The New York Commercial Advertiser of Tuesday says: “According to the outgivings of a meeting of workingmen held in this city yesterday, there is to be a renewal of the labor troubles during the coming spring. Preliminary action has already been taken, and the enforcement of the eight-hour rule is the ostensible object of the movement. The real purpose of the trades, however, is understood to be a concerted movement for an increase of wages, and the opening of the spring is selected as the time for a general and formidable demonstration. The same game was tried last year. The Commercial of the 7th of March last, announced that there was reason to believe that a general strike was then impending; the first blow was to have been struck on the first of April, but the trades-unions concluded to wait until the spring work had fairly opened in May, and accordingly, in the first week of the latter month, the journeyman painters led off, and were speedily followed by the carpenters (May 13), the bricklayers, plumbers, cabinet-makers, and the rest. The effort to coerce the employers was a dismal failure. The men, egged on by the trades-unions, demanded too much and got nothing. Great manufacturing establishments were closed, the idle workmen were compelled to subsist upon their small savings or upon charity, and before the middle of the summer, the employers had won the battle. The men returned to work at the old rates, having discovered that trades-unionism was powerless against a thorough combination of employers. Had the unions been less exacting or less meddlesome and impertinent, the majority of employers would have gladly made a compromise; but the demand for all or none was promptly denied, and the unfortunate workmen were the chief sufferers. Before the trades-unions complete their plans for a new strike, next spring, they should recall the history of their failure a year ago.”
Elder Ingraham's Postal Address Update
The P. O. address of Eld. Wm. S. Ingraham is for the present, Health Institute, Battle Creek, Mich.
A JOB FOR SKEPTICS.
When skeptics start up flocks of wild-geese absurdities, they may attend to the wild-goose chase of bringing them down. The following paragraph shows the kind of work they are continually getting on their hands:—
Robert Dale Owen, in a recent work, endeavors to straighten out the Scriptures, and correct ideas which have been entertained by religious men for the last few centuries. Among other things, he makes the statement that the ancient years exactly correspond in length with our present months, so that, when the Scriptures say that Methuselah was 969 years of age, he was only so many months, or something more than eighty years old. Mr. Owen may, possibly, be correct; but will he please look along a little further and explain the following verse: “Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arphaxad” By the above standard of Bible dates, Shem would have been a little more than eight years old at the time. Nahor, Abraham’s grandfather, at the same reckoning, became a father at the tender age of twenty-nine months, and died at the age of twelve years, the father of a numerous family. Will Mr. Owen look after this at once?—Boston Globe.