New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-01-30
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
Labor-Anarcby nj the West.

tn. or pay the Prices they have paid since the in
oroyemen, in their business consequent on The
Tam o l.i2. but must go back u the odd rates o
something below them, Iron Their product ha'in-
fallen more than m that proportion They say goo'
ogddlers cen make from - b. 80 per day at thos
rates. which We believe IS not admitted Al A.
e,euls. tho result is undoubted and disastrous
works are stopped in the dead Of winter when II
a difficult to find new employment, and not mercis
the strikers themse,s but four or five times ~
many Others who have no difference with their EN-
plo,ers. but whose work stops with the Puddlln.
are thrown ont Of employment ard often OF bread
~ this Indictment season.
There is ike rupture at e Louis between tbo
IRON Mcllc,s or Casters and their employers. tn
latter insist on reduction OF wages by piece
yo,l the former resist It As this IS she dull scr
con with Moldels. when great many OF them arc
usually out Of work the consequences are probso'
los, disastrous than they might seem bat sul there
must be hundreds standing idle who might he use
hlly A. work and earning good livelihood TIE
world has use Tor the products OF their skill aud IA
dustrv tbev have need of the due reward but both
tween them and their employers respecting that
rude guess at their earnings known as Wages
Shall It always be thus
10 reading the proceedings OF the Journey men
A thinker must be struck with their entire \e'
unconscious condemnation Of our entire SOC
framework AS defective aud unjust Probably hal
these men never harbored the idea Of socia
to, i,,l z Ak them
one by ono # such an idea could be- made TO work
and they would shake their heads and say, 1t -
AZ well in theory, but il will never do ~ practice
But when they come to differ with their employers.
they At once assume the Effectiveness OF our pre-
sent Social puity, aud argue from 1t as point 10y
nobody disputcd 1--WE ough to be paid 50 much.
nhus runs their logic because wa Rccd aud
they can a6ord it." OHgLL do you say
friends Don't YOU realize that the whole
world around is based upon must instead o.
osght Which one oil YOU. though earning
fifteen dollars per week, ever paid five cents
more than the market price for hushel OF poia
toes, or a basket OF eggs, or quarter ot mutton
because the seller ought to bo fairly paid Tor ms
labor, and couldn't really q6ord to sell at the mar
y
ever maid n poor widow a dollar piece for making
,oar shirts when YOU could get them made NJ we
for hall dollar, even though at the dollar 70"
would be getting three days work ior one Stel
krward from the ranks, you gentlemen that nave
conducted yopr ocH baying and muns through
de ON The principle OF oprhf aud lot us make
onr ohcissnce TO each of YOU, We shall DO II right
heartily aud with no fear q, beins rendered neck
weary by the operation
Vet that sought is glorious word when Sp.
pNed to the relations OF Business and oi Labor
We must not let it be forgotten There is IN 1t the
seeds of a revolution more gigantic and Per' {
than any Ncreniaud or kossuth ever devised
Heaven speed the day whom not only IN Iron but
IN all branches Of Industry, the reward OF Labor
shall be regulated not by must bat by ought.
We arc not here assuming that the Iron Mas
,ers Of Pittsburgh really ought to pay the higher
rate 1t wages or not, 10 decide that question
would require an acquaintance with many iac's
not within our knowledge Obviously, however IN,
pud who commands - per cent O! the wages
psd Ter like work in lsi5-6 IS doing great doa
better, rclati, ely than his empower. The rcdar
toa ia the price OF Iron has been more than TWEEN
ty.6,e per cent though many OF the elements Of
cost have not bccn essentially reduced M on'
can nationally contend that the price Of Puddlios
lron should be as high when good Bar IS worth
but sac per tun as when it commanded 500 but
whether the rates demanded by the workmen were
TOO low then or are too high now, We do not as
same to decide
A. al fhna
tine apparent indspositon on either side to discover
any law whereby these collisions may bs torm'
mated for the present and precluded IN future. /
seems 50 natural to US for the wOrkmen to ss!
Nou tell US that You can pay bat three loacihS o.
our turner wages be- ause of the low price OF Iron
now suppose we scceP, your terms, ciR yoH ognn
Hat cur rgges skGN adreros rAeAcc0 and 80 ia,.
Is tbe p,tos cf l,os shall iRIprore - Yes, would
be the natural aud proper answer Of the masters
- soa y,H acr,c that they shall &c rcd"cca vhen
,s,r aud SO FAST as ircn A1H docl,gc AL lp5ther
This benz accepted, the entire relation OF capita
to Labor ia thus particular department IS readlus'
ed on the basis OF Proportion or Common in'eres'
mstcad Of that of arbitrary Wages eVol'ins con
sariety OF interests Now the paddler gets $
zach although the lron should no; sell Scr enough
tayay HIM. AMI cares very little whether The bus
eess is prosperous or depressed, save as ITS sus
pensioa may turn him cut Of work But with the
establishment Of Proportion as Ia" o. the trade
every workers Interest woald be ON the side O.
r'osperity and his wages every week depend on
The prics which Iron should bear at tie end 81 Il.
But from no party to this controversy dove hesi
aae fruitful OF reooncihng word From the journey
mems side, We hear all manner OF JsoobinIc oiamo'
against the expressions Of capital wealth, monoP
o'y' &c. but practical Suggestion Tor their reno
No one says. Let US hire Iron works lo
which there are abundance shut upl aud 20 &c
making Iron as our own masters !; nor DO the Mo.
aefs OF St Lonis attempt so far as we have seen
70 initiate the noble example Of their brethren al
uqcinnah. who have established. nearly paid ior
aod have now IN full operation. the best foundry