The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-05

'"~eu' AN Gnu ouSnt 10 DC put 10 All SUCH
Jobbing. At Willett's Point, Fort Schuyler and
Scarsdale there is already five times the room
that is needed and every cent of money laid ont
at Fordham or elsewhere will be thrown away.
Thc Secession Abolition Journals Making
War on the Journeymen Printers.
A day or two ago we were shown petition
to the New York Typographical Society, signed
by Greeley q Co. for the Tribune, and Ray
mond & Co. for the Times associations, and
asking that the rates of wages of jomneymen
printers be reduced, in consequence Of the pre-
sent war. This petition was presented to us
for our signature, and, as may readily be sup
posed, we refused to have anything to DO with
the matter, and steadfastly oppose that reduc-
ton of wages which these twin secession aboli-
ton journals advocate.
We conduct our business upon the principle
of paying every man just what his labor is
worth, and we do not believe that we are pay
ing Onr journeymen printers any more than
they fairly earn. The price for composition is
now thrty-ive cents per thousand, and, when
the labor Of the composition is considered, that
sum does not appear any too great for the work
Indeed, SO generally is this acknowledged,
that the price has varied but very little for
fifteen years. A composition must possess great
manual dexterity, and some intelligence eda-
cation and quckness. Hc works while others
sleep and turns night into day for his labor's
sake. BY the rate of wages now fixed he is ena-
bled, if a good workman, to make decent
livelihood, and his daily earnings increase only
in proportion to his increased proficiency in his
or at any time, by petition to the Topographic
cal Society, is an interference with the rights
of labor to which neither we nor the printer
himself will submit.
By this appeal to the Typographical Society
the Times and Tribune managers attempt to cut
down the wages, not only of their own en-
ployes, but Tf all the printers in the city
This is showing the white feather in their bust
ness with vengeance. The war furnishes
them not the slightest excuse for this
movement, for they, more than any
other journals in the country, have con-
tributed to bring this war about, and,
by their Coward to Richmond" articles, have
added many months to its duration Last
winter we urged them to support compromise
which would have settled the matter peaceably
and forever, but they truculently refused, and
succeeded at length in plunging this country into
civil war. Finding the war, with its accom-
paniments of bloodsh. d. ruin and commercial
and Tribune to heartily support the administra-
ton, and 80 make the war as short as possible.
Instead of this they embarrassed the government
in every possible way; advocated anarchy
and George Law for Dictator; irantically urged
our halt-disciplined and ill-proyided army
into an enemy's country; pushed our brave
soldiers within fatal c&<{e-Sac of mask
ed batteries, and finally brought upon
us the disastrous rout Of Bull run
thus giving the rebels the substantial aid
and comfort Of an apparent victory, and adding
millions to the cost and months to the duration
of the war. Now that. in return for these
fanatical outrages, they begin to feel the pres
sure of the times ard have justly lost the conf
dence of the administration and the SUPP ort #
the public, it is as contemplate Of them to at
tempt to retrieve tho ir pecunia losses from
the pockets of the journeymen printers as it
was for them to attempt to place the blame of
their fanatical conduct upon the President and
the veteran General Scott The printers ought
to call public meeting Immediately, to ex-
press their sentiments upon this rafting inter
ference with their rights and their wages.
If the Times and Tribune desire 10 rctrehch
in the expenses Of their type-settiDg, let the two
journals coalesce and form combination organ
of secession, abolition and anarchy. by such
course they may be able to secure small
daily circulation, for the people would buy the
mongrel sheet at half its present price, as a
journalistic curiosity or "What Is It?'' just as
they go to see Barnum's connecting link be-
tween the negro and the brute creation" This
quotation, too, would answer admirably as a
motto for the combination journal, and be an
apt definition of its object and its character.
Let Greeley, Raymond and Co. seriously
consider this plan, and, in any event, leave the
Typographical Society and the printers wages
alone.
The BANKS AND THE TREASURY NoTEs.-We
ara rati(;ed Tn find that in accordance with a