The Arizona champion., 1886-02-06
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 nodly that he may wish to purchase
 He cannot be compelled to s!ve more than its market value, which value i,
 regulated by the laws of supply and demand, and labor is just as much q marketable commodity as iron. or gram. Labor, whether it is the pro. duct of li>som fingers, brawny arms ur subtle brains, must have i;s recon pense, regulated precisely by the same laws that govern the rise or fll4 O; pork. There may be ifrccularilie,
 md Inconsistencies at times and in
 places, for there are opportunities ior bulls and bears in ,hc la5Ir market as
 well as on the produce eycaatge,. ba; il lhe long run things even themselves np, and the labor of most men vii, ;et,iz. about as much as 1t is worth.
 The trouble in the labor mlrket k. that men, taem,elveS, want to fix the price of the comm )dity they have tu scjI, regardless of is value to th. pur- chaser. There is no reason why en- ployeS should not b. as indepenlenl Is their employers. l. ihc latter says
 we cannot pay more than a certain rate of wagcS," the former have the right 10 reply we wont sell you oul labor al that price. " Then unless 8 compromise can be effected there ought to bc an end of the matter. But the labor organizations have knocked the bottom out of this fal; trading. They combine and say to ,hc purchaser "You shall give us the price we demand for Our labor. | you refuse to acceed 10 our claims. we are strong enough 10 make you com. ply with them" This ii TO, an idle threat. Almost every weel; sees it clr- ried olt ia some pa't of the ,he coun- try. Strikers oa a :I.,roll, ca mines, or in mlnu!actories, will fJrcioly pre- yent otLer Norkmcn rom taking their places. More than this, they will Commence system ot "bUycot;ing," prevent freight being taken ever any particular railroad, if there are con ?e;lng lines, prevent merchants from 'uying goods from any particular manufacturer pr d.aIer they my b 'ishung. They will go into q store and commanl the owners not to buy l certain line of good, + no heed is taken of their orders, the store Is "boycottcd," which ia soal> instance, mears fran;iol ruin to the proprie,orS. What djf1rrcHce is there, morally. be- tween this crime and larceny? None. Except that instead Of stealing men'a goods, their profits are stolen, which IS their living. Llbor strikes Lave been the cal,e of a large amount of misery and c,ine. They strike 6; the business prosperity Of the country; they strike at the soiyency ot trades, men; they strike the bread from the mouths Of starving wives and child. reH, and they strike at the mar lines, and honesty Of the strikers them selves.
 In the past, when. labor combira- lions have been arrayed against capi. ial, in q large maj3nty.of cases, labor has finally sustained defeat, but We must not sht, our'cyes to the Act that labor and trades unions are growing numerically stronger every dly and more effective ia their organizations. The larger proportion of them are now international with the object of preventing imported labor from be- coming factor m their contest wah capital It i, calculated that out ui the 2,oQo. 900 workmen in this coun- try that. are employed ia industrial and mechanical work (th's excIud-s agricultural and other labor pertain, Ing to llnd) at lclst 6jo, 900 are mem brrs of trades unions. One orglniz- aiion alone, the Knights of Labor, number I5o, 900, and these numbers will grow larger, as men who hayt hitherto stood aloof from all organiz, alionS of this kind are finding them selves drawn into them, and very large percentage ot the boys who ale approaching manhood. will rapidly their strength. As ihe foi ces on each side increase in power, the contests between labor and capital will becope more fierce and the con more disastrous, unless some means can be adopted whereby such ii,pu:e; caa be alnicably seu!-d.
 As stated at the commencement of this article, the price of labor will be finally decided by i,S nlrkct value,