The true northerner., 1873-11-14
Work and Wages.

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Work and Wages.
IMMEDIATELY after the election, the
Board of Public Works of Brooklyn dis
charged 400 men.
THE Taunton (Mass.) Car Company
has reduced the wages of its employees
25 cents day.
OVER 1000 workmen in Louisville,
KY, have been thrown out of employ
ment within few weeks.
Work on the Harrisburg and Potomac
railroad has been suspended, throwing
a large number of workmen out of en-
ployment.
A BosToN telegram says it is rumored
that the great Manchester print works
are going to shut down and wind up
their affairs.
In view of the failure of the Texas
and Pacific Construction Company,
railroad men now predict that no new
road to the Pacific will be built for ten
years.
The Boston and Providence Railroad
Company has discharged about 40 of its
employees, and it is proposed to reduce
the number of trains on account of lack
of business.
THE Louisville and Nashville Rail.
road Company has issued circular an.
nouncing a reduction of 10 per cent. on
officers, agents, and employees salaries
after the 10th inst. Other Southern
roads will take the same action.
AT the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
Philadelphia, there were 1900 men EN-.
ployed when the stringency com
menced in September. About half OF
these have been discharged, leaving
/ 1,33O men now working on three-quartei
time.
DURING the past week about 400 EN-
ployes of the American Watch Compa
ny, at Waltham, Mass, have been dis
charged, and orders have been given fol
the complete stopping of the factory Oh
Saturday, for one month at least.
The Atlantic Mills at Lawrence
Mass, are running four days in the
week, ten hours per diem. There ha,
been, however, no reduction in tn,
number of employees OF wages, and thu
management hope to proceed on thi'
basis.
THE Hartford Courant says that th'
money stringency has deeply affected
the large manufacturing interests o
Fairfield county, Conn. In Westpor
there is $500, 900 invested in such enter
prises, and of 700 operatives commonly
employed only about half the numbe
are now working.
THE Lehigh PENN Register, O
Wednesday, says 1.-The pig-iron trade
in the Lehigh valley is extremely dull
The prices offered are generally below
the cost of manufacture, and the iron
masters see that, if they run full tim,
all winter, they would have such an i'm
mense stock on hand in the spring tina
the trade would be ruined for the who'll
of next year. Consequently nearl,
every company has blown out enough
stacks to reduce its production
about one-half, and therefore those wh
look for ruinous prices next year will b
disappointed.
In a hard winter it is criminal t
hoard for the sake of boarding. Ever,
! dollar removed from circulation adds
pinch of cold or pang of hunger to TIN
prodigal store of that gruesome patri
mony always on hand in the world
markets. When possible sickness an
loss of employment have been dis
counted, whatever idle surplus 8 ma
has he may better spend than keep
And the chance is that if he do not dis
burse the whole in the interests of il
dustry, he must part with a portion i
the interests of pauperism. For nc
only the almshouses but the jails gathe
in recruits at such times, and taxes fo
both uses grow heavy. y.-Hedrth an
Home.
EVERYWHERE there are indication
that decrease in the wages of tn
working classes is inevitable. 1t is har
to cut down mans income at tim
like the present, but it is clear that tn
shrinkage of values and the fall of gol
must bring down wages, however muc
we may regret that result. The organ
of capital are, of course, pleased wit
this prospect, forgetting that hig
wages means the prosperity of trade
and that men who with high wage
can purchase shawls for their wives an
groceries for their tables are restricte
when wages are low to the purchas
of the bare necessaries of life. Their
will be much dissatisfaction and not
little distress among workingmen TIN
winter, but they should remember thi
labor has profted for some years pa'
by the imitation of values, and that it
the inexorable law of political econom
that labor must also share in the 10.
brought about by general shrinkag
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A WOuld-Be MOpareh's Abode.