New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-16

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evtsbe OF ibcss expansions aud as
are TO make merchants Of re very bssr, blood Of "a,
prodrciDE cases % retain hen eute'y ie.sy AID
eieIrsy noune hand ard foot BODY ara soui 10 re Tor.
tuTipg car Of sprsI PAS, ioS1sSioIt
Mr.. Power has Just common sense enough TO be
practical, and to say that the workingmen ougbito
be paid weekly in gold and silver dollars; and At
present ], myself, have the most utter infdelity
as to the capacity Of the iaborers TO employ them
selves and exchange their products with each
ether" ard fancy you also have a snail inkliug
Of this utter il fidelity a! the present You quote
the names Of Louis Blanc Pfoudhon, Josiah War
rem" &c. ia support Of Peper money. II mistake
rot eli writeu-I mean Relrmers-who have
carefully examined the question Of Paper Curren
cy, condemn i. ss totally ulf. lor the prsSeE. sys
tem. ], myself, maintain thatthe evils which have
oyerttken our citizens during the astiew years-
he sudden expansions ard oon,rsctons Of the Pa
per sys,em-have made poor men prince sand rich
men PauperE-have repeatedly unsettled all the
arrangements Of Society, and carried dssola,iou
into the homes of tbo1sands. grant y0l that Pa
pcr Money is necessary 10 keep 10 eXistenca those
cesspools-our large Atlantic clues. Under Con
fttUroual Currency Our cities would not have III
created 20 rapidly bu. the country wosld have
been moro densely populated, and everybody
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more happy than the, Of our cities.
But. cir, ] presume that you know that VI.
Powers elm ss well ss my own would oe 10 see
Labor ORGANIZATION established here 50 well as
in every other City having three!o'd OBJECT IN
view hIst 10 keep up wages above ssAfyS',on
standard secondly. 20 form fund 70 start Coop
eretiye Stores and Workshops thirdly, to sgitste
for the Freedom OF the Public Lands IN limited
Quantities TO actual settlers although the last
measure il cot that arrangement which Will ulti.
motely prevail and exist
Mr. Power, nor ] nor any rational man, can have
10 other opinion than that 0f combs. and war
against oGDifdiistS bat not sgsiost capital 80 long
az the worlds history demonstrates tina. capitalists,
un5er'be various names Of sris,ocrats, employer,
merchants Landlords, bankers, &c. have opp esssd,
enslaved, degraded and murdered the Producing
Glasses in every ago and in every country, Gnd
among every people and under every form OF
Government.
God Knows / am unwilling 70 say one harsh word
Of spv individual but the flesh will follow where
the pincers tear" At preEent, fear tia. have
tresoafsed too far upon your patience, your time
ard cur sDece. | may, on future occasion; asaln
address YOU, but / mey as well inform your New
York readers that. sometime ia October or NOvem
ber will be in Gotham aud II the laborers OF your
City see it TO secure good room viii 9enVsF
three discogrGes upon the Organization oil LsoCr'
in the forenoon, afternoon aud evening OF tneir oay
ieisure dav. I would suggest to each trade in the
cities Of New.York, Phi adelphis, Boston, BARI
mare Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, TO send you an
account Of the number Of Strikes in each city, the
number Of hands engaged, the average wages PAih
ct tho time OF tho Strike, and the duration OF ~;
Your in The cause OF Labor JOHN CAMPBELL
Remarks
The length Of Mr.. CampbelPs article has
constrained us to defer its publication for
few days, but he will find it printed entire.
1t is now our turn.
Mr.. G. is quite too sensitive in assuming
that we charged him with reporting unfairly
the debate between Messrs. Russell and
Power at the Carpenters Meeting. We
only intimated, what appeared very plain
on the face Of his report, that he understood
and appreciated Mr.. Powers positions much
better than Mr.. Russelps. 1t would be very
strange if he did not, when Mr.. Power is
disciple Of his own Theory and Mr.. Rus
sell decided antagonist. This is all that
we minated on this point in our former
article.
l. We objected before to Mr.. Powers in
quotations that they embraced and affirmed
parts of two separate and utterly discordant
systems. lie aHirms in substance, |. That
the Laborers should receive the full proddot
of their Labsr; and 2. That they should be
paid regular weekly wages in gold and sill
yer.-Now the first Of these propositions
belongs to the as yet ideal and prospective
Organization of Labor that we, together with
Mr.. Power and Mr.. Campbell, hope and
strive to see established, while the second
has reference simply to the old system which
we are trying to supplant and supersede.
The two cannot be wrought into the same
system. Whenever the Laborer shall re-
ceiye the full product Of his Labor it will
be paid him, not in gold and silver, but in
the immediate products of his own exertlOn
or in the products Of other workers labor
for which his own have been directly ex-
CHARGED. In short, the Currency of true
ORGANIZATION of Labor will be Represents
tive or Paper Currency, as Mr.. Campbell
himself admits consequently weekly wages
in gold and silver will be out Of the quea-
tion.
. But is it not possible to put the new
vine in old bottles-to have regular weekly
WAGES in connection with the full product
Of labor to the laborers! We say it is not
Messrs. Campbell and Power say it is. Le
us sec which is the reasonable assumption
Here, we will suppose, is house to be built
worth $4,000, of which the materials cos
81 600, while the labor required is equal Z
five hundred days work, making the fdl
product Of that work 81 per day. NOW
does Mr.. Campbell believe that capitalist
-, cd 20 carry on house.build