New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-21
,xABoR AT HONE AND ABROAD.

LABOR AT HONE AID ABROAD.
Il We are an ignorant people. We are q
very ungrsteful people. We do not know
what is the relation between labor and
capital in foreign countries, and still less
The, sosial apeaAtions ~kstxaan capital and
intelligence on the one hand and labor on
the other as it prevails in those countries.
All! we are very ignorant and ungrateful
people Look at England, behold . Ia
boring territory thus: f. 90
Men. III tell you what 1 had to do. I
pence Thirty SIX cents) . day was all was
getting. working bard morning to night. \
asked my master for more; he said one and
sixpencer q day Is all / shaii give you, had
sworn at tho altar to love and cherish and.
preserve my wife, and I knew that would
not keep her and the children, so struck.
l went away to work whore l could get
higher wages Sometimes could not set
anything but straw to lie on, and once y
slept for nights and nights on corded wooa'
but thought il any one was ~ suner, ~
was not my wife aud children, but myself"
Such is the lot of an English farm
laborer. 1t is the lot Of Joseph Arch. a
man as eminent Tor his piety as John
Bunyan himself, to whose order he be-.
longs The starving herd Of farm labor
ers, thus supporting their people ON SO As
of our currency per week. or less than a
levee laborer will earn in q day, were COM
PEELED to combine against their oppressors.
Their employers met them with two meas.
ures of compulsion. One was an act max
ing a failure 10 comply with labor con-
tract such q misdemeanor as might be
punished by imprisonment; another was
The Lord of the Manor of Welesbourne is
Sir Charles MOrdaunt... well known to the
American public through his attempt to
obtain divorce Sir Charles called a
meeting Of the Warwickshire squires and
parsOn and on the proposition OF the Rev.
Mr.. Holbecke, they pledged themselves not
to employ any lab0rer belonging to or who
might join the Union, and that BY every
means in their power they would "put it
down" Sir Charles Mordaunt did his share
Va AAAuC0A6OcAy SAvAD& oVeASO w 1AA SnO Wv
tagers ON his estste who had Joined the
Union that they must leave their homes;
this proceeding gwas initiated by the Rev.
H. s. Millar, vicar and landowner
at Railway, . village at the foot Of the his
toric Edge hills. D''S'i H' 70 -
Here are the nobility and Gods clergy
combining to keep people at these starva-
ton wages, and compelling these unfortu-
nate people to labor at these rates by
putting them into prison or turning them
into the highway! We could enforce this
illustration by statements Of the cruel
deprivations, of the mechanics Of Eng
land-of their brutal ignorance, of the
utter obliteration of the Divine nature in
their minds their, intense hatred Of all
who are above them. We could tell how
this unhappy class is driven to herd to-
gether in unions for safety from their own
employers. Nor would we conceal the
acts Of vengeance perpetrated by those
unions. But with this citation of I'M
doubted facts, let us compare the relations
between the employer and laborer in
"f fa- Htt-~ a~A -
LOUISIANA. rr el"f lTf7
Here the employer is, to a certain ex-
tent. dependent on the laborer. There is
no strike for higher wages. The farm
hand has his freedom. His habitation, food
and clothing are sufficient to keep him
from the suferings Of the English farm
laborer. Here the laborer has as much
land as he may wish upon which to raise
with abundant range for cow
and for pigs. Hence there is no such
hostility on the one part or dread on the
other in Louisiana as in England. The
principal, We may say the only question
Of contention here between employers and
employed is: certain paroehial Offices, q
front seat at the opera, and equal rights
as travellers and guests OF the public vehi-
cles and in the public hotels. These
rights will, We are confident, be conceded
at al early day In the meantime, with
these as the soleicaus Of conflict between
interests which ore Identical did we not
Say Truly V0oV We "CAC vSAy St3AVS0Ns
people? -r..,,.. % ". ---..,s ,..,..
When we remember that we have a
body of citizens, the most docile and
peaceful in the world, producing the
greatest agricultural values in the world,
have we not said truly that we are a peo-
pie very unerateful for the industrial and
social advantages, which we possess?
Joseph Arch, the Moses Of the English
toiler, comes to the United States in Au-
gust. He comes to lead these perishing
paupers and slaves out of bondage into
bread and freedom. What destiny it
would be, if the United States shall, by
this exodus teach that, having given lib
erty to all within its own limits, is now
finding emancipation for all in bondage
throughout the World. Ia.
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