Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-16
WorkiDgmen Indignant.

State Convention, on the 22d instant.
HorkiBgmen Indignant.
We have been informed by several
prominent members of the workingmen's
associations Of our city, that they repu-
diate, with scorn, the attempt of the
Courier and its sbangers-on : to prosti-
tute their organizations to strengthen
and build up q rebel sympathiziug party.
Their organization is in no sense parti-
san. They have combined for mutual
protection and encouragement. Il is
not their purpose, and never has been,
TO permit themselves to be used by any
party for mercenary or political purposes.
We are not surprised at these expires.
sions of indignation. We knew that q
large proportion of the membership of
these organizations were intelligent
union men, who could not be wheedled
into doing the bidding of set Of poll
cal loafers who have connected them
selves with them solely for the purpose
of making little capital for the Cop.
perhead party.
Our workingmen know that the jour-
NAL has always advocated their intereats;
that during last October several elsbo-
rata editorials we're published in the
JOURNAL comm ending the stand the
workingmen had taken, and presenting
reasons why they should be encouraged
in their undertaking. These articles ap-
peared when there was no desire to make
political capital, and the subject of par
ties was not mentioned. These men
know that the JouREAL has nearly always
sided with them, and in one controversy,
at least, against one of the heaviest cap
itaIists and manufacturers in our city,
and that we lost the patronage of that
establishment, amounting to several
hundred dollars per year, by SO doing.
These men know that in 9 year 1851,
when mechanics oil over the city we're
put upon half time, or half pay, the EN-
ployees of the Journal Office received
the same pay, and were employed full
time, as had been the case in more pros
porous seasons. These men know,
or ought to know. that the jour-
NAL Office has always been prompt
to advance the wages Of it's employs ess
without strike or trouble, and, in several
instances, without solicitation, and that
for the entire time we have been con-
nected with the Office, not q solitary man
can be found who viii assert-or If be
does can prove--that he has ever been
cheated by the JOURNAL Company out of
one cent. Our mechanics know that
the JOURNAL Office has been prompt to
pay men their full wages every Saturday
night, without asking them if they
couldn't get along with less, or reserv-
ing any part Of their justly earned
money We say, all these things the
workingmsn and mechanics of Evans
vile know, who know anything about
the history of our city.
In all the work done by mechanics
for the JOURNAL Office, it has neither
higgled with them about price or pay.
In one case, IN particular, she JOURNAL
Office paid e carpenter-who has since
spent much of his time abusing the Of
fee, but which, We are gratiied to say,
he didn't do until be gait the carpenter
business for something not quite so req
spec table-double the amount agreed
on for q piece of work, because ne was
unfortunate in having to rebuild walls
which he knocked down in his efforts to
underpin" " them. Verify, we have
oar reward for this act Of generosity as
for many others.
But there are other things the work.
ingmen of Evansville do not know,
which we propose to tell them.
The first effort made by one of the
present proprietors of the Courier, on
establishing his paper in our. city, was
to cut dcwn printers wages from As
cents per thousand ems to 40 cents.
We are informed that he actually sue
ceeded for one week in compelling
printers to take that amount, alleging
that was all the JOURNAL paid, which
was false. Our informauts are men
who were employsd in the Courier office
at the time. Bot the JOURNALS libe ral-
ity in paying fair wages for fair work,
compelled him to either quit publishing
a paper, or pay full wages.
Failing to cut the journeymen down
in their wages, the Courier editor
next resorted to dodge that is regard
ed BY printers quite as mean as frat
ting" namely, to discharge the journey
men, and put in their places !" two-third
ers''-boys who can set type on news.
paper, but have never finished their ap
premiership. To-day the Courier hai
three or four such boys in the Office
solelv because it can get them to d
iournevmen's work for much less thai
icurneymen's wages. Not only so, bu
the fattest situations in the office ar
given to these cheap hands. What thinl
iourneymen mechanics of every descrip
ton of this boasted workingmen's cham
pion2 Is he not star of the first mag
nitadeP Does not his briliiance excee
that of q diamond of the 6rst wsserf
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