The Labor enquirer., 1884-05-31

can stand by and not cry for blood {
These poor, striking spinners have had q
weekly allowance Of strike pay" from
the union, and 81 200 have been this
expended, but now Secretary Howard is
compelled to reduce to tNo-thirds of the
strike pay. Is not that enough to induce
every one Of the 5,OooAOo laborers Of
these United States to jump to their
feet and help? Send in 10 Howard, at
Fall River, cent day you 5000, 900
laborers, so that he can keep the spin
ners on strike. Here is the crisis now
is the time t6help, for this great spin
ners' strike will either make ofmar your
future, workingmen. About 81 500 are
needed per week to procure bread for
the 800 patient spinners of Fall River.
The failure of this strike will strike ter
ror to the heart of every workingman in
America. The success Of this strike will
almost win your battle everywhere.
Help the spinnerslof Fall River and let
all your selfish views 90 to the dogs
Who steals 2 Are the mill owners en-
titled to the poverty-stricken spinners,
souls and bodies2 What right have they
to As per cent of their pittance2 Down
them. workingmen of America, by help
ing the poor spinners who are on strike
Whatsa grand spectacle it would be to
see grand union of all unions of Amer
lea for the purpose of rescuing the bold
and courageous spinners of Fall River
from their thraldom Rescue them,
,workingmen rescue them by uniting to
their support. Their success in this
strike will do more to elevate the work.
ing classes of America than all the theo-
ries that can be spun in acentury.
Workingmen, your brethren of Fall
River are being robbed, are in the tolls
of the fell destroyer, and you are in
danger of being engulfed in the Cha
rybdis that is devouring them! Turn
out and help them weekly to the best of
your abilities. BY doing SO, you are
helping yourselves. You are fighting,
through them, your own battles.
Who steals2 Well, there is another
class of thieves, who, being thieves, are
to-day your oppreasors. There is house
standing at the corner eff Wall and Broad
streets in the city of New York. The
ground rent of the patch of ground upon
which that house stands amounts to
$3.50, 900 per annum. A quarter of mil
lion of dollars are yearly paid by the
owner of the house to the owner of that
little patch of ground. Is it worth that ?
Well, it is paid and surely must be
worth that much, or the man who built
the house upon 1t would not pay such
terrible ground rent. He does not care !;
he charges his tenants so much more for
their Office rents. Those who have to
pay these terrible Office rents make their
clients pay so much more. If they are
lawyers, their rich, merchant clients
have to fork over the big fees. If brokers,
the people who employ the brokers are
bled for it, you may be sure. The mer-
chants charge up their big fees to the ex-
pense account, and the goods must be
sold for so much more per yard to cover
these heavy expenses. The retail mer-
chants must put the extra big price they
pay upon their customers and patrons,
and by the time every one of these mid
dle-men has paid his share of the ground
rent to that patch of ground-which
should not be worth more than $10Q per
year-you, workingmen, you have paid
1t all. See! Look The contractors
wife has to have her silk and satin, etc.,
and his expenses being enormous, he,
the docile darling of his silked and sat
ined peacock of wife, must cut you on
your wages, or he'll come out behind on
his contract.
Who steals You 60 home, and when
Saturday night comes you have to pay
your exorbitant rent for your hole of a
home; you have $12 or $14, but your ex-
penses with all your family are up to SIG
or $lS. Well, you fall behind. One
piece of furniture after another has to 60
to prop up your deficiency in your daily
expenses. You fall from a roof-Good
God what now? Well, you lay there a
few weeks; all your possessions are gone
by this time; you're on the floor; your
children hungry; Your little boy runs
out in the morning to beg few cents for
breakfast. He sees the loaf at the ba-
ker's. Hunger hurts terribly, and a child
hungers worse than an adult. He grabs,
snd-Police police is the consequence.
Who has stolen? Your poor wife does
not know what has become of her dear,
darling boy. She never knows; she is
starving at your side. She pines away
in week or so she breathes her misera-
BILE life out to God, and you 60 to the
hospital-your girls to the dogs Your
boy has studied and graduated in the
reform school. and he comes out a real
thief. Who has done it all? Great God
If thou art on high, if thou canst see all
this wrong and misery upon earth, il
thou art Almighty, why, in thine own
name, dost thou not come down
and burn up and destroy this cursed
mankind and have done with il? 1t was
not thy intent that one should deyour
the other it was not thy intent that Co..