The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-01
THE LABOR QUESTION.

Opportunity, in so far as the present
local agitation of the labor question is
concerned, comes the consideration of
the matters involved 10 the same through
what has lately transpired where more
deliberate and methodical action has
been brought to bear upon it in the
better regulated communities of the
Atlantic States. The telegraph apprises
US as follows:
WORCESTER, September %.
The State Labor Reform Convention was
attended BY two hundred and eighty dele
gates, representing all the counties except
Duke and Nantucket. The main purpose of
the Convention is she formation of a new
political party in the interest of the working
men.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted denouncing all
laws creating distinctions in favor of color
or condition or nationality, and insisting
upon a reduction of the hours of labor at
the public expense to eight, and demanding
all candidates for Office to pledge themselves
to support law prohibiting manufacturing
corporations from employing females and
minors over ten hours per day; favoring the
taxation Of all bonds and securities; OppOs-
servile race to degrade and cheaper labor;
asserting that the recognition of the claim
of bondholders that the national debt is pay
able in coin 0niy, is q clear reputation Vi
the national faith.
This occurred in Massachusetts,. What
was thus enuQciated calls for careful
sad critical examination.
The FRS, terms of these reported reso-
buttons are to the effect-the broad and
catholic effect-that all laws which
make color or nationality a distinction
between laborers are improper and
then, following this is protest against
the employment of women and appren-
tees for more than ten hours per day
Thus far there seems to be at least q
show of reason upon the part of these
laborers, for what can be more admira-
BILE than the broad grounds that a man
is a man ard hand labor is hand labor
wherever it may be found ? This de-
nuaciation of that miserable policy
winch sees q difference in the COM
plexion of men is to be admired and it
is merely a seiEprotective measure for
body of working men to resolve that
contractors and wealthy corporators
shall not circumveut their determine
tions by the employment, at ten hours
a day Of women and children. We will |
drop the incidental question as to |
whether the ladies aud apprentices are
justified in taking the places of NAL.
content male operatives, and proceed
to the consideration of the question in
the aggregate as it is forced upon us by
contingent circumstances.
The Laboring community seems I'M
easy and dissatisfied. Why?
Ia so far as they state the terms of
their grievance in the resolutions above
quoted they discover nothing better
than a grumb!iIg, unreasonable in
consistency for after stating, in terms
that might be regarded with the con-
currence of friends or the opposition of
enemies that q color or condition of
should not be taken into
by the employer, they
proceed to Pander to aAd give support
aud encouragement to the besorted
Unions" who, further encouraged by
the Gemsgogues of the Pacific Coast,
have made tie ''color" and nativity of
The DISTINGUISHED Chinaman . cloak for
The cover of his persecution and ostra-
cism by the white and unlettered bar
bariaa. who have come to our shores
from the opposite side which admits
lhe temperate and frugal worker from
China. (Let Us bless God that an emil
grafton has set in from the Orient to
off,et the pampered bsrbarism from the
prosecuted precincts OF
Ireland aad CornwaIl.)
In SO far as the conflict between
abor and capital is concerned, we re.
dice, as a poor man, with nothing but
,ur daily aud poorly requited labor for
N ans of support, that it has begun to