, com- posed of delegates of tho branclies of o Aswoclation, aliall nesemblo yearly, Cougross promulgatos tho gent eral offorts of tho laboring class, taker the necossary measures for the successfil working of the Internu- tlonal Assoclation, and appoints tho General Qounell of tho socloty. Anr, 4, Each Congress fixes the timo and placo of meoting for the next Congross, Delegates assemblo at o desguated timp aid placo,withous buviog roceived o separate fuvitation, Tho General Councit ca, it naceunary, chingo the pluce of meoting, but has' no lmwnl’ to oxtend the tline, The Congress dealgnates lie weat of the General Committes of tho General Counctl every year, aud appoints is menbors, The Goneral Council so'uppofuted {a suthorized to 11} fls own vacancles, At its yearly convoeations tho Con- froa rocelves o geueral roport of tho year's work of io General Councll, Tho Intier can, If thero fh - font nocesally, convoko Cangross befors I3 reyular orm, Aunr, 8, The General Council fa conatituted from laborers of the diiteront conutrics ropresouted in tho International Conress, It uppofuts from its midst tho uccessary oflicors 0 carry on tho busincss of tho soctety, such an ‘Urensurcr,” Qeneral Hucretary, and Correspouding Secrotarios for tho differcyt countrics, Anr, 0, The Genoral Counell acts as tho iuterna. Honal agoncy betweon the different notional and local fgroupa of tho Avuoclation, ko that the workingmen of one couutry keop conatuntly informed abont {ho move- monts of their class in_other countrics, An exuminn. tlon iuto tho soclal condition of th different coun- trics takes placo at the samo tinio und under united direations, Queations of genoral Interest proposed by one Assaclation inny bo ndopted by all othors in vaso of a necessity for taking immediato practical alops,— s, for example, fnternutionul complications, whoro tho unlted sociotles can take sotfon uniformly und ut once, Atench flitlug occasion tho Geueral Counell takes tlo fuliiative on the dfferent in‘oponllluul to be wado to the different mationsl or local Asaocistions, e Chicage Daily T CHICAGO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1873. To slmplify tho husiness of the Genoral Counoll with Dranch socfotics, perlodical reports are publisticd, Anr, 7. Whilo o ono hnnd tho nuceees of the ‘workingmen's movoment. in each country can bo estab- led thirongh th pawer ef unity and combiuation only, on tho other hand ilio activity of the General Goutiell In onhianced, bocarso it can. transact {ta biisle ness with a fow naflonnl centres, inbtoad of a largo niumber of small and dlvided local sociotica theroforo shll fhio members of the Asociation do everytiing in their power to unite tho differont workingmon socie- tics of iheir renpective countries inta nationol bodles, represented throngh national central organs, Tt is mutural that tho enforcoment of this articlo should do- pend groatly on tho lawa of cach country, aud thut, re. gardicsa of Iogal diflicultics, no indépendent local #ocety is excluded from corresponding with tho Gen- cral Counall, An, 0, “Tivory ono who ckmowlodgen aud dofends tho principles of tho Workingmon's Association i cligivlo 08 o mombor of tho sumo. Each branch sovicty 1s rosponsiblo for tho good characler of tho membera it ndmits, AR, 10, On clianging tho residenco from ono coun ey to another, each member of the International As soclation rocsives tho brothorly support of lis brothiren. Auz. 1, Althongh unlted for an everlssting nlon of Lrotherly notivity, workingman's socioties which unfte with tho Intorsational Workingimon's Associ- tion keep tholr oxisting orgnnization intact. Anr, 12, Theso Iaws cari bo nltorod by cach Cone gross it two-{hirds of tho delegatos fo denlze. DIANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIBTS, _Tho Social-Politische Arbeiler- Vercin of this city hina ropublishied, and accopts ns its crood, tho “ Manffesto of tho Commuuist Party," is- sued in 1848, ¢ 4 ‘This manifesto, o sixteon-page pamphlot, be- Ring with tho atatoment that tho ‘history of all socloty is that of wars botweon clagses, Foudal- ism gavo way to (ho bourgeolsie, which signifles tho