New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-24

and another part Hirelings through life, Is
not q good one, but the contrary. To speak
more accurately, Labor for Wages, though
a great Improvement on the Feudal system,
which it superseded, and still greater on
that of Slavery, which is still older, is yet
an imperfect and defective system, destined
to be superseded by better as Man ad-
vances in civilization and intelligence-by
a system which will ensure to every one
work and the just reward of work at all
times without subjecting him, while at work,
to autocratic power.
Of this better system we believe Land
Reform and Labor Association are the chief
elements. Land Reform will open the un-
improved and Incorporated Soil Of the
Republic, and ultimately Of the world, to
free settlement and cultivation in limited
tracts by those who need it, and at the same
time provide safeguards against future az
gregations of arabic acres BY thousands in
the hands of any individual; while Labor
Association, rightly organized and perfect
ed, brings the workers in the different
trades-Carpenters, Hatters, TailOrs, Shoe
makers, &c.-into direct and benefcent re-
lations with the consumers Of their products
that is, with each other. In other words,
the shoemaker, instead of allowing one
fourth to one-third of the selling price OF
each pair of shoes or boots to the shOe-deai-
er, will receive precisely what the shoe
wearer pays for them, less perhaps one per
cent. for the expenses of receiving, storing
and delivering. The actual working halter
will in like manner receive what the shoe
maker PAYS for hat, and so of other trades,
and will have work secured to HIM in some
other vocation in case the market shall be-
come glutted with hats. In other words,
we would have the Hating or Tailoring
business carried on, not by hirer Of Hat
ters' or Tailors' labor, but by corporation
or partnership of Hatters or Tailors, pro-
viding capital by taking stock in the con-
Germ to the extent Of twenty to two hundred
dollars each, receiving dividends thereon
according to their several investments, and
being paid for their work according to pre-
determined scale based on the actual value
of the product. Each company or corpora
ton should be composed Of persons known
to and confdirg in each other, and should
choose its foreman, agent, treasurer, 30. BY
a general vote, and finally bring itself into
the highest state Of order and efficiency,
through the adoption of adequate and equita-
BILE regulations. In process of time, each
trade or corporation would come to supply
the wants of its members by wholesale pur
chases from other trades, as experience
should dictate; and trade overstocked
with workers would in general devise and
provide means of Withdrawing its surplus
force into other vocations. Such are some
rude hints of the System of Industry which
We believe destined to supercede the Hiring
system, and with most benefcent results.
We certainly do not condemn the Strikes
for Wages in the gross; they are sometimes
wise, but oftener unwise, because certain to
fail, after sggravating the sufferings they
were designed to remedy. Strikes are like
Battles of any kind sometimes apparently
necessary, but if SO then grievous and
desolating necessity. Their victories are
not and cannot be final; rate of wages
established with ever so great exertion and
sacrifice to-day may be insidiously Slapped
and destroyed tomorrow, and at all events
afford no degree of security next year.
Bills of Prices in their best estate are but
sand-banks thrown across river, which is
certain ultimately TO sweep them away, and
may do so at once. The Wanted laws of
Trade are all against them, and will tri-
umph over them in the end. Only by sub
jecting Trade to a higher law than that of
every man for himself can this tendency
to universal cheapness at the expense of
Labor for the benefit of Capital be resisted
and overcome. So long as the Wages sys-
tenn shall last, the general tendency of work
will be away from just and liberal to Mig
gardly and grinding employers, because
these last can take jobs or contracts cheaper
and make money by so doing. Establish
tomorrow an ample and fair Scale Of Prices
ia every employment under the sun, and
two years Of quiet and the ordinary muta-
tons Of Business would suffice to under
mine and eiace nearly the whole. No re-
form under the Wages system but a decided
step ont Of and above that system is the fit
and enduring remedy for the wrongs and
expressions Of Labor BIZ Capital. And this