New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-08-21
TaiIors, strike In Boston, hns-.-The Ger
man TaiIors of New-York.

Journal. % expose tiN lnfsuAy4e 49,
due, Of our empoyers-ths Hssrer IsiioT' Of Do''''
=, a.. .y.,ernare reduction Of our
..h.. zen ,.r.eysrinsly carried on, until ~ ensn
=. -, a our e.rnipgs have been sched from Us
,sa.,f, ~ t6i. plan mas been adopted Of nnoins
81, i,, our work when taken 10, ana under pee ~
Lad crk Is and ~ per cent - frequently oeo.citd
from our miserable e~fnings on may 80 ~ .l,
80, ~ which our unfortunsts Glaze . reduced, when
',,f,,u you that NOthirds u our number are com
asIl.d 10 work the Sabbath IN order n get the
ynesn. Of keeping body and soul together
To remedy this dissfscefui state ~ Things We nave
.,-uck from work and drawn up bill Of prces in
which we merely ASK that about ~ per cent Of the %
taken from during the last i've yeafs' should BE-
sdded 10 our wages Ihis Is surrey ho' A']ns '0'
much. l.
portion Of our employers At once conceded our a.
rnsnds and acknowledged their moderation but me
large embellishments that have within IL" years re
but 10 from our and blood refuse 20 Do 90 and
they resortins TO every means no matter no" Vie
10 defeat our objects
osanutv Il work be executed IN New York. and Tor
hi. Uuroo.. hsve employed Al individual named --
10 assist nen In their oppressive and unjust connuct
Tn. -- hss taken store IN Norm NAhsn'st sno
Ger the door he has put Advertisement for 800
German T.lsrs" lie has been enabled 10 get f." Of
our German feOw-trsdesmen lstely arrived IN the
country who speak but little Engllsh 70 assist them
IN preventing from eieystDs position IN society
and that G. our class but they found out h-
bsse purpose for which they were employed they ~
turned their work 10 him.
Now. cir. ". wish TO caution our trade IN part.
cular tho Germans Of your city. against being
made the tools Of fraud and oppres.ion and We trust
some OF that intelligent and respectable class will take
steps inform their poorer countrymen Of the base
means taken 70 cast inismy upon them.
We remain, on behalf Of the Tsilorss Society,
JOHN FLEMING, President.
JosrrH NJ MULLEN, Sec'y
Tslors Hall, Annst Boston, MAJ" Aug H.
Remarks.
We chserfully publish the above communica-
ton emitting only the names of the parties sig
mstired, with respect to whom our information ID
not sufficient. We have not the slightest doubt
that the wage, fthe journeymen tsilors Of Boston
have been forced down u the merest pttsnce un-
der the working Of the present system Of comPeti-
ton. 1t il not surprising thati should be so-or,
rather It would be surprising were It not 50. II
10 an established principle OF political economy,
that, where the labor market 10 permanently over-
stocked wages must fall a. nearly as possible u
the starving point. Ia large cities there is an III
variable tendency to such overstock, which, or
our Atlantic sea board, 10 increased by the con
slant arrival of emisrsnts from Europe. This ten
dency 10 felt in other trades well az the tailors
But there 10 another cause which comes In 10
act even more oppresEyeiy against the tsilors
Their business being one of the first necessity
has naturally been Of the frat TO be carried
upon large scale, with ali the appliances and adj
vsntsges Of heavy capital Large establishments
have been set up, in which clothing can be fur
nisked more promptly in far greater variety, and
at cheaper rates than is possible for any single
workman carrying on business ON his own &C
count. The consequence is that thousands of
tailors who would have kept small establishments
IN country or city, gaining decent support from
the work OF the neishborhood in which they
dwelt are compelled to toll a. journeymen in
these monster shops. Being thus brought togeth-
or in large masses the competition becomes more
intense among them The ingenuity Of the en-
ployers 10 also spared on the one side by the ne
cessty Of selling cheap, and on the other by the
desire of large profits, and they still farther
highten the competition 18th which their work
men have to contend, by employing women 70 DO
many parts OF the work hitherto performed by
men. and in that way the surplus Of labor 10 the
market 10 still further increased. The result ne
cessarily ia constsn, diminution Of wages until
the starving point 10 reached, hey ond which 10 the
nature Of things, 1t cannot permanently go. Meau-
while the prices of clothing reduced, but the
profits Of employers are not The reduction pro
ceeds from the greater economy OF the maDuiac.
tare, in which the cutting down Of the workmen 8
wages plays principal part. We buy our
clothes cheaper, but We buy the lives Of their
makers with them.
The means most frequently employed by work
to resist this cutting down process IL u
strike. They refuse in mass to worn unless the y
can have better wages. This 10 desperate means
and ,s NO, likely To be adopted save in desperate
case. There must be some intrinsic Justice in the
demand Of body Of mechanics when they bach i.
upby astrike, especially IT, a. We believe is the
fact in Boston. all the members Of trade volun.
tariiy unite in the refusal to work Let any man
read the above statement OF the Boston tailOrs
and say Il they have not good reason to make Il
stand against the process to which they have been
~ long subjected He must indeed be destitute
of human feeling who could insist on keeping thea
under the operation OF 90 terrible slavery. The
man who commits 3 single thest, OF highway rob
berry may De impelled 70 his crime by some IRE
sistible necessity or transient impulse. AID may
shll preserve the remains of honor aud goodness
In his heart bnt the idea OF deliberately eniorcns
upon whole class of honest and useful citizens
the daily surrender Of their hardest lsbor without
anything like fair equivalent, is consistent only
with utter depravlty and finished hesrtlessuess.
Oh course the parties who resist the moderate
proposals OF the Boston tsilors will seek - take
reiasc behind the principle Of competition. They
wall dlscls'm all personal responsibility IN the
matter. When the case reaches them they cast
all the blame upon the system, thoush doubtless
nobody eherishes 50 profound contempt az they
for the insane reiormers who labor to mend it
Tney do not plumber the work men, not they. when
they make them labor for starvation wsses We
know il ia not slw avs just To urge home responsi.
biity upon individuals who act So parts or sgen,s
of a great system. and Tor that reason. warm As
are our sympsthes for the working classes. We
never denoanoe the evils they suffer under {. The
special work OF this or that body OF men. We
deem itmuch more right and important that they
should be reused to sslfdePendsuce and seli-he' p
than that they should cherish any other thar
kindly feelings toward any portion OF their fellow
citizens But in the present case We submit thai
the men who strenuously oppose the demands o
the b. ston tsilors and prevent al agreement incn
being arrived at between them snd their employ
or. are personally responsible for more ev'i than