New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-10

claims fairly and frankly to their respective
employers, and not utforward as their spokes-
men demagogues who live in ideness on their
professions Of sympathy for the Laboring Glass
a reasonable advance can generally be OBJ
tanned, and the supposed necessity for strikes
obviated. We entreat those who act in the
premises TO put the word ahead Of the blow.
Strikes are to Industry what War is TO Ma
tions-pOssibly inevitable in some cases, but, if
needful, most deplorable and revolving neces-
sity. They create no wealth, while they pre-
vent the creation Of great deal, which is
equivalent to destroying it. They a'suage no
enmities, soften no asperities, bat on the con-
trary excite hatreds and antipathies which re-
main long after their occasion has passed
away. They are frightful revelations of the
incoherence and anarchy of our present Social
Order, and the lurid light of tOrch-bearing
procession Of journeymen on a strike reveals
chasms in that Order over which a thoughtful
man may well shudder.
Baltimore has witnessed the FIRST concerted
demonstration in 1888 for general increase Of
wages, and we trust one sample Of the kind
will suffice. That strike will have cost 81
900 0CO before all is over. And, supposing
that all the Journeymen's demands be ulti-
mately conceded, there is no security for the
permanence of their conquest. We well re-
member the turn out of HOuse-Carpenters
here in the spring of 1887 with their banner
inscribed. We demand 81 per day for our
labor We believe it was conceded, though the
great crash was then imminent; but, before the
summer was half over, there was an abundance
of Jouneymel Carpenters here who would
gladly have found work at $li per day, but
could not. And so in this very 1853, should
the rather bloated fabric Of oar Commercial
Activity collapse, no contriyance, however in
genious, no league Of Workmen, however COM
pact, can prevent reductions of Wages.
Wewish plan could be devised for the regula-
ton Of Wages by some law or rule wAich would
endurngly Obviate all Necessity for Strikes. We
employ a large number Of men, and are very
willing to pay them the established wages in
their several callines Whenever we cannot
afford this, we shall receive the fact as an init
nation that making Newspapers is not our
proper calling. and back out of il accordingly.
But while We pay the regular Journeymen's
Scale, some Of our rivals in business pay less,
and have no difficulty in finding wOrkmen. We
do consider this uniair-niggardly on the part
of the Employers, servie on that Of the Jour
neymen Tie princinle asserted by some em-
ployers that each has right TO hire for the
smallest fraction that will command the requi-
site service, tends to concentrate all business
in the hands of the mesnest and most rapaciOus
employers to render the joumeymen their
serfs, and to incite and keep alive a perpetual
antagonism and conflict between the two
classes How can y workman esteem and
cOnfde in the employer who regards him but
as chattel personal, out of which the most
work possible is to be squeezed for the least
money! Why should not the jOurnpymsn
seek in turn to obtain the most money for the
least work. In the midst of such Jacobinic
contest, who would wish 10 spend his life ?
How can perfection of workmanship or Node
ness Of character be evolved from it
But there is truer, humaner relationship
between Labor and Capital than this. IL is
that wherein each is anxious that Justice be
done to the other as well as to itself-wherein
the journeyman considers not only what be
would like or might possibly exact, but also
what the employer can fairly afford-considers
that the general price of Labor is not governed
by arbitrary caprice but by influences above
the control Of the buyer or seller-and that if
the wages in oil pursuits here could be raised
to double what they arctic roeult would
simply be ruin 10 our City, by driving from it
all Productive Labor which could possibly be
performed elsewhere, and so compelling our
workers to 60 elsewhere in quest of employ
ment or stay here to starve. And 80, Employ
ers if they could screw down the Wages of
Labor to half the present rates, would secure
no real advantage TO themselves, but rather
ultimate depression and injury The Landlord
must accept lower rents, or see his tenants
crowded into half their present apartments,
leaving the residue tenantless the Grocer
would get his store built somewhat cheaper,
but could not sell half so many articles of
Food; and so the Merchant, Clothier, Halter,
&c, would find their trade fearfully shrunk
and their means seriously diminished. LIVE
AND LIT LIVE is the maxim whereor States
ard Communities are formed and built up;
through contention, antsgOnism and anarchy
they decline and perish Let not the lesson
be forgotten.
THE POTATO DISEASE.
We wish We possessed some means Of com.