The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1864-09-17
AN ADMISSION.

The following communication has been
handed to us for publication by Journeyman
Machinist, who has taken considerable interest
in he base plot against the typographical
Union by the Detroit refugees. We wish to hear
from all the other Trades on this subject:
To the Editor of The workingmans Advocate
In Tuesday mornings Times appears an arti-
Gle in the editorial columns as follows:
0URsELvEs.-We deem it proper to state. in or
der TO correct false report that in the internal
change which have recently made in our
printing establishment, We have not reduced
the prices of labor Twenty men were dis
missed, who we're receiving certain wages, and
hfteep-others employed, ,Oho are receiring pre-
ciSeig the same cages. In addition, we have
employed about thirty women apprentices,
to whom We are paying higher wages than wo-
men have ever received before at any mechani-
cal business, and higher than jOurneymen
printers were receiving six months ago
We have only additional statement to
make concerning our private business, IN which
numerous outside people have so much inter
ested themselves during the past three
or four days That is, that hereafter we
shall manage our own business in our own way,
and permit no external interference with it
Whatever. Inc question Wltn us is not one OF
dollars and cents, but of self-respect. This we
propose to preserve which could not do if
submitted to the Printers Union"
Now, the Times publishers. having initiated
this war upon the Printers, seek BY misrepre-
sentation and falsehOod to mislead the minds Of
the public, and more particularly Of the Demo-
cratic masses of laboring men, as to the real
issue involved in this contest. But, Mr.. Edi-
tor, they unwittingly admit half the truth las
we laboring men understand and believe i'll il
the foregoing article, when they conclude, that
they cannot preserve their :" self-respect" if
they submit to the Printers Union" When
we consider that self-respect with these
gentlemen may mean no more nor less than the
accomplishment Of any scheme, however base,
by my means, however iisgraeeful and dis
creditable to them, we can well understand tie
objection they have to " submitting to the
Printers Union,' after having. as we are
credibly informed, avowed their determination
to sink their whole establishment before
abandoning the efforts they are now making,
with the aid Of outside influences, to break up
trade organizations in this city.
As 70 the question Of . dollars and cents, we
know that is not the immediate object Of this
war upon labor. In order to successfully carry
their point in tins respect, they must first break
up the trade organizations, under one pretense
or another, when it will, they correctly reason
among themselves be an easy task to bring la
Dor under their control at their own prices.
am happy, indeed, that the Democratic la
boring masses of Chicago, as well as our Re-
publican co-workers in common cause, are
fully aroused at this infamous attempt on the
part of the Times to strike deatI-blow at the
true dignity Of labor here in Chicago, and that
they are unanimously determined that party
or.,ans, party politics, and every outside con-
sid grafton, must give way to considerations of
sci preservation, and that the Times and the
psrty it professedly represents shall die out in
midst, before we, the people, viii counte-
nance or in any way support such an infamous
attempt against the union Of labor, under the
fimsy pretext of consideration for the welfare
Of females DENocRAr