New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-10
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70 hhor "a oapital "a again at loggerheads,
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- * oealaaty WEARING. but because thc care IN
., ~ I ma notable Instance Of disagreement.
~ u uscessarily ii opposition and this antagon'
y continually exercising more potent influence
- iniurv u - conmefcial, manufacturing and
inusrial intefests d tho Northern States and Eng
lsud. Ths political ravAns are still puzzling their
bFsin u ma some remedy for the constantly rccur
tiax sesueslcs 81 capital and FREQ labor, in which
each strives TO get the better Of and to yrannize over
the other and just near being practically sue
cssfdl - they ever were. Nothing short Of exer
css Of governmental authority in establishing rates
and hours OF labor can sbate tccs difficulties and
such remedy cannot be applied in counties rs demo-
cratic es England and the United States, nothing
whatever can be done, and capital and labor must
continue to quarrel and prey upon each other, and
constitute disastrous drawback to progress. There
can b no reconciliation where both contestants claim
and adhere to the right to be master. They are mu-
tually dependent and mutually hostile, and, just In
proportion as they increase in Importance to nation
do-s their animosity inHame and render them le%
e0icieot in fulfilling their walk amid the various De
partments Of the public prosperity. The latorer
assumes the right to protect his capital which Is his
labor, and the employer assumes the right to protect
his capital his moneys and from this fruitful basis q
discord have arisen nearly If not all the questions
which are party srues in England and which, during
the last fifty years, have continually tumbled riy9
ministries into and out Of Office This % lot to be de-
plored for Ne believe in alienation in office IS one
Of the greatest securities Of vigorous administration
Of duties But it is to be depored that an IRENE.
diable state Of things should exist which makes SO
much suffering among hundreds Of thousands Of the
aboring classes Of inevitable periodical occurrence
disastrous battle between capital and labor is
now being waged in London. "A hundred thou
sand workmen Of that city have struck until their
employers shall accede to their demand, which Is
that nine honis shall be considered days work
instead Of ten, as heretofore. The employers are
resisting the demand. and the work.
men are as persistently adhering to it. The cor.
sequence will be that many hundreds Of employ.
era will be embarrassed or ruined, and that many
thousands Of laborers will be plunged in distress,
with no resource but starvation, beggary or crime.
More than this-the trouble is likely to cross tLe
NEter, for an able Northern journal sees how the
&ne GAUGES operate identically in England and the
Free States OF America, and predicts that II TIL
workmen Of London succeed, the achievement will
BE- Immediately followed by similar movement on
this side Of the Atlantic the nine hour system will be
extended into all great departments Of labor, and
thus England and the Northern States will be at once
deprived Of ten per cent Of their operative lat Dr.
their productive element the necessity Of their pros
perity. And in this connection our labor system
strikingly yindicates its WISDOM for under it we are
not liable to any such great calamity the contagion
cannot spread across Mrson and Dixon's line, and
deprive the South Of ten per cent. Of the efficiency of
the productive element of il population by subst
tutng nine hours labor for ten while the lessened
service would cost the same outlay IS the greater
amount did.