The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-25

pk''Nu, ""e"er WofkS !" P1V0s VI 49,
The above l. true, we have quick remedy Ior u
present snoemakers troubles. Tue journal says that the
ness Then all they have to do Is TO discharge their work
men, and they WIN take Of themselves According "a
Us theory the workmen STRIKE 1t amounts to tbessme
thing They making shoes and "nnd Other en-
poyment' But what that employ ment IL TO be, 81 tia
Snp,op,ous season Of the year, We are not told In
the striking shoemakers that their movement WA
entsl load OF debt upon trcm-that they will rue the
crate them why should ths Be the case thcy can so
readily nnd other employment
Tho average wages which the Lynn "jours" have been
earning ne present WINTER we Me told 10 about IS
week. or 20 cents day. large number OF .hesc work
men have families averaging at icest Ave persons esch
some OF them perhaps, twice that number THIS gives
only aboa fourteen cents at the ben-to some NOT six
pencelo iced, clothc warm and shclter each person.
No wonder they complain that they ar. starving some
OF me manufacturers say that they abc pay no
higher rates, as business is dull. On tie hand
msnmacures--who writes Tor the ANss end Bee-ssvs
tney can eiord to increase workmen's wages 100 per
present strife. .
correspondent Of the Herald furnishes tue following
head
In Marbehe,d there employed about 900 men aud
ABOUT ooo females BY the manufacturers, about twenty
I'VE 10 number The principle work done is ir the
macure Of chidrens and misses shoes, OF witch this
Town takes the lad IN this State New England They
turn out and finish ready for the market abou.twcny
nve pairs per day erch workman and the average pay
for the work during the past six months has been about
~ SO per week TIE females who bind and are employed
on tho "ccmpo WORT u new MATERIAL used in the room
Of pegs or s,ch), haze earned from 81 to 50 per
this "a q small pance and no wonder that some rrove.
Dent has been made 10 bring about better pay among
cordwarers at this time. Most Of those engaged" on
the "bench' in Mar6hhead are young and intellespt
Americans. and readily converse on the merits OF
the srike" and the shos business general There ep
pears TO have been one Or two causes which may be Get
down as having something to do in bridging about Ee
present state OF affairs among the ours'' as regards,
their low wages For some years past there have beer
too nany engaged in the manufacture of boots shoes
and cash one in striving to sell little lower they
coun Psfsbly afford TO- has provoked ruinous conpet
ton, and flooded the market with poor work and Door
stock! and the wages Of the ours, have been ground
down to starvation prices for tie purpose meeting their
demands from week 10 week In Marblehead there has
been formerly sales Of South
ern dealers either by the manufacturers their agents,
but there nave been hardly eny lately from the
the cases yiz"Chai lesion, &c." cad other Southern
places Tie proprieiors were moderate republicans
there has been too much of the "negro" agitation
among members Of Congress- ard @ homo among the
shoe mechanics Of New England TIE manufacturers
have fur aied the committee OF strikerwith schedule
Of prices in which the prices nearly high those
asked for strikers and the same for several OF the
kinds OF misses Shoes that = probebe the
men will be rt work in q week two. Some of the
dealers seecto favor the strike as they OF the opinion
that If the n,e1 stand and work is for MONTH
most Of the old stock now on will be sold or leather
will DO cheaper and they will be able 70 Commence again
with good w-as,ss TO the journsymen."
The Concord(N II Patriot copies the following extract
from letter Of Boston merchant to acquaintance
the former city,
obges us to cuTta our business as much aspossble II
II continues much longer hardly know what shall do
and don't know where will end The usual fuctua
tons OF the trade probably TO extent the
of it, but the grent Is something clse Our great
ket the South ia for the present nearly lost to
Our former large customers there either decline to
make any purchases buy very sparingly The
is the state Of feeling there caused by recent events
wards the North This agitation of the slavery question
may be sport or profit to politicians but fear thai unegs
ceases as TO allow change Of feeling theve sOou
will be death to far trade Is concerned"
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