manufacturing, trading, and transporting clnssos, At proscut theso clnss contests nro simplified, and on one sido is the bourgeoisio, on the othortho prolotarlat, tho modern lahorer. The impundh:};atmgglo is botwoon these two, and in tho end the latior must conquos. T'hon the manifesto continues : ‘What position do tho Communisls occupy toward tho proletariut 2 Tho Communists are no npcblnl*m\‘- 4y, oppoalug other workinginen's organizations, They have no fntcrests distiuct from thoro of tho entire pralotariat, Tuoy sct up no specinl principles on which they wish to mould tho proletarfat movoment. ‘Tho Cominunists aro distinguished from tho other proletariat parties only by tho fact that on one sido {hoy want to dovelop the Intorests of the entiro pro~ lotariat a8 a wlole, distinet from different national coutests, aud on the other sido that, fn tho diffcront stages of dovelopment which rim through' the fight betwoen tlio prolotariat aud bourgeolsle, they always ropresont tho futerest of tha whole movement, .Conx soquently tho Communists are tho most decided, most progreesivo portion of tho laboring party of all latids, - Tho next aim of the Communiats is tho samo as that of all ather proletariat parties,—tho formation of tho proletarint {uto n clans, overthirow of tho bourgeoialo rule, and_gaining political power through the prole- tariat, Tho thecretical doctrines of the Communists do not depend on tho ideas nud prineiples which have Deen Iuvonted or discovorad by (his or that Lenefactor of tho world; thoy are only tho general expression of the actual relntions of an oxisting clazs war, of an Distorical movetnent going on wnder our owu eyes, The abolition of the cxisting syatern of property 1a not tho solo thiug which distinguishes Communisin, Allsystems of property are eubinissive to a constant change, Tho French Hovolution, for instance, dfd away with the fendal syatem. That which' dis- tingufslios Communtsm is not the abolition of prope crty in genoral, but tho abolition of the prescnt sys- tem of properts, But tufs modern systom of privato ownership of property 18 the last und fulleat axpression of the cro- ation nad appropriation of pruadcts, restiog on the oppoeltion of clusses, on tlio utllization of the ono througlt the other, 'In this sense, tho Communiats can sitm p thair thicory n tho ono’ oxpression—aboll- tion of private ownerli{p property, They bavo roproached us_communtata with desiring fo do away with the ownorshin of whnt & person hian himaelf carned and worked for—that ownersbip which 18 tho basia of sll porsonal frcodom, nctivity, aud fudes peudenco, Do you spesk of tho monern system of rivale properiy? But docs to bited libor, the Tivor of {iio protariat, filn Wim property?” Not at all, It creates capitaly that n {o suy, that form of property which plundérs bired lahor, bud which can ncraako only on the coudition thot it creates mew Dired Iabor in order to plundr it anew. Property fu its prescut. form depends on the opposl- ton of capital to bired Iabor. Lot ua look at both sides of this thing, To boa capitalist means to have not mercly a purely’ perdonsi but sockal poition fn re- Iation to production. Capital 8 o common product, and can oniy bo put in motion by the common uctivity of. many mémbers : yes, in_tho lsst juatance, only. by tho conmon activity of all tho members of sociaty. Thus, capital s not & personal, bt social power, Thus, wlion capltal becomes truaformed fnto o comn= mon property belonglng ta all tho members of soctety, porsonal property 13 not changed {nto common prop erty. 1t loscs it class choractor, Now wo como to hired lator, Tho averago roward of labor amounts to tho prico of thoso mows of sub- aistenco which aro necessary to keop tho Inborer alivo us 3 lnborer, Thus what tio hired laborer acquires Ly ala activily meroly sutlices to support _life. \o do ot wil o da sway ity t persoust nppripriation of tho products of Iabor for tho support of lifo,~an appropriatson which leaves nuthiug which can ' give power over the labor of othiers ; wo only wirh to do away with the contemptible charncter of this appro- priation, wheroby the laborer only