The Press., 1892-08-25

The Christian Union Is printing some excellent letters from workingmen and others, suggested by the Homestead con- flict and other labor troubles. The mal- treatment of nOn-union employees finds no | defenders and furnishes the text for much | indignant protest. Of the character and missions of organizations of labor one | correspondent says:
 The unions profess to represent the cause of labor, but in reality they stand only for minority class of workingmen. If they were formed for the purposes of social improvement and enjoyment, the increase of technical knowledge, the pro- motion of temperance, and for mutual aid and relief, they might be of great value to their members and society. Some of them give more or less attention to these objects, but it cannot be denied that, as conducted, their general purpose is to claim right to the monopoly of labor to the exclusion of other workingmen, and in this way they become tylannical fac tiOn of society. When confidence and harmony prevail, business will prosper, and increased demand will cause wages to rise naturally, and when reverse con- ditions prevail they will decline. * Every strike and boycott, and especially every sympathetic" strike, tends direct ly to general reduction of labor values, because they obstruct business, destroy confidence, and thus take away those elements which are the natural basis for advance. It is for the interest of every employer of labor to pay good wages for efficient service. There is an inevitable tendency toward demoral- sxn+ +1nr I H. he feels that the value of his service de- pends less upon it's merits than upon the coercive power of his organization. The tendency of the union as at present conducted is in the direction of inefficient service, because the basis in individual merit is removed and the theory assumed that the labor of different workmen of the same class has a uniform and arbi- trary value.
 The public are fast becoming used to the new pneumatic tire sulkies, now used in racing because they are shown nothing else, yet they are novel looking affairs when you first get look at them. The wheels are much the same as used on pneumatic bicycles, in size and construc- tion. They have the usual ball. bearings, and are made variously with wooden or wire spokes, those with the latter being exactly the bicycle wheel. The driver is perched above the wheels on a light frame work, the whole thing being about 12 pounds lighter than the old-fashioned sulky. The wheels also, less sharp and unyielding than the old metal-tire ones, are better adapted to a trotting track, which must be somewhat soft and springy. Altogether the new invention means a mile; it is easier for the driver as we'll as the horse, and all the best riders have | adopted it. It is likely that the large sulky wheel has disappeared forever. Steel wheels with rubber tires, if built as large as the old sulky wheels, would be too heavy for use. Hence the use of the pneumatic bicycle wheel as it is made is | not 8 temporary arrangement, although | impr ovements are sure to come.
 The Home Market Club of Boston has | prepared two of the finest badges that have appeared in this campaign. The | first consists of a bar pin surmounted by sturdy merino ram, who looks as though he had come to stay, and from which de- pends a red, white and blue ribbon, run ming through slits in the top and bottom of g. -celluloid card that bears fine steel engraved portraits of Harrison and Reid. l Upon the pin bar are the words 'Home
 Market and emblems of machinery and agriculture. The metallic part is of solid American tin and very substantial. The
 second badge is like the first, except that
 in place of the sheep there is linen
 spinning wheel in panel over which is a | ''grandfathers hat," and across the pin
 bar is the word Protection" The badges
 are copyrighted, and dealers are not al.
 lowed to exact more than 40 cents apiece
 or 75 cents for the two. The club sends
 the two and the Home Market Bulletin
 one year for only $1. The Bulletin is ar
 able protection monthly, and is said te
 have attained the largest circulation o
 any economic journal in the world.
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