The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-28 00:00:00

8-,1 T. L' DAY, MARCH 28th, 1
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MASTER AND MAN.

l'aE conflicts oi Capital and Labour have,l
I)Pc.n numerous and determined in England
nd elsewhere latterly. Consequently in-
dustrial news paragraphs are, as a whole,
anything but pleasant reading. Strikes and
lock-outs, always lamentable affairs, have
had Ito be chronicled with alasming fre-
quency. And the worst of the sad business
is that, when Capital and Labour are alike
suffering from a wave of trade depression,
and should stand shoulder to shoulder to
brave the temporary storm, they are far too
apt to fall out between themselves and
charge one another with bringing on the
mischief. Recrimination and social strife
and bitterness between class and class ensue;
and master and man recklessly rush out as
it Were to meet the hard times which threaten
to overwhelm them. Whatever may be the
wellspring of bad trade and it is hidden
deep down under strata after strata of com-
plex considerations—the interests of Capital
and Labour are indissolubly interwoven. It
may be that both the monied designer and
director and the willing worker, acting
each from his own standpoint or harmoni-
ously joining forces, will prove powerless to
control the market in which their products
are disposed of, and so compass perennial
prosperity. It may be, even, that, jointly or
severally, they will find themselves unable to
understand the many circumstances which
militates against an unbroken briiikniss in
the world of work. The subject is a wide
one, with multiform ramifications. But
however changing circumstances affect in-
dustry, for good or for ill, the evil or the
benefit will have relatively an equal effect
upon master and man. There should, there-
fore, be harmony ever between them, for
their own sakes as much as for the welfare
of the community at large. Strikes and
look-outs ate the outward and visible sign of
a want of confidence between class and class
which ought not to exist. This jealousy and
ill-feeling, which is due, we are willing to
believe, to want of thought far more than
want of heart, is at the bottom of all the
conflicts of Capital and Labour. Unfortun-
ately there ate men who go about widening
the breach which, it would be idle to deny,
divides employer and employed. These
agitators, who can scarcely be sufficiently
execrated, wearing the mask of friendship
to the toiler, seek to sow discord and open
out new avenues of disagreement, for no
sincere purpose other than that of finding
themselves an easy, congenial, and lucrative
livelihood, the wherewithal for which is
furnished by the foolish workers in the
great human hive. Would that the bees
would not only ; disregard the voice of the
drones, but refuse them a share of the honey
which idleness has had no hand in gather-
ing. It cannot be too emphatically affirmed
and reiterated that Capital and Labour. are
-one, all-powerful for good when in union,
impotent in opposition, "useless each with-
out the other. When a black cloud of de-
pression overhangs the realm of industry,
the bond of unison must be more tightly
drawn between master and man. Sharing
prosperity, they must also together diva;
the scantier results of less sunshiny times.
When wares are in quick demand the worker
should not puzzle his brain to find out how
to extort more than his fair proportion of
profit, nor ought he in the day of reversal to
st :.nd out in stupid stubbornness against an
equitable 'eduction of remuneration, and
childlishly cast away his bread because there
is no butter to put upon it. On the other
hand, the capitalist should show a proper
appreciation of his obligations to labour, and
not covet and keep back anything from his
workmen's rightful part in the earnings of
the* joint efforts when success is great, or
Wring too mach toll from the toiler if orders
,are hard to obtain, and the manufacturei

article difficult to dispose Of with advantag..
There must be mutual consideration, and
hand-in-h.aucl co-operation. The increase of
fairness, hard thought and hard work, and
all-round regard for the common weal will
kill the strike spirit, so repugnant to t;!:,
judicial mind and the better natnre of won
We arc threatened with a general
of work in the coalfields because of a :1;

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agreement as to what wages should- •
Could anything, in a depress, ~,I mark, I•
more Suicidal than such a de!ilierate a•,.:ni-
Tatiein of evil-9 Undesirable as woa:,i ;,.•

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state interference with the sale of la 1)1"
the open market, if conflicts of such niacn:-
tude as thabsimpending cannot be prevented
by common sense action on the part of those
mos closely coneE:rned, or hy independent
private arbitration, it would be wise to es-
tablish a Government lloard, properly con-
stituted, to decide amieahly betweeft master
and man all questioas of serious import at
issue. Thns, these humiliating strikes might
be made impossible. The state of the coal
indu4try we ht-vo instanced as an examid
only. of the bad feeling to-day too largely
displayed between employer 0111 empl)yed.
\fatly of the manufacturing interests :Ir..
similarly sitnatcd, we regret to find, thout4H
the disagreements are not of such threatee-
ing extent as exists amomg the delvers un .
derground. It is pleasing to note one bright
streak of light in the darkness in the work-
men of a large Yorkshire iron firm agreeing;
to give their masters a week's work for noth-
ing as their contribution to the enforced
offertory of hard times. This is a practical
considera.tion, warranted by the eircam-
stances, which cannot fail to call forth reci
procation. - That is what we want to see ;
master end ilian Pulling together, in bal
years; or good.. Attain that, and all things
else desirable ;rill follow.

