New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-21

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dsy had an article entitled "Impudence, which
We confidently hope The Editor will, on caImer
reflection, modify or entirely rctract. The prac-
teal question At issue appears 70 be this Shall
4 Journeynan Printer employed on 4 newspaper
by piece-work be paid for the time he is required
70 he IN the Office without work Technically
standing The question i not without two
sides. yet It does seem that workman required
to remain at his post awaiting work should be
paid for the time thus lost to him in furtherance
Of another'S interests.
But The Courier Is stopped by an abstraction
before reaching this question. 1t has received a
missive on the subject from " II. A. Guild Chm.
Com. OF the Printers Lnion," and II contempt
uously refuses to recognise any such body as
authorized to interfere between its publishers
and the printers they employ. we tolerate no
outside nterference-and Mr.. Guild has his an
swer. saws the Editor
But is tha, answer wise and Just one DO
not the prices paid IN any one Office inevitably
influence the general rate Of remuneration
throughout the trade And if they do, how can
It be plauSlbly maintained that Printers gene
rally have no night to inquire into or demonstrate
against departure from the established rates
of wages in TIE Courier's or any other office
Having had fair share of experience both as
Joumeyman and Employer, we profoundly real
ize the importance to fair and liberal men on
both sides OF established and well known Rates
of Compensation for Printing whether oy the
week or piece-Rates which shall not vary with
every new office The Journeyman enters but be
the same throughout the City and, so far as pos
sble, other cities where the cost OF living is
about the same But this most desirable result
is obviously unattainable on the principle now
laid down by The Courier, that it will pay Just
such rates of compensation as its Editors think
Just, and if its Journeymen are not suited, they
may leave.
II there are to be regular rates of wages. they
must be framed and adopted by somebody The
Journeyrnen, IN framing the present Scale, in.
vlted the Employers to unite with them: the in.
yita:iOn was accepted the Journeynen pre-
scented a scale, which the Employers by small
majority voted down but they presented no sub
stltute on the contrary, they adjourned without
dav, leaving the whole matter at loose ends.
The Journeymen then went forward and per-
fected their Scale, or rather that of the Printers
Union, whereofboth Employers and Joumeymen
are members. This was adopted at a general
Meeting of Printers, and is now the Scale or
there is none, and Chaos IS come again The
Courier was understood to assent 10 1t, but now
seems 10 repudate not that merely but any Scale
at all
We appeal to Philip sober. For twenty
years, to our personal knowledge, The Cour,er
has been honoraby known in the Trade as stand
ing practically on the side OF Labor against as
SYMPTOMS which tend to iayt PROSTATE and help
less at the feet of Capital. 1t has paid 4 the
Scale when rival journals, which boast OF out
running il In prosperity and patronage were oS-
tentatiously UNFOLDING and practiclng on the
Free Trade principle of grinding down Labor to
the Lowest fraction which its necessities will
compel ii TO accept. We entreat the Editor OF
The Courier not to tarnlsh the envable reputation
he has ever maintained among Printers lib
eral and considerable Employer by propounding
doctrines on the strength OF which others less
generous than he is have amassed fortunes by
grinding the faces of the poor. Tie has uncon-
sciously taken up a position on the side OF his
enemies and against his frlends-one which we
trust he will reconsider and abandon. There IS
nothing in it which will become him half so we'll
as the leaving of II.