New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-09-04
The Anarchy ofLabor-Politicalc Carpet

attracted Et--EHA dstt4-S-O--- 49,
If The Press with regard to II has been most cHa--
sc,erisric. While we have endearored 10 give
both sides far bearing, place al the facts be
s-. tbe public and await lis Judgment thereon. the
journals OF that party which has done Us utmost 20
create the presen, depression Of Manufacturing In
dustry have given the statements OF one party only;
and without waiting even :or these, jumped al
once 70 the CONCLUSION that the employers were
oppressors and knaves and that the proposed re-
duction Of the price paid for Carpe,J Gazing is
necessary ana unjust Not che Of them has at
tempted to dispute the truth that the price OF all
Carpets has fallen some Is 70 % per cSit- and IS
Likely 70 70 still lower under the operation o: The
New Tariff; they cannot truly deny that as good
Wearing is done on the new Power Looms a,
Lowell for sir cents per yard as the manufacturers
BY hand-ooms have hitherto paid t,reHiyyfre and
nov offer 20 pay eighteen cents for: but they keep
up the cry Of oppression and rapaci as if the
manufacturers deserved the pillory for not paving
the prices Of the last three years The object OF all
this is apparent They mean TO distract attention
from the operation aud results OF the Tariff over
throw OF $40, and have these results popularly al
tribpted TO something else than the true cause
They hope also, b. joining in the c!amor against
the employers. TO win or retain votes among the
Weavers, who are generally Wings. They have
nothing to lose and think they may gain by pursuing
this course and perhaps they will gain some votes,
but surely at the expense Of the Weayers and OF
the entire community
We have recently conversed with some OF The
leading manufacturers OF Carpets from whom we
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most responsible endorses
/ Tha, when the prices o; Carpet-W eaving
we're raised in consequence OF the Tariff Of l7.2
it was distinctly stated on one side and asscnted
to on the other that corresponding reduction must
be made when the circumstances which justified
the advance should be changed.
. That the Carpets now making by Power
Looms at Lowell for which the Weavers receive
but six cents per yard in particular infe
rior TO those for which the hand-loom weaver has
hitherto been paid twenty-five and is now offered
eighteen cents per yard. SO we Judge from per
sonal inspection.
3. That so far from making profit on Carpets
even at the reduced price for weaving, the Thomp
sonville Works have deliberately stopped alto
cether and do not intend TO resume until the effects
of the New Tariff and the Power Loom are fully,
definitely ascertained. The manufacturers have
an ample supply Of Carpets for the Fall Trade, and
do not feel justified under present circumstances
in making up goods for the Spring Trade, even at
the reduced prices. They do not wish to make
another yard of Carpeting these two months at
any rate.
1. AT Tariffville the proprietors have made every
effort that they deemed practicable to adjust the
unhappy difference. They have offered to run the
works on the account of the workmen and give
them the full proceeds Of all the Carpets they will
make afterdeducting for indsputably necessary ex-
pendtures they have offered to run the works as
hitherto, but the new prices for Weaving and to
make up to the Weavers the old price in case the
proceeds of the years business will afford it at the
years end, the books being balanced by impartial
men, All they ask, for the present is to be ena-
bled to pay their way, and they think no fair man
can ask that they should go on at loss
;. AS to prices, the manufacturers state that the
assertions put forth in the of the Weavers
during their rccen, Convention III this City were
certainly mistaken. They say that no good steady
Weavers have hitherto averaged less than dol
lar day several have habtually earned larger
amount and quit work from to i'll the afternoon
Some of course have earned little OR nothing there
being no requirement Of SO many hours labor at
Thompsonville. At Tartive. each man has been
required to weave to the amount of q little over a
dollar day, which good workmen could do and
did in eight to ten hours
g. The Weavers Address speaks OF the Difficult
" OF educating their children on their wages. The
IL, fo,,A
we think at Tariftve ALSO there have for years
been excellent schools open the year round, free to
all tho children in the place and supported by
ton on property, which the proprietors of course
mainly paid. Those who own real estate pay
but poll tax Of fifteen TO twenty five cents
per annuu and this is all the poor man pays for
the schooling the year round of his ten children ii
he has so many The rent OF dwelling and gar
den in Thompsonville is thirty dollars per annum,
and the company pay the taxes
Such is the substance OF the statement Of the
leading Carpet Manufacturers. Ii we have mis-
apprehended or mistaken on any point. we will
cheerfully make due correction. II there be any
facts which We have not stated calculated to give
the matter different aspect, we will gladly publish
them. AS at present advised, i, does seem to US
that the strike of the Carpet Weavers was unwise
and untimely and that those who urge its prosecu-
ton are not the friends Of either party.
We have before us Constitution adopted at
the late Carpet, Weavers Convention in Tammany
Hall, which, emitting the names OF Officers and
Committeeman, we give entire and commend to
the earnest attention OF every reader. 1t is as
! follows:
A CONSTITUTION FOR THE REGULATION OF THE
CARPET TRADE.
This Constitution agreed 70 Convention OF Dele
gates from he different factories throughout the United
States held in Tanrnany Hall, NewYork, Aug. 18th, 1915
The objects OF this Constitution institute genera,
proper understanding among the different factories OF
Cnioa, in order support the interests OF al coz
cerned ad also o the purpose OF securing the ali OF The
whole body employed the Carpet rsde aInst any in
road that may made part OF The operatives by any
uupriacip!ed employer and for protesting The Carpet
Weaving Trade from the abuses OF unprncip-d opera
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i. That Convention OF Delegate. NEE, annually in