Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-11
CONTEST BETWEEN LABOR AND CAP
IrAL IN NEW ENGLAND.


IrAL IN NEW ENGLAND.
The contest between labor and capital
has assumed more definite shape in New
England than in any other section OF the
country. While there is no rioting as in
the southwest there ia sullen battle going
on that is paralyzing trade and industry
in that section and makes the outlook om-
nous. Capitalists there have taken the
inistive step in organizing for selfdefense
against organized labor. But few weeks
ego the business men Of an important
manufacturing town entered solemn
compact and gave heavy bond to stand
By one another to the last and sent out
circulars all over the country to gain the
cooperation of the business men. Here
is something from the Atlanta Constitution
that gives good insight into the coEdi'
ton of affairs:
The city Of Lynn, Mass, the largest
shoemaking center in the world, IS simply
uarslyzed. Business is suspended, and 3. DOC
gorkmen who averaged BIS q week have
oeen idle for two weeks. This stoppage o.
SIS, 900 a week in wages has put an END
! to trading. Many Of the leading manu-
faclurers have moved to small and remote
villages where they have rural reserve t
| draw new hands from. Many of the oldeI
workmen have quit the knights and gon'
With the manufacturers into their new
fields. A boycotted manufacturer csnno
buy q morsel to eat in Lynn. He csnno
have . horse shod. The transfer men vii
not haul his baggage. He has to 60 t.
Boston or stsrye. The city is simply throt
] tied, and is as helpless az if it were dead
The manufacturers print detailed state
uents showing that at present prices PAL
of shoes they sell for rs cents costs Z.
cents; and pair sold at 81 so costs 81 "A
But labor will not loosen It's grip and m
city Is being deserted BY all who can leaV'
1t.
"In Wilmington, Del, q decisive treat
ment of boycott is described. The News
of that city, had fuss with thu uniol
printers eight months ago sud discharges
them. The union demanded 9 few day
ago that the non-union men be discharged
The News refused to discharge the mel
who had come 10 it when it needed men
or 10 take back the men'who had deserte'
liz. Other labor troubles arose in the city
snd one ship-buildiug concern announce
that il had refused 5000 900 worth of worl
in the past month because it was uncertain
as to whether it would be allowed to hni'
lie Pending the sgitations the News wa
boyeotted. The business men at ones oil
panized to protect the News. A few day
after the boycott was declared, three-iDc
blank space occurred with these words y
center: This space was vacated by +
Pluukett and is now occupied aud paid TO
By the business mems committee. Th
i committee then announced that would pa
for every contract forfeited and woul
rigidly search cut, publish and boycott
every man who had Withdrawn his patron
sge from the paper and pstronize exclu
sively those who advertise in it.
This is an index of the movement De
ginning in every important manufacturing
city and town in New England and it !
not @ very encouraging prospec: for THE
prosperity. The complaint has often bee
made of lsts that New England is losini
its prestige as a manufacturing section
and that capital is being Withdrawn an
energetic citizens are leaving BY the thons
ands. The people left behind and the de
csyiug toErs are beginning 10 find, ik'
Othello, that their Occupation is gone"
There is a moral in this for capitalist
and Workirgmen everywhere.