Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-08
From The Chronotype'
Great Meeting of TailOrS and SrampstresScS
in Boston.

The Journeymen T%ailors on a strike for
higher wages met in large numbers on Tues
day evening in Faneuil Hall, filling the hall
below, while the galleries were filled with
ladies', mostly we presume interested in the
same trade. The chair was occupied by Mr..
Trask; and addresses were made by Mr..
Fleming, Mr.. Horace Seaver and Mr.. u. f..
Treanor.
Mr., Fleming showed a variety Of garments
manufactured for the large " ready made"
establishments, and stated the miserably low
prices which are paid for making them, as
well as the prices at which they are sold.
Only twenty cents are paid for making
vests which sell for from Sl,75 10 $3.50 4;
seuen cents for pants and ~over-alls sold for
from IS cents TO l, and seven cents for shirts
that sell for $3.50!
The lowness Of the wages compared with
the work which ought TO be done on these
garments is certainly appalling, and if the
bellys Of the workmen do not suffer, the
backs Of the purchasers certainly must.
Several sums were announced as being
contributed 10 aid the strike. The stone cut
tiers had given $40, the printers $25 and the
tailors of Woonsockett $50.
We understand that the Merchant Tailors
generally approve the list Of prices proposed
by the ionrneymen and consider it very mod.
crate and reasonable, but the "slop men y
hold out and will not listen 10 the workmen
or even heed the invitation Of the Mayor &c
meet him as a mediator and discuss a COM
promise.
Mr.. Horace Seaver read a series Of r%esolu.
tons prepared for the meeting by the United
Committee, and addressed the meeting elo-
quently and at considerable length in support
of them. The resolutions propose a unior
Of all the workmen in the trade for the asser
lion of their rights, and particularly co2pera.
tire unions to secure them by rendering the
operatives independent Of the capitalists.
This strike seems TO be managed with ex-
traordinary zeal and unanimily and we lool
on it as Of hopeful tendency, in the long run
But alas! how sad to think that its very sue
cess will enhance the most active cause o
the mischief! 1t is only a slight reprieve from
starvation that can be won by any strike, a
the very best.
The moment fair living wages are estab
lished for the needle in Boston, the railroad:
and the packets will pour in fresh competi
tors, who will again underbid each other and
expose the whole mass 10 gaunt starvation,
The employers may be reproached, and very
; justly, but what do they care? Both parties
90 on the heartless principle of trade, tn,
uuJtI Vi IdoOI MlSiGS " give iHe lShot nv
ney for it, and the seller wishes to give tn,
least labor for the money.
The employers have altogether the advan
tage, for they have large stocks of goods ac
cumulated, and plenty to keep them from
hunger.
The only radical cure for this terrible evil
which first or last must bring the laborinI
population of any country to the horrors O
famine, seems TO us a radical reorganlzatio
!, of society-on the basis of justice and tn
+, abolition of competition and swindling traffic
A nd the only practicable and practical init
cations seem to us to be cooperative ind al
try, seD.emphyment and emigration.