lives in order to in- ereaso capitul,—only Lves so far as tho Intercst of tho raling Tass demanda, In soclety at prescat, liviug labor 1s only mosns whereby to fucreaso accurnulated Inbor. n tho come munist soclety, accumulated Jsbor is only o meuns of advaneing, enriching, und widening the lifo of the la- orer. “Cltis, fn the present form of soctety, the past rules the present ; in the communistic, the present tho past. In the present form of seclcty capital is indepondent and personal, whilo tho acting individual ia not indo- pendent and {s mporsonal, You aro horrified that Wo wish to nbolish private owership of property; butin your present form of soctely private property’ does not cxist for nine-tontl of it members, It oxlsts for onw-tenth, by virtuc of thio fact that 14 docs not exlst for utuo-tcaths, You roprouch us for desiring to abolisl a forim of proper! which preaupposce, as its necessury condition, the lnc of roperty of this {mmenso majoely of {ho comne munity, You'#ay we wish to doprive you of your property, Certatnly wo do, From that moment In which labor ceates o Ly tramsformed into capital, mouey, grouud-tents, or s onopolizing social’ pover—- tom that ' moment when personal properly cannot bo used according to your present. system, yott assert that yersonnlily is dcstroyed, o you coiitoss that under tho prescit systewm you mean nothing bt the bourgeose, This personality cortainly should be dono away with, Commniain iimply takes away tho pover of ub- Jugating tho Jubors of others, through tho appropriz. tion of the products of the community, They have sald that with tho abolition of private” ownorship of property all ctivity would cease and gencral idleticss cusie, 1€ (bl were 40 tho present forum of cocloly must Jong ugo huvo sunk to rulu, sinco thoso members ot it Who work: gaia notbilug, and thoso who gain nover work, "Ttie whale thing denends on tho tantology that there il be n0 more Lirod labor ko loug a5 therd s 1o more capltal, "uat culture, o Toss_of whioh theso peoplo regrol, 15 really tho conversion of tho lnhieuso majority fnto o muchine, They kay that we wish to do away witk tho farily, Evou tho most radical protest agaiust this shameful Qesigu of the Cominuufets, Dut ou what does tho present famiily rest—on capital, on privato gain? It ‘xiutu in tho full system of dovelopment for tho bour- geoiee nlone, It fluds its complemont in the con. strained Inck of fawily of the prolotariat aud in pub. Ho prostitution, . The family of the bonrgeolale naturally ceases with tho disappearance of (his comploment ; both disappear with thu disappearauce of caplal, Do sou soproncls s bocatio wo deslro to do_awoy with iho uttlization of clldren by their parcnts 7 Wo admit it. But you say wo do away with toudor roln- tions whilo wo substitute edication by tho communily for domeatio education, ~ Bub tho prescnt fashion of' talking about family and cdueation, abont tho tender Telaionsliips of purents ond chiliren, bocomo moro wnd more disgusting, as, owivg to iho great manufuce torles, ll tho umlly'tie of tlie proletarit aro broken and his children aro converted into o simple articlo of tradu wnd fnstrument of inbor, Tt (b whole bourgeolsio clamor : # Yon Communiat want to briug fn u common ownership of wonien, “Tlao hourgeofsfo eca in fswifo o mero iustrument for production, To hears that tho {strumients of pro- duation aro to bo utllized in common. Naturally o lias 10 other ddea than that women will b used i tho sawe way, 116 does' not auspect that (ho object of this move- went {a to put an end {o tho pasition wiich women oceupy ns mero fustrumenta of yrodnction, Mores over, nothing {a mare lsughablo thon tho bigh moral horror of onr baurgeolsio over {hia ussumed common 1o of women by Communists, It fa unnoccssary for Communiats to infroduco the conmunity of women, Tt us alnost alwnys existed, Our bourgeolsie, ot eatisfied with (he fuct that tle’ wives and daughieru of tho proletuiat ara ot holy dlspesal, o 11y otbing of racognized proatitution, find great pleasuro in loading natrey (o wiyen of others of tho bourgeolsic, "Tho preeont systom of marrdago 18 1n rorlity come mon_ownership of marrjed women, Thoy may re. prouch the Communists for dosiring fo Iutroduce n publle, opon commniniam, fustesd of an lypacritical und coneealed ono. It b of coucsn widorstood that with e aoliton of tho presont condstiana of produetih, that communian: of women growing out af i, recogiiized public and non-public prostitution will vanisl, Tlio Communistearo léo chargad with desiring to abalish the country nationaflty. 