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ERGO: FACTS FOLLOW:
WE BUY RIGHT, WE SELL RIGHT, WE-ARE ALRIGHT.
FUU. ORESS.
We show in this line the
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SATIN LINED, at about *o per
cent, less* than heretofore.
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CONFLICT.
LABOR UNIONS TO DEMAND AN
EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
This Prediction Antagonized by the
delation of the Strike-Wave to the
State of Trade—The Latest an Agri
cultural Trust
(Copyright 1889.)
New Yoke, Nov. 16. —For some weeks
we have had our eyes turned aloft viewing
with interest aud much speculation as to
the out come, the process of practical con
solidation going on among various indus
trial corporations and systems of rail ways.
The resulting trusts and traffic agree
ments are higher forms of evolution in the
business world and constitute a parallel to
the invention of labor-saving de
vices in machinery. They are
in fact, labor-saving, tnerefore
cost-saving devices in management,
brought about in part by the high-pressure
stimulus of competition aud concentration
of capital.
As where there is a gain in speed there is
greater power required, the converse is
true, and the letting-down in excessive
competition, due to combination, is bound
to leave surplus power on hand —to rua to
waste—or what*
Here is what directs our attention
again to the basis of all production —labor.
Within the past year, general business
throughout the country has vastly im
proved. Industrial production has in
creased, following in the wake of the
demand; the railways and water-way lines
of transport has e had more freight to carry,
and particularly of late, at more renumera
tive rates. We have had a full average crop
of wheat, and probably unprecedentedly
i&rge crops of Indian corn, of cotton and of
oats. The average of prices has remained
iow. This has aided in sustaining the con
sumptive demand, so we find, taking the
year through, that portion of the body
Politic dignified by the name labor, has,
on the whole, been fairly well employed.
In other words, industrial strikes have
feen relatively few as compared with the
preceedi g three years, bot i as to number
and as to the number of individuals engaged
therein.
Some of us may have been led to think
from this, if we have thought of the matter
all, that the flurry in labor circles in
■88(P87 ended the cycle of disturbance of
that nature for some time to come.
My own inves igatious do not lead to that
conclusion. I am quite sure, judging from
'he reco'd of organized labor since 1880,
from their plans of late, that the year
1800 promises some butterflies from the
labor chrsalis with as gaudily colored
fings as any that have been evolved
infer the title of “Trusts and Traffic Agree
ments.”
The term the “Business World” merely
comprises the production of useful or
hesiratie articles, getting the same to
market and disposing of them to the con
sumer, or his representative, the retailer,
the world of production, as it were. Well,
’his world of production has been organiz
ing. Concentrating its forces, if you will,
T “ r y rapidly at the top during a period of
Iwo years, iu which labor, the substratum,
has teen less agitated owing to relatively
improved condition of demand.
But labor, being represented in its offi
cial councils by somewhat clearer-headed
men than formerly, has not baea idle and
the world of production has been and will
continue to be organized more thoroughly
at the bottom.
I am not a member of any labor
t'fgaaization. But one does not have to
l°in such a body to perceive their move
ment or to gauge their progress.
On the score of antiquity, the “survival
of the fl-test” and all that sort of thing,
-Base labor unions, of whatever name, are
entitled to the highest respect, constituting.
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Being always and equally correct and
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We have them in
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And always guarantee
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\s we allow no garment to leave onr house
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Prices Lower Ik hi
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LEVY
as they do, the successors of the oldest or
ganization existing on anything like par
allel lines to-day in the civilized world.
Yes; older thun the Catholic church. The
ancient trades unions ante-date the Chris
tian era and m a limited way were formed
for much the same purposes as they now
are. The guilds of later times succeeded
them and the order of Free Masonry |>erpet
uates many of their forms even to this
day. But we also have the simon-pure
trades unions. .
Formally they souscht to limit tneir
numbers to accepted apprentices, and
strikes were indulged in to enforce the
rule.
This is perpetuated in their insisting on
the employment of union men only. More
recently the b ycott was devised, aud
a terrible weapon it has proved. Its falling
into disrepute to some extent is a tribute to
the wider intelligence —to the recognition
of the injustice of holding innocent parties
responsible. The labor distnr bances of a
few years ago brought out the “Sympa
thetic Strike”—the strike in one trade to
aid the enforcing ado nand by a totally
different branch of industry. This too has
fallen into “innocuous desuetude" with re
peated failure.
With the reports or decimated ranks m
the Knights of La or, ma iy have been en
couraged to believe that the struggle of
Labor vs. Capital of 1 886-’B7 was not
likely soon to be repeated. O a the contrary,
the past year or two has been one of reor
ganization and recuperation, and the order
to advance has been given. The time set
is May 1,1890. a
- eignt-hour day is the war-cry, and the
outlook is for another contest between the
concentrated forces of capital and the con
solidated ranks of labar.
The trusts were evolved to avoid the
competition resulting from too many con
cerns in the same line of business. Tne
Railway Traffic Association faiiad con
fessedly because there were “too many
roads.’ - ’ And the labor unions demanded
an eight-hour day because as they allege,
there are too many men and women de
manding work to be supplied with the
hours of labor as at present.
UUUI 9 Ul iauut aa uw juivv**v,
Here you see like causes leading to like
results, both at the top and the bottom of
the industrial world. The evolution at the
top increased profits by eliminating labor
and therefore cost. Meanwhile tho3©at the
other end of the industrial structure are to
struggle to so decrease the amount of work
to be dono by each laborer daily that more
may have to be employed.
Isow look at this: The American Federa
tion of Labor, a larger organization than
the Kuiguis of Labor, have made terms
with the latter, the Kuig.its agreeing to
consider a proposition at their next an iual
meeting to unite with the late Federation
in demandi sg an eight-hour day, beginning
on May 1, 1890.
