Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-28
LABOR CONFLICTS.
The Present combination aud Its Effects
Upon the Public.
New YORK Herald. ad.

New YORK Herald, Ind
Conflicts between capi;al and laeor are
necessary consequences Of the aarinllseta2-
has been II progress t~hroughou. he eountry
| That slrinkage, the correlafiye Of 2 former
imitation, had TO be fully applied 10 labor as
we'll as to every other thing OF value, and it Is
but natural that laborers should oppose and
resist the application by all legi innate
means 1t is very likely thatthe application
has been made excessively in many instances
that, in the name Of a necessary and inevi-
table reduction the pay for useful labor OF
the greatest Importance has been reduced 10
are the most likely to have practised this
kind Of %villany. They are adm nistrations
in which there is no sympathy for h elaborer,
for the good old rea- On that corporations
have no souls. 1t is not to be supposed that
ir stitntions which nave been the centres of
the mos, gigantic invasions Of the rights Of
: persons known to the age would
hesitate to trample down their poor
employees if they b, lieved them to be help ,
less. Engineers, brkemen and fremen
have had ample experience Of the spirit in
which their companies were disposed to
u deal with them, and that experience has in
n spired their organizations for mutual sup
port and defence. These organizations are
their instructive eff.rt TO help themselves
and have given to the disputes over wages IL
q the railway interests an importance not at
tanned by similar disputes in any other in
Z ~terests. These combinations are mo.e sys
tematic, logical and effective than any pre-
( %viously made by strikers. They are quit
"A unlike the rude devices Of milk hands, a
indeed might nave been expected or raj
way men are insensibly drilled into a cor
- a. .-I ~l~. 49,.
Ia, perceive more readily than any other me
at TIE importance of unity Of action and III
means Of securing it. Combination o
I'd this scale began, we believe with the Bro
> therhood of Engineers and when it W;
~ discovered that all the engineers in the en-
ploy Of any given company were undo
;. oath 10 cave their engines at q certai
- hour it was seen how completely a gre
I'd extension Of that brotherhood must cripp
any comp my that got into dispute with
But if 10 a union OF engineers Is added u
y's brakemen and hremen, az implied In Il
,ir- Trainmen's Union, and if his union is e
tended TO all parts Of the United States,
'he is obvious that the combination Of labor 4
ty, resistance has at last become we'll nigh
re extensive as the comb. alton Of capital I
',e enforcing is terms.
If there we're in such q dispute no 9th
element than the conflict to reduce wages
ent one side and to keep them up on the 9th,
ion the public, however little faith it may ha
ple in strikes, might naturally sympathize wi
Il handy, hoLest, good natured and co
monty worthy class Of men made the Y
OF Tins Of an endeavor 30 declare diyider
ele- at the labolers' expense but it unfor'
ais- ma ely happens that ra lroad men cam
protect themselves by the clumsy {
vice Of strikes save by inaicting gr'
ION inconvenience and even loss upon
re public at large. In ordinary labor d
the putes, the public is practically left out
the account. If a strike interrupts the op
" atoms of two or three or a dozen factor
ork hundreds Of others keep up the supply
phs the same commodity and the price is Of
Ter not affected but the commodity produ,
by a railroad company is the swift and {
tain transportation of persons and go
ave through a given district and the arrest
,ial- that production is a g%rievous injury to
the large class of persons who are not invol'
in any way whatever in the wrong, real
Ao" supposed, that has been done to the labor
sub If railroad men only refuse their servi
,ney tie responsibility would fall upon the e
pany of continuing the traffic; but if t
refuse to labor and res st, with violence,
operations of the roads, endeaver to DR.
away by intimidation men who are re;
to take their places, then, in a foolish as,
and ton of their own cause they make open
very upon the interests of the public at a la
re to and they only can expect an intelligent p
UNI lie opinion will protest against their act.
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