Foreign Language Press Service

The committee of the carpenter's council which was ordered to request from the Republican National Convention the employment of union members for finishing the Auditorium reported last Saturday that the Republican Party was fooling and not playing ball with organized labor and the building wo

Two miles south of Lima, Ohio, a dynamite factory blew up, exploding 800 lbs. of nitro-glycerine. Too bad for that quantity lost. How many conspiracies could Bonfield have proven with the aid of 800 lbs. of nitro-glycerine!

An explanation of the defeats of the working class by its enemies, as well as its momentous irresolution, can be found in the fact that the time has not yet come for action. The English speaking big labor organizations tried to achieve their goal highest wages, shortest hours, by re

The Times mentions today that Michigan seems to produce only millionaires as senators, referring to Palmer Stockbridge and James McMillan, and winds up its article with the supposedly harmless question: "Is there no chance for anybody to get elected senator in Michigan but millionai

Four thousand men and women demonstrated yesterday at the Pioneer Aid Society's picnic in Sheffield that the working class of Chicago possesses a spirit of resistance which cannot be broken by a lying press or police tricks or persecutions. Dr. E. Schmidt was the first speaker. The

It is known to everybody that the local police with Bonfield at its head has lately done a new deed of vulgarity which in consequence will demand the sacrifice of four innocent men. These men have no means of support and are the heads of families. We think it the duty of every human being to

We cannot deny that after the exciting turmoil of 1886 there came a lull in the class wars which was practically a stand still. To the same degree as the working class lost through despair and disorganization on account of not having had enough understanding of solidarity, so capita

In that bitter fight which is being waged among the capitalistic newspapers and which has to be waged to remain in that cesspool of today's degeneracy, we are certainly in the lead in this country in comparison with the rest of the world. There is no other country in existence where

Encouraged by the results of the founding of the Sunday school on the North West Side by the Workingmen's Educational Society, and in order to meet a long-felt necessity, this society last Sunday opened another progressive school in the Thalia Hall. The attendance was close to 100 c

On account of the incarceration of several Bohemians on the pretext of dynamite plotting, the Workingmen's Legal Protection League was founded for the purpose of collecting money immediately for their defense in court by luring able lawyers. As this whole affair is a planned attach

A well attended meeting of the CLU, (Central Labor Union), was held on Saturday, Aug. 25, in Craf's Hall, 54 W. Lake Street. The Carpenter's Union, #240, started a strike-fund with a weekly per capita assessment of five cents. Carpenter's Union, #241, is against the founda

In a country like America where certain forms of wholesale thieveries are lawfully protected and promoted, and where escape of punishment for the worst crimes is made possible with the aid of money, and where even children "stick up" each other and rob - in such a country it is inevitable tha

The dramatic club, Arbeiter Buehne, will open its third season on September 16 in the Thalia Theater for the benefit of the Sunday schools of the Workingman's Progressive Unions of the North West side.

Our continent produces two kinds of donkeys, the southern and the northern. When the little South American donkeys are attacked by an enemy they form a circle with their heads inside and the hoofs outside thereby protecting themselves through common kicking. The North American asses. known as

Captain Schaack self-styled mayor or czar of the North Side, is supposed to get fired. We have the privilege of giving an accounting of everything that North-siders know, and say about this departing pasha of the North Side. Capt. Schaack is a many-sided genius, the most s

T. B. Dyer, editor of the Granite Cutters Journal and an English conservative labor leader writes in one of his articles about the disharmony among the working class in the U. S. It is a pity, but everything Dyer says about the unharmonious relations among the workers in the United

Yesterday was the monthly business meeting of the board of directors of the Deutschen Gesellschaft in Niehof's bank offices. The impudence with which this so-called benevolent society makes its statements public is indeed touching. From total monthly receipts amounting to $362 only

Among many liberties enjoyed by the sovereign American citizen, the unlimited freedom of the press ranks foremost. An attempt from any quarter to curb this liberty would draw a tempest of indignation which might prove dangerous to that political party which sponsored such a move.

The pictures of scenes at the Haymarket riot on May 4th, 1886 which are being shown now in the Herald are not true representations. They are hallucinations or rather villainous fakes of a traitor who lies.

Delegates of nine German singing societies met last night in Pfaff's saloon to discuss the program for the November 11th memorial celebration in Waldheim. The report ends with the last lines of the song selected, with the title: "On the grave of our friends." "Rest then yo