The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-11-14

and paved the way to large increase Of
the dangerous classes" by the ignorance
it fostered.
The SIN showed that the Bohemian CT
gar makers, who were and are chiefly EN-
/ ployed in these tenement factories, were
compelled, through their enforced use Of
their dwellings as workshops, to pay for
the rent of their Z.
EMPLOYERS FACTORY,
while paying them rent for their homes.
1t was also shown that the manufacturer not
only saved the rent of factory. but made
large profit, as a rule, on his sub-letting
of the tenements he hired to his
WHITE SLAVES.
The average rent for tenement Of two
light and one dark room III the buildings
used by the Bohemian cigar makers is 81
per month. The usual rent charged by
the cigar sweaters is $l2 per month This
would give them from SIG to $50 per
month additional rental, or from Sl98 to
s2l4 per annum far more than enough to
cover any loss from empty rooms, etc.
Here are two profits lllegitimately made
| by the manufacturer. Next in order it
was shown conclusively by the Sun, that
by the employment of old persons and
children below ten years of age, the sweat
TT was enabled to dispense with paying
wages, AS any manufacturer who keeps a
factory is required to do, while at the
same time, by averaging the work to fami-
lies, he largely reduced the general price
of cigar making to himself. Thus there
were four grades of profit shown as IN
fairly ground out of the cigar makers. 1t
was further shown that the law relative 20
employment Of children was systematically
violated, that health was injured by undue
continuous labor, and that there was dan
ger OF contagion from the cigars thus man
ufactured.
There is one source Of i'll health not
named by the Sun reporter, and wholly ig-
nored by the sapient fools of the Board of
Health, and that is the we'll known effect
Of tobacco, and the odor thereof on tn /,
female constitution. 1t is well known to
physicians that its effects on the genital
organs is bad delicate women are often
made deathly sick by the odor, and the
diseases peculiar to women are aggravated
thereby But then these Bohemian wO-
men are only "vermin see Gail Hamil-
on-and the men v no begun the agitation
against it, are only trades unionists. The
Press IF this city, with the exception Of
the San, united to denounce the agitation,
and declared that the tenement workshops
IS healthier than the ordinary factory.
This, however. is but Of a piece with its
bru al action in relation to the Police ruff
iansm at Tompkin's square last winter, or
the deception practiced In regard to the
opinion of the people on the subject of
contraction. For weeks the papers tried
to get up resumption meeting at last
Steinway Hall was about two-thirds filled
a majority of those present being Wall
and Broad street clerks. The next morn
ing there was nothing but the meeting in
the papers. few nights after, at least
10000 assembled in and about Cooper In
stitute, to talk the other side. The long
est report did not exceed a column Of the
Herald. So it goes.
THE BOSS CooPERs' LOCKOUT
Matters ere still in statu quo. with the
odds, to all appearance, against the men.
Had it not been for the disarmament, last
spting, Of several lodges, the " Boss coop
ers would not have attempted their pres
ent effort. Mr. ONeil, President of No
2, thinks that the struggle will yet become
general, other coopers than those of No.
? returning to the organization, but there
seems little to warrant his expectations
There are about 300 men out. mostly en-
gagged in longshore work. Union No g.
Of Brooklyn, are i'll the same boat The
men Of the Eastern district have all yield
ed, and no society men are employed Ia
the shops there. This embraces Green
point, Williamsburg, and the principal oil
rehneries
The bosses assert that they do not de-
sign reducing wages, yet, in every in
stance, where noI--society men have been
employed, the price paid has been So 30,
instead of 81 per day In Brooklyn,
where the resistance has been more stub
born, the old dodge Of charging disorder
is resorted to- To-day extensive police
preparations we're made. Reserves were
on duty in many Of the precincts The
points where disorder was feared are the
docks in front Of the warehouses lying be
tween Fulton Ferry and Red Hook, and
the sugar houses of Williamsburgh
In the upper part of the city the shops
are all at work as usual. The Tribune
says:
Less than dozen employers are now at
variance III their views with the members Of
Union No. 3 The principal persons are
Messrs. Wydell, Shorthand, Mead, Eckman
Mclaughlin, Roddy, Moore, and Read The
others are paying the usual wages "a for
nine hours work-and claim to be in har-
mony with their workmen. Efforts were
made yesterday to effect a compromise, and
from present indications it is believed that by
next week satisfactory arrangements will be
made whereby all the strikers will return to
their work. Those still holding out claim
that their employers have taken advantage of
the dull season to require unreasonable prom
ises, and they say that during the Winter,
while business is dull, they cannot expect to
make over two or three days work in a week,
and that ii they agreed to leave the Uuion
| they would be compelled to abandon all It's
requirements, and suffer themselves to be
paid reduced price for their labor, without
appeal The indications are that the
| troubles will soon come to an end
| There is some talk of establishing a CO.
operative shop, and there is no reason why
the men could not do wholly without the
middlemen intervention.
THE LONG sHoREMEN
are just about entering on severe strug-
gle The steamship companies have Just
announced that on and after Monday next
reduction will be made in the wages Of
longshoremen il due il Ia said to the