'ho workingmai ius no country, You canuot tako from bim what he hos uot. The prolotariat in na- tlonal oven now, thougl not according to the meaning of tho bourgeolale, National @ivisows und oppositions of peoples wro steadily divappeariig with the dovelop. moit f thio onrgeolhlo,wath frecdom of trade, tho uul. formily of {ndustrial production and tha conditions of 1o arising therefrom, “Tho rulo of the proletariat will contributo still moro to thie dsappeavance, o6 wo do away with the explolatlon of one udividual by siother, as tho ox- ploftution of ano natlon by anothor i ol away with, Wiun tigro cuis 8o, be opposing virsies witbin o nutlon, tho untriondly attitudo of nutious ceadcn, The'charges sgalnat Coumunism mado from n vallglous, phillosopbival, aud Ideologleal point af view, douot deaerve auy explicit reapouns, Doew it nevd s clone examinntion to undoratand that the visws, the contomplations, and canaclences of mon ehango witl: tholr habits of 'life and thelr soctal existoncod The CGommunist rovolntion In o rudical doparturo from tho oid forma of property. No wonder that, in ils coursa of dovelopmont, it b most radically dpparted from tlig old fdens, “Wo saw that tho firat step in to workinginon's revo- lon was tho olovntion of Lo prolglaria ta tho ruing clasn—tho vistory of domocracy, Tho proletarint will o ita political powor to gradually doprivo tho botr- eosia of all captial, to pnt ail insiruments of prodite fon in the hands of tho Blato, tht o, fo_contraliza thiem in tho hauds of tho proletariat, organtzed as tho ruling clnss, and to increnso o rapidly os possiblo tho aum of tho fowers of produiction, Thia can bo douo only by dowpolio ssmatilts on tho riguta of proporty, and tho presont relationn of pro- duction, through measiires which uppont cconomically inautliclent, and untennble, bt which, in tho courno of the movement, will dovelop themeolves, and which oro Inovitablo as & wicans for tho ovorthraw of tho whola system of production, Naturally, thess moasures will Do differont in difforent lands, For tho mont advanced onea tho following may bo recommended ¢ Firet—Tiio selzure of the ownership of Jand, and the o of thie ground ronts for Btata oxpenses, econd—Abolition of tho right of inherltanco, Third—Gonfiecation of the property of all emigranta and robols, Fourth—Contralization of credit in the hand of the Stalo, by o uational bank with » State capitul nud oz- cluiio monopoly, Fifth—Centralization of transportation fu tho hands of tho State, Stxtli~Increaso of tho natlonnl work-shope, inatru. meite of productiou, and fmprovoment. of lads on a enoral i, ' Secenth—Lqual compalslon to Iabor for all, und the formtion of udustelal armics, espocially fof egeiculs ure, E{ahth—Publlo and freo education of oll children, Ninttii—Abolilion of factary-work by children In ita present form, conjunction of oducation with material production, atc, THE NEW YORK RESOLUTIONS. The rosolutions proposed at . the Turner Hall meeting aro similar to, and woro donbtles in- spired b, thoso adopled t u tecaut mooting of ; 0 workivgmen of Now Yorlk, which arc as fol- lows ¢ Wineas, A grent Inck of Inbor osiats nt _prosent among tho inboring olusecs, and_necomity aud misery will greatly fuctcaso duriug tho winter ; VEREAS, I to-called good timos” {he bired la~ borer can aceumulats littlo or nothing fo maotan emorgency, sudsincs 1t 16 nok tn his power ta avald ovor-prodiiction and n disorganization of bushices in goneral, and “sinco ho_conscqucntly is not responsi- ble for tho evil results which follow ; Witzuzag, All the nceesaarios of lifo are creatod by the working classes, and it s thus o crime to doprive them hereof : and Wirneas, it in the duty and the objeet of organized