Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-05

dissolved their long sustained con-
nections. The Printers Union, So
called. has once more demonstrated
its likelihood to do more harm than
good to the printer, in the long run.
The weakness and fatal error which
are always working these disastrous
results begin at the point where the
printer goes outside of his own per-
sonal sovereignty to trench upon
that of his employer. Anything
which promises to protect the artisan
against the encroachments and tyr
annies of capital is to be sustained
and applauded; but any and all ef-
forts at carrying this self-protective
principle so far as to make itself OBJ
noxious to charge of tyranny and
injustice is to be contemned. In the
nature Of things there are proprie-
tors and employees in the printing
business. Each has his rights and
whoever attempts the ignoring of
those rights mus: so to the wall.
Not even a powerful society may de
stroy the validity of the axiom that
each free mans money and time are
his own for all legitimate purposes.
1.-THE same time, the rule which
lives and shines through all true
craftsmanship, that governments
subsist upon compromises. obtains
in the relationship between the en-
ployer and the employed. Mr..
Goodman has always been a fair
minded, liberal employer He is
practical printer himself and has
always shown much respect for the
men in his office. In pursuing this
course of action he has always paid
the rates demanded by the Union,
and in SO doing has often shut his
eyes to the fact that his old hands
were sometimes selfish and over |
cxacting in their acknowledgement
of the rights and struggles and re-
sponsibilities OF their paymaster,
and always maintaining. by an al
most jealous habit OF demeanor, the
needless!y wide gulf between the |
publisher and the coInpositor-too
willing to maintain and make evil
dent the tacit understanding that the
proprietor is tie common enemy and
TO be invariably dealt with as such.
That Mr.. Daley, the Foreman OF tie
Job Department. had had trouble
with certain printers in San Fran
cisco was a fact, which, however dis
tasteful to the Enterprise printers
was entirely foreign to their rela-
tions with Mr.. Goodman. If Daley
was good enough printer to satisfy
their employer his merits were no
concern Of theirs and, certainly, so
long as they we're willing to take pay
Of Mr.. Goodman they had no right
to demur to any request Of his to
perform the handiwork for which
they were employed. They had the
choice to do as he asked of them, or
resign their situations. They chose
20 refuse to comply with his orders
but held to their places in the com
posing room. nevertheless. Upon
heir second mutiny Goodman dis
charged them-and served them !
right. Now we maintain that it is 6
20. truly self-respectful for any man, .
printer or what else, to insist upon
holding his place as hired hand
when he is aware that in doing SO he
.ails of giving the full measure of
which his employers in
erests demand. 1t is as unworthy
nd Inaccessible a thing to 10 SO, as {
t would be for a proprietor to keep {
n getting in debt to his hands after
e hos become aware that himself is ,
ankrnpt ard unable to pay them the
ages of their toll. It seems to us /.