New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-27
Organize the dempud fer Produce.

Many evils exist in SOciety-Some suffering,
etc. of this we are all aware. The cause Of
these evils the cause Of much suffering, at least,
no one will deny, is poverty, and the cause O.
poverty is the extreme richness of some individ
uals. But the cause of both riches and poverty
is the disorganized demand for produce, for it is
the actions Of buying and selling which rule the
world. The laborer, and many others besides,
excaim against the employer who pays only
about two dollars & week to women, and about
three or four to men but they seldom scrutinize
their own actions. Now it is the actions Of men,
by buying from an employer who pays only about
frcm two TO four dollars q week, which leaves II
in the power Of such an employer to pay such
wages and Cypress the laborer. BY Tag from
an emplover YOU enable him to fll his Golfers and
nv GDps his Golfers and buying from him stilb
Won enable him to crash or to elevate mankind
for q" money is poGcr:" b~t knowledge is more
uowerful still. ii We have the knowledge, there.
fore, and the will too, we can leave the moneyed
man powerless by ceasng to buy from him. This
il exclusive dealing, it is true, and many people
arc opposed to exclusive dealing, on the ground
that it is iliberal bat surely it ia right to exclude
the man from power who is expressing his fellow
man. Would you elect for a President man
that you knew would pass law forcing the
laborer 10 work for TWO or three dollars a week
Your answer is-No Then why act inconsst'
emily in your other dealings, and by buying from
an employer gige him the power to force the
sborer to work for from two 70 four dollars
weekf 1t is q shame to find that men
who receive from six TO twenty dollarS 4
week, buy shirts the makers of which re-
ceive but from q dollar and hall 10 two dol
lars week, and work from sixteen to eighteen
hours daily for that, or that they buy pants,
and coats and vests, and boots, and shoes, and
many other things, the makers OF which receive
but from three TO four dollars week, and work
from sixteen to eighteen hours day Tor 50 small
& sum. Now | appeal 70 any man, even the most
selfish, receiving from six 10 twenty dollars q
week TO know If he thinks it right for him to give
bis shirtnake only dollsr and hall or two dol
lars vveek-a week mind you, Of ftUu 30 10 too
hOurs-or if he thinks il right TO give his boot
maker, his weaver, or his tailor, only from three
10 four dollars week for working the same num-
Der Of hoarsl Many men l know will say they
do not think it right, at the same time expressing
a wish tbat it could be altered. But say they,
we may as well buy things as cheap as We can
as to do otherwise, for if We give good price for
an article the employer, and not the laborer, re-
ceves the profit But this is true only % a Ger.
ployer receives the creates. benefit of getting a
good price, when they get good price they gen
orally pay the workman workwoman more
However i, would not be productive Of much
good for men to run about and give good price
% every employer they meet with. Butte those,
land hope they are many,) who wish that the
wages Of those lsborers who are paid extremely
low could be raised to something 10 reason,
would say, Appoint stores IN the following manner
Let the different branches Of labOrers form socie
ties, and let them give out the names OF some OF
the employers who are the best in the different
trades, and let those who wish the wages OF labor
10 be raised come to a determined conclusion TO
buy only from such employer, and on the condi-
tions too that he will raise the laborers wages or
shorten their hours Of labor, Jas may appear ne
cesssry,) according as he is enabled by those who
will buy from him. By this means, la5orers'
wages can be raised, and the tyrant who
stRrves mankind driven out OF his Office
as employer while the good man who Is
fit to hold the Office of employer is retained in bis
position. If 1t is asked if men do appoint stores
on this principle to buy in, what guarantee have
they that the owner OF such store, after he be-
comes very rich, will continue to pay laborers rea
sonable wagesl | answer that his present char
acter, and bis present actions of paying laborers
better, or otherwise treating them better than
other employers, is guarantee sufficient that he
will continue TO do so, while on the other hand the
present character Of the bad employer who pays
the worst Of wages, is sufficient guaranty that
the more power is conferred on MIN by people
buying from him, the more oppressive he will be,
and the more extended bis oppression. Now,
surely, he who by his actions gives another the
power 10 Cypress, 10 himself an Oppressor. We
hope, therefore, that ell liberal minded and be-
nevoent men will fall to work this principle OF
organised buying. It is in the power Of all who
buy to do go, and by a very large number of peo-
pie buying in store, they will enable the store
keeper, in many instances, 10 sell cheaper than
other stores, at the same time that he pays labor
ers more wages than three or four dollars q week
Beside, they can enable him to buy the goods he
sells from some other employer or manufacturer
who at present payS bis lsborers better than most
other manufacturers and so on we can trace from
one business back to the other which Is before it,
still keeping the benevolent the good, the hu-
name employer in office, and driving out the ty
rant from that Office which he disgraces. In this
movement we shall have the sympathy and the
help OF all good employers and of all good men
generally, with Is. Let rs not therefore, be in
the least degree backward or timid ia organizing
ourselves into bodies acting in union with each
other 10 buy from good employers, and We shAll
soon bring about happy result. Some sell
hsh individuals who are now paid good wa.
ges may say TO Themselves What need we
care that the shirtmAker, the shoemaker, or the
weaver is starvingi- Every man for himself"
But TO such individuals as these we say, You
know not how soon your trade will become de-.
pressed, and then it will be your turn to utarve
therefore take heed in time and do not by your
selfshness, hurry on the time of your own suffer.
ing, when by acting rightly now you can prevent
1t from ever coming. For although the FIRST thing
to be done, by organizing ourselves into bodies,
is to raise the wages of those who are paid ex.
tremelY low, the thing which 10 finally to be- done
is to secure permanent wages to ali, and to pre-
vent as much as possible those fluctuations in
trade which sometimes cause laborers to remain
for months out of employment, and at other times
cause them to kill themselves working. What
permanent employment to all for this reason AZ
well az others-Many now are sometimes paid
more wages than is necessary to keep them,
which they spend a. fast as they get it, and then