New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-01


any terms which will enable them b keep what t'e
,orl men - circgmstaDcsd can aaord to have 10
their bent and crouchng bodies
On one Of our strcetcorners IS he store Of =
shoe deala. frn-,se vii call II Sur1p Il CO.
which has so!f one Milton Dollars worth o. Shoes
during the past year and melted clear profit o
! One Hundred thousand Dollars $4,000 % each
partner We % DOT believe all the actual makers
Of saoes and BooN between Philadelphia rou-t-
keepsie New Haven and Sandy Hook were -.
geti.er enabled to lay up Oae Hundred Thsussnd
Dollars in ls49
Now doa't fancy that We are abog, % preach a
Jacobnic crusade against Stiuup Il Co Thoy
made Their money fairly, as the world goes. and
nobody has any right to reprosch them. If Labor
md TT 10 DO without their services. 1t was at
perfect liberty 70 DO so bat it didn't The feet that
the Shoe business saw #, n find a channel through
their store proves that no setter was in existence
b Ut there stoyh be better, and the Shoemakefs
have nobody but themselves 10 blame that there is
not They might have steady instead Of unsteady
work ard full pay instead Of part pay if they only
would Let cndesvor IN a rough way 20 show
now
Suppose OueThoOsand Workers on Boots AID
Shoes Cd and young. male End female sood aid
Indifferent some living IN our City aud some
around IN ITS vicinity were to meet he.c On some az
pointed day. and resolve to become their own en-
ploysrs TO this end they agree 70 psy IN twenty
i've dollars each h form common fund. making Do
all 5000 The sole condition Of their union
hat each one shall have constant employment
md full pay for his work is, IN the first place,
the regular joumeymens wages
They proceed at once to elect first rate cutter
u foreman and overseer Of work and the very best
business man they can get no matter though they
have to pay him $4,000 year This agent must
be man Of known integrity as well as capacity,
able 10 give ample bonds for the safety Of the funds
This agent and foreman proceed TO take the risit
sort Of store or stand for business, and advertise
the public that the Journeymen Sboemakers uon
s prepared to supply the public with Boots and
Shoes Of all kinds at the shortest notice and at fan
prices They buy stock with cash at wholesale
,rices distribute it to the members with directions
20 make up such work as they arc seyerally best
usihed for and ms shall seem TO be required to
perfect an assortment for the demands Of the trade
On the Saturday following, let the store be opened
or customers and the public called to enter and
by for cash at cash prices.
Each workman should be paid once week, II
nc chooses 70 send in his work so often, rs those
living out Of the city probably would not Friday
should be the general day for receiving work nom
associates and paying them OIL, all the work beng
passed upon MS received and paid exactly according
sbe ,,i
making poor or good vork-tne boots, coarse
shoes, ladies CATERS, o. whatever he should re
fer though OF course r demand for any hind Of
work would be intimated by the foreman 10 the
workers and some of them induced TO supply H.
Customers would be measured here as elsewhere
aud promptly supplied with the best or poorer
articles, as they might prefer Each worker might
stamp his own work with his name or mark, and
any one choosing to order his work done by per
tculsr maker would be obeyed To the best
workmcn would naturally be assigned the best and
| most profitable work But every person belonging
| TO the Union should be furnished with stock on
demand a, all times aud credited with his products
when sent ia, according to their value
Twenty five dollars per man would be short
capi,al-hity would be better, but not 50 easily
raised With twenty five a good agent would be
able to Keep the wheels moving II temporarily
short Of money, ne would always have stock or
shoes to pledge for It, and could borrow ON security
| TIL money came IN from customers Such con
Germ. veil managed, might sell $4,000 worth %.
Boots aud Shoes per week at retail. at a profit OF
ten per cent on the cos, Of stock aud iourneymen
wage. for working ii up.
At the end OF each year there should he settle
men,, and all clear profits carried TO the credit 81
the shareholders The first $4,000 should be- do
,ded to them m stock. Increasing the cash capita
u $50 600 which would be sufficient FOR an infe2i
| Div cash busress But the balance should not bc
| iiyided aud Ir.ttcred away. IL ought TO be 81
| pendcs IN buying Tor all the associates, first, al
eligible and desirable plat OF cheap land-say two
miles slusre--on the Erie Long Island or sane
ether Railroad next in laying 1t out To the best adj
vantage Into streets and small allotments, end then
alotuuc 10 each one his separate acre The bal
ance micht then be- sold after making suitable res
eryations ior churches school houses. groves
squares A. to -ioccrs artisans g. for more Than
toe whole need cost 50 soon Is tshoud be decided
that the ShoemNkers were u occupy their alot
ments thus making a village OF waste Perhaps
they would now see III to PIE, up grand Shoe
shop calculated to accommodate them al-snd
perhaps they would uot stop AZ lhis-but We wl
40, ask them 20 go too far Suffice 1t that they
nigh, at al times divide the profits e their busi
ness and spend them Il they thought proper
Such Is hasiy outline OF plan los the Eman
cipsuon OF the Shocmakeis Of New YORK and VI
cinity from dependence on Any employer but the
sAoe-weariug public generally. Iii doubtless I'm
perfect, and susceptible Of many Improvements -
| Wei. waks them then AMI let the enterprise be
got under Roadway At once. The ShoemRkeIs
| have been rather low down among Mechanics On
some years Why should they 10. 60 Up 70 the
head IN the great work at making Labor It's own
MASTER They can ii they Will, aud much easier
;hsn almost any other trade. lie, US hope that
before tins year expires, they WILL
| TREATY WITH AUSTRIA.-The Treaty with Aus
lila which was concluded in iSis by Messrs Buchanan AID
ausemAn hsy heen rSnned. and rBeished In the HaaA
aetoa RcpsAhc. The treaty mu,asy extends to al drs
cup0ons Of property the exemption from sNes and charges
heretofore secured 10 personal property.