Year: 1875

nected with the free right Of any person to


work for whom and It such rates as they
may zee fit Ell II


second. Th.t dAosId We Slsh to Ave


the employ of lid eofporaisn We will


give notes N vriiing to our oserseera and


viii contisue to work ten dsgs after hid


notice, IT being 0der1oed lit NOTES II


not more than one-eishth Of any one clas


Of operatives vill be accepted vithis one


week, or if less than eight peEsoas in any


one class not more than one lnUtice fIon
such class; and should We leave the mill


without giving and working the term of
said notice We will forfeit all money due


Us from said corporation for labor previous
ly performed.
Third Any breach of the provisions Of
this agreement or the printed regulations


posted in mills shall be considered miscon-
dud On the part of the subscribers hereto,
and shall be sufficient cause for summary
discharge from the employment IF said
corporation, without notice or payment Of
wages. in lieu of notice.


We have frequently, oeasured strikes
pointed out their impolicy, and the Ger
tainty Of retaliation by the capitalists in
times of depression. The day Of triumph
for capital has come, and in the shape it
appears, it is disgrace to the age, and go
cruel, and unjnst, as must cause a cry Of
almost universal reprobation, from every
juss man.


The beaten tyrannie-, that existed by
grace Of God" never attempted anything
more desposic, than the inhibition in the
first section Of the indenture we publi.b.
To require a person to covenant that he
would not be Influenced by the action Of
any appropriation in the matter of wages"
is an attempt to deny the right Of thought, |
and reason, upon a subject distasteful to
the millocracy Of Massachusetts,


Will the friends of the poor be dumb
ard voiceless, with this menace to punish
free thought, with the penalty Of starvation!


As the agreement goes on, it deepens in
villany. The second section provides
method to rob the worker, by corporation
made law, as the confscationists try to rob
the nation by Congressional enactment.


The third section is the eliminating
wrong-forfeiture Of employment and
wages, for any breach Of the rules of the
mill; the party to be benefited by TIE dis
missal Of the worker,to be alone the judge
Of what constitutes breach Of the agree
ment, Or regulation. This is an mheard
Of piece Of injustice, obnoxious to every
tradition Of our people, who have codifed
into the Constitution the equitable axiom
that it is unjust TO deprive man Of his
or liberty without regular process
Of law. We have had meetings to rectify
all sorts Of abuses, and condemn various
wr1ngs.


The pathos Of the orator, and the re-
sponsivc sigh, and tear, have all been
wasted in the past, over some fancied in
jury to a negro in Africa, Or spawned .
horse in America. There is a piece of
trade despotism at home, only equalled in
injustice by some Of the absurd regulations +
Of the labor organizations, of the Molly {
Of the coal regions Of Pennsyl- {
vania. l. there no man brave and good !
enough, to take the lead in .olsing the r
lust and fair men of the nation, both en- S
ployees and employed, to rebuke the Cot i
on Lords Of Fall River, for their tyranny! !