New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-12
,,,I,a.,tr,al Congress Of New. York Oay.


tors Of sympathy with the Tailo's now upon
Strike in this City Had been ia my place "nen
these resolutions were adopted, snoaio nav
tested against their passage, bat was ''''' -
employed 10 attending to my datle' a. No.
of the Protective Union, and as an "AoV
hereafter occupied with the performance ~.
duties. / am compelled 70 have
T,,I,,,< .. ,be be,. medium Of placing my tessl'
80, nc, record. Let me then re'Pectuly aoS'
-, o. 80, ,hs oropriety Of reconsideration OF
your course.
81 nrs,ept crisis Of the progreis OF the Labor
.,o-.oen. biunder may be az fatal 10 that Move
men, as crime, and in my judgmen: it behoves
Won seriously to consider whether you have not
Committed this bluDder; and # so, whether you
can too speedily rectify it. Strikes are as old as
the Wages System by which the laborer is en-.
slsved and swindled. Nevertheless, they have
Except in few ins.ances failed Of accomplishing
their object Two circumstances explain this re-
tult: Frat, they have exhausted the means at tue
disposal OF the trades ia the support oil the lde,
when they should have been devoted 70 tina en-
uLovnent of the industrious; and secondly, they
have hitherto furnished to political demAgOgues t1e
,tepuing stones to ofice and emOlument, which,
having attained, they 1.-THE said demagoguesl have
regularly sold themselves 10 the bosses and forever
o. deyoted themselves 20 the service OF Capital
hstraving the L abOr Movement which placed then
Ia noser And these circumstances, hitherto so
f,al 70 Strikes, are being prominently developed
n his Strike of the TsOrs. Already their Com
roittees are appealing to the trades for funds 20
support the Idle strikers. Already their chosen
orstofs at their public meetings aud processons,
are found advocating political action merely as
the infslhble pGnscea for all the wrongs to winch
iourneymen are subjected by tyrant bosses.
That il is often necessary to enforce compliance
with the scae of prices which the trades may from
time to time adopt, is perfectly true. Toes Poliu'
cal action OF some sor. or other must hnAuy be re-
sorted to for the purpose OF completing the WORK OF
en- Rncip alton, 10 undenisbe. Bat there il night
and wrong way 30 secure the adoption Of just
scale of prices, and there Is night and wrong
method Of exercising political action. You have
cot upon the wrong track, and should retrace your
steps and start Hfresh upon the right road.
la the existing state Of society, the prices OF
merchandise and the rates Of wages are regulated
by the same law, entirely independent OF the will
OF merchants or consumers bosses or operatives
When the demand for articles Of consumption ex-
oeeds the supply prices 60 up; bat ne soon as the
market ia glutted, they fall again. When there ls
more work 70 be done than there are laoorers 70
do it, wages are high but as soon as there Is
surplus Of labOrers, they the wages must 60
down and If the surplus increases, employment
will be difficult to obtain, and starvation finally en-
sue. By no means whatsoever is it possible 10
prevent employers from undertaking or employees
from paderp0TktAg one another, 50 long as the
present system Of Trade and OF Labor is contr.
ued II there be in the market too many loayes oil
bread, those loaves must be offered very cheap II
the owners thereof would sell them at al, and he
who offers 10 sell them the cheapest 10 most likely
10 effect q sale. If there be in the market too
many aborers, they must work very cheap II they
would work at all, and he who offers 70 work the
cheapest is most likely TO be employed. This IL
Competition, the law OF society and the right OF
the individual and so long as Competition pre-
walls nothing short Of the entire destruction oil the
crops and oil the manufactures, and the wholesale
slaughter of the laboring classes, can prevent the
creation OF overstocked markets, both OF mer-
obsndise and OF labOrers. Commerce is more prof
itable and respectable and respected than Labor.
Homes and children are desired by all alike, equally
by poor workmen as by rich drones. Powerful as
Competition is, Human Nature 10 stronger. the
preseut competitive constitution oil society," there
lore, doons oil strikes for wages as such strikes
ave conducted, to inevitable defeat
Gao true course for the trades, and all classes OF
.sborers, Is simply 10 throw u individuasm andto
abandon competition altogether, uniting IN one As
ISOLATION, working for one another upon terms OF
eouaty and exchanging the products oil their united
labor one with another by agents which they nave
themselves appointed taking care to make no dlvl'
depds and TO invest all the profits in extending the
nm
he employed and the whole ultimately support
themselves independent Of outsiders IT. for In
stsnce the striking Tailors, instead OF collecting
money to feed clothe and lodge their ldie orethren
were simply to become members oil the ProtectlVe
Union. the amount Of their initiation fees ana the
n.yment of their dues would enable the Union to
smploy all the journeymen Taiors to whom the
bo,ses refuse to pay according TO the scale OF prices
,donted by the trade and as the Union mases no
dividends but invests the profits IN extending its
business the other Tailors receiving fuu prices
would gradually be set at work at sui better Prlces
and hosy the whole trade would be employed Tor
rather they would become their own employers y
and what is here said applicable to the railors Is
equally applicable to all the trades The separate
saniz alton OF the trades though desirable for po
It,csl purposes, does not answer for business Co
narrative Industry can never be realized through
the inauguration Of Competition A few Societies,
scattered here and there, each acting for Itself upon
the principle OF the devil take the hlntnost can
have no other effect than the rulu Of the movement
unless means can be devised to unite them one
with another az embers Of the same brotherhood
The work 10 be done ID that of one Body one SCOT
civ. one Government. Not only has man
right TO the entire product OF his own LABOR
Seven out of every ten human beings would literal
y stsrye to death If left TO depend upon tnat bus
All men are brethren, and they owe duues 70 one
ano,her from which il follows that each has right
~ shave of the products Of the united labor Of all
Goose quenty, the Union of the Trades in one As
ISOLATION s essential TO the creation Of market by
which ths exchanges OF the products of their labor
NAV be facilitated. The Golden Rule, which 10 the
hs,s Socialism, alone solves all riddles aud makes
life easy as well az desirable.
And again: in the existing state OF society eli
poltioal action which requires representative cleo
pioneering. and is based upon representative legs
lation mult ever be uncertain and generally des'
tEuctve 70 the interests Of the labo7er. Since the
institution Of this Government, Monopoly Of tho
Boil has been permitted. This has given rise 70 a
monopoly Of Money. From these monoPoNes have
sprops into existence two classes Of landlords and
money lords, who must OF necessity orH laooters,
voters, lawmakers, and everybody and everything
else in society. OF course, the suffrage, free re-
presentation, &c. are only pretty bsubles, well
enough to talk about but Of no sort OF conse.
ouepce except so far as they promote the inter.