New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-29
Th1 Press PARLIAMENTARY saYs;
IaEOR AND WAGES.

The World disscnts from our acfniescNnce III
the suggestion of Joint Committee of EN-
ploycro and Journeymen to iix the scale OF COM
pensaiion for work at Printing, saying:
1--WE confess We do pot the necessity for this uni'
foruiiy which the rr-USn considers 5OuerdfnL f'ec-
is.ino,s We cannot SO VIII, eaca o1,cc caano, mako
It's own rules and 10y Joint understanding betR Ell
ho pr0grptOIs and ,ne oIrnrywer, frame 30 own rcgu
ai ION, and tx IL. sclc 81 prices. AZ The oiicee
are not the SAME Some arc richer than others. and
can afford % pay better Tic Kind Of work which OBJ
tains in one office does not in another
We dissent entirely from the proposition that
"richer" establishments should pay higher prices
for their labor than others. We are be-
lever in Socialism, but this ia u spurious kind.
A jourpeyman mechanic, as things 60, IS not a
mariner in the establishment for which he works,
and should be paid for what he does, irrespective
Of his employers measure Of prosperity. And
as for there being as many different scales OF re-
enumeration as there are printing-oiiicos, It In
wolves perpetual bickering, chaiicring and injus-
tice. Practically, it would render each employ
CT an autocrat in respect to wages. save when
journeymen are very scarce. We have nag pfac-
Teal experience in the premises under all a.
poets. and consider uniform Scale eminently
desirable for all parties. As to different KINDS
Of work. " the Scale should consider them al ard
deal justly by all.
We think The WorH must be badly informed,
when it AYERS that an established scale
is unjus, to tho printers Themselves because !
checks ambition ard talent among a. WorkmeN "a
,or,a sick in ne oo' ,oiorS sry0rniIg Irty1s 70 PAD
| a. pe!I as tie bet ioorkmar.
On the contrary, there is no conceivable call
ing in which compensation is 30 nicely adjusted
to earnings as in printing at picce-work. under
a well.odjusted Scale.
! III. World says:
1--WE see that the printers' Union. having been de
fated 10 rs attempt to control 1nE 1m1 M ONCE now
| expresses willingness to meet employers on cluh
terms aud 10 confer with them 30 ~ Ia agree upon
scale Of prices. We presume that the empoy"is VIZ
yery geno.ay decline O have anything to DO rii inc
nOu fS the reason that u dooe not represent tue mass
OF the working printers.
That may oil be. We have not proposed
that the Printers Union shall regulate prices,
bat that the whole body of employers shall meet
the whole body Of journeymen through joint
Committee, in an earnest attempt to frame
| Just and uniform Scale. TO be changed, when
once adopted, only by the action Of JOINT
Committee like that which framed it. We still
think tins course advisable and just.
| Bat. urges The Ror}d:
| THE enforced high prices which obtain In tho
printing business because 81 combinations oil woiknicn
having the effect u destroying tho business Tor inc
printers themselves IL has lesssued the number oil
ne spapers Il roughOut the country; II II bringing mp
prentces into the trade and about introducing In tbo
place OF compcsitors machines 20 do their work. and
probably the effect II the trO1be among tho printers
win BE- In time " throw them out OF employment III
the scale Of priccs had been allowed 10 regulate tell
In accordance with the demand for printers, and with
out any outside Interference tho nlber oil newspapers
would not have materially lessoncd would bayc
Thought Of making the radical chnnges which machines
must in time create and II would have bc"u better Oh
the whole IL. the mus OF working prin'ers
We see this whole business in totally differ
cnt light. If wages have generally risen, We
think that proof that they ought to have done
70; if the number of newspapers has diminish
cd, we judge that there were formerly too
many; and If apprentices have been brought into
the trade, it is because so many journeymen
have gone to tho war that more hands were
needed. These matters regulate themsclvcs
! pretty well, whether with or without Trades
Unions and Strikes. which, in the long run,
make httlo difference. And, az TO the introduc.
ton of machines, we hold that desirable to prin'
ters as well as everybody else. provided those
machines can be used with economy. as VI
firmly believe they may b.. Nobody, wort!
considering, would now discard the Steam En-
CINE or the Steam Press; and we expect to SEQ
Type composing Machines equally useful and
equally common within few years.
Hon. JoHs A. BisGHlM, Of Ohio, has been