New-York tribune., 1871-07-12
TRADES TYRdNNY.

Opportunely for Gen. Butler, and Mr.. Wen
dell Phillips and the other advocates OF
Trades Union cOnspiracies, we have -four
stories of outrage which the Labor RefOrmers
will do well to notice. Thirty women en-
ployed in James NJ Sawyer's shoe factory, at
Danycrs, Mass, recently struck for higher
wages Six of them returned to work, after
few DAYS, on the employers terms and the
places of the Others were supplied with new
hands. Mr.. Sawyer was then waited upon by
a committee of male Crspins, and ordered to
discharge all these new hands, and to take
back the strikers at the prices they demanded.
As he refused to submit to such dictation, the
men in his employ stopped work. 1t Is satls-
factory to know that he readily obtained
Others, and the difficulty has since been set
tied by the Crispins surrenderlng their ex-
travagant pretensions.
An evening paper mentions the case OF a
cooper who came to this city In search OF
work, and found that the ASSOCIATION which
controls his trade exacted of him fee before
he could be allowed to accept employment IN
any shop in New York, though 1t would not
opree to find work for him provided he paid
the fee. He could not afford to meet this de-
mand, and no master cooper to whom ne ap-
nlied burst give him work without the perms-
sion of the association The man was at last
Obliged to go to some other city.
The case of the Boston freestOne-cutters,
which has recently been before the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, in an action Tor con-
spiracy, is still more fagrant. The plaintlit ID
the suit had made contract to fulnsh stone
for several largo buildings in Boston, and had
sent some of it to New-York to be cut Ihls
was a violation of one of the rules OF the
.Journeymen FreestOne-Cutters' Association,
and although the contractor was not mem
her of the Association, they fined him $500
because he had seen fit to have some of his
work done in New-York rather than in Bos-
ton To avoid a general strike and con-
seouent ruin of his business he was forced
TO pay this extraordinary exaction, but he mas
now gained q verdict in an action to recover
the money and the court has ruled that a
conspiracy against q mechanic who is under
the Necessity of employing workmen in order
"to carry on his business, to obtain sum OF
"money from him which he is under no legal la
"bility to pay, by inducing his workmen to leave
chin, and by lettering Others from entering
"Into his employment IS an illegal
conspiracy, and the acts done under 1t are
illegal, and the money thus obtained may be
recovered back; and if the parties succeed
ain injuring his business, they are liable to
"pay all the damage they have done him."
| We presume this ruling would be held as ap-
| plying to many other exactions of Trades
Unions besides the imposition of a fine.
The fourth case to which we refer occurred
| in the same English town which is already
infamous for the operations of Bsoadhead and
the Saw-Grinders' Union, disclosed before a
Parliamentary Commission of inquiry, and used
with such startling effect by Charles Reade IN
one of his recent novels A brickmaker named
| Gill, having raised himself little, obtained a
contract to make bricks for Railway Com
paDy. He had been eighteen months mem
Der of the Brickmakers' Union, and by its
| rules no workman may become master III
less than two years. He accordingly applied
| to be readmitted to his Union which he had
| temporarily quilted, but was informed that
instead of waiting six months he must wait
| the whole period Of two years as ii he had