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COMMENTS ON CURRENT THINGS.

GENERAL GRAHAM'S force is meeting with.
stout and determined resistance from the
savage warriors fighting under the banner
of Osman Digna. The desperate valour of
these *Arab hordes. evokes the admiration of
their opponents. Our soldiers are loath to
offer up as sacrifice on the altar of Mars
brave fellows who know no fear even when
death itands hard by. The expedition, con-
ducted against such courageous fanatics as
the Saudatiese are proving themselves,
is likely to cost us all too dear. They are
. masters ea movement over a strong and
brush encumbered country; and, hiding amid
the mimosa patches which cavers the hill-
sides, the Malidi's followers will wait our
approach, and take every opportunity of
dealing destruction on detached bodies of
the British force, even though the attack
cost all engaged in its making their lives.
In such broken gronnd cavalry are, to say
the least, useless, an:l we only meet t
natives on foot upon unequal and disadvan-
tageous terms. Every caution must be
taken to ensure solid movements forward,
exposing no weakness to the attack ; and
.zerebas and outposts should be constructed
only under strong and sufficient guard to
~prevent the possibility of a successful assault
by the ever-watchful Arabs. Give them the
least chance of success and an attack will be
made, which it may be, as it has already been,
will only be repulsed with difficulty and loss,
and by the full exercise of fighting powers
of the highest order. "Surprises" like that
near Tamai come into close relationship with
disaster. We must make their repetition
impossible. _ .

TILE situation with fegard to the Afghan-
istan frontier is still grave; and the Russian
military party seem strenuous in the efforts
to force war-like action. Meanwhile here
at home all is activity in the dockyards to
ensure the readiness of a strong fleet for
service, should occasion arise. But Russia
would strike a heavy blow at her best inter-
ests did she allow her fiery soldier-states-
men to permit her to engage in hostilities
against Britain, by sea or land. Neither
.would a war with the Czar be at all pleasant
or profitable to our own country. it wculd
mean a few more millions added to the
National Debt, and the spilling of much
precious blood, not to speak of the paralysis
to trade which must attend the conflict. We
trust Government will be able to guide the
good ship of State safely past this danger-
ous war reef, for a war between Russia and
England would be a terrible calamity to
both countries, and to the world at large as
well.

THE makers of Germany's greatness are
just now the object of much honour in their
own country. The Emperor William--a
worthy and mighty monarch, and one of
whom the Fatherland may well be proud—
has passed his eighty-eighth birthday in a
city gay with rejoicings ; and now'the Iron
Chancellor, whose firm will and keen judg-
ment have been so constantly at the Kaiser's
call, reaches the Psalmist's limit of the life
of man amid a shower of national honours.
To Bismarck and his Emperor Germany
owes her present proud position among the
nations, and the land of the Rhine heaps
honour on herself in lauding them.

LEICESTER seems to be the chosen habita-
tion of the anti-vacinators. A wise act of
legislation, designed to resist a malignant
disease, is opposed there, tooth and nail.
And the other day a monster meeting AV:Li
held in the stocking metropolis, at which it
stated that 20,003 demonstrators attended,
to carry on the crusade of ignorant bigotry
against scientific effort to allay suffering.
Dr. Jenner was hanged in effigy on a gibbet,
and the Vaccination Acts publicly burned
in the Market-place. How stubborn is pre-
judice to so long outlive the time when
rational objection has had to giye way before
unanswerable argument and demonstrated
fact.

TIE E Upper and Lower Houses of Legis-
la 0-,are are at /loggerheads in Denmark. The
Commons have refused to vote the Budget
a:)proved by the Lords, and demands the
d:.;nlissal of Ministers. The King will not
:;hier his advisers, and maintains it to be
:.; ; constitutional right to make and unmake
I L!)inek, whether or not his people affirm
,ir acts. So, altogether, it would appear
at, as in Hamlet's days, "There's some-
Jtiiig in the State of Denmark."

SOMEHOW, public interest seems to have
greatly abated in the University Boat Race;
which was wont, once upon a time, to arouse
the enthusiasm of the whole countryside.
It is its age as an institution, we fear, which
is fast robbing the event of its meed of at-
tention; for the printing press sems to sup-
port the aquatic struggle on the Thames in
vain. The partisanship • engendered by the
"accident of birth" north or south, or even
of association with either university, is in-
sufficient to assure a long lease of future life
to the annual battle of the rival blues. The
elrly spring conflict of muscle and nerve ,
ween the academic crews of Cam and Isis
hqs had its heyday, and the insatiable public
demands something more novel to arouse its
interest.