New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-06

~ he- vTorkeu brought their guns 70 bear upon tne
vitbsrsvx nbout tg thirds Of men from duty, more
to their own Inconvenience we dare say tasn our owl
For months Pss without my Z, az yeaT 70 hose OF our
tspSs who were employed by me WeeA " NC soo 49,
the peeehAnds al so es per ~ ems 9-boSn every
TUESDAY evening This sl, when We comm sn9eI pay,Is
it. dollar abore The ComonAcs .nS svs, mean
10 be the discrepancy was OF no consequence 70 S
were satisfied and men were sansne1; We Aeu9 -
,vbetbsT Others we're satisfied not This game OF ior-
ei0n interference betw and our composofs, as
been tried before and failed As Il VIII now Iae vsGA y,
ies In our ofce Will soon be hed and, a. we lnend 70
have no more Combinsionissin our employ We pesus
The sitting will be decidedly to our sdvsntage Any 60
good nav and kind treatment VIII do well TO apply with
Remarks.
The labor of compositors (type-setters)
on Daily Morning journals is about the
most severe which any men in the world
can perform. They commence at II AN.
and close on an average about o'clock
next morning, though they are often re-
ouired TO be continued to a much later
hour. Sometimes the compositor who has
worked fourteen hours Except time tor
dinner and tea) and gone home to rest, is
called up in the middle of his first nap to
return to the office and set up the news
lust received by European or Californian
steamer for an Extra or Second Edition.
No slave labor in the world is so unhealth-
full and trying. And the Daily Compost
tor must be a correct and quick workman,
and ought to be a good English scholar,
we'll acquainted with History, Politics,
&c. If any work in the world should be
literally compensated, this certainly should
be-.
Nov the Journal of Commerce volun-
teers the statement that those ofOur hands
acho uers employed by the locek" received
Sl4 weekly. Bat it does not say hOtc many
were thus employed, nor whether any
were except picked men needed to do Of
fce-work, who usually and Justly receive
an extra price That The Journal has ever
paid for regular composition a dollar abOve
the Combination rates. will be news to
Printers. When we came to the City, the
regular price was Sl2, but The Journal
only paid $40, and so continued for long
ine. Its advances have followed, not led,
the changes made in the Scale to meet the
increased exactions of nightwork on Morn
ing Dailies.
But The Journal bids defiance to the
printers Combination, foreign inter-
ference" &c. &c.-That is to say; The
Journal rofueoo to be governed by any
Scale of Prices but such as it may see fit
to establish and alter at its own pleasure.
The Journeymen think there should be
uniform price for the same amount and
kind of labor throughout the City; The
Journal would have as many different rates
of compensation as there are papers or
printing offices. The Journeymen, months
ago, appointed a Committee to revise and
perfect Scale of Prices, and invited the
Employers to unite with them in establish
ing a uniform Rate of Wages for Journey
work at Printing. A part consented, but
majority voted down the Scale proposed By
the Journeymen, and there stopped, nei-
ther proposing a substitute nor suggesting
further conference. TheJourneymen were
thus compelled to fall back on indus
trial anarchy or go forward and frame
a Scale by themselves. They did
the latter, giving due notice thereof
and anpo;;nting a day then future for
its going into operation, That day was
the 1st of February, on which day two
thirds of the compositors on The Journal
were sent adrift because they thought them
selves fairly entitled to thirty-two cents
per thousand ems for composition while the
publishers will pay but thirty. We have
paid hirty-ttoo for many years, and do not
consider it farthing too much. We paid
it when paying at all was sharp work with
US; The Journal was then rich and is now
richer, but persisted and still persists in a
course which seems to as grinding the faces
of the poor. In this it acts in perfect con-
sistency with the Political Economy it
teaches, and which we heartily detest.
Between the Golden Rule and Buy as
cheap and sell as dear as possible, there
is wide, very wide, chasm; one which
cannot be papered over. We mean yet to
convince The Journal that The laborer is
worthy of his hire'-nOt merely the lowest
cent you can screw him down to, but the
fair, usual, regular rate of wages in his vo-
cation. 1t is the hardest job We have un-
dertaken, but We shall not easily be dis
couraged, and we count on help from the