New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-31
The Carpet-Weaver, and The Posi-.

In the Evening Post of SATURDAY,. there Is ar
tcle entitled Conduct OF the Wings. but referring
smelly to the difference between tire CarpetW cav
era and their employers on the subject OF Compen-
sation. We ask attention to its statements and
reasonings The following is the state of facts as
sumed by the Post;
/ That the reduction oil Wages IN Carpet
Weaving is not owing 10 the Tariff 9 Superiine
Ingram Carpetng will still bring 10 to 20 cents per
yard "a great reduction Of price is admitted
g. AT this price, the manufacturers can pay the old
wages to their workmcn and still clear 25 10 30 per
cent. profit 4 The statement OF The Tribune
that the new Carpet Power Loom tends inevitably
To reduce the price OF Hand Loom Weaving F." is
only another artihce Of the manufacturers. which
they seek to urge excuse for Cypress
ing the operatives the cost of THIS loom being
great and the product inferior 5. The statement
that British carpctmauuiacturers rncs for I'LL
ing while American do not is false, no persons
know better how to use the rags than the Amer
can manufacturers
Now our statement that rags are extensively
employed in England in filing Carpets and are
not in this Country we have on the authority OF
good men who we think could not wfuy deceive
us. ,rheye and by ,chom Rag Filling is employed IN
the manufacture OF Carpets in this Country
the truth is with the Post we wish to correct our
statement but we want evidence AS to the new
Power Loom for Carpets we have seen 1t at work
and certainly cannot imagine that the fabric 1t
produced in any wise inferior to that produced
upon the Hand. Loom. We thought 1t superior
aud cannot now how 1t could be surpassed on
the Hand. Loom The Power-Loom costs some
thing of course, but, if we rightly remember the
girl who tends it makes nearly or quite dollar
day weaving at st.r cents yard Carpets for which
treaty.fve cents were formerly andeghleeH are noe
paid to the hand,loom weaver. And so well salts.
fled were the manufacturers with the operation OF
this Power Loom that, when we We're IN Lowell
last May they were about to tear down the factory
in which they had fifty looms running to make way
for another in which they would run two hundred
This is n point on which the workmcn must not
be misled The Power. loom is destined TO super
sede tho Hand Loom there cannot be doubt oft
The Hand. Loom Viewers must understand tins and
prepare for it. Whoever tells them the contrary
mislc ads them we fear to their serious injury
As to the Immediate practicability of paying
higher wages than those now offered, we can
not Judge but we think the employers were
discourteous in declining invitation to confer
with the workmcn on the subject But let us
understand the principle on which the Post
rests in this case Does it assert n moral
obligation requiring the employer To pay the high
est wages he can afford when he thinks his pecu-
mary interest would be promoted by offering less Z
When came to this city to seek work at
typc.settiue part of the Newspaper Offices were
paying the Scale or regular list of prices agreed
on by tile Association of Journeymcn Printers,
while part refused to do so and OF this latter class
was the Evening Post We never heard that the
proprieters of that paper made an exhibit OF their
business receipts and profits to their louneymen,
to show their inability TO pay the regular prce-we
did not even hear that such inability was pretend
ed. We understood them to maintain that the
wages OF Labor like the prices of every thing else
were to be regulated by the relation OF Supply 10
Demand and that they were the sole judges o!
the price they should offer for types setting which
iourneymen were at liberty TO accept or reject at
pleasure Have we misunderstood the Post ON
this point Or has il rule for itself and ano-
ther for the Carpetmenl Does it maintain gener-
ally that the wages of Hired Workers should rise
and fall with the profits of their employers? We
certainly believe it desirable 10 institute state OF
things IN which something of this shall be ea'
sioie, but We are not that the wine can be
oenehclally put IN the old bottles. Will the Post
enlghten fully as to its views ON this subject