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Show THK SP1NNEHS' STRIKE. The striko ol the Fall Kiver, Muss., spinners, which wns inaugurated a few days ngo, throws 15,000 operatives of nil kinds out of employment, aud furnished a new illustration of the chief evil of trudtu uuioue. At! ot tbe original body of strikers, or thoet? diis&tietied with the terms of the employers, em-ployers, did not exceed S0O, nnJ yet tbe comparative few control Ihe 15,000 workingmeu and workingwomeu.at a lossol over 100. 000 a week. The strikers strik-ers aajert their ability to bold out three months; iu other words, they can atTord to lose $1,500,000 which they would receive in w;igea were tueytowoik. Tbe strike is one ol tbe most tuolisi) that has evtroccurred in this conutry, because it is an attempt at-tempt to accomplish au impossibility. Tbe workmen demand au increase ol their wages of 15 pr cent., and the manufacturers have deHiaed to accede ac-cede to the demuid for tbe simple reason that they cauuot atTord to pay the price. Workmen cannot turn it, labor as faithfully us they may, Tho manufac:urers t.ub-mitted t.ub-mitted to the strikers some fads and figures, which would have suowu people ot sense that it would be nou-jense nou-jense for the employers to attempt to yield to the extortionate demand nl the workmen. The losses of the F.i.l River cotton manufacturers were shown to be as follows: The .UxkhoMer? of LJordor City milW, with a capital of $1,OUO WO, have lo.-t th whole of it; not a cviit lef; Tiio mi. la remain, but they are in tho hardi of tbo creditors, to; etockholdc-. The- tK-more tK-more mill ha lost the whole of its cii tal, and then j.W.OoO more was put ia, and that is :o lo?t, miku k-$7.),cii0 k-$7.),cii0 io ali abso utly tuak. Tlo L'nion mill, with a noimatl capital of $17U,L-0O, bat with proDerty worth (-00,-0CO at lefts., has all beuj sunk, a loul loss. The Ttt'umifh mi l sunk SO per ce;.t. of iti capital. Tbe capi'.ftl wu 5,''0,iXO; low ifloO.LVO. TDe lvjbis.D mii:i, with a cawwl of $'." ,i.X.O, unk per cent.: losi.U'.riO Trie Kivr Print Workj, a cuitoo mill uud r ilit nsni'?. w-r.t in".o baiikrupLcy; enpi:., oa.', all a d-al (yr " M ili-ls ctviil. $.t,.tn; a deal !o American Pi ir.t "ti, cainttl, ,-u-.u ; aU sunk, that i. tiiu u..i-.':i:.-Ja-w.ll Lnite Ail ll.e property '1.'.- 1 -s cr dtprec a'.ia t'f le oth-.'f in.llj i.. s'ock is ohl;41 lone-thi:d t leat. Now, tfi it tii-ru may to a l" ir ur.de r'.ai Ui (f i I' i nii!'.rr, we will present a rtvapi-.u -tiua of actu il ioi-ii : BordafCitr. K!t Rrr ?. 0 ;ii3ior, ... ;.'" Mtm.., I -v?a , ''. J Ad! lean,. I . " , . I Tvusicii I - 1 J w.t 1. Tctkl t.. v., . Th ac'.m! kr.owa Uts, ct ir.clu iir z the d-precilion of tr.e in i-tr r rmu.s, u -H. ot cl. -.0 ",u V is t'? Ihe f---'p:eof Pail Kiv-jr ar.i i : :;.ed-la-.e v:ei-uy. Ai the great expen.e to tne mills is for operativf, the iatir siuld not be so thick -headed as to thmk the mnufactureri ccild make mjr.'jy by iuc.-eAsing w't;'.'!, niia lii--y bL.k-mpt bL.k-mpt at lbs Ioer r:o. It is said toil i mij 'r:fy of the strikers w.uli chrer fully return tti work at the oU rates, but the mUm-ous mUm-ous un:on yrtem, wh.h is a cjne ra'.ber than a beutfi' to laSirers, w;.i not permit them to do so. T.c in if-ant if-ant pti.ple taTe an idea thai tne union g iarJs thtir rls ai.cl pro'.ecu them Atu.nst gr.tJii.g i n. 'oyt-r, waen in f-ct fie union d'-privt thm of a lrgi p:c rit-ir ot t:ti: smail e:n:,, b.Jti pret(rcti..g tntm fru.n accfpting pr- L"..tlc tm ploymeut, as in tms prurut 'ne. T ,e c ng natcn oi tno !r. a Are recent tugl.jli irr.ni:pri,t, li.e .cad- r ol them bing a weaver n cad ( i tain employment in n 'tie o! li.e rn:ils on account ol h s bid r- p'i'.Ati ,a, tie his twice len A;rf' d I -r k-fp-ing bis cwn cinlil a' w rt in cmitra-veriiioo cmitra-veriiioo of tne lw. |