Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-03-06
The Shoemaker,s Strik.

The Natick, Mass, correspondent Of tho
New York Herald says:
The strikers movement is prooressino so
quietly mere that stranger would scarcely Sur
pose that upwards Of seven hundred live shoe
uskers are idle. So orderly have the str;ters
behaved that rot a single arrest for drnnken-
ness or disorderly conduct has been made since
me S'riAe commenced, three weeks ago The
leaders are prudent and judicious men. and
the measure adopted to attain the obiects =
Of the strike are dictated by the most prnden.
tial considerations. Although the strike has
continued for three weeks, less than dozen
persons have applied to the Relief Committee
Tor aid, and the sum of thirty dollars. il is
stated Will cover all the expenditures for re-
lei tnus Tar; About six hundred dollars have
Deen subscribed to sustain the strike one hun.
dred dollars of which were sent from the asso
citation In Milford. Those who apply for as
sistance are furnished provisions, &c.-not
money. Real estate owners have pledged
themselves alt the aid they need to sustain the
movement A majority of the strikers are
unmarried man. Some of them are in com
Portable circumstances, having a thousand
dollars or so on hand, but others are very
poor AT the wages they have been getting
for some time past 1T is surprising that lnsny Of
them have not starved to death before this
Ioiltlcs do not enter into the strike i'm anv
snapeGail parties being combined together to
effect the grand object
The whole number of males engaged in this
town IS about eight hundred. The females
only number about twenty, and are emplOyed
on stitching machines. Formerly the number
OF females equalled that Of the males but the
introduction Of machinery threw nearly all of
the former out of employment Many of these
females are now engaged in making straw
hats and bOnnetS, that business being carried
on extensively in the adjoining town Of Fra
mlngham. others have taken to house
work, &c.
Some OF the manufacturers have already
agreed to the new scale of prices, and work is
going on usual, so far as they are concerned
these firms are C. 4 G. Davis, Sanders Bros,
AMI n. Bartlett. 1t is stated that all the
manufacturers ars willing to accede to the
new scale, provided the strikers will not put
them to the humiliation of comforting with
committee of the strikers. Abolish your
committee, say the manufacturers, and we
VIII yield Abolish our committee reply
the strikers, and we shall be again at the mercy
OF the bosses, with no guarantee that their
promises will be kept. Thus the matter stands
80 far as Natick is concerned
Although quiet and orderly, the strikers are
nevertheless yigilant Seventeen cases of
stock sent up into New Hampshire by Moody
DrotherS to De manufactured there, have been
returned to Natick. And Messrs Walcott,
fOr6u5h Childs, of this town, having made
arrangements with j. S. Woodbury., in Sutton,
Mass, for the manufacture of twenty-five cases
per week, are likely to have their arrange
ments quietly interfered with and defeated by
tne vigilance OF the Natick strikers. The same
will probably be the case with most of the
work sent out of town
1t has been said that the Rev. Mr.. Babcoek.
nitarian clergyman, was turned out of his
pulpit In South Natick on account of his sym
pathy with the strikers. This is not altogether
50. MT. Baoccek is an abolitionist of the Gar
I.h,,
&c, AMI his teachings have been so distasteful
TO even Republican shoe manufacturers in
Nauck, that his removal was determined upon
long before last Sabbath On that occasion he
had given cut that he would address the
strikers from the pulpit. The church was
cock preached in the forenoon, and in the af.
ternoon VIM. Lloyd Garrison held forth in the
same pulpit on the subject of % Conscience, y
ana In the evening on the subject of slavery.