Year: 1872




visit paid yesterday to the haunts OF the work
ingmen when the long strike was in progress
showed how utterly buried in the past is every yes
tige OF the great labor movement. The places the
trades unonists frequented, and where. few
weeks ago. swart mechanics thronged, are
empty, save In the presence Of such beer
drinkers and casuas as happen In and
linger for few moments over newspaper or In
a conversation. Teutona Hail. where nearly a
thousand workmen attended daily meetings, is
silent as a tomb, and the Germania Rooms, in the
Bowery are frequented only by their Old customers
and the members Of the National Guard, who drIn
there. The MINOR places Of meeting are equally
empty, and their proprietors wear q vacant and
puzzled sort OF expression when asked any question
relative to the strike The nine weeks that the
volt lasted were golden to them, and yet they
seem to have almost faded from their memories. "a


The traces of the struggle will not be 80 readily
efraced In the homes Of the unfortunate men who
participated In the action. Nine weeks of idleness
made the return OF labor more onerous, and debts
were accumulated that stare them in the lace now,
dissipatlng many pleasant hopes OF winter COM
fort, and invoking dismal pictures of pryation to
be endured in the incement weather.
by and by, when It will be most
unendurable. To the unsuccessful strikers in far
greater degree than to the manufacturers, was the
~
Imagination to follow Its effects through want and
sickness in many poor family to desttuti0n and
death. III ~ g..


And unde rneath the surface all this time, and
notwithstanding this defeat, the leaven Of future
revolt is fomenting, stirred by busy brains and in
dustrious hands. The men OF the international,
who suffered least, are hard at work, deftly
handling in speech and writing those questions
which lie at the base OF the present social sys-
Its upheaval. The defeat has been bitter, but IL
not hopeless Winter will come with an erect
Of terror 1t never inspired before; but the first
warm days OF spring will germlnate strike more
formidable In its proportions than the one that has
been crushed out On every hand this Is the feeling
action on the part Of the employers which is relied
upon to smotherit.


The manufacturers, who have also tasted some.
thing Of bitterness in the struggle, resolved from
the first not to reemploy any Of the leaders in the
late movement. The Ofncers Of the different unions
ana all such as became at all prominent among the
members found when the moment for disbandng
ana workshops Of the CITY for them. There
any possibility Of earning bread by working at their
trades in this city, and most OF these men had
families Among the metal workers was one who
now supports his wife ana children by singing at
the meetings of temperance societies and In far
uptown concert hall. Another procured employ
ironworker in New York would give either
OF them work There are others WHO
have been compelled to pay the same penalty ma % for
fortune in finding at hand some new method OF
support: All of these men are regarded by their


the nuense Of mar Te as
Of living are daily commented upon,
an interest GSsrs SnsaS at"ees OF nem a ssy y
inspire feeling OF devotion which under no other
circumstances would have had birth. Had they
been allowed to return with their fellows they
would have sunk to their level In sharing their late
Az 1t Is they have power which they assert they
will use, when the proper time arrives in OppOsi-
tion to every interest OF the capitalists.


THOSE WHO WORK Eight HOURS.
In all the building trades eight hours has n0S
ceased to be the established day OF labor The car
pcnt rs, with solid organization, support the
| many who cannot find employment at the terms
their Union dictates, and, with world Of JUNCTION
| In their tones, they swear they will never work on
they would have to work ten hours they dropped
their brushes and refused to rcccde from their pO-
stion Atleast this is what they claim to have been
their action but some OF the employers say their
men are now working ten hours day.


THOSE WHO WORK TEN HOURS A DAY.
In all the metal trades and among the many
carpenter work, the men are working
ten hours day. The pianomakers coach
makers and upholstercrs retutned to labor
on the Old basis OF time and wages. The
sugar renners-more to be pitied than any Of the
others-went into the sugar houses again when the
heat was most intense.


And So as oil the trades settled down on an in
secure guarantee OF eight hours, or ''picked up
their burdens Of life again" to labor ten,
| ary air, and carried an early-closing movement
by Storm making merry the while as they gosspped
and shaved. There Was q ludlcr0us vein in their
victory, marked as the sad episodes OF the me-
chanics and sugar mems defeat. The curtain has
been rung down on the drama of the long strike
with its gay and gloomy scenes, Its laughter and
tears, and its experience is even now half forgot
tent. So runs the world away.


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