New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-22
LABOR AND RTEIREs.

trades are on a strike for fewer hours OF labor
per day, or for higher wages, or against pro-
posed reduction Of wages, or with reference 10
certain regulations of the establishments
wherein they have hitherto been employed
The stove.manufacturers Of Albany and Troy
are at war with the moders formerly employed
by them--the latter having adopted certain
regulations touching the employment OF appreh-
tees &C., which the io.mer deemed UNJUST
and have therefore determined to resist. Hence
thousands are now ont of work, and thousands
more soon will be. The Albany Eeen'ng Jour
nal says:
1.-THE Moders League is said 20 have in Us treasury
about So OUOCO0 With this reserve II Is pop'aeu I"
establish Cooperative iOundery upon vast soae i
The disadvantage will be rs between thiee , H.
fifty or sixty times that sum. The capltails's N w.
able IN control the mines ard virtually to close tne
market for iron against their competitors. ihey "DHu
also by their relations with factors, make ~ very u
cult to dispose of goods maau!aotuic'L conic'' w.
do no. see any prospect for remedy nNch pan II IL
is tried-wbich must be very doubtful"
We pray the molders to do that very thing
which Tile Eroning Journal advises them not TO
do. We do not suppose they have three million
dollars, nor three million cents, in their treas
ury but they probably have some funds ana
more in the sayings-banks, or boarded at home
We pray them not to stand Idle, eating up their
little means and thereby weakening themselves
day by day; and we more especially entreat
them not to attempt by violence or menace 10
deter Others from taking the places they have
seen fit to rclinquiSh, To do this is to violate
both Liberty and Law, and array all law-abiding
people against them. But they have a clear
legal and moral right TO make stoves; and there
is no obligation of any sort to make them under
the direction of "bosses." Let them set to
work at the earliest moment.
The Journal says "the capitalists will be
able to close the mines, and virtually 10 close
the market for iron against the journeymen.
They dare do nothing Of the kind. Let them do
it, and the duties on iron shall come OIL, and
iron come from Europe cheaper than it can be
brought from our own mines. But those who
make iron will always be glad TO sell il; and
,hey who buy at the low prices now ruling can
make stoves cheaper than those who have 10
work up stock bought at the higher prices which
have ruled for the last two or three years.
Nor will it be found difficult 10 dispose OF
goods manufactured as Tn, Journal suggests.
If the molders can make good stoves, and make
them cheap, they will be able to sell them.
True. this is the slack season for the stovetrade,
but good stoves offered cheap will nevertheless
find purchasers. In this dag Of easy
INSTRUMENTATION and universal publicity, it
were absurd to suppose that any class interest
can prevent the sale Of valuable products II,
then, the moders can make good and cheap
stoves, we pray them 10 set abOnt II at once.
Even though they should thus earn but fifty
cents per day, that is infinitely better than 10
stand idle-ofen spending fifty cents in the
grogshops.
In saying this, we assume to decide no que'-
ton at issue between the mOlders and their
late employers. We assume the right Of either
class to manage IL own affairs in is own way.
But we hold that there is no real .egress from
anarchy of industrial interests but through an
Organization of Labor which shall make the
workmen virtually owners and masters of The
shops wherein they work. Labor is now organ
lied on monarchcal basis, which needs to be
republicanized. The task is arduous; il cannot
be effected in day nor year; but il ought
nevertheless to be attempted at once. Let Us
have a system which makes every workuau
partner in the concern to which his energies arc
given. The Yankee whale-ship, fitted out on a
"lay," is great improvement on the wages
system. We have heard recently that certain
iron-furnaces had been recognized on a
kindred principle. A tun of iron is
represented, We will say, by the number one
hundred, whereof the one is reckoned so many
parts, the furnace 50 many, melting so many
pudding so many, and so on, until the
proportional value OF every element Of cost ia
represented by its proper number. The iron
being sold for cash, the naked price shows to-
every workman the sum to which he is entitled;
thus Iron $50 per tun: Ore, 2 shares, ~ 60;
Coal, shares, "a; Limestone, ! share, SOc.
Meters, Puddlers, &C.. their respective shares
as pre-arranged-each mans share being in ex-
act proportion to the price obtained for the iron.
Give us this Organization of Labor, and the
Tariff Question (ike all others would settle
itself.
"FORWARD 10 RICHMONDv