The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-01

the practice. The democrats demand the right OF
labor TO be protected in the enjoyment OF an inde-
pendent suffrage by the secret ballot. The wings
deny this protection, and insist that the rich EN-
poyer shall stand over the laborer at the baot-box,
and mark his vote, that If he dares 10 vote against
his employer, he and his family may be turned out
to starve.
That this is no fiction, the police established over
the ballot-box by wing employers in our cities and
manufacturing towns, proves, in every warmy-con-
tested election.
That it is part of their system to coerce, instead
Of protecting labor, was also demonstrated in the
calls made upon wing employers by leading wing
presses, just after the election of President Polk 10
begin reduction Of their business, by turning out
democrats, and retaining only wings. The coun-
try, they said was to be ruined, of course, under
MIR. Folks administration; and those who voted for
him must be made to feel il first!
Take another proof in wing State legislation of
their protection of labor. The manufacturers have
been drawing their dividends of twenty to forty per
cent from the earnings of labor, with little or no
increase of wages to them, over the most depressed
periods of business when the country was ridden as
with nightmare by the United States Bank--that
one wing panacea for all ills, without which the
pulse of the nation would cease to beat, but which
do not find even named or limited at in this last
address of "the party of the past" from their
vention in Faneuil Hall.
THE TEN-HouR SYSTEM OF LABOR.
The democrats maintain that a system of ten
hours labor per day ought to sufficient for the
steady, industrious operative, and secure to him a
reasonable portion Of time for the cultivation Of mind
and the social interests of his family.
The wings deny this, and insist that the working
man, like the mere working ANIMAL shall either sub
init to reduction OF wages below the living point,
or devote to labor for his employer all the time not
actually required for eating and sleeping.
AT the last session Of the legislature, the petitions
nf for hn1aa
ton of labor, disregarded by the political party
who now ask these same laboring men for their
votes, to enable the same party again to show their
love of labor in the same way!
One fact, in practical matter like this is worth
ton of profession to prove who are the friends Of
labor. Let the wing workiDgmen of Massachusetts,
by whose votes alone wing capitalists get the power
to control them at their will, think Of this at their
leisure.
THE WINGS SEEK TO RESTRICT THE MARKETS AND
THE LIMITS THE COUNTRY.
Equally extraordinary and Inconsistent are our
opponents in their appeal TO the people to keep
Massachusetts in wing hands, ''to prevent the en-
largement of an already overgrown territory by the
admission of the foreign State ofTexas."
Still harping on that strain! Mark their con-
sisency! They must have wing Legislation to keep
the tariff up, and TO keep the country small.
But what is tariff or no tariff without MARKET
And here is opened to the manufacturers Of Massa-
chusetts a new Market free of duties or of compe-
tition, as large in territory as France; and these
Fanueil Hall wings tell the Massachusetts manu-
facturers that they must join with the wing polit-
clans to shut up this market to US, and hand it over
to Great Britain.
Yes, thousands of spindles and looms are almost
daily increasing on our hands; production threatens
to overrun consumption and produce reaction, from
the inevitable laws of trade, which no Legislature
can govern; and yet the wing cry is, We must have
no more home markets; we must stop the wheels of
industry, and go to work to PREVENT THE ENLARGE
MENT OF OUR ALREADY oyERGRowN TERRIToRY."
This is the language Of their address. 4Onr terri
tory is Too large say this party Of the past here in
Massachusetts,, in l845.
Well and truly have they described themselves
as the party of the past Ia past never to return) in
their attempt to revive this narrow old dogma OF
Massachusetts federalism.