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 RESOLUTIONS. 



Sonic resolutions offered at the Eighteenth Annual C'onvention 

 of the New England Labor Reform League, in Chapel Hall, 820 

 Washington S^ Boston, Sunday, Jan. 31, 1886. 



1. >?^BWf, That, since personal liberty and the right of associa- 

 tion are inseparable from intelligent, fruitful existence, the claim of 

 "rulers" to dictate what we may or may not do is monstrous usurpa- 

 tion tolerated only because superstitious irrationalism pretending to 

 be law and order is not yet repudiated by growing sense of natural 

 right and duty destined to abolish all extant governments. 



2. Resolved, That the aims of Trades Unions to exterminate, as 

 "rats'" and "scabs" those refusing to join their repressive monopolies, 

 is a sa^ga relic of mediaeval barbarism hostile to the spirit of liberty, 

 to comWwi sense of right and duty of which labor is the creative ex- 

 ponent ; that the organization of working people, to be permanently 

 useful, must assert not invade, the rights of the weak and defenseless, 

 resenting injury to the least, as crime against all. 



3. Resolved^ 'I'hat since the Knights of Labor ado])t sex, etjuality 

 and the mutual interest of all workers to unite for-^mmon drfense — 

 two leading doctrines of this League, we invite them to !■ it their 

 despotic policies relative to land, money and exchange; ^over- 

 board treacherous timber which tends to make their great order a pi- 

 rate ship rather than an ark of safety for the toiling millions; that like 

 the Labor Congress, the (Grangers, the Sovereigns of Industry and 

 many other extinct organizations, life in Knights of Labor 'will be 

 abortively short, unless they speedily turn from tyrannous ways and 

 head towards liberty. 



4. Resolved, 'I'hat, the fight of silverists^ith goldists is a class- 

 war between two sets of thieves for mono])olizing control of jnetals 

 "precious" in usurped power to defraud service ; that neither national 

 bankists, greenbackites, goldists, silverists, or any othefj^^^ of legal- 

 ized robbers should furnish compulsive currency; (^^^^Bmo 

 every species of property being available banking basiHBerei)y in3T 

 viduals and associations can al)olish interest by providing their own 

 money at their own \'\^V nnd ( ost. 



