Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-21

THE LABOR QUESTION.
The Mighty CommotiOn II Is Max
ing in the Land.
A POINT AGAINST PROTECTION.
A Comprehensive Resume Of the Present
Troubles Between Labor
and Capital.
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So,,ial COrrssDosdsacsS q 10 SUAday Register.
PHILADELPHIA, March 20.-The labor
question is in every persons mouth. The
managers Of the railroad lines east Of the
Mississippi, river are to-day trembling lest
the Gould strike in the Southwest should
cross The Mississippi and travel up the
Ohio Valley and the lakes, and even pos
sibly, cross the Allegheny mountains and
shake the financial and industrial centres
NJ the extreme East. What is to be done
ia question that thousands Of employers
oflsbor are considering to-day. They are
Al loss whether to oppose the advancing
mower Of organized labor, or to tamely
Weld 10 its demands.
Nearly six thousand assemblies Of
knights Of Labor are now organized, and
the ACCESSIBILITY Of shutting the food gates
il being considered in official circles. The
leaders of the movement recognize that
they are running dangerous risks, in throW-
ing the shield Of their protection over the
tens of thousands Of workers who seem
only Yesterday to have awakened from the
Industrial thrsldom which their editors
and leaders have been talking about these
twenty years.
THE RAILROAD STRIKE.
While Jay Gould is sailing around IN his
Yacht his agents, Hoxie and Brown, one
=, ~ Louis, and the other at Galveston,
are standing up before the ten thousand
strikers. silent, however seeking for labor
~ move a few lraiCs The Knights are
confident OF victory. Gould cares nothing
for the Knights OF Labor, or for trade
unionism. What he is after, 10 speculs-
ZION on 40 immense scale. lt will De re-
msmbered that q tsw years ago, hecroWded
down Wabash securiries, TO next to moth |
inc bought thsm In stacks and made S2O,- |
100000 by the operation. de md the
ssne thiuG on the Missouri Pacific, and
7ov be IL after the stockholders Of the
Tsvas Pacific with O sharp sick, intend |
:pgit he POSSIBLY can, TO dep7ess those &C. |
eari,ies, aud repeat the Wabash trick,
The Knights of Labor DC not understand
this programme, and imagine that Gould |
il their enemy, but he issimply using them !
10 accomplish his own selfish purpose
District Assembly No. /. representing |
the railroad employees in the Southwest, met
recently at ST. Louis, and resolved that on
and after May lsr, all secular employment
IN sunday be discontinued. The Catholic
Church is not unit in its opposition to the
Knights. Some bishops are very friendly;
sone are opposed to thu order; the Pope
himself has recently issued circular In
tending TO discourage secret labor organ
izaaon, without GsRouncing IT.
At PHILADELPHIA.
The machine shops OF Philadelphia have
not been az crowded fox many years past,
"a they are at present. Overtime 10 being
made IN GOOD msGY establishments. Or
dsrs for .ll EICd of machinery are crowd
ing in and good prices are being paid. The
Industrial condition Of Philadelphia gen
orally ia excellent There is very little dis
empioged labor; wages have been advanced
BIO 10 20 per cent; mills and factories nave
from one TO four months work on hand
the army of travelling agents are sending
In orders in a manner which 10 giving
stimulus to manufacturing. There Is very
little boycotting going on, the carpet
weavers are refusing 20 WORK over Tune
abe hosiery mills are crowded, aud the
clothiny establishments are working tull
tune on summer goods
EUROPEAN BAASCH.
The Knights are urging the appoint |
nsnt Of Michael Davitt az organizer OF the
knights of Labor in Europe. 1t Is ques-
hon whether the conditions abroad are Ia
yorable 10 the extension q such system
Of organization as is suitable IoS American
gorkiugmen. British aud European work !
ingmen have adopted different methods, !
AM have been content 70 raise and dis \
tribute funds The margins OF profits are ,
less there than here; LEES IS TO be gained
from strikes there than here; the large
army of paupsr LABOR Is 81 the elbow OF the
honest worklngman. threatening 10 drive
him from his place, if he refuses the low pay
ofered. The evils with which tbs working !
men abroad have 10 contend, are different
from evils here; there axe greater issues !
there, than simply more pay tor work; the
land question looms up; the standing army
expenses demand curtsiluent, or abolition
CASES OF APPEAL.
TheF4acutive Committee Of the knights
tof Labor have between tour and five hun.
bred cases Of appeal to deal With, consist
I'M OF complaints snd grievances, from
within the order, as well &c from without.
The committee during its two o. three
weeks session in Phllsdelphis, was over
Nhelngd With work; manufacturers have
been running after them, writing and teIe-
aNIRfflnn
khem 10 come and settle disputes which
shey themselves are unable to settle. Ihls
Remand Tor arbitration authority Will hecee,
Etate the establishment Of some general
board. or various State boards, where labor
disputes can be settled. This is tar better
blan than one which has been proposed, OF
having State boards appointed by the Leg
klsturs or the Governor, consisting per
haps OF three or eve moth eaten lawyers,
eho know less about labor snd its interests
shsn horse.
ORGANIZING.
Assemblies are being organized at the
iste Of 100 per week. Every boycott ever
ordered by The Executive Committee has
been wen. Schiliug in the Northwest
Socdhue IN illinois, Trevellick in the
south, Lithmsn in Pennsylvania, and Carl
fpn IN Canads, are raising the enthusiasm
q the lsboTers of the United States and
canada 10 fever heat By their untiring sp.
peaIs to organize, 10 read aud study, and
% become sole 10 deal with the Intricate
4nestlOus affecting labor aud capital. This
A0or agitation is developing q race OF ora.
prs and thinkers, and writers which will
nt many Of those who now claim to excel
Den fellows TO shame.
! ne strength Of the labor movement hes
Aght IN this tsct,-thst it is movement
~ usuce, for the establishment Of right
Estem OF distribution, for the development
better system Of government, and tor
ee opening up Of opportunities by which
e energies OF the millions can be better
erected, and compensated. Every fsborer
Mels and knows this N Ia tha real pur.