Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-02-29

1 - ~ u 'ney removed to Boston, where he en-
wboIo ,ne pubic schools, and went through the
Tnoie course, graduating as first scholar of the
English High School, in 1854. He received
Two rankin medals, one at the Otis G rammsr
Eonooi, ana the other at the High School Al
'ne iatter he also received two Of the Lawrence
pres, LOT excellence in the mathematical and
l'efnry departments He has since been study.
'""' ana proposes, understand, soon to
| open an othce. About the time of the orpani
zation OF the Mechanic Association. he was
WORKING at the shoe business a portion of the
time, tor the benefit Of his health. and at the
nfS' preliminary meeting was made chairman
lie was then elected treasurer, and continued
10 NIL the office. When the New England Me-
| cnanlc was started its organ he was made
| l's editor He took the lead in the proceedings
which have eliminated in the strike. so that
| Whatever odium or honor belongs to.the move.
ment should apply to him. He Is very popular
| among the strikers, and exceedingly unpopuIar
among those opposed to the strike. who speak
| of him with much bitterness regarding him as
entirely responsible for it. The .'.jours'' have
the utmost confidence in him. while those op-
posed to the movement denounce him as actu
| ated by unworthy motives alone
Jas. Dillon is, probably. mex to Mr.. Drapar.
the most active and influential man enpaued in
| the strike: lie is of medium size. with brown
| hair and beard, and has the air Of an inteIli-
| gent wOrkingman. He is 81 wears old He waS
q,
| was put to work in the print works at Mattram,
cheshire,When seven years old instead of hay
ing the advantages of school When eleven
anu half years old, he was bound as an ap
prentice to black (silk) printer, and WORKED
| at that business till 1914. In AS he came to
| TINS country, working first at Pawtucket, and
afterwards in Maiden and LYNN, where he mar
ried In the fall of '46 he commenced learning
the shoemaker s trade, which he has followed
until within few weeks. When the Associa
ton was formed he was made Vice President,
and has since held the office Intel "a. I am
informed, ne was addicted to intemperance; he
tnen became piOus, renounced the use of liquor
| and joined the Methodist church lie is now a
member in good standing of the Boston.street
methodist church, and sustains good charac-
Ter as temperance man and church member
lie has stated to me that his average wages since
| last fall have been but 81 So while before that
he averaged 81 90 He is now at work at his
Old business, and earns 81 81 per week ofwh;ca
! ne gives liberal per centase in aid of the
strike.
Napoleon Wood is very small in stature
with dark hair and eyes, and thin beard He
Is Oi nervous temperament, and very ener-
getlc In supporting all measures of the strike
lie has most lndomitable activity, and adhereS
to all his purposes with an unalterable tenac
ny. lie is twenty-five years old. lie was born
In Canada. When three years old his folks
went to st. Adams to live. and when he was
seven to Brandon, where he staid till he was
seventeen. In the fall of 1851 he came To
Lynn, and learned his trade of Alfred Chase.
| lie worked two years for him. year and a
malt after he went to Minnesota, but finding
emigration to that section very large, returned
| to Lynn. About three years ago he ioned a
party OF fifty, under Capt Parsons raised by
| MIR. HigginsOn Of Lynn, and went to Kansas TO
aid in maintaining the rights of free State men.
In Minnesota he caught the fever and ague,
which troubled him till he was obliged to come
| home in March. Since then he has worked for
John B. Spinney, Harrison Newhall, and Trask
| Sergeant Co. He says his average wages
| per week for the last two years have been
| So % only, though he has worke some fifteen
or sixteen hours per day; where hs should have
had 70 cents for work, he has been obliged TO
| work for from to Is cents. lie is a member
| in good standing with the Methodist Church at
the Common, and says he means to do nothing
to conflict with his religious profession He
| particularly desires to hive it known that he
| is publican-nOt an abolitioniSt-but that
| he calculates to think of himself first and tie
| niggerS next
THE PRICES WHICH HAVE BEEN PAID THIS WIN
| Last evening I called upon Mr. Samuel NJ
| Bubler, who has a large establishment on Mar
ket street, and is the largest manufac:u in
| Lynn, for the purpose of aScertaininc the rel.
ative prices paid by him.
| Mr.. Bubler in good times, employs about
100 men. During the past winter he has aver
| aged about 200 men in his employ and ut the
| time OF the strike, had 30 men at work for
him. These figures do not include the heelers
who have one of the most profitable depart
! MentS of the manufacture
This part ct the work Is generally taken in
large contracts by bosses tho let out the work
to men. The average amount paid by him
| during the winter, for labor, he states to be
nj l. n
has been paid for heeliDg. This would leave
81 600 per week as the average weekly amount
| paid by him to an average number of three
| hundred persons. making the average individual
| wages Per week, Sj.33 He thinks the averag e
could not have fallen under 81 per week.
He pays for his work in cash, when desired
but the above estimate supposes $500 or there
hbOutS to have been allowed TO lay in his hands
| by workmen. Last week, oil settling with one
| man, he owed him $50, which he chose TO have
| g" unpaid tor the present. \ good heeer. at
| present prices, he says, can earn 50 per day
| lie mentioned an instance of one young man
among his employees, who is not yet twenty
one years of age who has laid up $500 in two
years. lie is industrious and temperate, and
| averages about 50 per week
| The scale OF prices paid by him during the
| winter seems to have been from ten t. twenty
five per cent. below that which is struck for
| Thus, for 'spring limitations he has been pay
4 iHS o"o' "Hu -0c.. q121ty, While
| the prices struck 70 are 40c and 33{c For
ladies heel pumps" he has been paying 5Oc
to 55c. for first quality, and 45c. to 4Sc. for
second quality; the prices struck for are 75c
| and 623c. The prices i'm regard to similar
priced articles range about the same way, and
on ten, twelve, and fifteen cent articles the re-
duction is not over four cents per pair and
| generally about two or three.
Now, it is probable that many men have
| worked for less prices than those mentioned
and it is known that some fifteen cent cacks
| have been made rs low rs five and six cents
and other articles of cheap work in proportion
but am led to believe that these are excep-
| tions.
The speakers who have addressed the meet.
| ingS of the strikers have often set the average
wages of the Lynn '.jours'' at 50 30 per week;
| and though that estimate seems small. have
no doubt that if every shoemaker, of whatever
| capacity and disposition, were included in the
estimate, the figures would not be far below
| the mark.
| The opinion of the leading manufacturers
appears to be, that the trouble in regard to
| prices has grown out of the fashion of heeled
goods which has come up. Those cost extra fol-
heeling, at the prices obtained for ordinary