Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-07
Emancipation sI Labor
From The Tribune.

From The Tribune.
Tho Laborina CIass already know that wo
hare little filth In Strikes OF any form Of
combination TO modify The action Of the Hire
l'rrfir Wages system We believe the vice
% be cradcaied is embodied in that system
iiseis aud is inseparable from lbs existence.
Ilief. are good employers and bad employ
en-, ~ there ore good aud bad workers for
urkts, but the sysiem under which part Of
mtnind arc Hirers and another part Hire
iirge through life, is not a good one, but the
eou.fqry. To speak more accurately, Labor
for Wages, though great improvement on
The Feudal system, which il superseded, and
a Asil greater on that of Slavery, which ia
etill 'lder is yet an imperfect and defective
syseln, destined to be superseded by better
ns Nun advances in civilization aud inielli-
gence-by system which will ensure TO
every one work and the Just reward Of work
at a. Tines without subiecting him, while at
WORK, TO autocratic power.
Oh this better system we believe Land Re-
fofnta and Labor Association nre the chief
elcDGnts. Land Reform will open the un-
improved and unappropriated Soil of the Re-
I public, and ultimately of the world, TO free
| settlement and cultivation in limited tracts
BY those who need il, and at the same time
proFile safeguards against future aggrcgn-
ti7ns Of arabic acres by thousands in the
hands Of any individual; while labor Asso-
ciaii0n rightly organized aud perfected,
brings the workers in the different trades
Carpenters, Hatters, Talors, Shoemakers &c.
--into direct aud benoficent relations with
the Consumers of their products-that is,
witIieach other. In other words, the shoe
maker, instead of allowing one-iourth to one
third Of the selling price ofeach pair Of shoes
| or boots TO the shoo-dealer, win receive pre-
cisel} what the sloe-wearer pays for them,
lessBcrhaps one per cent, for the expenses
OF receiving, storing aud delivering. The
acltHl working halter will in like manner
| reccne what the shoemaker pays for hat,
| nndiso of other trades, and will have work
socufedt0 him in some other vocation in case
1 the market shall become glutted With hats
Pin uiler words, we would have the Hitting
or 1nloriDg business carried on, not by q
| hinei'of Hnifers' or Tailors' labor, but by a
eofrplaiioh or partnership of lIatters or Tall
ofr, providing capital by taking stock in the
eof,fA IN to the extent Of twenty TO two hun
tre0 lolars each, rccriying dividends there
on AZ afeording 10 u,oir scveml Investments,
AID ttipg paid for tlleir work according 10 q
u NJ a. !. sssi1e.i stnio tAeea on The dctaa'
value Of the product. Each company ol
corporation should bc composed of persons
known 10 and confiding in each other, and
| should choose its foreman, agent, treasurer
&C.. by general vote, and finally bring IT,
self into the highest state OF order and efli
cheney, through the adoption of adequate
and equitable regulations. In process o.
time, each trade or corporation would come
10 supply tue wants of its members by whole
sale purchases from other trades, as eXpe-
rience should dictate and trade overstock.
ed with workers would in general devise and
provide means of Withdrawing its surplus
force into other vocutions. Such are some
rude hints of the System of Industry which
we believe destined TO slIpersede the Hiring
system, and with most beneficent results.
We certainly do not condemn the Strikes
for Wages in the gross they nre sometimes
wise, but often uuwise, because certain TO
fail, after uEgravnling the suiierings they
were designed 10 remedy. Strikes are like
Battles of any lliud-sometimes apparently
necessary, but if SO then grievous and de-
soaiing necessity. Their victories are not
and cannot he final; rate of wages estab-
lished with ever SO great exertion and sacri-
flee to-day may be insidiously sapped and
destroyed Tomorrow, and at all events afford
no degree of security next year. Bills of
Prices iH their best estate are hut sandbanks
thrown across n river, which is certain ulti-
matoly TO sweep them AWAY, and may do so
at once. The vaunted laws of Trade are
all against them, and will triumph over them
in the end. Only by subjecting Trade TO
n higher law than that of every man for
himself can this tendency to universal cheap
ness nt the expense of Labor for the benefit
of Capital be resisted and overcome. So
long as the Wages system shall last, the gen.
eral tendency of work will be away from
Just and liberal TO niggardly and grinding
employers, because these last can take jobs
or contracts cheaper aud make money by so
DONG. Establish tomorrow an ample and
fair Scale of Prices in every employment I'M
der the sun, and two years of quiet and the
ordinary mutations Of Business would suffice
TO undermine and efface nearly the whole.
No reform under the Wages system but a
decided step olh Of and above that system is
the fitand enduring remedy for the wrongs
and expressions of Labor by Capital. And
this must inevitably be work of time, OF
patience, Of genius, of selfsacrifce and true
heroisin. And il is mainly because the
Trades organizations ofl650 tend TO and pre-
pare for tbis-no matter how unconsciously
that we regard them with appreciation and
lively hope.
Mann and Webster.
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