The New York herald., 1877-07-29

time l20 900 persons iu enforced idleness who lost
during her cessation from work Sl5.oooooo IN
OF order was q great amount ot misery ana
suffering 10 vast numbers and he bringing o! iscredt
sands have smisrated TO Austrsia and Canada in con
sequence Of strikes Trade UNIONS do not flourish In
the dominion. There are none o; colonial extent eA-
copt those which connected With organizations In
the United States. In Australia the case different
Trade unions are great and influential power ia
New South waos, Victoria and New Zealand.
Many OF Tho Amagamated Society OF Engineers who
engaged IN AN unsuccessful strike IN England in 1851
proceeded sydney the year and established
branch IN that city. workmen have dictated their
own terms TO employers and by their political innu-
encc have defeated appropriations to promote immi
population, the tradc unions. winch maintain per-
manent Committee on Parliamentary Representation,
by very selfish and narrow motives.
AMERICAN LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
In the United States there has Away boon tho
restricted right Tor the formation OF combinations oi
workngmen and worklngwomon desIous OF concerted
consideration OF employ men ard Tor mutual reliance
and assistance. But, from various causcs they have
sources or discipline OF similar bodies existing in
Great Britain. Strikes among American mechanics
and operatives have been Tow, and Tor the most
Der has occurred in the mining regions OF Pennsyl
vania and the manufacturing districts Of New England.
In the Eastern States though the factory hands have
had frequent and just of complaint for reduction
OF wages and long hours OF labor, they have sought
for relief by an appeal the sense of justice OF
the mill owncrs ana tho mutual interest OF employer
employe tbpn by riotous demonstrations or
lawless Interference with tho rights Of property.
The hands have fortunately escaped the champion
ship OF demr gogues and avoided the risks and An
archical theories OF The ncrnationaists In the coal
and iron localities secret ASSOCIATIONS OF woTkmen
nave become rather common, and II hns invariably
turned out that bodies tall under tho control OF
designing persons who Them without scruplc for
their own purposes The doctrines OF Odger and
Karl Marx about division OF the profits
Of labor have not made much hcadway among
the Pennsylvania miners, but in strikes they
not only have demanded higher wages,
which they have right to do but they have refused
to permit others to work In their places BY This
course whicn Is followed by other classes hen throw
ing up their employment, they extend the trouble they
bring on themselves to hundreds OF thousands OF
Others IN entirely different caines VINO are entirely
satisfied with tho pay they receive The iruit OF this
system may be tho fate OF tho unhappy Molly
Maguires who perished on the scaGold q few weeks
SINCE
oy LOCOMOTIVES ENGINEERS.
The number OF trade organizations In the United
States comparatively few me Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, who 6guro 81 prominently in
the present great railroad revolt, was organized in
1868 aud has membership Of about fourteen thou
sand, and nearly hundred branchos Candidates
Tor admission 10 the Brotherhood must be white men,
not than twentyone years OLD, able TO read and
write OF temperate habits and good moral character
and with at least years. experience engineer
The following list of the societies with branches in
different States-