The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17
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AN IMPENDING CONFLICT.
LABOR UNIONS TO DEMAND AN
EIGHT-HOUR DAY.

This Prediction AntagoniZed by the
Relation of the Strike Wave to the
State of Trade-The Latest an Agri-
cultural Trust.
Copyright 1891
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-For some weeks
We have had our eyes turned aloft viewing
with interest and much speculation as to
the outcome, the process of practical con-
soldation going on among various indus
trial corporations ami systems of railways
The resulting trusts and traffic agree
ments are higher forms of evolution in the
business world and constitute parallel to
| the invention of labor-saving de-
vices in machinery. They are
in fact, labor-saving, therefore
eost-saving devices in management,
brought about in part by the high-pressure
stimulus of competition and concentration
F Of capital.
As where there is a gain in speed there is
greater power required, the converse is
| true, and the letting-down in exces i've
| competition, due to combination, is bound
to leave surplus power on hand-to run 10
"d>le-OT WHILE
Here is what directs our attention
again to the basis of all production-laoor.
Within the past year, general business
throughout the country has vastly I'M
proved. Industrial production has in
creased, following in the wake Of the
demand; the railways and waterway lines
Of transport have had more freight to carry,
and particularly of late, at more renumera-
tive rates. We have had full average crop
Of wheat, and probably unprecedentedly
large crops of Indian corn, of cotton and OF
oats. The average of prices has remained
low. This has aided in sustaining the CON
sumptive demand, so we find, taking the
year through, that portion OF the podv
polite dignified by the name labor, mas,
On the whole, been fairly well employed.
In other words, industrial strikes have
been relatively few as compared with the
preceedi three years, botl as to number
and as to the number of individuals engaged
therein.
Some of us may have been led to think
Tom this, if we have thought OF the matter
At all, that the furry in labor circles IN
oo6|87 ended the cycle of distur bance Of
hat nature for some time to come.
My own inves igations do not lead to thai
conclusion. l am quite sure, judging IRON
me record of organized labor since 1901
- -iu from their plans OF IaUe, onaS Ono } ca
io9O promises some butterflies from th'
aoor chrsalis with as gaudily coloret
wings as any that have been evolvet
lnder the title of TRUSTS and Traffic Agree
nents.n
The term the Business World" merely
comprises the production of useful O
1esirable articles, getting the same q
market and disposing of them to the con
sumer, or his representative, the retailer
NE world of production, as it were. Wen
MS world of production has been organic
ng. Concentrating its forces, if you Will
very rapidly at the top during period o
TWO years, in which labor, the substratum
mas teen less agitated owing to relativel.
improved condition of demand.
But labor, being represented in its off
cal councils by somewhat clearer-heade
men than formerly, has not bsen idle an,
The world of production has been and wi
continue to be organized more thorough.
at the bottom.
NO; | am not a member of any labo
u ganizatlon. But one does not have :
!oin such body TO perceive their move
ment or to gauge their progress.
On the score of antiquity, the ''survivs
u the fttest" and ali that sort of thing
'oese labor unions. of whatever name, ar
s0sited to the highest respect, constituting