Lincoln, labor, and slavery; a chapter from the social history of America

Schlã¼Ter Hermann D. 1919

Sujets

• Lincoln
• Labor
• United States
• Slavery
• Working class
• Labour movement

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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LABORLINCOLN,
AND
SLAVERY
A CHAPTER
FROM THE
SOCIAL HISTORY OF AMERICA
By
HERMAN SCHLUTER
.:-.
. .::
1913
SOCIALIST LITERATURE CO.
NEW YORK1913COPYRIGHT,
By
HERMAN SCHLOTERCONTENTS
PAGECHAPTER
PREFACE 5
I. ECONOMIC ANTAGONISM AND PO-
LITICAL STRUGGLE 13
1. Historical Review 13
2. Contrast 18Economic
Political 223. Struggle
THE CHATTELII. WORKINGMEN AND
SLAVERY 34
1. The Industrial Workers of the North
and Slavery 34
2. The German in AmericaWorkingmen
and 70Slavery
. 3. The White of the
South 84
4. The of andWorkingmen England
103Negro Slavery
III. FREE LABOR BEFORE THE SENATE
OF THE UNITED STATES 113
IV. THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT.... 123
1. General Condition of the Labor
Movement 123
2. The Attitude of the Workingmen
towards the War 128
3. Effects of the War on Labor.. 1374 CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
V. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE
WORKING CLASS 143
1. The and theEnglish Workingmen
Civil War 143
2. Abraham Lincoln and the Working-
men of 157England
3. Lincoln's Attitude towards the Work-
Class 168ing
INTERNATIONAL WORKING-VI. THE
MEN'S ASSOCIATION AND THE
CIVIL WAR 186AMERICAN
Address of the General Council to1.
Lincoln 186Abraham
the General Council of2. Address of
the International Workingmen's
to President AndrewAssociation
193Johnson
to3. Address of the General Council
198the of the United States...People
DURINGVII. THE LABOR MOVEMENT
202THE CIVIL WAR
2021. The Draft Riot in New York
2. Laws Labor 210Against Organizations..
3. Interference in LaborMilitary
Troubles 215
2244. White SlaveryPREFACE
This book has a two-fold toFirst,purpose:
throw the taken the work-light upon position by
class and the international labor movementing
chattel indicatetoregarding slavery; secondly,
the attitude taken one of famousthe mostby
characters in the for thestruggle emancipation
of the Abraham towards the la-Lincoln,Negro,
bor and the class.question working
The author's in the treatment ofstandpoint
this is that of historical firstmaterialism,subject
into the science of Karl Marxbrought history by
and his-Friedrich to thisEngels. According
torical the and intellectualconception political
of stand in the most intimatephenomena history
relation with the economic and social events in
It is the and thesociety. production,
division of into classes caused
society thereby,6 PREFACE
which constitutes the foundation of the political
and ofintellectual Thehistory any given epoch.
division of into classes and theirsociety antagon-
istic interests necessitate the conflict of classes,
the class within thisstruggle, society. Feudal,
and interestsabsolutistic, bourgeois proletarian
in a of become solidified intogiven epoch society
into ideas of these andclasses,principles, specific
their contentions with one anotherproduce by
universal This offers us the
history. history
of a series of which have takenspectacle struggles
between the ruled and the the ex-place ruling,
and the in the variousclasses,ploited exploiting
of fromhistoricalphases development struggles
which modern is notbourgeois society exempt.
our class restsf~~In present society antagonism
on the and domination of the work-
exploitation
who are of the means ofclasses, depriveding
of ofthe owners theseproduction, by
the The owners of the capitalists.
of the factories and of the meanssoil, machinery,
of and all other instruments ofcommunication,
classconstitute theproduction, ruling precisely
because own these means ofthey production.
The workers constitute the and ex-subjected
class because are excludedploited precisely they
the means ofof thesefrom ownership produc-
modern thetion. These two classes of society,
and the orcapitalists proletarians, workingmen,
inare therefore to each other alikeantagonistic