socloty, of tho city nnd of the State, bfare all clag, to tako charga of the existonco and the wolfare of all its parts, and since this has ofton heen dono for the specinl benet of tho rich, and their rallrosds, banks, snd other corporatious, fiesolved, That the workingmen of the difforcnt wards form nn organization to” accomplish the follow- mi objeets : mployment on gmbllo ‘works, ot the ordinary rate of nay, and under tho olght-hons law, Wecldy advances in provisions or ‘money from the clt)"xur Stato to the suiloring ?cmmm 50 long as the Inck of Inbor and necessity continue, Tho Mayor shall put himsolf in conneetion with tho Govornor” of tho “State, in _order to adopt such measures, that from the 16t of Decombor, 1873, to the dst of Moy, 1874, u0 tenant shall be turncd out of his liouso for zuy reason, Theso two officials take steps fo have their actlon rabified by the now Legislaturo ao soon us it mcots, OWER GERMAN SOCIBTIES. Bosides tho International Workingmen's Ae- saclation, there aro a number of othor German workingmen's socioties (Arbeiter Vereins) in this city, tho most promineut among which are the Chicngo Arboeitor Verein, which own the Globo Theatra; tno Socisle Arbeiter Vorein of the West Side, which owns a_ fino hall at 868 W. Twelfth streot, aud the South Chicago, North Chicago, and Northwest Chicago Arbeiter Voroins. Bosides those, there aro fonr Workiug- men Rolief Associations, and a Senndinavian, o Dolish, and n Bohomiau Workingmen's Socioty, and tho Chicago Schreiner Vorein (Carpentors’ Booicty). Theso sociotios number about 2,000 mombers, aud nono of them, oxcopt the Carpen- tora’ Socloty, with about forty nombors, have joined in tho movemont atarted” by the Inter- nationals, ‘Clie only prominent man connected with any of theso soctotios who has foined the Internationnls is Bfr. Francia A. Ifoffmaun, Jr.,, who {8 an ox-President and Trustee of the Chi- oago Arbeitor Vorein, the membors of wluch are bighly indignant at the prominont part Mr, Hoff- maun has taken in the movemont, 'Cheso socio- fios ava vory liboral in_their idens, but thoy are ucithor Socialists nor Communists, but good and Inw-sbiding American citizons, us will be sosn by their platform, which in aunexed : TIE PLATFORM. ‘Wounre n favor of equul socinl and political rights for ol men, without regard o color, religlon, or nationulity, Wenro agninst all elavery, in whatover shapo or farin it mny appear, and pledge oureclves to uso all means i our power to do away with it, Wo aro ngainst all lawa which infringo {ho natural ights of suy man, such ay tomperanco, Sundiy, and ottier probibitory laws, uluce thoy are tmworthy of n freo poople, ‘We are in favor of publle schools which assurs to the poorest tho greatest poseiblo cultivation of all meutul powers, and demand the adoption of measures to recure tho 'briuging up of talented children at public cxpense, Weare ogainat all religious compulsion, nud con~ fessional ud pricstly infiienco or mstruction in the kchools, Wo nlso desire fustitutions for the education of good teachors, We aro opposed to tho exemption of chureh propor- ty from tazatiou, and hold it our duty to oppose oll cluirehly, coufesslonal, or prizatly intlucnce on poli- e, (o UMBER 198, to maot tho doputation appolnted to wait upur them, WIIAT TNE MAYOR AD DONE. Tn calllng tho mooting to order, Mayor Colvin gavo tho reault of his efforts Lo sconra a confor- onco with tho Scelaty. ITo hed succoeded in #ccing four mombora of the Excoutivo Commit- teo, who liad told him that the outiro committoe could not bo got togethior that duy, und susgest- od that o meoting bo liold Friday evoning in the Cowieil Chamber. ~ Thoso whom hLo had soon, lad inthated to him that tho Boclaty would rofuso to tirn over to the olty suthorities any portion of tho monoy in thefr Dossousion, clalming they had no power to do so undor thoir chartor. Thoy assorted thnt they wore ready, willing, and porfectly ablo to take charge of tho whole businoss of rolicf, und would treat applications from the worltlngmon tho same s thoy treated thoso mnde by othors. {lho Mayor had” also_peid a visit to the ltoliof building, whors he had an_interview with the Superintendent, Mr, Truosdell, who oxplained to Lim the systom undor which tho Sactety worked. Thera woro twolve visiting tuspectors conatantly omployod, whoso duty it \wau to mako inquiris in the'caso of every applicant. Those visitors, #nld the Superintendent, could do ten times as much as thoy were now dofng, and no_ larger forco was needod. “'Che Society was now disburs. ing rollof in monoy and kind, to tho smount of about 81,200 por day. Thoro was 107 applicants ‘l'uesday, and the number was inoreasing * daily. 