The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-11-11
csis Getiing Worse nd more Dis
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Editors OF the Register.
The action OF such a corporation Gs
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
peny, representing over S5O,OO0.000 ot
capital, in curtailing the daily wages Of
their employees ten cents on the dollar
and then q curtailment OF their time
to eight hours, and the result OF the
two curtaiments added together is,
fret twenty cents per day on those that
were getting two dollars per day which
left them $50 per day, or eighteen
cents per hour; now deduct two hours
from the 81 SO and you have the pitiful
little sum OF 81 A per day for good
carpenters. What q shame and dis
grace and high -banded robbery is this
for such a corporation to be guilty OF !
1t ought to be legislsted out Of exist
ence everywhere. 1t has always had
the reputation Of being one Of the most
rigardly corporations in the world, and
think, deservedly go.
How can men getting 1916 per
week, (IulI time) pay their rent,
and -upport their families? Perhaps
some Of those officials who are getting
thcir thousands per year, can tell US
tne mojuS opsrIndt.
The shops and factories everywhere
throughout our city, are reducing their
operations and c@rtslliDg the time and
wages OF the tew they are still retain
ing.
In E. !ew weeks every labor employ
inc establishment in the city, will shut
Gown. Tor the eliminating point
is 10, ;ar in the future now.
All toe reputed millionaires OF our
country are going into voluntary or in-
voluntary bankruptcy, and are scaling
their debts, some at fifty, some thirty
and come at still higher per cent. How
are we to meet the demands against US
for house rent, (for you know that land.
lords are generally Shylocks) and
c!othe aud feed our families If the
price o. labor has been cut down 10 such
reduced rates, aud almost every one Of
US idle, it is nothing but just and right
that rents should be cut down in the
same proportion, or else not pay them
at all. Tie more laborers ard renters
cencede, the more will be demanded
OF them. The best and shortest way
to adjust the present uujus: discrimi-
nations against US is to take stand at
once and maintain il at all hazards and
let the consequences take care OF them
selves. The more we humble ourselves
the greater will be our burdens TO bear.
The sooner our present system o.
doing busir ess in this country is over
thrown, the better for us all. The pro-
misses Of employers are not worth the
breath it takes to make them. They
never think et them after they make
them. They don seem TO know what
humanity is, or what it meaus. Some
OF them pass for christians in our
churches, but they are accommodating
ones. Blessed is be tha; considers the
poor says the good book.
am glad to note the fact, that both
of our city papers have uniformly pub
lished every morning Tor US to read, the
exact situation OF affairs, and nave
shown profound sympathy for US in our
present distress and anxiety. Ny advice
to nv fellow.worknen ia, to bear up
under our present wrongs and oppres-
sious as beat We caD, by practising the
utmost economy IL Our expenditures,
srd when we have done our best in
these critical tinea, then if the worst
comes, al We have TO cay is, Sufficient
unto the day is the evil Thereof"
A WoRElSdNAS
Whaling, N9v., 10 1873.