Those who are informed of the inner
workings of various labor organizations,
including those named, assure me that a
National Labor party in politics is not far
off; tnat their eight-nour day movement is
dengued to lead up to it. Several of them
talk freely of it but declined at this time to
permit the use of their names. Mr. I or
derly himself, the head of the Knights, re
fused to express himself.
Samuel (jumpers, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, on being asked
what provision if any his party proposed
to make for unskilled labor, or whether it
was to be a fight for labor as a unit, thus
permitting the evolution of an aristocracy
of labor, as it were, replied:
“It is the purpose of the American r ed
eration of Laoor to endeavor to organize
the workingmen and women of our country
regardless of the skill or lack of skill re
quired io their work.”
1 hat he believes first in organization, pre
ferring to permit other points to adjust
themselves later may be inferred from the
following:
“We believe verv little, If any improve
ment in the condition of skilled or un
skilled labor can occur without the self
assertion begotten from organization.”
In order to accomplish this Mr. Gompers
added;
TOE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 17,1889--TWEEVE PAGES.
HERE’S ONE
That looks well on anyone, whether for
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—THE
3--BUTTON--3
CUTAWAY
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No such stock for
Elegance of Material,
Variety or Style,
Was ever before carried in Savannah
UNDER ONE ROOF.
Everyone wonders how so large a stock can:
be disposed of in one season.
mil tin pm of he
That leave OUR STORE DAILY, and
you got the secrot of the
j'GREAT DISAPPEARING”
That is done by our Stock.
LEVY
“We believe in and purpose the limita
tion of the daily hours of labor to eight
through organization—and by arrange
ment with our employers. We demand tho
enforcement a id extension of the eight-hour
law, national, state and municipal to all
government employes and protest against
its violation and the evasion of its intent
b 7 letting out the government work to
contractors who fail to enforce the eight
hour law."
If one chooses to doubt that various la
bor organ Izitions throughout the country
are planning a comparatively early amal
gamation on a political basis, the future
may wear a peaceful look. The official call
has gone out. however, “urging every man
and woman” * * to be prepared “at the
appointed time, May 1, 1890, to enforce
eight-hours as a day’s work.”
At Chicago a few years ago, when the
first dead-set for an eight-uour day was
made there, industry was paralyzed for a
few days. But in judging of the move
ment let us be careful to observe how
far, if at all, the stimulus for the eight-hour
day differs from that which has
made tue present an era of gigantic
consolidations in industry and transpor
tation. In the one case, to be sure, it
is the life of a business e iterprise at stake,
or several enterprise*. In the other, it is
the well being, if not the existeaci of peo
ple, merely. The only unfavorable sign
respecting the prospect for a general upris
ing of labor within a year is based on the
record for nine year’s past. If we
represent the number of i idustrial em
ployes on strike or locked out annually on a
scale, by years, side by side with
a wave-line indicating the gen
eral course of the price of
pig iron (the indicator of the state of trade)
it is found that in general the strike-line,
or line of industrial disturbance marks the
reverse of that pointing to the condition of
business; that industrial troubles appear to
increase (as reflected in strikes aud lock
outs) when prices are shrinking and by
inference demand declining. The con
verse of this, that an epidemic of strikes
and lockouts may hardly b 9 counted on
when prices are tending upward or when
demand is good and production active—
would seem to indicate that next May will be
an unpropitious date to call upon organized
labor to strike. But we shall see.
What has been referred, to, however, does
not cover all the signs of the times. Indus
trial production, as intimated, af ier organ
izing more thoroughly at the top and bot
tom faces the prospect of another struggle
But there is another branch of production
agricultural—and strange as it may seem,
tie wheat farmer* of the Mississippi
Valley met by representatives at
St. Louis recently and formed
a trust. They did not call it such, to be
sure, but what they formed was an associa
tion* to fix and control the price of wheat
at primary markets and in order to secure
tho management to the hands of the far
mere’ “forever,” three-fourths of the capi
tal stock of the concern, only *15,000,000, is
to be placed in the hands of a trustee, in the
into est of the farmer members.
The $20,000,000 capital has or had but
$3,000 paid iu, perhaps enough to pay the
expenses of the convention. It was pro
posed to buy out grain commission mer
chants at Ht. Louis, Kansas City and Chi
cago and establish agents to receive wheat
and sell it in their places. To do this a por
tion, $5,000,000 of their stock was to
be ’ used, I believe. Unfortunately
slice then, some English capi
talists hare bought a number
of Chicago elevators, so they will be too late
at that point. Farmer Lindblom, of Chi
cago, addressed the convention, after which
the delegates jumped on t.he practice of
buviug and selling futures ii wheat
and demanded that the government declare
it a felony where the property is not
already in possession of the’ seller. Farmer
8. T. K-Pri ice, who has bee.i selling wheat
statistics to the wheat “gamblers" and
others for years, appeared as statistician,
but Hon. Norman J Colmau, the first
Secretary of Agriculture, Anally took pos
session of the convention.
Now, while, as may be inferred, Ido not
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the city and their mammas aud
papas too, know that no other
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as well and as stylishly designed
and made as those for grown-up
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We have Boys’ Overcoats from
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and comfortable.
LEVY
think that the mooting was well managed
or that its plans are practical, it shows a
remarkable change in G anger sentiment
when such a body formally declares it is
not convened to denounce trusts and par
ticularly when it proceeds to form one,
and that, too, in the chief city in a sta o
where trusts are made illegal by law. Not
only the “Captains of industry,” the “Rail
way Barons” and the laboring men are con
solidating, organizing, forming, spe-ies of
trusts, if you will—but even the farmer.
Albert C. Stevens.
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