1In conclusion, tho Mayor said that ho hoped an amicablo and eatisfaotory understanding could be offoctod with the Roliof Bocioty at tho mesting Triday evening. 1t wos now sapposcad that the meoting would ml'xom'u for lack of busiuess to Lransact, and on this supposition Ald. Richerdson withdrew, though courtoesy should bavo prompted him to remoin until o formal adjournment. But the mombors of tho Workingmen's Committeo had no iutention of adjourning just then. They woro unpropared for n condition of things so discouragiug, and folt as though somcthing more ought to be enid, MR, HOFFMAN THREATENS TERRIDLE THINGS. M. Hoffman was the firgt tospenk. Il began by saying that tho Relief and Ald Socioty had not_dono their duty. Tho Executivo Bonrd might cosily havo ‘mot the Committeo. The Mayor himuelf mot four membors of the Board— almost n quornm. Thov know of this movemont through tue nowspaners, and ought to have an- sembled to meot the Committes, Thora was not tho slighteat oxcuso for tho failuro of the Board to como together that day., They hed ro- coived ample notico, and it was not vory creditablo fo them to say that it way not conveniont to meot. *“May thoy,’ sld the spankor, * romomber, to-morrow ovon- ing, when thoy nro assembled aronud their fos- tivo bonrds at thoir Lhomos, that thero aro thou- aands of poor who arc sulfering by thoir dolay. Nino-tonths of tho peoplo of -this cily considor that institution (tho Iteliof and Aid Socicty) & froud. Ibellove that tho money will not be forthcoming bocauso it is not thero; bocauso it I8 in tho pockets of the officors of tho Bociety, and they aro speculating upon stavvation. 'Lha rulo that thoy havo ndopted, compelling poor ]'l_enplu to como to the coutral ollce for ro- ief, - is of itsclt sufliciont to domn the Boclety. * The eposker then pro- ceedod to condomn the wholo system of roliof adopted by tho Bocioty ns inefliciont and worthless, He claimed that'tho Visitors ehowed favoritism in recommouding aid, mw._. that fiftoon Visitors conld not puu!lbl{ cover tho round. There was & motive for the Board's koeping this money until compaliod by law or forco to glve it u{l. Il felt that the Mayor was anxious to do all-in his power to make this Board dwsgorge ; he belioved tho samo’ of the Aldormon ; but the wheels had boon clogged, bo- couse it was mnobt conveniont for this Board of Christian gentlomon to coms togothor. ~ This Boni lost a splondid opportunity to brighten up many suffering and squalid bomes—loat it to their sorrow. **Tho noedy mon will not bo put off,” said o, *and I myself will rip the intestines out of this Board, and show to tho peoplo that thoy are a curse and a sbam, Fridey evening I shall bo thers, and 1 trust those mon will read tho nowspapora aud como prepared for the issue. We shall do- mand every cant of that money now, and wo will havo it. We will reliove the gontlomon of the incouvenience of mooting acommittes of tho peo- pleberenftor, ‘If no other good comes of this movement, lot it bo that those men aredsposod aud hurled from their placos, nud that ono more fraud i8 killed, among tho many frands under the cloak of raligion und’ charity.” Tho spenkor went on to sny that tho peoplo waunted work, and not oharily. Thoy did not want the city to give them money out and out ; thoy wanted to earn it. If but fvo hundred were omployed, the influ- ence upon the romainder would be greater than tho wholo police force, ‘Lot tho Roliof and ‘Aid Socicty take warning, for woo will como unto thom whoso dolay has nllowed woo to come upon thousands. The issue must bo sottled Fridey nignt. Nearly