WHAT BURNS SAID.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9019, 4 February 1895, Page 6

WHAT BURNS SAID.

The English labour leader began by referring to his pleasure at being able to appear in the ancient and historic city of Boston, which is also the Court of "King .Capital of America" He said that the cause of the Trade Unions is as great as was that of the Abolitionists of former years. "Oars is not a battle of -race, colour or creed," ho said,. •• bub we are asking and demanding a better condition of things sot only for 70,000,000 in America, but,for every man and woman in the entire world: Trades Unions were created the day after the factory system was born. Putting labour leaders into prison ■ will noc stop strikes. It may lessen their frequency, but they will be more severe." Referring to the Chicago criticism of him he said:—"The Trade Unions should go into municipal politics, and when honest working mep are In seats of honour many things, anoh ae atreeb cars au&electric light and other necessaries, which would be of greac benefit' to working men, will be achieved. The curaa of the American labour movement is jealousy, and yon mast remember, while yonare killing each other, that monopolists are only hugging, themselves . with joy because your fighting will make it all the longer before you will come to your senses and get your juet, demands. Speculation and monopoly are going on more in America than anywhere else, and I cut see premonitory symptoms, which, if not guided into proper channels by Trades Unions, will develop a storm in this land before which the French revolution is but a nightmare and the Commune an illusion." In an interview the same afternoon Bums said miners intheUnited States- are poorer paid than the labouring classes'in England, and the cities and workshops of the country are accursed by monopoly's grasp. "I have said of Chicago that it was a pocket edition of bell, and I hope to have an opportunity of enforcing' my belief wid backlog it up with mv reasons

when Ire urn to that city. I believe Stead told the truth about Chicago. Hell is truly a pocket edition of that city."