| Show tiye TIIE QUESTION IW IN THE ease EAST F A T THE new york herald in a leading article on the labor problem the chinese I 1 says that in the employment employ anent of a company of chinese in one of the new england shoe shoo shops there is a great step taken in the solution of one of the moat most perplexing questions of the time capital and labor it says have always behn at issue and the strife that has been between them at different times in indifferent different lands is responsible perhaps for alm aim much misery as war itself the aspect of the trouble in massachusetts ehu chu sette just previously to the introduction of China men meu it describes as an I 1 attempt on the part of labor to demand concessions that capital positively and peremptorily declared it could not fiot and would not make the concessions demanded related not only to the price of labor but to the control of the liph ment employing it the thew wages demanded were not only greater than employers believed they could pay payi but bat the laborers insisted upon dictating who mho should bo be employed and what man should hold ono one place placa and what another but by the experiment just made cap ital finds itself in a position t operate entirely ent irely frely without regard to the clash class of pers persons ons with whom it has had t to 0 con tend it finds itself the herald says in possession of a laborer as docile tractable and steady dyas as a an machine yet with the intelligence telli gence and adaptable versatility of humanity and it proceeds to ask that as capital has baa acquired this laborer in one place why shall it not have it in every place where the necessity may arise it sees in the law to prevent and it thinks that employers will hardly fail to use this laborer and they will remove out of their way the tho only I 1 obstacle mch q interfered interfered with with their lir complete freedom namely the trade unions by turning all their devices and arrangements against them the furnishing of this laborer it thinks will revolutionize all the mechanical cli ch anical occupations in this country ibe HO will free for better occupations it asserts the hands bands of every american now engaged in the meaner industries men who have the ambition to earn from three to seven dollars a day ay as it says saya the shoemakers were able to do should also be ambitious to improve their occupation the will U 1 permit them and will cheapen shoes at the same bame time at this it imagines the whole people can rejoice with such a ie realm alm aim and means of support as the united states possesses and ending their way among us the end in its opinion is evident the wave of asiatic immigration will cover the pacific slope and determine many knotty points this side of IL it to the working classes tho the reasoning will not appear very sound it is all very well to talk about the shoemakers leaving their business and letting follow it and they adopt business more worthy of their talents but where will they find work at which they can obtain employment as remunerative as their own trade affords the hiraldo heralds 8 ideas might be carried out if time sufficient pere yere allowed but a revolution such as it beems seems to think is impending is not accomplished complis hed very quickly without an immense amount of summering suffering ring for the working men of the east and west the introduction of the chinaman as a laborer a whatever benefits boever he may bring to the country in the future fore shadows serious difficulty already they perceive this and it is probable that if capital persists in employing the asiatic in an element of discord will be introduced introduce dof of which unscrupulous politicians will not bo be slow to avail themselves and political parties will be divided into coolie and anti coolie and the country be convulsed throughout its length and breadth the philadelphia press in treating upon this bil all abject relation to the they are unusually quick to learnard le learn arnand and will perform as much laborin labor laboc in the same time as any other workmen the reason them they can acford jafford afford to render such service wor work for twenty three dollars per month with lodging and fuel they boarding themselves is due to their degraded habits of living for instance those just arrived in north adams have taken up their abode in rude quarters and sleep in bunks it adds that no true american can desire to see the american mechanic dispense with his comfortable home take up his quarters in a bunk and subsist on the same saine amount of cheap food upon which the chinaman manages to keep up an existence it says let john chinaman come let him go to whatever part of the tho land he pleases work for soc whomsoever he chooses in any department of labor he may select but the best interests of the nation require that he come just as the irishman and the germ german a n have come as an emigrant beekin seeking beeking free a and n d personal wages and not as a coolie whose labor is sold out and trafficked in by middlemen the press sees with regret the despos of the massachusetts workmen to follow bollow the example of the foreign mobs of bf california if these come aa sa oppressed people seeking a home and protection under our laws and free government ern ment it thinks certainly republican workingmen cannot repudiate that noble plank plane of the chicago platform which ofil offered ered a home and a welcome to the oppressed peoples of all struggling nationalities |
