, 1866-03-24
THE l1ON:STKlkE.
ne Disagreessat between Founders
= and Mealders Continues.
An Hands Stop Work in tho Albany
and Troy FoRA1r1es-The Origin Of
the D1dlc0Ety-Thn Apprentice
QueAe5un-LAieat Aspects or
h. tho Difficulty.

the Moulders and the Founders in this city Is
ID fair process Of adjustment. When both
parties fully understand each other, It is prob
able that work viii be resumed. The action
effect simply to hold the matter uuder Id
yisemcnt for lew days, was very wise, and
exhibits a disposition to arrive at a fair under
standing.
The differences are two-told, relating 10 nm
prentices md helpers. The impression seems
10 be current that the founders propose to
compel moulders TO employ helpers. This Is
Gu error. They simply propose that when
ever mouldee desires to put on helper be
shall have the privilege Of doing so., HELPERS
are no benefit to the founders. They are put
on by tile men, who derive all the pecupiarv
profit from their labors- They nze In fact ap-
prcntices to the men. As the matter now
stands, the Union fixes number beyond
which no foundry can go, and no matter how
ureent may be the case, no man In foundry
can employ helper, If the number be h1led
But short time since, noulder In one Of
onr citT foundties desired 10 put on his step
eou, worthy boy, who hid served IN tie
Amy, and whose earnings would have been OF
great services to the family. The Shop Com
mittee, however, p1ohibitedit. The founders
propose that whenever any MN desires to
employ his sou, or any one else as helper, he
shn1l be allowed to do so, md that Is all.
Relative to the employment Of apprentices,
the founders simply insist on their right to
set them at work ID their Owl establishments,
under foreman employed to instruct them,
when they 70 desire, and deny the right OF
the Union to limit the number or control
their action III this regard In this they will
hare the sympathies Of the public. 1t i next
to impossible now to get a boy situation to
learn q trade, simply from The limitation In
posed by the various Trade Unions. Theirs
are many boys Idling in the streets, sous of
worthy parents, and many OF whom h1ye lost
fathers and brothers in the army, who should
be allowed to obtain employment.
Bat further than this, the President Of the
National Moulders' Union, In his animal mes
sage in January last, himself showed that the
present lmlt as to the number Of apprentices
Is too low. Ue stated that there are now
5000 moul1ers IN the country, and estimates
that these will NIL have passed away In twenty
years, and that under tie present limitation
their p1aces would be supplied by but 1900
mGnlders, md this in the face of the Yearly
cnlaTeing o1 the business and progression Of
tho country
These two points being the only ones In
yolTed In the present controversy, it Is res.
sonably thought that the Monlders, when
they come to understand the true position Of
the case, and that the Founders have no dis
position to infringe on their right, will con-
cludc to resume work
The men employed in Rathbone's foupdery
went to work this morning. The foundery
YVES cloEed yesterday to repair boiler.
We learn that come ten or twelve men etu-
ployed ct Raosom's foundery were ready to 70
10 work this morning, hut tho proprietors
thought It best not to blow" for day or
two yet.
Shear 4 Packard's foundery was likewise
closed to-day.
should this state of things continue, It Is
the intention oi the Founders to call the d.
vision together, when an entire new system
Of conducting the foundetjes will be initiated.
lAlLany Correspondence N, Z. Herald, l9.J
The extent Of evil likely to follow this un-
fortunate complication, may be judged BY
looking at the case rs presented IN Troy.
There, millions of dollars arc invested ia the
iron trade. The amount OF wages paid to the
persons who have struck in body. WAS On an
average, more than t:5, 600 weak. This
large sum L. withdrawn from the revenues Of
a needy class, who thus deprive themselves OF
labor, and must either seck support III soma
otlcr arocations, or rely upon contributions
drawn from tho reserved funds Of their own
League, aud from subscriptions by the other
Ttode Unions, whose members are Ill able
to bear such drstts. OF course the mannfac-
turers must suffer severely from disturbance
Of their business. But they will be partially
compensated BY the ability to keep their
hontlng capital otherwise employed, and by
tAC hpPiecIAt4Ou LII fR44e u "A1e8 tQeY U4f6
on hand; while to the poor operative, whose
only resource for sustensncc was the product
Of his daily toll, and to the family which de-
peuds upon his earnings for support, there
can be no mitigation Of the suherings that
must ensue.-
The singular folly Of this course will be the
more apparent. In view OF the liberal wages
earned By those who hare resolved upon it.
Before the adoption Of those obnoxious rules
against which the manufacturers hare organ
izcd, competent mouldcr WIS able to make,
without any extra effort whatever, eight or
ten dollars dny-thns realizing as much as
Is usually paid TO professors in colleges, or 10
frst.class ministers, or to the most competent
head bookkeepers In counting houees, and
cashiers In banks, and without nearly so much
exhaustive effort.
The 1ioulaers' League Is said to have In its
treasury abont three millions Of dollars. With
nne,oiSr o,s It y proposed to establish "so
and fifty Or sixty times that SUN. The capi-
talists will be able to control the mines, and
virtually to close the market for Iron against
their competitors They would also, by their
relations with factors. make 1t very difficult
to dispose OF goods manufactured. We con-
edy in such plan, ii it is triel-which must
be very doubtful.
An attempt will at once be made to fill the
places OF the workmen who have struck. by
introducing othera from abroad, who viii be
glad to get employment at such rates and
upon such terms as the resisting fmonldcts
have rejected. Against this competition. tho
strikers can have no remedy otherwise than
By violence.
j Meanwhile, the capitalists are very resolute
in determination to maintain what they
deem to be their peculiar prerogative. Several
large hFms, Which we're not represented at