The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-21 00:00:00

It would ippear that similar combination? to those
of this townprevail among the operatives of New York
in America. The men have struck fur higher wages,
and have canmenced the folly of walking, in proc,:.ssion
throught fie streets, thus exhibiting their pride and
ignorance, heir poverty and independence. The Editor
of the New York Gazette, who says he is a " mechanic
himself," and has " worked as a journeyman," addresses
his refractory brethren as follows :
" I have wtnessed the proceedings of the Journeymen Car-
penters since the commencement of their turn-out, and inn
satisfied that no body of men so well deserve the names of
conspirators and aristocrats (the names they apply to the
Bosses,) as tiemselves. I would ask what proceeding is more
aristocratical than forcing men from their work, without regard
to their engawments, or the price they obtain for their labour;
thus injuring ioth Boss and Journeymen. What sort of a dis-
position towarls a reconciliation do they show, when they treat
those who has; endeavoured to assist them by advice and pro
positions, with such articles as have appeared in their answers?
What sort of trinciple do men go upon, when they injure them-
selves to spite another? By what rule of arithMetic do they
calculate to slow their gain, by their present proceedings?
What sort of away to obtain justice is that which leads through
acts of injustice ? Suppose the Bosses do make money, is that
any reason Way the journeymen should prevent them ? Is
their demand just? If so, will it not admit .of extension ?
Why not demand 2 dollars per day ? The Bosses would not
lose by it, inasnuch as they could calculate their estimates ac-
cordingly. Wly force the Bosses to pay 1 dollar 50 cents
.per
day to bad workmen as well as good ? Is not that the height
of injustice and folly? They say that they do not tyrannize
over the BosseE when they act in this matter, but merely act
for justice. Tiny may call it what they please, but it is nothing
less than holding a rod over a man's head, and demanding
terms. lam not defending the Bosses, nor do I intend to, for
I believe that-tie labour of the journeymen is worth 1 dollar
50 per day; bit I .mean to show the journeymen that their
proceedings since the commencement of their turn out do not
entitle them totheir demand. I shall not propose any plan by
which they might obtain their end, although there are many,
for fear of healing some quotations from Shakspeare.—lt is
sufficient for me to say, that if they wish any assistance from
the public furtler than a subscription of 1 dollar or 50 cents,
&c., they must learn to treat those who wish to do them good
through the press, with a little more respect."

We take leave to recommend to the especial attention
of the unregistered electors of the southern division of
the county of Lancaster, possessing property within the
parish of Liverpool, a notice addressed to them by the
churchwardens and overseers, requesting that all claims
to registration may be made on or before the '2oth July
next ensuing. —We do this the more earnestly from a full
conviction that the Grey administration is in the agonies
of a political death, and that there will be a general elec-
tion, when we are most anxious to see the sense of the
people taken to the utmost possible extent that the Re-
form Bill will admit of. We do not address ourselves to
a party, but to the whole body of electors—we call upon
them to be prepared for action, and we entreat them not
to shrink from the performance of this duty in disgust,
or disfranchise themselves, because the bill imposes some
troublesome restrictions on the assertion of their rights.
The Bill, such as it is, is now the law of the land, and
we hope that we shall not hear of any captious objections
to the shilling fee for registration.