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Show ODIOUS TYRANNY, The Louisville Ciuri,. -Journal of Feb, 10th, comets to us in half sheet fenn, from the following reason: On the evening of the previous day, immediately im-mediately after the employes of the establishment had been paid, a committee com-mittee from the compositors notified the proprietors of the paper that unit un-it ss the foreman was immediately discharged they would not go to work. "Not an hour wna given the employers to avert tho consequences involved in this threat, which was made just as the men should have commenced work. As the foreman suited the proprietors of the paper, they promptly but courteously replied that the demand would not be complied com-plied with; and imnudialely their men struck, scune half doien out of filly remaining at their capes. It is an axiom that the tyranny of the many is more oiious than the despotism of one. Trades uniotis were first organized to protect the employed ! from oppression on the port of the ' employer; but like every organization' ! that finds it can wield a certain pow-1 pow-1 er, the bounds originally proscribed I have long leen overstepped, and from j being the enemies of oppression they I have, in numerous instances, I'ecome, lor have attempted to become, '11 nqual ' itied tyrants. We do nut know of any unit m that is more arbitrary in it exactions ex-actions than the tyjiographioal. In the anxiety of its members to niain- tain their own rights, they seem to forc't or ignore the fact that employers employ-ers have any rights whatever. Tney asi-umo to prcscrile not on'y the amount of wages they are trt receive, but hi.w work is to be dine, who it is , to le done by, what workmen shall If jemployt,.!, iri.'-n and Imw tli. y may j 1-c di.-eharge'l; and, in fa, t, attempt I to di- tate everyt'ning citnmvtcd with the bii-in..s.-, the empliiyiTj U.'ing rc-tpiiriti rc-tpiiriti t act as anUim.iLi in lli'-ir . ::.uids, do tin ir bidding, and pubh-h j newspapers ?.'lely fur their 'benefit. . W'e are sp-'.tkiog of newrp.n-To.'Iia-s, ' atid all w.10 are a. -piainted with them ! w:',i It ar us out in the i-oiltion ttkeu. TiiU tyranny is defeating iti-lf. Ti.ere are a number of ncw-papr of.h:e-s in the country that will not give work to a union comporiU'r, and Ih.y j.ay the hight Wago, and treat tin ;r men the WA, ol any tirini in t;ie bu.-iners in the Unitttl Suitea. Thry have each h.wi --me such trou-l-'i-wit': th' unions as this recorded by the C-u. i-i:' nm.it, and f.vch in turn has fir.t defuil.aj..! now di spice!", the inv'nsand tiieir mandatory euaet-iin euaet-iin :.t'. 'i lie numl-eT ol such ollices is ripidiy inereasinv, and tlie numlir is W::yC enlargtxl ole!y on account of this obLiitxisji;-, meddling di-p-vilion nf ihe unions into business with which their iii' ii.bers have no right whatever ,'.o i;,tTl'i re. And in ft few years, if the tvp. "graphical unions ct-r.tuuie ilie e. urse thath.14 markeil many of them for -some time p.ist, thoro will not be a respectable ofli-e in tin country that will employ a man Iclonging tr them. |