The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-04
LET THEM COME SOUTH.

about the present revolt against the mill
owners have issued an address appealing to
the "Workingmen of America for assistance
In their unequal contest. The address Is
rude In Its phraseology, without any preten-
sions to fine writing, and bears every appear
ance Of having been written by plain,
earnest man, who possessed but few Of the
arts OF the school man or rhetorieian. 1t Is
none the less strong and vigorous for this
reason, while a certain air of sincerity Is
thereby impaired to 1t which a more pre-
tentious and polished document might not
possess.
This address sets forth, In effect. that since
1875 the spinners have been subjected to re-
ductfon In wages Of 45 per cent; all spare help
has been dispensed with, and the machinery
has been speeded to It's highest pitch, and the
work has become 80 exhaustive on that ac-
count that it is almost unfit for human beings
to follow. The last reduction In wages was
April !, 1873, Of IS per cent, to cover losses re-
sulting from g1utted market. It was made
against the protest OF the spinners, who were
proven TO be right In their assertion that 1t
would not remedy the evil by the immediate
fall In the price of cloth from three and three
eighths to three and one-eighth cents per
yard. It was then found expedient to stop the
mills during the summer from seven to nine
weeks, entailing great distress among the
hands. The address then goes on to say that
after all these wrongs put upon the spinners
BY the mil-owners, now that trade has re-
vived, the markets are almost empty, goods
are firm and advancing, stocks are apprecia-
f1r,rY Inv o1e,no
1875, when wages were Is per cent higher,
their employers have broken the solemn
promises made them to restore wages when
these things should occur. The address con
cludes:
We have petitioned our employers on two DIFF
feren 1T. occasI2ns for the allegation desired In
to NEE, deputalion from their body TO discuss
upon the question ct issue. They decline to
ton in dispute to arbitration. and they still
refuse to comply. Their idea is to Keep the
operatives ToIking fer starvation wages, to
With them. Every time, the Fall River opera.
tives have been reduced In wages, the whole OF
ng snrrornd,rE haze followed su BY
more particularly to oberatives mployed in
cotton mills in New England States for. appa-
Ienty Fall River is to be- the battle field for the
man and WON an will extend a helping hand to
enable US to emerge successfully out Of this
1ght ~ right against might
We commend thissaddress to Senator Win
dom and his compaEiots who have SO busted
themselves abou the exodus of the Southern
negroes to Kansas. IL Kansas is in need of
she could not find better class
Of people than these same wOrkmen Of Fall
River. Under the labor system OF the South
The negro is certainly, capable Of great use
fulness, but as yet he has not shown himself
to be possessed Of any Of the sturdier
qualities of seaf-reliance and frugalfty
without which he would he totally incapable
Of meeting and overcoming the stern and un-
tempted vicissltudes Of pioneer life. To take
him from the South, where he is useful and
,entented, and confront him, all unprepared
as he is, with this new and hard experience,
s but heartless cruelty. The case Is very
iifferent with the white men .of Fall River,
whose condition is Infinitely ,Wol Sc than that
II the negroes In any State In the South
They belong to race OF men who never sue
,umb when thrown on their own resources,
while the very reverse OF this Is true Of the
negro, whose history has shown him incapa-
Die OF maintaining himself when cox ,nized In
separate communities exclusivaly.of his own
race.
There Is no question but that the Fam River
'pinners have been cruelty wronged and de-
serve the sympathy OF workingmen every
Where They are OF q class OF people that.are
cry much needed In the South, and there eal1
. no doubt that Ii they could be brought here
md put In fair way of earning an imme.
late livelihood, they would greatly improve
heir own condition and become useful citt-
ems Why can not We here In Louisiana rect
rocate the tender solicitude manifested by
enator Window, Parson Conway and other
UGH evangelists, in regard to our labor sys-
I'm, and send on agents to Fall River to in
uce the removal Of these much abused
peratiVes to the rich lands OF Louisiana,
hicn are lying Idle simply for the lack Of