New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-07

! IN lcii, and is as follows:
Full Brush Hats. cts No. cts
Half " " .--...62. cts. No. 3 Do..-.-...-.40 cts
Fine Nutrias I'D cts. No. Do.-.-...-4i cts.
Mapping sax. ...34 cts. No. 5 Do...-...-..5O CTS.
hall spun" ......3l Sizing sax & hlf sax cts
! No. Plain Hats. 81 cts. Spanish -. cts.
An average hand can make from twelve 10 fifteen
Hats per week, and will thus earn from s. TO sla,
according the quality OF his work and his own in
dustry and expertness The only person employed
| by the week is the Foreman of the shop, whose
wages are sl2 TO SIS. The Manufactures have no
connection with front or sales shops.
Beside the Fair Shops there are three shops in
the City which arc ranked as foul, or which en-
| ploy irregular. incompetent or foul Jouneymen
at low prices and are Stunned by Journeymen in
fair standing, as pests and dead houses The rules
and regulations OF the Journeymen Haiters are very
siric, and very thoroughly adhered to. There are
bat few fouleys out of the regular foul shops, and
they are all well marked.
The Finishers are paid greater variety Of prices,
and i, is difficult 10 create List. An average price
may be set down as 50 per doz. At this rate good
hand can make 50 or sic per week
The Trimming of Hats and Sewing Of Plush put
ting in the crowns Of Silk Hats are done by women
and girls. For Trimming the price varies from to
l2l cts-senerally ;a2 latte: or fine work, in the
City. In country places the usual price is cts. y
smart hand, who has been regularly apprentced
aud taught the business lit does not take long to
learn,) can make from 81 to 81 so per day. There
are many girls employed in this business who av-
erage SC to IS per week.
A large proportion of the competition under
which our Journeymen now suffer so greatly comes
from Newark and Philadelphia where all kinds of
work is done for less than half the New York prices.
From Report of The Corresponding Secretary OF
the Central Committee, made 10 the Journeymen
Hatters in July, lsi4. we compile brief view Of
the condition of the Trade in the vicinity Of New
! York:
Nerark NJ J.-Fifteen Employers, giving work
to 81 Journeymen and % Apprentices, complied
with the Bill of Prices-some Of them, however,
with much reluctance and consequently such COM
pliance has not been adhered to. One large firm
refused to make any arrangement or come 10 any
understanding, and many Journeymen were induced
to accept employment from them.
Philadelphia.-The Bill of Prices was accepted
by "a employers, giving work to lie Journeymen
and 81 Notwithstanding but two foul shops in
the City. Shortly afterward, however, the Cores
ponding Secretary received information that great
deception and villainy had been practced by en-
ployers and Journeymen These Iourneymen, it
seems, says the Report had been toul before the
! Convention and were then and still are working for
! Cat-Gut Bosses. This class of employers are a
great nuisance in the Trade. They are like broken
gamblers when their regular business fails they
90 10 cutting one anothers threats by undertaking
each other" Ten employers signed the Bill of
Prices but never paid them.
Bostom.-The Journeymen refused to take any
action make any cxerons to get the Bill OF Prices
adopted although it was much needed. Their own
Corresponding Secretary writes: I'VE are all
foul
! But il short the condition OF the Trade in nearly
all the country towns is very similar, and is yearly
becoming worse and its consequences more disas
rous TO the City interest This of things, much
as it is deplored is perfectly inevitable and arises
from an irresistible law of necessity-a law which
is gradually though surely taking of the City all
the manipulatory occupations and transferring them
10 the country where the prices OF rent and all the
necessares Of life as well as the means and oppor
tunitv for recreation and independence fifty pc.
cent in favor of the wor knan. The City will sup
ply itself mainly with Boots and Shoes, Hats, &c
&c from the cheap country workers-keeping only
few Finishers and extra men here TO pat on the
gloss and polish.
The separation in feeling and interest between
employer and employee is perhaps more strictly
kept u D in the business of Hat-makng than in most
other branches of mechanics Unhappily divers
ty of interest has blinded the eyes both employers
and Journeymen to the fact that neither OF them can
succeed in opposition TO the o,her-that antagonism
between the different interests OF integral trade
or operation is as fatal as between the different
bers of the same body and that it is only by mutual
concession and assistance that the real interests OF
either can be promoted. But this is mistake al
most universally held and whose pernicious conse-
quences have pervaded every class, grade and con-
di.ion Of Labor-a mistake which can not be cor
rec,ed until gradual interchange Of thought and
feeling between al kinds ofmen shall have smoothed
down the elements Of strife and selfish struggle and
begun 10 elicit harmony from ell the elements of
life which now, inverted and mismatched, produce
nothing bat most painful discord.
z The Siouz Murderers who recently made
their escape from Jail al Dubuque. Miss have fallen
victims 10 the combined evils Of famine and fatigue,
as will be apparent from the following article in the
Galena Gazette:
Coming down the s. Peters river l encamped for
the night short distance below the Rapids near I'VE or
SIX lodges Of Sisston Sioux Indians. | there in
formed that of the prisoners had reached there