all tho Ger- mans of the city, and thousands of othor na- tionalitios, distrust tho honesty of this Society. Let this monoy nlso bo counted, and lat tho cloals of fraud and hypocrisy be torn off.” Ald, Stont proposod that tho moeting adjourn. Mr, Btahl wished to say o fow words. Ho said thoy were obliged to make n roport to the men who sent thom, but thoy folt as though thoy s, We desiro the greatest possiblo simplification of Teglslntiou, and want the laws clearly and understand- ingly wordad, Wo liold it {o bo tho duty of the Stata to do away with all which hindors the physical sud mental dovei- oument of tho people, “Cliough wo cro thooretically in favor of Freo Trade, o cousiuer 4t necesary in viow of tho ozisting relu. tions of trado betweeis” difforent natious, thut homo indusiry must bo protected by such dules na will miake comgetition with huported articles posaible, con- ditloned that all the necessarids of Hite are froo from fport duties, Wo recognizo $u o homestead lnw, through whioh ey~ ery nctual Gottler can got & loms for nothiug, the strongest assurance of the endurance of the Republic, aud the Lest profection ogsfust laud wpeculators und governmental corruptiou, Wo uro opposed to all Uistinctions hotween mative and forelgn born, but hold it to bo fhie duty of the lat- ter to learn to read and speale English as 8oon ak nos- sible, i order to fully uppreciute. taoir rights and du- ties us cltizons, Wo consider oursclves justiticd in demundiug the futroduction of tho Germah language, - Dexddo tho English, fu tho yublio scliools of thia conn ry. P PROGRESS YESTERDAY. TIHE RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY. The Syecial Committeo, consisting of Alds, Schaffuer, Heath, and dlcGrath, and F. A, Hoft- mau, Jr., whose duty was to confor with the officors of the Reliof and Aid Society on tho question of affording more extended nseistance to the suflering population of tho city, failed to havo their conforonce, for the oxcellant ronson that the Relief una Aid Bociety were not in- formed of the intended vislt, and consequently wore not on haud when wanted, Mayor Colvin vigited the rooms of the Socioty in tho morning, and, llnmng only the Suporintendent, wont to Mr, Dexter's oftico, whoro he mot Messrs, King, Farbanks, and Harvoy, 1t nov being possible to got tho whola body of officars, or ovon w ma- jority, logothar by 2 o'clock, the hour fixed for the meeting, the Mayor mado an eugagomant for the Cominittes to meot the ofiicors of tho Bo- cioty at 10 o'olock to-morrow morning at the rooms of . tho - Hocioty on La- Bulle street, Tho Committeo ussomblod ubout 2 cclocle yostordny aftornoon in tho Mn{or‘n ofiico, and romained over an howr discussing thio quostion of work, aid, ote., nmong thomsolves, Id. Bchaffuor slatod that the T'imes grossly misropresonted his romnrks, Tuos- day, on_tho subject of tho Roliof and Aid So- clety, o nover snid that tho Socioty had abused tholr traat, nor that thero was too much red-tape-ism. Whenever ho had ocension to ap- ply Lo tho Socloty to ald anyono in distross, it e alwaya eon quickly and cheorfully grantod. MEETING WITIH THE CITY AUTHORITICY, Tromptly et 4 o'clock tho Workingmen's Com- mittoe assombled in the City Olork’s oflice, for tho purpoeo of oaring tho yoport of o b cominittea appointed to wnit upon the Rolier and Ald Soclety. They wero not mot by the lnxgo body of “Aldormen who wore prosont tha hardly dared to show thelr faces to thess peopls, and Lo would beg the Mu{or to givo somo words of hopo to take back to the peoplo. SOMETIIING JUST BE DONE SATURDAY. Mr. MeAuliffo said he bolieved tho Mayor and Aldermen were disposed to do overything iu their powor. Priday evening somo action was to be taken ; Baturday some businoss must be dono, Theso peoplo must not bs put over titl Monday. This emorgency required prompt no- tiou, Tho peoplo were honest. Thoy wantod work, and they wanted their immedinte necossi- ties attended fo. Mayor Colvin—That Committee said to mo to- duy that they woro disposcd to oxtend reliof tq the peoplo. Now, is not it better not to forestall their action, sud to wait until thoy are heard from