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“...14 WITH DE LEON SINCE '89.
O., Buffalo, N. Y Chicago, 111., and even a little town like
Belleville, 111. (16,000 population at that time), sported an
Arbeiter-Zeitung, edited by Hans Schwartz. In New York
city there was also a Bohemian daily which flourishes to this
very day, and plies the same trade as all pseudo-Socialist pa-
pens did then and do now, of exploiting the Socialist senti-
ment among the workers for their own private interest always
ready to bow to any old or new superstition so as not to of-
lend some readers; or hiding some criminal act of the capital-
ists so as not to lose the good will of advertisers and the cash
along with it.
To insert for hard cash gold-brick advertisements, and
around election times to publish advertisements of candidates
of the boodle parties (a term frequently used then), was the
least among the wrong-doings of the publishers and editors of
these papers. They invariably proclaimed themselves to be
the official representatives of the working class;...”
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“...the efforts that were made
by all the enemies of Socialism to strangle the child, especially
during the fighting days of the Pioneer Cigar Makers Alliance,
to have been a member of which I cherish as a badge of honor.
The Lie About the Cigar Strike
The main facts of the Seidenberg and the Davis cigar
shop affairs have been published several times. The lie that
the members of the Pioneer Cigar Makers Alliance scabbed in
Daviss cigar shop has been repeated by every A. F. of L. jour-
nal, by every pseudo-Socialist privately owned sheet; the lie
has been repeated by every S. P. soap-boxer, by every A. F. of
L. organizer. Some even claimed that De Leon was a cigar
maker and had worked in the Davis shop. Let the facts be re-
stated with a few sidelights thrown upon the matter that have
perhaps not been mentioned before.
When in 1900 the cry was raised that the Alliance had
scabbed in the Davis shop many who were friendly disposed
toward the Alliance were taken off their feet. To hear that an
A....”
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