The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-03

IIOAO4uu1IlS ludl, dIu Oil OpudluCQ Lldl
ket wages. Employers came voluntarily
to inquire for help, the bureau having
no canvassers, nor advertising its sup.
ply in any way. No fee was exacte6
from these employers or from the immi.
grants. AS to female labor, the supply
does not reach tenth of the demand
Some of these people have been sent
to fill demands at places where there
are hundreds of idle workmen. A letter
from Brighton, New Jersey, stating thai
there were a large number of unem,
ployed people there was answered by
W. H. Mears. superintendent of the bu-
reau saying he, too, could not under.
stand the situation; he was sending out
laborers on request to the vicinity OF
Brighton who got wages almost equal
to those given in the best times.
That gentleman, when asked why the
bureau was able to find work for all
the immigrants, said:
''I cannot tell; it is a problem to me
unsolved. [ suppose it is because peo-
lple Simply cannot get labor elsewhere
Apart from the desirability of the i'm
migrant as a laborer on grounds of SUI
perior temperance and more ready con-
ltentednesS, characteristics which the ma
tive laborer seems not to possess to SC
great degree, it is a drawback to hire
and employ him. He does not know the
language or the way of doing things
in this country. Then, too, his employer
must devote day or more to getting
him, and if he is to take him out of the
city has to pay his fare. The wages
paid are almost equal, if not indeed
quite So to those received by laborers
here. Still they find work l expect a
large demand soon for laborers of var
lious kinds at the seashore and in the
mountain resorts, and l don't believe
we will be able to supply the imn1i-
grants in the number wanted. The jobs
offered are not beneath the dignity of
American labor. They pay we'll, and
many of our unemployed should now be
getting these positions. We have moth
ing to complain of as to the condition
Iof the labor market so far as this bu-
reau is concerned, except that factory
labor might be in greater demand
The mischief is that through the labor
agitators of the land, working people
have been impressed with the idea that
they have certain rights which are de-
MED them by the wealthy and by the
government. One of those rights is en-
Iployment at union prices and hours of
labor, If they cannot get them, they
will not work at all, and they expect
the government to provide this and also
the money wherewith to pay them.
Hrere is Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
talking in this way, as telegraphed by
the Associated Press:
THE working people are becoming
convinced that it is the duty of demo-
cratic government to see to it that every
one OF its citizens is given work. Coxey-
ism is becoming a great eye opener to
organized labor. However, what 1 am
.angered at most is the position some of
the authorities have taken in attemnt-
ING to intimidate the Coxeyites and in
duce them to return home This is
altogether too un-American to he
though OF or tolerated for a moment"
That is the notion entertained by a
man of his influence and intelligence.
1t is the offspring of the protection idea.
1t is paternalism and belongs only to a
monarchial system. There is sover-
eign, too, the head of the Knights of
Labor, favoring the movement of the
"Industrials" to Washington. II is
amazing that such persons have no
more sense and no more Judgment. 1t
is evidence that craze has seized
upon the minds of men.
There are thousands of workers in
these trying times striking because
they are told to do SO by union lead
ers. although satisfied with their work
their wages and their hours of labor
Others strike, as they say. for the
fun of it." Others to squeeze their
employers into paying high prices
when it is known business will not
justify it. There seems to be a spirit
of unreason upon the masses, and they
are moved to the widest of actions.
1t is not only on the men who are
marching to the seat of government,
but upon the people who greet and
feed them by the way. they will turn
away from the pleading poverty of
their own neighbors in restitution.
leaving them in their misery, to gather
up food and clothing by The wagon
load to give to mobs who will rot
work when they have the chance.
The whole thing is shameful and
likely to become a wide-spreading can
ger. If organized labor" as threat
ened by Gompers, take his movement
as an ''eye-opener," and, inbued with
the lunacy that it is "the duty of the
government to lind work for every one
of its citizens, shall rise throughout
the land to enforce the notion. the
whole nation will be involved in a
conflict which will be the ruin of
prosperity, and bring such devastation
and destruction as VIII require a een-
Grafton to recover from. Coyeyisn
ought to be disposed OF without hest
tation and without delay.
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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.