The New York herald., 1875-09-26
ALL SOCIETIES TO BE RENOUNCED.
The Situation Of the Men Graphically Portrayed
by an Old Spinner.
WHAT THEY EARN AND WHAT THEY SPEND
Death by Starvation Preferred to Suren-
der Of Their Manhood
Il o. UBLE AHEAD

FALL RIVER Mass, Sept. rs, 1875
There Is strong threatening undercurrent here
tonight The operatives are determined not to sign the
Objectionable document of which sent you copy yes
terday The spnners, and carders are all alike
on this question. They regard this movement of the
manufacturers tact acknowledgment that they will
still further reduce the wages of the help within two
weeks of the time that the go in That these con-
dtions mean simply to place tho men beyond the pos
sbility Of further resistance At the Border City Mills
about one.half of the hands have sgned-at least
the overseers say so-and that they will surely start
on Monday, In other mills, however, where
they employ from 800 to 200 hands not more than
thirty forty have signed which is insufficient keep
the smallest mill at work. Some OF the overseers
have sent around to the cottages of their corpora
tions with the contracts asking for signatures to
be able to determine whether to get steam up
on Monday or not The experience of the
canvassers has not been encouraging. After three
days many have not exceeded twenty five names
These were mostly female weavers who have been liter
ally starved out At the Merchants Corporation tene
ments this morning there was quite row The can
first told to take his agreements and put
them in the furnace and afterward he was stoned
and hooed by mob that eventually caused him re-
treat This occurred in the yards Davis and Plain
streets
THE PROGRAMME FOR MONDAY
The general programme determined on to-day is as
fcilowsThey will all go to the mills Monday They
will not so to work unless the withdraw the
agreement, nor can the owners find enough hands to
start If any mill should start it is probable there
will be work for the glazers and perhaps,
for the police In the afternoon a grand
mass meeting will be held in the Park
which will probably be attended by TO- 900 or Is, 900
operatives The object will be to appeal to the manu-
iacturers to at once withdraw this paper and permit
them to in without any terms other tnan those which
have governed them before A committee will proba-
bly, be delegated to meet the Manufacturers Board Of
Trade for this purpose petition will also be got up and
will be signed by the small tradesmen asking that these
obnoxious terms be set aside II they are not the
sorekeepers will certainly have to shut down, for
they all gradually drifting to ruin. 1t is
also proposed to enlist Wendell Phillips and others
in their BEHALF by calling meeting at
Faneuil Hall Tuesday or Wednesday next
The idea is that a full and complete discussion
should ensue, and that it is inevitable
that this fight for supremacy between capital and labor
must come, it is better 10 have it settled at Mean
time the operatives everything from distressing
standpoint and appear to dread the approach of the
contest on Monday. 1t is hoped that the manufacture
will quietly abandon their position, but their
method OF dealing with the help during the past two
months does not generally encourage the belief