Fridpy ovouinfi ? v, Meduliffo roplied that the Bonrd ought to hava sot nsido convoniencs long _enougl: to have met tho Committeo that dny, It wonld groutly eucourn?e tho pooplo to know thut tho Mnyor intonded that immediato nction ahould be taken. . ‘The meoting then adjourned, ond the Work- ingmon's Commitico de]pmcd in o very bad humor, Thoy oxpreased themselves as uttorly al aloss what to sny Lo theirconstituenta, who, thoy falt suro, would be discontsnted and angry at tho aspect of affairs. RETPORT OF THE WORKINONEN'S COMMITTUE, We hinvo beou roquosted to publish the fol- lowing : Teport o the Workingmen of Clicago by thély Gom mittco: Brotier Womrens : In accordunco with previvus or. rangements, we avsombled at the City Clerk's oftice tr. disctiss with tho Mayor, Special, aud Finance Comuuil: 1ees, appointed by the Common’Counetl, fur the pur- poss of devlelg means to ool 'the roquire. ments of “tho present lour, It wus decided to ‘do ull possiblo fo reliove tho needy, und give cmployment, A commitiee, can slating of threo from thu workors aud thireo from tho poclal — commitiees, - including “the Mayor, wery choron o moet ' tho Itcllef and Aid As- soclation ~ Doard ut 2 oelack, Dec, Tu consequenco of Hlio absenco of cortiin members, it wus decidod that they could nat bo aysemblod until TFriday oveulng, ~Accordiugly, Fridsy ovoulng, at 8 o'clock, und (ho’ Gommon Council Cliumor, wero ap- poiuted a8 tho timo and placo for the meattng of the Spoclal, Fluance, Rollef aud:Ald, and Worklugmcn's Commltices, Wlion wo feel confident, thut fmmedisto actlon will o taken for our beuoflt, “Tho elty officlalé, fn_goneral, aro thorougbly awnra of the necossity for prompt etion, and wa beliovo that worke and,alie wil bo prowyiy provided afiue Trlday ovonfui’s consultation, Tho Sayor especially 1 working hard for us, Lrothiore, {ho Mayor deslros to thank tho workors of Chlcngo_tor thelr orderly conduct in this thelr_great misfortune, Your Conmilice do the same. Wo re. quest thut ‘o st of sours will dostroy tho gonoral Kood opindou your conduct bas created, Jleware the inltence af any ceil.disposed purtics thit may en- deucar fo incite to deedu of violeuce, And wo behove tho liour of relief from presout snforlige wail soon como, it il QUTSIDE COMMENTS, THE NEW YORK TIMES. Apparontly ignorant of the resolutions passed at the meoting of the Now Yok workingmon, day bofore; thore was, fact, searcoly nuybody to ot theny, a4 it Liad como to bo quite gonorally understood ~ thot iho - Bub-Commiicio b not been successful in abluining w conforouce with tho Roliof and Aid Bucloty, and that nothing could be done, Atter w timo, Mayor Colvin' camo into tho room, and for the sako of form, e ho said, called tho mooting to ordor. Ouly Allormon Richardson, Swnt, O'Tirion, and’ Brandt wore thon present, thongh Botrath made his apponrance astor a late hour, but took no part intho controvoisy, 5 was ensy to sco that the Workingmouw's Commlitteo wera intonsoly dissutisfled with the turn affsivs had taken, and tint Jittlo was needed to worl to a fover hont the indiguntion they folt at whas thoy fanofod to bo tho falluro or rofusal of the Excoutive Doard of tie Heliof nnd Ald Nociaty togo far waorlfico thoir porsoual convenionce as published above, and whick wore the first stop in n geunsral mwovement, the Now York Z2imes speaks of the stato of adfairs in this city ss fol- lows : S If tho workingimen of the country are not eatiraly Dogond tio reach of reason, they will tuke caro to dis enitntenunco th splrit which anfmoted the maeting In Chicago yestovdey, 'This Intest demonsixation of tho dumgoues who e striying to load the laboring clasnes 1t th graveat pordla 1n tho most prononuce of all thelr movements, ‘The Chicago mesting boldly dumunded what was only hintod st in Now Yurk ant Olnejunati, Not contont with usking that tho ejty shall furnish thom work, thoy fusisted that moncy uan¢ wovialous bo glvon Lo those for whom no work can b ound, Alf thisnlght o vxcusublo, but this mesting way madla by tho rockiess ngltators wio managed it to ga to greator lengthe, It was mado to advison comblna [Continved on (le Fifth Page,]