Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-05-02
THE WORKINGMEN.

| There never was more propitious time for tn
ASSOCIATION OF worFlngmen, for the protection of la
| Dor, than the present Wherever laborers bav,
formed associations their efforts have met with tri
umphant success. Tailors' Unions Bootmakers
Unions, Hatters' Unions, Cabinet Makers Unions
Printers Unions Union Stores, SeamStresses' Un-
ions and Unions of every branch of mechanics and
manufactures, have been established in the yariou.
cities of the East and among them al there has oc
cured NOT ONE FAILURE. On the contrary the
most happy results have followed.
Take, for example, the Seamstresses Union o.
Philadelphia. But few years since, the degraded
condition of these females was exciting the pity OF
the humane, in all parts ofthe country. The news
papers teemedw with accounts of their Suferngs
they labored fourteen hours dav, and received So
samll pittance as scarcely to preserve them from
starvation. Dlvines preached about them-the
charitable were appealed to--the lawmakers were
appealed to. But the law makers and the charitable
answered not Ground down by avarice, their con.
ditlonS grew worse and worse, until they resolved
to work out their own salvation They resolved to
protect themselves. They formed associations-thev
procured their own observation-disclosures and
sold their own work; and now they labor not to ex
coed ten hours day-receivc six dollars week
each, and besides this make handsome dividends
every quarter. Thus the profit Of labor 60 to the
laborer, to whom they righttnlly belong.
Wecannot even hint at the blessings i'm neasura
bold and
determined action of the seamstreses of Philadel-
phia. The social, intellect al, and moral, all neg
lected before, all can be cultivated and enioycd
now! Happy, happy change!
SO II has worked everywhere, and so it will con
tlnue to work. whenever and wherever laborcrs will
be bold, earnest, and true themselves and their
brethren.
Associations is the true and only plan to pro.
tect emanclpate, elevate, and enoble labor Gov
ernments, legislatures, and conventions will never
do 1t. They iegislate for capital. They will never
egIslate for labor until labor is the STRONGEST And
labor will be the strongest when associations shall
become universal, Every thinking man can see
that this will be the practical result.
We say there never a time so favorable for
association, as at present. We do not speak with
political view though it is doubtless we'll for exam
PIES sake to make political aspirants feel our pow
er at every opportunity. But we speak OF the
practical association of workingmcn of every trade.
Let us make our own wares, and sell them, and
receive the reward of our own labor.
Norkingmen t0U buy of and support working.
men. And IT more support is required let it be
understood that feeling has been spread abroad
In the community, embracing many OF all classes
Which will induce to give their patronage to assoc-
ated labor. This has been the case in every place
where the experiment has been tried; and tins is
one secret of their triumphant success Even cap
ltalstS, whose pockets not directly Interested
favor with their patronage these movements
We repeat that public sentiment is ripe for these
movements, and is the time.
1t is true that education and correct inform alton
yet sufficiently diffused to prevent all lar
and grating in the operation of the new machinery;
but to the workingmen of Cincinnati, we say, re
member there has been NOT ONE FAILURE YET
Cincinnati NORpareH.