Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-07-22
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BosroS, July IL.
uIH CRl-rIys ANn TIE CHINESE
I.I already know what an excitement has
t.e- t-lsoi ly the ai,eato; seventy i've China
u-u at North Adams. There is no doubt that
t-e tri>p.ls arr thoroughly alarmed N-
1,ur- p s. ueT So. kmcE sre but an Insignificant
number .a comparison with m Organization
which uu-aer. forty thousand members ana
yir;ui'y control, seventy THOUSAND votes. But
they may Pc reg.riel as tie entering wedge
which nay Sc, s7i; the naughty aad
:yr--a.cal league into iutuitCsimsl f-a--
meuts Very iev outside q Massachusetts
realize what desrotic sway this Crispn organ
i1-ti-u has for two or three years exercised over
Tue boot and shoe business If the commonwealth.
Compact, bold and unreasonable il has ground
the manufacturers 81 between. the upper and
neither in.l.stoues No capitalist has teeu free TO
make contracts with the dealers, because 10
sooner would "a the papers and complete
the bargain tn BIS employees would take al
vantage or LIS necessities aa1 strike for higher
wage 18th no alternative between Welding to
their demands and yiolsung lis contract, be
was csmu.et. y ST their mercy. They dictated
theuuuhe u men he should employ, the number
ofa1p-euticas he should take the number Of hours
they should work in short oil the details Of his
l.,sins.s That the manufacturers Themselves
are frequently as unjust, that capital when ii
las the p.ye,--es Il generally bss-is quite as
t,.,,pri-el canno. be denied But the most
earnest svmuath.zar with the laa0rinT classes,
aud O most jealous fJe Of Organized, graspiug
cspitsi-aui your correspondent acknowledge
few rivals in titEer charscter-ctlu0t regard The
C,isrin movement in t6is State as other than a
most dangerous enemy oflabor and Of the cause
of labor reform. So intelligent persoD has b.,n
able to advocate the cause Of the worbinrman
AGAINST the c4nit,iist since union of forty fbou-
s9ri yg5r,in,Isen got control Of one -rest indus
try IN :he stare. ana made the capitalists kncel
pr1strs,s n; is feet.
Brt The experiment nos making by Mr. Sam
SON involve. a crave problem quite outside Of tho
Cris7iu question. From. his u.int of view. as a
rDe,ei5r. of 5irste.-v against the Crispins no bt
pr9u = very happy plan. The celestial oiizrims
will doubtless make very GOOD shoes. ana what
d. none. make them chem. Bot there are rro-
found s1ci.l and political questions UNDERLYING
the roveE,egt Mr.. Slmrson PERHAPS overlook
Il -hau. fir II Is not O. be supposei that he
saw bic way through them. Ii is true that
the Chinese question as an 90 issue need not
come Up for many years, the number Of IN
migrants from ;ae Celestial Empire Is so
feH and presume that the first few cargoes,
anu lLe lIa' -e" 'hous'ats OF neg oes "hIch
came To 9.t -'re4'.eis' were ieslr-si as e ua--
) A-l suil-an'' nave earned III Isailtt
elsl ile u-lser % IeiNy' very istsh 7hlp!osl
oi OA-i'Ain'h CON pHctes me situfuoh- II we
are b. '7Ae -nJ a'''h NJ III upon tAtse strangers
W. SOONER 'i,e l-''er, we c.huo' alorN 10 wan
XII 'ney nun 'sI liiilions sh9 present proplem
M. .l,'} re sJ-'e- %''A o!ooI-
hllA 4'StTd 10 VT s&inpseh tlihamen'
conceive l't ss.iehl points 10 re these
iley wee brought 10 'his STATE under
contract ~ 'he terms OF which
tley a't 90 NoiA a certain length or
ull- or 3 1tTiAIA rave Oh wages. lney we're Oh
taiuea throls- sn egency IN taliiorma which
Prol's " specu.%uAg IN thlhcSe-inat ls, IN hu
i.a2 i->n ana amman 'aoor. They were obtain
ei al boy "ages-ec.u-e 'hey are ignorant and
10y tnls mean ny mere ignorance OF the me-
cAA-'-t part Oh Snoe making, but general lgno-
rance lex oi intelligence and education. these
ia-is eacompanied the Chinaman to North
ADAM. concerning ms hahits, The clTcum-
stances winch he came and the immedi1fs
-, - tIe sIioe llSHutAc
.,s n 20 soon tIo, tho .aso atyo-Is -
which IA. pelitical economist the statesD7a, Tho
uti,,ti,roris, nav well eDo.,.lato '-''
"1''N'
They wac have known " Sewyn's The
atre 80 sill soon know it 10 more for
ever. The accession OF Fechter to lie man
agemert has caused the change. How the quar-
rel between Mr. Cheney the proprietor and Mr.. ]
SelWyn the former manager after whom the !