Year: 1875

considerable advantage.


'This fight between the help and the manufacturers
must be ended If the help want TO control US and our
capital it manifest that they undertaken a ser-
Gus task, serious especially for themselves, for Of
course shall keep our mills closed for a certain
period, and, after that time, shall reopen with nom
union hands and work, even though should have TO
employ armed guards to protect persons and prop
erty But, as said before willing to open
our mills II the help express their desire to
work at our terms. ! do not apprehend any trouble
even though should keep closed all the winter
Nothing can be gained by violence Communistc
volt The people who talk loudcst about rioting and
robbery the officers Of organizations who will do all
they can to continue the trouble"


"But s not the continuance OF the strike causing
great distress ~ inquired.
Doubtless " said he, there of individual
suffering Yet Of the whole population Of 46, 900,
there are but few instances Of starvation We have
allowed the operatives remain in our tenements in
the first place Had turned them into tho streets
when they left the mills the distress would have been
much greater. Some have left of their own accord,
however; others may have to leave later they become
obnoxious What want is to the spinners (who
all mem and the other organizations composed Of
men and boys and women) understanding
among themselves then we treat with them. At
present they are divided into hostile factions"


SUFFERING AMONG TIN OPERATIVES.


OF course this gentleman desired make the picture
brighter than it There is really intense suffering
among the operatives Hungry and poorly clad men
and haunt the OF the societies. hotels and
stores asking for relief and assistance The other
morning when they broke ground and commenced
getting the foundations OF the Post ONCE and
Custom House Bedford street there 600 TOO
men looking on and anxiously waiting for work But
you need only TO walk the streets for two or three
hours to realize the suffering Of these poor people
Young girls from ten TO thirteen years of age may be
without shoes stockings walking the small
thoroughares looking neglected and sorrowful and In
some instances with scarcely sufficient clothing TO
render them decent Al every corner in every street.
dozens Of sad-lookng stand gazing about them
with their hands their pockets There scarcely any
building going on and but for little city work. such as
the making of sewers, laying gas pipes &c, there
would be an absolute labor famine The huge palaces
of industry, like the Mechanics, the Merchants the
Granite and Troy mills, silent as the grave A
amid these places gives you the idea of Sunday so
quiet and monot0nous everything seems


Said hotel keeper to me- 81 wonder they have not
raded before this Their appeals for something
to eat constant But doing nothing and
may be said to be almost badly Off they ara
There is no money circulating; there no work going
outside Of the Mills there but little for
keepers but trust business altogether in a bad
strait now"


THE OPERATIVES STORY.


Meeting prominent weaver | asked him why his
society still advocated the maintenance OF strike that
had already caused so much mischief and suGeringe
His reply short but characteristic '0ur labor Is
our capital Our labor has not been sufficiently
nerative for two years, and propose to bring tho
manufacturers to terms. We have made many of them
rich, while we are mostly poor They want TO squeeze
Of the last pulse Of energy and be able starvo
us into absolute submission to anything they pro-
pose If accept the present reduction of ten per
cent in month may be docked ten per cent more.
When the markets rise get When the
fall made bear the full of the
depreciation by having our prices cut down. Why
shouldn't the manufacturers share it with usr
They haven't done SO, but will make them II ~
can, in tie future"





There Is a singular idea prevalent with that the
mills are too numerous and that 1t would be better
either close one half of them permanently reduce
the general working force that For instance
old Fall River journalist informed that there was
doubt in his mind that the mill owners had overdone
matters Their business promising q few years
since, but lately Notwithstanding the sackness of
trade and the want Of promise in the future they had
gone into mill building quite extensively, and several
yet in unfinished Said he There is
but way out of difficulty and that is TO settle
labor dispute and open up Of trade
The operatives must soon either Work or rebel /
think that they will to believe, however,
that half loaf is better than none and that they will
unanimously agree to accept the twenty four cent?
The weavers' committee may recommend this
But these organizations one against the
other, and neither is able to help its
destitute Ono organization has been sending
agents about the country trying to collect money with
which to buy food for the hungry but they have
succeeded we'll The others have in Instances
exhausted their available are unable to meet
the demands made upon them


EAST


Everything looks murky just now but there is ray
of hope in the distance and that is the Of
trade which may solve difficulties. You remember
during the cotton famine in Great Britain that certain
ambassador stated If the Chinese would only take to
wearing English cacoes and linens there would be work
for every woman and child to provide the goods.
Now, our manufacturers determined TO try what
they do in Japan and China, aud have, I under
stand, several very large consignmcnts these
with 1atterng results Should this enterprise
prove thorough success may return Of
old time business days and speedy end the troubles
We now suffer from"


THE EXTREMISTS


''what will be the probable result If the mill owners
should lower rate than the present ten cent
reduction" asked,


al fear, said he, "that We shall then have trouble
for you cannot always reason with people who led
to believe they are being perpetualy robbed. But We
earnestly hope that the good OF the manufacturers
will lead them to avert any such trouble OF course
there are few old country operatives English and
Irish, who believe that they have been ground
the lowest point and if they accept the present reduc-
ton 1t is the lowest they will accept without
making serious trouble "


Thus looking at the affairs here from every side, we
total cessation of business, great poverty and
much quiet suffering sad want Of confidence between
the employer and empioye and the locking up OF mil
lions that might be circulated for the general veal
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