New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-17
MEN AS PRINTERS RS. WOMEN
F,om TIE PaaoGei,hia Daay ssrs


F,om Tzs Philadelphia Daily Rsrs
NEsSRs. EprToRs IL s "a absolute impossibity for
artisans others in the great field Of human toll to OBJ
tain throsgh the columns venal press Justice Ts
Ia made papable every dsy exist and is surprising
to see how certain reporters editors &c, twist uD
and comfort facts 10 produce unfsvorable impression
when such contributes to their pecuniary welfare
The public therefore. will understand tha, The N,~,I
Aricoa and other journals, when referring 10 the csuses
OF printers strikes vitaly interested and as con-
sequence disposed TO treat OF the after as
possite: They hope thereby throw a-ains. our m
ganizati0n, the power Of public opinion ana th suce
our numbers so that they may eventually be able TO dis.
organize os--the result OF which disorganzao would
put thousands of dollars Ito the pockets Of certain EN-.
pYper VINO are now necessliaed 10 pay living remune-
ration Tor ihe work 1t Is our province 10 perform.
The great bulk of printers in this country are bound TO-
ee,her ~ common brotherhood for mutual bonoGt-tbe
srooro,na'e Unions occupying the position
tiona head a. that which sustanei by State soye-
regny 70 the General Government and are repre- ened in
Convection by Delegates who egsate upon all general
principles connected with their well being Frequent at
tenpts have been made by combinations Of capitalists to
pun down this structure and thus far they have been -
NE The latest means employed by newspaper publishers
he rodEcuon OF giFs inio The business, for the pur
pose oi slppaning members of craft whose scale of
Sbylock fsculties.
The Printers of the United States have uniornly Oh
posed me introduction OF women into printing Offices for
the following natural reasons:
, l. That females can be employed a, rates much lower
than We demand and are properly entitled to; and,
a. consequence employers would them for the sub
version OF our National Organization.
:. iha' we 90 no, believe that any benefit
Ho taxing woman from the sphere OF action God as is
evident from her physical and mental quaties designed
her to occupy Her faculties oferen. from those of
the meie and attempt 10 draw her from her present
position IN life should meet with that opposition from the
American people which would be exerted against immo-
rsly and vice The purity Of woman should be guarded
with care and surely contact with the world in the same
method that xan finds necessary would have very per-
nicioHs effect upon her morals.
3. That the pretenons msde by the press in long and
iabored articles for the ameOratOn OF the condition OF
woman are neither more less than base hypocrisy
put conceal their designs to depress the liberty and
reduce the wages of the males.
That must fa just IN proportion 10 the increase
of printers the demand the Introduction Of females
into our business AT this epoch Of our history as craft
would 81 deprecate the value of labor render it
matter OF necessity, the pert Of both and wife,
labor oil tie week for about in the aggregate the
compensation that at present paid TO the male for his
Services aud that bstering of the condition of
either effected by such procedure except to the money
holders, believe 1t Is contrary to the advanced nte
genoe OF the sense and Justice sanction
such OF conduct the part OF who are not
printers but who through their capital speculate the
labor Of Others.
The editor of certain sheet in this city of very un.
enyiabe notorefy among consistent placed in his
office several girls whom he intended to instruct in type
setting that he might introduce them into the places
of men who were employed on his paper; the Office in
which they to be sehooled part and parcel of
his newspaper establishment the refused to continue
longer in Lis employ He notified to that effect and
after declining TO discontinue such undermining course,
the forsook his office.
man certainly mas the right enter into contract
fled in refusing TO be engaged under circumstances that
would eyentuate to the injury OF himself and fellows Ar
mold made contract with Great Britain to the derment
of his counryhe had the right TO enter into it, but how
did the honorable and hghmnded regard the exercise
of a. right? The editor OF the sheet above mentioned,
although he had the opportunity of betrayng his
country, and we hope never may have has been guilty
of contract somewhat similar the only difference being
that Arnold attempted to ruin his country for the
sderatOn of gold, and the gentleman of erudltion in
question has essayed TO annihIae Union, in order
that ne may few dollars in the composition of
his yasoilating sheet Arnold had greater and
more c0ip0bie aim. Falling, however, TO school a
sufficient number of fair ones to occupy the posi-
ton of his hands OF sterner stuff engaged his
paper, he sent agent TO NewYork 10 procure hands
and nine engaged in that city to be employed upon
his paper until his instruction OF the softer sex could
qualify sufficient number TO supplant them also The
printers OF this city knowing that misrepresentation
used 10 decoy their fellow craftsman from New1ork, ap-
pointed Committee TO meet them at the railway station,
and ascertain if they understood the condition OF affairs
in this CITY, They conferred with and at stated
that they had been imposed upon by the agent of the ed
tor and voluntarily to refused TO have any inter-
course with the obnoxious Office although many of them
had connection whatever with the Newlork Printers
Union They will appear in card in few days aud ex
press their indignation the in which they
snced from their city. In the meantime, they Sill
institute suit agans; the editor for false representations
and ak for damages and instead of leaving this city in
smdnCht train will be found sojourning here TO prose-
cute the PROPRIETOR of that establishment.
THE PRINTERS UNION.