The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-10-12

purchsss one Thousand fest Of lumber, say
three days hence, (as at that tins muss
cosmsnce working 81 the job) . humber nsr.
chant having ID CT sale. chsstss DC for fhai
Isebsr eighty d6lisrR; I ohlees - the price,
= being extravsant conelud6 10 look f1r-
Their; q the end Of thres dayp, finding |
cannot do better, | csil On. him, ~ him his
price, and take BIZ I1mber. Does ne loose
anyth' by the delays Certainly not. Do
gair .ytLing BY III OF course not. II
being . business transaction, his property
could not wait my necessity; Il wasted not
by thus waiting.
But how stands il with the workmanf An
employer desires 60 obtain additional help /;
10 jonrns7man applies; 10 willing TO paw two
dollars per day, while the jpurneyman de-
msnds three doiizrs; the FORMER viii give 80
more, and the latter will take no less. Nov
every day the workingman fails 10 sell his
labor he sooses the full value o. IL. That is
hnai, total loss, and must sooner or later
bring him to the terms offered by the em-
pleya. ~ when disagreement a. 10 terms
occurred. the journeyman could store up an
his idle days, so ~ 10 be able to use them,
shen the employer was compelled to come y
terms, then there would b. some reason id
treating labor and property as equals.
But labor u be Of use 70 the laborer must
Dc sold Zach day, or each day DO forever lost.
u does not seem to me that we ought 90 sc-
cept this CURLY announced dogma that Ia
Dor b ~ Other property This property
characseS-o Of labor goes even further; II the
propertyites viii have il property, then give
u the protection the laws give other proper
", thus 'us said. 90 maahstabor ~ bis own,
aod be can do With il as be sees it," Let
as take . case Of . shop, in which they
work twenty men, who are receiving four
dollars each per day. These men have been
sometime in the employ OF the same parties,
and there comes twenty others who offer to
perform the same amount Of work for two
dollars each per day. The old hands
are dismissed u. make way. for tho new ones,
or, If retained, are SUBJECTED TO a reduction
OF wages Of City per cert. The new corners
thereby destroy the value Of this labor prop
erty just one-haif OF TO put this std more
plainly and vet within the limit Of thesfy,
the new comers Elsy agree " work ior moth
ing, thereby destroying This labor property
entirely. Where IL the redress We are
plainly told the new comers had a right 10
~ lNCt ~ biCN PtCuoru WIN buClT ptOpCiLf
What ! and destroy pursg cries the old hands
Certainly. n IS one " the privileges Of free
community, where no restrictions are placed
upon the rights Of individuals --
But how does the same thing work when
applied to other property In my lumber
yard have a pile Of lumber which wish
10 remove, and as it il Of no particular use to
me, determine 10 set fire to ii and burn il
up; the humber u mine the not il mine,
and Of course, can do as please with nv
own property. But if in 80 doing. the lum
Der pile Of nv rival in business, whose yarC
adj ,ius me, chances TO be set on IRE, the Law
furnishes hiss with means of redress 10 the
last cent. IL Law makers will not give lab u
protection, those who labor must make law,
Tor their protection. Come brothers, FIJI az
the ranks Yours fraternity,
q. III. GIBSON. Vice Pres, n. AZ. u.