The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-18
OLNEYYILLE.

ule is as follows:
Two mills pick for work.
Thirty-six inches shall constitute a
yard.
The two-loom system shall be abol.
ished.
There shall be no fines.
The full scale of wages in all respects,
that existed prior to the cut down in 1893,
shall be restored.
No discount will be made from these
terms for large or small quantities of la
Dor purchased.
The trust seems to know what il
wants, and is going for it. Whether it
gets it or not will depend upon the state
OF the market. IL the trust succeeds in
enlisting enough of labor it will have a
grip on the situation just as any
other trust would have. As a matter
OF fact these attempts to artificially con-
troll product, whether it be labor, or
corn, or pork, or sugar, or anything else,
mostly fail to accomplish what
they set out to do Either
some recalcitrant successfully main
tains a competition and breaks the
prices or the syndicates that make
the corner fail to get hold of all the
visible supply, either because they do
not discover IL in time, or because their
resources give out before they get
hold of it. Then the prices come
down, and sometimes the trust
goes broke" in its effort to acquire an
artificial dollar. Sometimes, to be sure,
the trust or the corner succeeds and a
lot of profit results. But it is delicate
business just the same, and, more often
than not, disastrous to its projectors.
We don't know whether tn G managers
OF the Olneyville labor trust have q
a good prospect or not. We should say
that, on general principles, 80 inches
ought to make good enough yard, but
just how far it ought to con-
stitute a yard in an Olneyville
mill we don't know. That would de-
pend, We should say, on the price of it,
Our friends, the dry goods merchants,
carry 'yard wide goods of various
lengths, we believe, and without any
design to deceive anybody, and they
couldn't deceive anybody if they
were so disposed. Some of their fabrics
are "full yard" wide, and some are
yard goods just by courtesy, and for the
same quality the yafa goods that are 80
inches wide bring more than the other
KIND, MS every woman knows.
But If we were disposed to join
the fretting fraternity of our
fellow-citizens who see in trusts a men, |
ace and danger to our institutions, and |
want to control them and a good many
other business operations by law, we
guess we would approve of 80 inches
making yard.
But II we were interested in even the
mildest kind Of an anti trust movement
we should deprecate the proposition of
The trust to abolish improved machin-
'ry. We should call such a trust
'highhanded," and "monstrous," and
nimical to the interests of the
masses Of the people" and all that sort
" thing; and we should write TRADES
Igainst it and get up procession with
'rass band and transparency on which
hould be inscribed in big letters:
Down with trusts y But as
ve are SO constituted as TO
elieve that labor trusts as well as all
ther trusts will not, cannot, enforce alb
urdities, and will succeed or fail accord
lgly as their methods and propositions
re based OH the laws of supply and de-
land, we will not undertake to get
big popular outcry on the two
)om issue.
The trust demands a higher price for
Ibor. We would like to see them get
We would like to see every laborer.
nd every capitalist, and every man. q
oman, and child in the world get more
oney and be able to buy more cheaply. J
I course, If we all had more money
i'd had to pay correspondingly in /
eased amount for our necessities and 7
xuries there would be no advantage in .
advance. But we take it the trust II
ants to earn more and pay at least no c
ore for things than things cost II
EN- already. Whether they will 81
able to do it or not depends on how a
uch demand there may be for labor. ~
lst now there doesn't appear to be u
uch. Most of us, whether we are ~
Dated bondholders or real estate own 4
5, or possessors of trust certifi- M
tes, or just every day manual u'
borers on salary, have been as vet un- III
lie to secure a restoration of "the III
ale prior to the cut down Of 1893" "s
lat cut down raised the very old nick az
tn all OF us, and we are inclined TO o'
ess our stars il the bonds we hold IN
o not defaulted. il the income M
)m our real estate is not down III