The Shasta courier., 1864-11-12

LIsLE LEsTER.-This talented lady will
give dramatic readings at Armory Hall on
18th inst. An intellectual treat awaits the
good people of Shasta and vicinity. Wehope
to see large auditory. The following is
what the San Jose Mercury says of this lady
There is in San Francisco. as well as in
every city of any considerable size through
out the United States, what is known as u
s. Printers Protective Union" This is an
association that presumes to dictate to pub
fishers whom they shall employ, what wages
they shall pay. how many apprentices they
shall have, &C., &C.. under the penalty of
publishing any printing Office where the
mandates of the - UnionD are not fully COM
piled with, as rat Office, to he avoided
by all respectable members Of the craft They
repudiate female compositors. and will not
work in an Office that employs that kind of
help. The type setting of the Pacific Month.
ly is performed by women hence, in the
eyes of the Union," that is a rat" Office,
and all who are employed therein are g rats -
Well. Lislc walks into this ungallant propo.
sition without gloves and she is right. Her
foreman was called away on business, and
she requested her publisher to send her a
man to make up the forms" of the Monthly
for the press. He endeavored to do so, but
failed. No one would go, because it was
against the rules of the Union" They
did not tolerate female compositorsn She
went to work and made up her own forms,
and declares herself wholly Independent of
the Union," wherein, as she says, great,
babyish, puny men are protected from wom-
en-" In reply 10 the assertion that women
are incompetent to do the work of printing
well, she proceeds to give the Union fits
after this style:
The mere art of composition, which is about
all of the printing business women generally
learn, certainly requires no very great ten
sion of brain, or muscle, for its ready perfor-
| nance and in that bluAdering babvish ar
gument ofthis self-organization, they sneak
ingly attempt to rob women of ofordinarv abil-
ity, or power, to perform the simplest of me-
chanical labor; IN that croaking argument
is conveyed the idea that she is hardly the
possessor of common sense, and fails to learn
and acquire one of the simplest arts in the
world an art, that is really too small of it.
self, for great healthy. clumsy men to fall
asleep over. and make their living by. The
whole argument is puerile. low and disgust
ing, far beneath the dignity Of true gentle
man to cherish. and by far too contemplate
to give t, public utterance, and unworthy
any association. Why don't
women combine together and declare they
WILL HAVE jurisdiction over the dry-goods
and sewing machine Offices, and state that
men cannot do the work well, and that they
will not tolerate them in those Positions it
would bej just as sensible, and equally as law
full. 1t looks just as absurd to see great.
muscular, whiskered man, standing behind
the counter of a lace store, picking his teeth,
and leaning on his elbows, as they contend it
is for women to set type.
Waltz into them, Lisle. We have shut
the door against female labor. in the lighter
manual employments, too long, driving hun
dreds of our dependent sisters into the broad
road of shame that leads down to an early
and dishonored grave. Stick up for your
rights, Lisle; we'll I" hold your bonnet