The New York herald., 1875-09-26

poor Mrs w. here widow WI fove children ~
wud ma believe, In less ten minute after the vNg
etable wa cooked We cOuldna az seen as mooch a. y
put Z the palm o. your and An If ye foind ton
gle oop existence
oohiQrtaDie enoogh- Ae workin 4 the Slade Mills
anu t1e een was good We 'ud make from Sl4 TO SIS
m.te H. dneh thae coome TO 'em and say yen ay TO
i iSne ninety pound or 100 weight more material and
yen ay TO work for ten per cent less This took Sl6
Week Out o the pocket o. myself and children WeeL
We askeu tonne 10 consider Thae'd gle tonne.
accept or tOorn oot the word We sent delega-
ons To the Seceary o. the Board o. Trade and asked
him 10 ay meetin o. the Board called az we ud wish
10 place oOr grievance afore them il he'd done 40
some arrangement moight ay been made Mon Joseph
Baker uhe secretary fairly kicked ,em oot INTO the
street, reoosed 10 hear the story o. the operatives an
the tntervu ended by his promisin' 10 see aboon it
Tor IN when the reg'lar meetin' took place We next
sent 10 Mr. Walter Paine President o. the Board. He
was more courtus promised to call oop the matter when
thae met boot, the Socetary had refoosed to call
special meetn' it war impossible to do more Had
thae calld the meetin' ae beliye yud ay had no
stroke
q, srISNEns' ny rAr1E ENGLAND AND IN AMERICA;
'Ae III shoe ye the difference atwixt the work here
an in Enslan' In Englan a spinner III get thirty
six shin' (Englsh) week for thousan' poond o.
twenty eight warp Here thae gle EN- (under the
redooctlo1l for two hundred poond more warp nine
dollar an half week In currency Moo allow for the
difference twixt gold an the currency an ye III
tn English is ahead Boot ye II fond only half the
droanes there There ye III ay for four pair o'mues
two pieroers, two back boys, an two mnders.
Here yen ind one man put 10 do the work of Of
the old country mules. Too much for the work There
yen ay Tn overseer, tn under overseer an but
others Here thae ay an agent an treasurer, an
warehusmon, an walkers, an a long list o. droanes
whoa never STAN thae finger boot carry OF big wages
THE wEAvERA
"At Blackburn an Burnley an Preston, IN Englan',
the weavers get thirtysix cents in goid for the
64x64 class OF goods Weavers here the same class
get twenty four cents cut. currency See the differ
ence WI eight looms which he drive he'll got forty
cuts week Weel mootply 'em by twenty -four an
yen git nine dollar an half week ($9 90 Il isl In
Engan though the owners say we're all mooch better
ou the same weaver earns from thirty TO thirty six
shillings week (gold) The ay eight looms the
women seven mostly, to attend There yen find boot
one overseer to thirty two pair omues and perhaps
little boy TO give oil an help tend Here thae'il ay
one head overseer, two second ands an two third
ands Tor the same number mind ye--four five
people TOO many Thael carry OH four five Thousand
uotlar month, an produce nothin. See why the
cost is high to produce goods
THE cARDERs.
"Noo take the carders-strippers Of cardsafore the
fedooctoh thae'd earn 81 go to $3 week under tho
cut doone 80 80 TO 80 so week-an' presently ael
shoo how thae ay TO spend II. Thae men in England
earn from twenty four shilling thirty shilling week
Ave gle ye the wage the three divisions see
what thae ay to buy VII it, takin the present redooc-
tion we get:-
1PlnnePs month. e3S 90
strppers OF cards, month. 26 90
EXPENDITURES
we pay for rent for small family month ..... 90
Half ton o. coal. 25
Two h. meat day for five persons at twenty
cent pound, say 80 b.. ..................... II 90
-Four bushel o. potatoes eighty cent. ........ 20
Flour for bread, half barrel. Observation-Disclosures. 25
Tea, three poond forty cent. t............... 1 20
Butter eight poond thirty y-three cent. ..... "a
Making munth h.......................... 81
For family that's workin this is not mooch for
munth But, then, ye ay to buy clothes; that'u
average two dollar head takn' the year through
every munth Soome families take more soome less
boot tn average, alown' some little tobaccy and an
occasional glass o. whiskey ale. For three year.
we've been content to make just enoogh TO live WI;
moo TIN be the closest Shawn. Ten year ago prices
was different could go to Bob Smeln's here an buy
poond o. sweet butter for twenty cents; lard for
cents poond. Moo the worst butter Is thirty
three an the lard seventeen cenis Then as we 'ud
CALCULATE 'ud ay to walk in the mills twenty-on
mile day for Sl5 Sl6 We'll ay walk twenty
three mile for nine an sixpence $50 80 week. Th'
overseers ay charge o. everything; everything is
monopoly, from cob coal To barrel o. flour. Why
mou ave had better odgin' ten year ago for five dol
lar an half o. munth than ae can get moo for nine an
then ae'd garden where could grow enbogh cab
bage and carrots and onions for the family for year
The above is rerbatim reproduction of the conver-
saon as near as it can be rendered. and is what may
be taken the story Of the difficulty from the spinners
standpoint, by practical man who has been for
eighteen years working steadily at the mills subse-
queny repeated the conversation TO Mr. John Gunton
who has worked here for years in advocating
basis for labor and he assured me the made
by William were singuiarly accurate and did not mis-
represent one important fact
'Of course, - said Mr. Gunton, "you can't expect a
working man TO deal with the principles of political
economy but he'll oftener give you the truth though
in rough form III he had started from the beginning
he should have corrected misstatement which has
gone the country When the manufacturers de-
manded this reduction the did not want TO
strike. They said, Don't reduce US now; we'll go out
for thirty days vacation and the meantime prices
may so up, that you will not have to do it, We
would rather be idle for thirty days than you should
have TO reduce the prices Just before the expiration
OF the vacation the weavers, finding that there no
difference in the situation, made proposition TO meet
the Masters Union half way-say at twenty-five or
twenty six cents cut The Masters were unmoved.
Then the other two branches of the trade held meetings
and agreed TO TO work at the twenty four cents II
they allowed to take their odd places; but the
Masters said, Oh no; wo take just many or leave
out as many as We please Finding winter approach
Monday next Now, however the manufacturers
present the documents you heard Of yesterday the
splnners' meeting which means that the men must
have organizations Though, you see, the Masters
have their unons and regulate everything according
their own rules and must place himself body and SOUL
in the hands OF the owners, starvc And the men
will starve before they will sign such abitrary docu-
ments.O