The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-21
4 WISE MOVEMENT.

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stated that license had been issued il
Chicago for a corporation TO be known
IS che Cooperative Packing and Provi.
zion Company. the incorporators OF
which are Knights Of Labor. OF the
$4,000 capital stock, $35. 200 has been
subscribed. The company expects to
employ u 900 men, and is making ar
fragments 70 purchase cattle from the
farmers direct. There is some sense in
this movement, for i has for its objects
not only the securing of industrial in
dependence for the lsborers but also the
division among the men of the profits
from their labor. If workingmen but
knew 1t, they need never be placed at
the mercy Of monopolies or hard
hearted employers; the former
have it in their power 10 be alb
solutely independent. Cooperation
offers to them q means of relief
from most of the evils OF oppression
and coercion from which they now suf-
fer. It's idle for the men 70 plead that
they have not the money to eng &c in
the manufacturing or other enterprises
which now provide them with employ
Inent. From 10000 TO q, 900 employees
Of the Chicago meat packing establish
ments have been out on strike most of
the time for the past six weeks, during
which time these men have lost more
money through idleness ard unneces-
sary expenses in q vain endeavor to
bring employers TO terms, than would
be required for the equipment and
stocking of a packing establishment
equal in extent and capacity to any in
Chicago. The million dollars of which
workingmen deprived themselves by
their senseless strike on the south
western railways last spring would have
been sufficient to establish mRnufac-
tories enough to give employment 70
an army Of 5000 men. The Chicago
strikers lose more in two days of idle
ness than has been subscribed TO found |
packing house which is to employ |
1900 men. II Master Workman Pow !
derly and his associate leaders of the |
great labor organization will direct their |
men in the way to furnish work for
themselves, and not be dependent on |
miilionaires and monopollsts, they will |
de more for the relief of distressed labor
than they can ever do by sitting back in
an Office and ordering strike here and
= return to work there, an increase of |
wages at this establishment and 4 short
ening of hours at that. In contests be-
tween labor and capital, between en-
ployee and employer, the man who
hires has the advantage, and
can hold out against an adjustment
or reconciliation longer than the one
who is hired. He can close his shop or
factory and wait until his terms are &C
cepted, bat the poor nottingham must
20 cold and hungry when he ceases TO
work. Capital has the advantage and
VIII retain it, in spite OF all the
and combinations and efforts
On the part Of labor, The man who
works for himself Is the only man wao /
< independent of capital; he can snap
his fingers at combinations TO reduce
bis wages, and laugh at efforts to pro-
ong his hours of labor beyond reason.
The Chicago Knights of Labor who
have set out TO establish q packing
house, have taken the proper course to
adjust the trouble between the order
md the employers. If they will bring
intelligence and business saga
sity to their assistance, and make their
company cooperative in the true sense
81 the word, success will be with them
rom the first and one feature of the
soo- problem viii be at once solved.
Goo Grafton offers relief 10 oppressed
abor. and It is about the only thing that
Ices C-ser relief.