Show I 1 THE LABOR QUESTION articles are I 1 novle wed THE OF 01 OUR LABORERS I 1 forming corporations Corp for I 1 I 1 criticized criticised and freely com dented upon EDITOR HERALD ALD I 1 Work ingmans worthy articles which have lime appeared fit in your 5 our sunday issues of late have bao been read with considerable interest by your our humble servant workingman liae has bravi drawn n a most beautiful picture of the results of this grand scheme of co cooperation operation in fact hie his castles aro are so ethereal that I 1 when we me como come down to the reality of the tile situation we ft e aro are shocked by bv tile change he ile thinks in fit one of hia his articles 1 it 4 is n necessary that common weavers should understand all tho the intricacies of the commercial commer Lial world how many 12 by 10 mulls the want ft ant for their turbans rbana tu whether war rumors are afloat that would depress the market if the cotton gales fales of liverpool bo be bales the operatives may become a little extravagant in in t the lie working of the material and on the contrary it if bales sales should drop G p to bales lie the weaver weavers must be more economical and if necessary nece seary mako make iva yards ards of goods instead of 18 yards all t these i logo things he expects the weaver to wider understand stand but borki worling 1 I man must have lost sight of tire fali fact that ali at it takes tho the undivided attention of the capitalist capitali it who has had the shrewd shrewdness ne an and d CO to mal malo 0 the nece ss Z ary capital capital to RIVO give employment to eo so many any of lua his fel to the tile fluctuations of the markets and to know when and how to buy and will sell the fact that lie ha has s got eo so much of his 1 individual earnings at stake him of necessity more keen and energetic than the man who mho is clec elected ted by t lie masses can call be when lien ho lie has only a few shares invested workingman guran in ins his second article says that it is N well ell understood th that at few laboring men intelligent mechanics chanice cs have sufficient time to learn even the elements of business and then ho lie goes on in in a strain intimating that almost all knowledge knowl edse is is attainable if vior workingmen kingmen will only join a themselves theine elvea unto some co operative cooperative society oar our gifted friend farther states that in to consequence of the great competition between these film ideal mills and the theondo pride taken in in them by tho share holders hol dere the latest improved mabbin ery is is introduced kow now mr editor 7 is it reasonable to suppose that these these wor workingmen king men who hold the shares will it consent to the using of tj tins I 1 is la labor bor machinery 9 in the course of one of his articles our friend uses lie tile old chestnut t figures dont lie and beneath this entrenchment tells us that an actual capital of ia is employed ed in in the conducting of them workingman Nor kingmen culls mills of oldham old ham oldham has a total population of and about famili families ile which makes an average value oi of shares to each man woman and child of about and each family would have invested about oooo M this to rny my mind is 13 preposterous not because the oldham people lack enterprise but because as everybody knows tho the average workingman of Old oldham lian or of england has not the to invent invest there ig 14 one question I 1 would like lo 10 ask workingman Work and that is is aro are those mills which ho he has cited to us organized on true cooper co oper athe principles take for instance 11 ins his re mills the united C cotton otto spinning ing milla of oldham lain I 1 thin think if ho lie hae has any information at hie big coall command and he mil mill agree with me hit that they are as capable of 0 being controlled by the grinding monopolists as it lias has been proven that inan many K others organized on the same basis basig have been I 1 could come a little nearer lionie at ihie this abase ab iso of the question if it vero were necessary in conclusion I 1 bould like our esteemed workingman to look at the past history of tile operative cooperative co societies which have existed hero here in ut ill sonic of which m have eunk sunk thou eandi sanda of bollam do llara shaken the conal deuce of tho the public disgusted the shareholders thare holders and arid finally gone to the tilt val wall while on the other hand tile individual merchants mho have had comparatively few fail failures tires have through their industry shrew anese and experience built up good busi and are today to day enjoying the 1 confidence and favors of the people I 1 I 1 lacz aine oden sept 14 1887 |