Indiana State sentinel., 1845-11-13
Eacfnrx Labor.


Already is the corporate factory system beginning
to produce in the United that depth of distress
which la. long excited the horror of every observer
of the condition of Lancashire. We have recently
had call attention to the fact that since
the esta abshment OF the preseat tariff, the Lowell
factories have alone discharged lI09 girls from their
employ, and reduced the wages Of the remainder 30
cents each per week. This Is the inevitable conse
quence of corporate industry The girls first, un
der hgh tariff seduced from their household duties
and happy homes by the temptation of high wages.
When sufficient number are drawn into the snare,
little improvement in machinery enables the stock
holders 10 discharge some of the hands. But, alas,
tie best years Of their life have been spent in the
gloomy walls Of the factories. They have had no op
portunity control matrimonial alliances, and they
have no resource but the factories They must work
there or become dependents friends. This is the
point sought after by the cotton lords. They
rule with an iron hand, and cut down wages at their
pleasure until the mseries of Lancashire repro
duced in New England Happily, however, the New
England operatives possess clear intelligence, and
a little Of the spirit of their grandmothers, who,
Ratchet in hand, sent back the savage from their
dwellings,, and afterwards scorned TO drink tea, when
to do 50 was to acknowledge unjust authority.
Already the operatives of Lowell have congregated
in Labor reform association and we have before
US tract No. l, printed by the association. This num-
Der has spirited communications from 'Juliana" and
amelia" 1t appears that when operative is
gageQ III ldciOTYs she is lO
circumstances. If not, she gets no written DIS
Charge" without which she can get no employ else
where. She also gets printed paper of "regula-
tiOns" by which her iChOe conduct to be governed
"Amelia gives the state of affairs at the Lawrence
corporation, the particular property of MIR. Abbott
Lawrence whose aSSidRitieS at Washington procured
the pas sage of the present tariff. Let us how
rie slaves are treated under tie strap Of has
seer;
is OF a
quite number Of individuals employed the Lawrence
Corporation where the have recently erected and
put in motion mill the time stopping one
Of the DID, in which said persons employed. Now
as they did not voluntarily leave their situations but were
discharged herefom account of suspension of opera
tions by the company, they had undoubted right to
choose their place of labor and the work in the
mill vastly laboous. and the wages less than
be obtained in many parts of the city, they sgnhed
their wish TO 60 elsewhere but nsolenty told that
they shall labor there not at all and will not be
leased until their year has expired when they pos
sby find further for delay, they Hry deign to
bestow upon them what is in common parance termed,
Irregular discharge% y thus enabling them pass from
prison house to another Concerning this precious docu
men il is only necessary to say that it very precisely
minds of that which the dealers in human flesh the
South won't to give and receive as the transfer OF
piece of property from owner to another.
"Now reader what think you is not this the heigh
of the beautiful and not operatives ungratefu
of creatures that do not properly appreciate,
be highly thankful for such unparalleled generosity the
part of our employers
"But to return to toing maden,-the next beaui-
fu feature which she discovers in this glorious system is
the long number Of hours which she is obliged spend
the above named close, unwhoes5me apartment 1t is
enough that like the poor peasant of Ireland the Rus
sian sef who abors from sun TO sum- but during hal
of the year, she still continue to toll on. long ae
Natures lamp has ceased lend its aid-nor will
this suffice satisfy the graspng avarce of her employ
for she is also through the winter months required
se partake of her morning meal and be her station il
the MILL while the is yet sleeping behind the eastern
hills titus working on average, at least vefve hour
aud three osths per day, ercisiue of The time allotted
for her hasty meals, 1vhich IS lcter simply hal
hour at nOoH-n the spring Is allowed the at morn
and during the summer is added Is minutes to the hal
hour Them too, when she is last releaseC
from her wearsome days toll, still may she not depart il
peace. No! her footsteps must be do9ged TO tha
they do not stray beyond The corporation Hlits and sh
must, whether she will no. be subjected TO the manifold
inconvenience of large crowded boarding house, where
too the price paid for her accommodation Is utterly
significant, that IL svU her the common
comforts of ffe she is obliged sleep small,
Fortress hGL reHHlGed apartment, containing hal
dozen occupants each but NATTER she IS obera
tre- is all well enough for her there is no 'abuse
about it no, indeed think empoyers,--but d.
we think so time will show. Here, too, comes up
which stIikngy illustrates the petty tyranny of tn
employer. little girl, IL I3 years of age. tn
daughter of poor widow, dependant her daily toll 70
her livelihood worked of the corpo aiions 6sGrd
ing Wih her mother who, dying, left her TO the
aunt, residing but few steps from the corporation
but the poor little creature, all unqualified she
provide for her wants, compelled to iedve he
hohne and the nothery beSt01ged Hp0n her. and
ter one of these same large crowded boarding houses"
! The gloating eyes of some wealthy rOue had pro
badly rested upon her, and she must be compelled
like the daughter of Virgnius, to the of her de
stroyers. 1t will be borne in mind that cents pc
meal is the allowance for feeding those girls. Ye
the atrocous perpetrators of such horrors talk of
couraging american industry" and are daily revi
ling the infinitely superior condition of the southern
slaves.
Again, at meeting of the boarding house keepers
held Sept. 26, the following resolutions passed
"ResOlred, That we most respectfully request thos
persons who have the control Of the prices of board h
corporation to take the subject into consideration and
that justice which their usual magnanmiy gives
reason TO expect
keepers of houses make receipts meet
expenditures Is by reducing the quality, If not the qaan
tity, of provisions furnished by boaIders"
4 This is the 'home market for farm produce tina
the tariff was to Create-"REDUCE THE QUALITY /
NOT THE QUANTITY of food given to girls tina
work fourteen hours per day, and sleep six in sma
room at night. Oh "benefcent Tariff" what bles
sings dost thou not shower down on misguided an
thankless operatives Dost thou not give force an
point to the precepts of the iHusriOus Graham, VIII
clearly showed that food was only slow poison, an
the less taken the better IN. Y. Neu0s.
Jeremy Taylor must have had a very shrew for
wife. Hear how he defames the gentler sex :-''Thes
women have tongues like cats and bite like an adde
All their reproofs seedlings; their common intel
course Is open contumely."
; Speaking of the widow Of a blacksmith, who wa
constantly laborng to obtain the necessaries of life
: he thus pOrtrays her character