New-York tribune., 1867-09-19


selves soindterent to its prolongation- propgsl.
tion sub,itted this week on behalf Of the Union has
not ELECTED of any kind although u Wao
| almost equivalent to % surrender 1he EheeuuVc
Committee proposed to abandon the plan OF com,
putting wages which heretofore they have INSISTED
on, and to submit the question Of wages TO arpit
| ton. They invited the masters to arrange tne
matter in their own way. Upon the report on
| the Committee that no response e0uiu ,bo bo
got to this reasonable aS9 one report
says with enthusiasm, to continue the strlke; uha,
unity there may be, for 1T is, perhaps the only
course, but there is not much call for enthusiasm %
The men have the worst of their long conflict wlth
the masters and they know it, in spite of the hgures
brought forward by the committee to snow the dlS
Uf the 2St men who began the STRIKE 400 are at
work IN other shops or at home on their own ac
count OF have gone INTO ino eogntry S00 nave gone
to America 100 have left the Union and gone to work
| for their old employers. Twenty take ship every
week for the New World. A. thousand are supported
in idleness by the enforced contributions Of their
| fellow -workmen all over the Kingdom
the proeessngs sinss' the Trade 1 oarases
same nature as that at Sheffield which disclosed the
systematic outrages of the Saw-Grinders. 1t was
hoped that Sheffield stood alone in its system OF ter
rorism aud there was something in the strong con;
demnatiun OF the Sheffield ruians by the General
Council of the Trades Unions TO encourage this hope
| But we have the same story at Manchester Inc Inc
Sheffield saw-Grinders. There is the same trade
ethics; the samc code OF brutal laws the same Ie
5 N aeaSS%s sfssS's "yeneS By
which he could save lod, per Thousand IN
| the manufacture of bricks. His workmen
demanded that the whole benefit OF their employers
Meadows offered them three effths, which they re-
fused and struck. During the strike one OF the men
| named Wild went back to work The Union resolved
that he should be punished. They set six men upon
Wild. beat HIM with iron bars, broke his arm ana
left him covered with blood and disabled for months
| The Union paid els for this job. Two men, Slater
| nd haeth WI
sault and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment ihey
released at the end OF three years. anu Sia.ei
the head assassin, at once chosen fresuent OF
| the Union. This like the murders by Broadhead
and Crookcs was an act of vengeance not against
| master. but against workingman. An organization
Of this sort once formed knows no friend put sucn
| as acknowledge its authority, and assails as an
enemy whoever has the courage to resist Its despo
The assault on Wild barely fell short Of murder.
The proceedings by which the Stockport Union un-
dertook 70 enforce its notions OF equity upon the
masters took the shape 81 arson anG to Wd
| case he with four other men had been employed by
tho Union to destroy the property OF Simpson,
| Union demanded. simpsons house and yard were
known TO be guarded and the assailants went armed
They shot At the waehman but missed an him Iney
all the bricks they could get at Two other cases
were testified TO in which the property of masters
refusing to pay the Union rate OF wage had Geen
destroyed. Another sort of compulson, less violent
testimony test & Of Simpson. He attempted to dis.
| charge Union workman because the man did not
| do his work properly BY n vote of the Union, he
compelled 70 restore HIM on trial III ne ana not
| do better the Union would send another man, but
| Simpson must not choose a man for himself. Soon
after that they fined u molder 70, and because ne
| did not pay they said must: ] refused, and the
went out fs tsc ne af Seose tSeV %oS
come back and would not pay; l then trled Tor
eight or nine weeks TO get non Union men 10 turn
tic bricks and could not succeed. asked q stone
breaker who had been burner, but he said he dare
not though he would have got hye OF FIX times the
hull He S sa sac s ana fSS took d t. sS
port Moor in 1853, bat the men said they could not
| work tall the Gaes paid" Az Simpson persisted,
he was twice attacked his bricks aud tools being rst
| destroyed in May, and in the following month oc-
| Cured the assault above narrated
Inc . dinSnras like those of Sheffield
and Stockport are 10 follow, the Trades Unions VIII
need something more than resolutions To clear them
| selves in public opinion Into the question OF the
| needfuness of Trades Unions do not enter. They
sprung from oppression, from denial OF tho rights
OF labor; they have become an enormous power,
which like all oyergrown authority ~ at times tyral-
ncal and unjust They cannot be destroyed, for they
| have lawful object, and are not to be rsckoned
| among those things which can be leglsated out OF
existence But think that it is clear that the mul,
tltudinous questions at issue between capital ana
Labor are not to be settled by Trades Unions Wehay
q long struggle ahead, IN which the Unions must play
| part though not a decisive part. The effort TO re-
arrange on Just basis the relations between employer
and employed must be conducted IN different spirit
|
There must be perception of the fact that their
interests identical, and not antagonistc. Meah-
while, the demonstration at Stayeey, on Monday
| last il significant protest against the des-
| potsm which the Unions seek To exercise over the
workingmen for whose protection they are supposed
| to exist The Staveey Coal and Iron Company ~
| one of the most extensive in the kingdom, employ
| ing nearly 5000 workmen. More than year ago an
| attempt was made by the Yorkshire miners to ex,
| tend their Union organization INTO Derbysbire, and
| the men ut Stayeley were threatened ana coaAed III
| all sorts of ways TO give it their adhesion;
| There was a good deal OF trouble, put Dy STOUT
resistance and above ALL by organizing to resist Or
ganization, the Staveey men finally conquered Inc
| Unions were fairly driven out. That their defeat
9y hep OF the the bcs Il for tbe
future may befound in that very TACT Al any rate
| the Company and their 5000 workmen are now on
the best of terms neither dictates to the other ana
neither is dictated to by an outside body Inc cse-
bration of Monday included the dedication OF Me-
chancs Institute and presentaion 10 the oIare
lug which represented the slxpences OF the donors
nobody was allowed to give more than od'l was THIS
"PreseDted to Charles Markham, esq, by 1896 Of the
workmen of the stayeey Coal aud Iron Company G1m-
ed in grateful & Oh tss h Ie a. ae he RrS
workman to freedom Of labor and OF action against the
Sis nnsorm Kindness 10 his work people August 1867"
think it will be agreed that the relations between
Mr. Markham and his workmen are nacH % oae and
able to contemplate thah those W MI ohnp''" "HN
MIR. Johnson's defiance of the popular will in the
removal OF Stanton anu SHeTludl is
| an act Of insanity The Judgment Of English jour.
| nails on American affairs Is not worth muchi but
where it happens be- in this case In opposition
TO their preiudces it is likely to be right The
party which upheld the Rebellion has hitherto done its
stand BY Johnson At th present me-
resnonsible for the death of Maximan, and
bpbH,''I by the party Of despotism is detested for
that reason. What is thought OF nim t Dy taEs .Es
a sentence or two from the Rerue des Deur Mondes
"a review whose position and influence are without