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the South Danvers Wizard
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Jan.- July 1864
About
South Danvers (Peabody), Massachusetts
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South Danvers Wizard, 1/27/1864,
p. 2/7
THE CURRIERS’ STRIKE: MEETING OF THE EMPLOYERS, SALEM, January 18,
1864 - “At a meeting of Employers (Tanners and Curriers) held this evening
in the Union News Room in Federal street, to determine the organization
and strike of journeymen employed in the business. Mr. L. B. Harrington
was chosen to preside, and W. P. Martin was chosen Secretary.
Mr. A. A. Evans called the attention of the
meeting to the object for which it had assembled, and said the subject
should be viewed calmly, and that the meeting should, in its deliberations,
have in mind the interest of both employers and employed. He made
allusion, also, to the concessions that had been made to previous demands,
from time to time. Mr. Rufus Brown followed, taking decided ground
against complying with the demands of the Association. On motion of Mr.
Thomas Looby, it was voted that Committee be chosen, consisting of two
members from North Salem , three from South Danvers, and two from
Boston Street to whom the whole subject be referred, to make a report at
a future meeting: and the following gentlemen were elected:-
From North Salem: Messrs. A. A. Evans and
N.R. Treadwell; South Danvers, J. Pinder, A. B. Merrill and Wm. N. Lord;
Boston Street, Wm. Varney and J. F. Walden.
On motion of Mr. J.C. Stimpson, it was voted
that when we adjourn it be to meet at the same place on Friday evening,
January 22, at 7 o’clock.
Mr. Williams having moved that we do not employ
any member of the Association of Journeyman Curriers, pending the final
action of the employers, except at the old prices, the motion was unanimously
adopted.
Voted to adjourn.”
SALEM, Friday evening, Jan. 22
“Pursuant to adjournment, assembled at Union News Room at 7 o’clock
– Mr. Harrington on the chair.
The chairman announced that the committee chosen on Monday evening,
had attended to the duty assigned them, and were present and ready to report.
Mr. Evans, on behalf of the Committee, then presented the following
Preamble and Resolutions.
SALEM, Jan. 22d, 1864.
“Having been presented with a schedule of prices demanded by
workmen who have formed an Association with the object of compelling their
employers to accept such terms as they might choose to dictate, it is therefore,
Resolved: That while believing in free trade and workingmen’s
rights, and having an interest in the welfare of our workmen, which has
been shown by a reduction in the hours of labor, and an increase of wages
from time to time, as the cost of living has advanced, we still maintain
our right to employ whomever we choose, and to make our own terms.
Resolved: That as employers our feelings and interests are not
antagonistic towards our workmen, but we denounce the principle of men
in any department of business combining together to force their employers
to accede to such terms as they may propose, believing that such a course
is productive of much greater injury to the employed than the employer.
Resolved: That we will suffer to dictation from any man or organization
of men in regard to the prices which we shall pay for labor, believing
ourselves the best judges of the value of the services of those employed
by us.
Resolved: That we will not hire any man while a member of the
Currier’s Protective Union of Salem and South Danvers, or any other organization
having similar objects in view, but to others we offer liberal wages.
Upon motion of Mr. Caller, the Report of the Committee was unanimously
adopted; and it was subsequently signed by the following gentlemen (in
addition to the committee):”
L. B. Harrington
D. C. Haskett
J. A. Lord
Thomas Looby
J. C. Simpson
Chas. Weston & Sons
John Huse
Nathaniel Horton
James H. Conrey
Pinder & Brown
W. D. & S Varney
Nelson & Merrill
S. A. Southwick
Wm. F. Nichols
J. E. T. Bartlett
N. W. Osgood
Thomas E. Proctor
Wm. H. Little
Dana Woodbury
Joseph Poor
Andrew Porter
Isaac Hardy
J. S. Hodgkins
John V. Stevens
Franklin Osborn, