New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-21

rector the ruling mind a. il were of the worlds trade
and commercial destines And Il II were not FOR these
sreeulations witch bold fast for year eighteen
months considerable portion Of the industrial surplus
captal there is no doubt that the extension of
features in England would for the last ave year. have
gone on az q still more rapid rate.
In the dry goods market dOmestcs are the articles
suffering under tie greatest depression stocks con
tiuue 70 accumulate although great number Of looms
Raw. been stepped Yet il cannot be said that there u
anything doing 10 other sorts Of goods
A similar stagnation prevails st Leeds and Bradford,
AZ Leicester and Nottingham Az the latter place the
hours Of work have been reduced to ten and eight
in the lace trade hosiery has been depressed ever since
June last when the production was at once REDUCED N
Noting by Onetlrd Oi It's amount Inc only trade
that appears go in uninterrupted prosperity Tor
the present is the hardware trade of Birmingham and
rs vicinity.
At London bankruptcy begins to spread among the
small shop-keepeTs
In nv letter of August II, | stated that the mas
ter .piuners and manufacturers were getting up An
Association for the purpose OF aiding the traie in reg
ulating the excitement among operatives in the Man
chester District, that that Association was to
sst Of local Associations. with Central Committee,
and that it intended resisting all demands made by
ciad bodes of mill-hanis terrifying the monopoly Of
capital By the monopoly Of Omb.naton and dictat-
d" ing terms II an Associated body"
Now, Is il not a very curious fact that this scheme.
of which informed you about two months ago, has, -
this very moment never been alluded To BY the London
papers although silently carried ont in the meantime,
and already doing its work az Preston Bolton and Man
chester' The London press it appears was anxious 70
withhold the fact from the eyes Of the world that the
FACTORY Lords were Systematically arraylng tn'lr
class against the class of Labor and that the successive
steps taken by them instead Of being the spontaneous
result Of Circumstances are the Preme ltated ELECTS oi
q deep-lsid conspiracy OF an organized Anu-l.ao'r
League, This English Capitalist League OF the Nin'-
teeuih century is yet 10 find It's historian as the French
Catholic League did in the authors Of the Saye Meaap
p(o at the end Of the Sixteenth century.
The workpeope, in order To succeed in their de-
mands must naturally try to keep the one party IN I'LL
the strike Of the others has proved victorious Where
ills plan is acted upon, the mill)wners combine to
cote all their mills, and thus to drive their hands to
exreUities. The Preston manuiacturerers, as you
know, were to begin the game. Thirteen mills are
already closed and a. the expiration OF another week,
every mill il to be shut up, throwing out Oi WORK
more than 24,000 men. The weavers have addressed
memorial 10 the masters, soliciting an interview or
Offering TO refer the matters in dispute to arbitration
but their request rejected As the Preston weay-
assisted by penny collections from the operatives
Of the surrounding districts from Stay bridge Oldham,
Stockport, Bury, Withheld Blackburn, Church-Parish,
Actkin Iryell-Vale Enfield, Burnley, COne, Bacup,
&C. the having discovered that the only mean: OF
resisting the undue influence OF capital was b. union
among Themselves the Preston lords, on their
part have sent out emssaries to undermine the
means of succOr for the men on strike, AMI to induce
the millovners of Burnley COlne, Bacup, &c to close
their establishments and 70 cause general cessation
OF labor. In certain as NJ ofFl-
lockers have been induced inform their masters who
had taken part in forwarding the movement aud ac-
cOTdingy number OF penny collectors have BEEN DIS
charged. While the Preston men exh0rte1 by the
wOTkpeOpe Of the surrounding districts 10 remain firm
and united, the Preston masters meet with an immense
applause from the other manufacturers being extOlled
as the true heroes of the age.
At Bury, matters are taking similar turn as at
Preston At Bolton, the bedquilt makers having
lots cast to decide which of them were TO begin
tha aetar of he
their mills.
Besides the simultaneous closing of mills, other
means Of combination resOrted to- At keighly,
for instance, the weavers of Mr. Lund struck Tor an
advance of wages the principal of their turn out
being his giving less than received by the weayer
of Mr. Anderton, at Bingley. A deputahOn OF the
weayeTs having asked Tor al interview with Mr. Lund,
and proceeded to his lodgings they had the door Po
htelv shut in IL cir faces But week afterward Mr..
Andcrtons work people were informed by notice that
reduction would be made in the wages OF his weayers
OF Sd per piece and OF hs wOOlcObers OF one arthng
per pound Mr. Lund and Mr. Anderton having in the
meantime concluded an alliance offensive and defensive,
with view TO fight the weayers OF the ore d! puilhg
down the wages of the other Thus, it Is supposed,
Mr. Lund's weavers will be driven 10 submission or
Mr. Anderons TO turnout, and the additional
weight of another turnout doing away with all chahce
of support both sets will bend 10 general reduction
In other instances the masters try to enlist the shop
keepers against the working men Thus Mr. Horsiall'
the coal king of Darby main pit, when IN consequence
of reduction of wages his hands struck, went 10 all
the butchers bakers and provision dealers of the neigh
hood the Golfers trade with, to prevail on them not to
let his men have anything on credit.
In all localities where the association for regulat
"ing the excitement among the operatives exists, the
associated masters have pledged themselves to heavy
fines in case of any individual member violating the
status of their League yielding to the demsnds of
the hands" At Manchester these fines amount to
f5,000, at Preston to $4,000, at Bolton to f2OJO,
etc.
There is one feature which, above all, distinguishes
the present conflict from past ones. At former Pc
riods-asin 1882 1889, le40, 1Si2-a general holiday,
as il was called, viz. general and simultaneous stop
ping of labor throughout the whole kingdom, was IA
vorte idea with tie operatives aud the great bect
they aimed at This time, il is capital which threatens
general withdrawal 1t is the masters who endeavor
10 bring about general closing OF mills DO YOU not
think that if successful il may prove very dangerous
experiment. Is it their intention to drive the
English people to an nsurrection of june in order to
break their rising spirit and to lay them PROSTATE fora
series of years 10 come 7
At all events We cannot too closely watch the symp
toms of the civil war preparing in England, especially
as the London press Intentionally shuts its eyes 10 great
facts while il divers its readers with descriptions Of
such tIifes the banquet evenly Mr. Titus salt one
of the factory princes Of Yorkshire at the opening Of
his palace where not only the local aristOcracy
were RECALLED but his hands too. Prosperity, health
land Happiness TO the working class, was the toast pro-
pO,el by lin, the public is told by the Metropolitan
press but il IS not told that, some days afterwards
lis mOreen received notice OF another reduction
in their wages from = to2 l. II this means either
health or prosperity to the mOreen weayers, writes
ore of his victims TO The Peoples Paper l. for one
do not want IT,"
V, iii uo.l... b.~o sa,, from IT,. Tine hat.