The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-12
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

CAPITAL AND LAbUH.
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The Strike Among tho shipcarpenters,
shipjoinsrs and shipcaulkers-Mest
ing or Master NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
offered for the Arrest and Conviction
OF Alleged ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of the
Police De manded-Present Position Of
the strike, Sc.
In the HERALD Of Thursday noticed the principal
features Of the difference has arisen between tho
master hpbuders OF this CITY and the shpcarpenters,
shipjoiners and shipcaulkers. The workmen, as we
have stated in previous issues, have gone
out on strike because tho employers re'
fused 10 comply with the demand made upon
them by the operatives that each days labor shall con-
sist OF eight instead Of ten hours. They have made no
demand for increase of wages but they state that on no
account will they return work unless the employers
concede the point insisted The shipbullders on tho
other hand are equally resoute and declare that they
will not DO dictated to- that they have been badly
treated in the matter; that at least before the mon
struck they ought to have finished the contracts In hand
and that, when the work completed, they might be
at perfect liberty to strike and remain out as long
they pleased, provided they did not interfere
with those who willing return TO their employ
ment tho old terms. As yet the general body Of the
strikers have not expressed desire TO resume work,
but the 'bosses state that " talks to the workmcn
individually he will find that they opposed 20 the
strike, though they must sustain In obedience to the
orders Issued from the society," In the councils OF which
matters apperaning to strikes regulated II is this
phase OF the difficulty that is specially Objectionable to
the shipbuildcrs. They have given II much consdera-
ton and they assert that in their Judgment II an
extreme hardship upon the head Of family to DO
obliged deprive his wife and children Of the comforts
which good wages would bring them merely be.
cause an irresponsible society declares that
strike shall commence upon given day and continue
until all tho terms asked have been complied with.
Furthermore the employers assert that they have from
time TO time acquesced In various claims put forward
by their journeym man. that they have gone 20 the
utmost limit they possibly could, and that II they
to consent to the eight hour system other demand
equally unreasonable, would be Immediately advanced.
In reply to this the werkmen say that they are not
| asking what is unreasonable They aloge that ten
| hours labor each day exhausts their energies and
| leaves them without time for mental improvement;
aud that II the hours OF toll were los
sened they would acquire much additional energy
and strength be able to do Ia eight hours work that
their capital and II 1t be overaxed and overraned
will become prematurcy weak and their families left
In the OF few years without any means OF sup
port 20 FAR as ascertain no effort has been made
10 bring the parties together 10 state their Views and
produce n possible by conciatory means, an amcable
and just settlement OF the dispute. There are,
! glad TO say, intelligent mechanics ia the city who
| would be delighted to such an arranecm mt
effected The continuance OF the stdks rs pro
city. About 100000 per week the average weekly
sum disbursed for labor in the sixty or eighty ship
alone paid So 900 weekly These facts show that
for the past six weeks tho strikers have lost no less
as wages II ihoy haa not struck Parties had waited
Mr. simonaou and offered 10 give him contracts for tho
unless at an increase OF twenty per cent the ordinary
price increase which he states would he caused by
ng The contracts declined to pay the advance aud sent
their orders TO other parts where they say they can
have them executed at prices even lower than those
! which prevail In ordinary tmce in New York.
There Is among tho trade organizations one known M
the Steam Bofermakers' and Iron sbipbuildcrs' Union
Of New York, No ]. Its rules framed as 10 ad
init u friendly settlement between It's members and
their employers Of any difficulty that should unhappiy
Constitution o, this BODY that no money shall be paid out
OF It's funds for tho support Of strikes Such body as
hs u j. took the trouble nigh. be able 70 enect re-
ployes.
| THE CAuLKERa.
Tho feeling ccacernIng these Il that they vel
organized that they pretty well supported by pecu-
mary aid and that II they yielded the oincrs and
poners might yield also The .oosses believe that y
caulkcrs who aware that vcsse must b. caulkcd
before she Ia launched and that this may possibly In
duce tho "bosscs'' to seek them and not they the
''bosses" The caulkers regarded ss the prime
movers In the strike The master shpbuilders asser'
that plenty OF men willing TO return to work " the
police authorities would only protect them while going
To and from their employment
places look tame aud deserted The sound OF the ham.
mcr has all bat ceased tho oaulkors do not WELD the
ma let and ehbe and the adze " seen in the hands OF
only few carpenters Groups OF men here and there
discuss the chances OF the strike. Some say II will
fail, others that must succeed; and not small
Der confidently ASSERT thai In the end capital, with its
| usual force, will gain the day.
| MEETING or TnE MASTER sHIrBuuDERs.
Yesterday meeting OF the master shipbuIlders WAS
held ITALIAN Hail. IN Grand street for the purpose Of
considering what best 10 be done In the present po
son Of the strike. Tho chair taken by Mr. Thomas
| STACK Mr. n ID we-,eryclt acted as secretary
Tho he ma Ia