New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-06-13
Right Of Nan TO Labor and Necessity Of an
IndMslrial Reform.


thing else but the sign 0: abuse OF them. L,m0nteg
The combat OF Fathers for Pohues Liberty; IL
our, be fot Liberty IN Labor or Attractive Industry.
The greatest Statesmen and Politicians of the
World have conceived, up to the present time, no
higher order Of Liberty than Political Liberty
including the Right Of Suffrage, Of clecting Ad-
mini.,rative Rulers, and Equality Of Rights before
the Law. The time has coma to throw open
10 Hgmay Intelligence a view of that broad field OF
and show that those great Principles, which have
heretofore been restricted 10 Politics and Govern
ncn,. can be extended 10 all departments Of So
cic,y. and TO all the spheres Of life.
The first aim of Association will be to render
Liberty .Sociai,-to take it from the BARROW and
contracted sphere of Politics and Government to
which it j. now confined and extend it TO the broad
field OF Luie-to every department Of Socicty.-
and fret of all to Labor or Industry, which * the
founda ion Of the Social System.
VIA, Liberty j, there for the Laboring Mass,
who are forced by want and necessity To drudge
through weary life in monotonou- fields. dirty
workshop, or disgusting manufactures, hara.scd
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price and dictslon OF Employers or CaPitullss,
without the eninymcnt of Art. Science pleasing
Social Relations, and with scarcely ahy hope OF
escaping from lnc,r dependent ard destitute CON
duion' DO they enjoy Liberty because they pos
So, the privilege of voting for few Oicelloldeis,
for few Political Intrsucf.! What an idea Of
Liberty Sill it Is the highest that our Political
Leader. ADD Sratesmeu,-that any of cur Political
Parties have conceived.
Labor is the lot Of the vast majority OF human
beings; their days spent in il; they are con
strained to drudge like animals, because stern
necessity. which they would wish to avoid, forces
them to it. Labor, cxeresed from poverty and
anxiety for the future, "a II now Is, reduces Man
TO a complete state Of Slavery, although 1t may
not take tlat name. There is no Liberty for the
being who is forced to wear out his life in mo-
notonous round Of toll, because the alternative
want or starvation-is more terrible in his eyes
than the bondage to which he resigns himself II
we canno, find means of dignifying Labor and rem
derirg il ATTRACTIVE, tbs Mass must always re-
min ignorant and dependent drudges, while there
will be small minority OF idle and eiemlna'c
Wealthy, owning the Capital of Society,-lhat Is,
The Land Manufactures. Fleets, NC, and living
upon the toll of the Multitude They will also
remain a. they now arc-miserabie Tor Man.
without the pleasing and invigorating pursuits oil
Attractive Industry can be neither happy nor
healthy.
If it be of importance to secure to Man the
Right of voting, is it no, also OF some Importance
10 secure to him the Right of LARoR' 1t strikes
Il, that it is BY Right of Labor VIC understand
the Right of being guaranteed constant Employ
mcn,-or of being able tn pursue at all times
,bo.. branches of Industry for which Education
b,. fitted individuals, OF for which they have
,as,c. The Right of Labor is the primary and
most important RICH, of Man; for without it, his
Right To- live even is not acknowledged. Unless
tins Right be secured 10 him, he may be sunk IN
poverty and utter destitulion. or may starve upon
the fruitful E.rrh,-in beth Of which case. all
other Rights become useless and dclusiye.
50 little do mcn-cven those mos, celebrated for
their power, of mnd-pcrceiyc the truth OF things
and analyzc social tacts,-so blinded are they by
habit, tia, it will probably be asserted that Man
does enjoy the Right Of Labor, that he can always
find work, and tina, in possessing the Right OF
Suffrage and Equality before the Law, he pos
sc,scs all the Rights which Man can ENJOY.
In answer to this blind and mistaken view. We
.ay-Look at the cities of civilized Europe, and
50 often at our own, and see the Laboriug Classes
wandering from mandatory to mandatory. or
from workshop to workshop, inquiring for work
and refused it, Without any means of sub>ist-
ence while cat Of employment, pressed by Want
and often ty sem-siar,ation they reduce the price
of their DAYS labor, selling fourteen or mors hours
of monotonou, drudgcry out OF each twenty tor
. miserable pittance. they avid actual famine
.,,,y starvation. unhealthy food poor clothing and
,cpcment. SOW the seeds of disease. undermine the
constitution and lead to early death
SO creatures thus situated. what mockery I"
offer them the Right to vote. or the guarantee ct
not being thrown into prison without writ ct
haJcas corpus! Are they free because they pos
sess these illusory guarantees when they are at
the same time the slaves of Labor, the ssrts OF
Capitalists 1t is true the why does not force
them to labor like the real slave but does rot the
alternative OF Want or Famine do IT a efictuay
If their bodies cannot be sold, they have TO bargain
their Liberty and their time without being able 10
dispose scarcely of an hour. No: Political Liberty
J.. pertecty illusory without Industrial Liberty; II
.,en.,onc. a mere means of enabling Man to
attain To- his Destiny. Possessing Political Liberty,
h i FREE. To discuss all measures OF Social Reform,
and the principles of true Social Organization 1t
.bonM be- made use OF ard applied to this purpose;
not. II dcgencra,es into party controversy, so"s
the .,eJs of yjolen, contentious, and, after running
~. .,..r., sinLs inin the Poliiical Ivranny owl OF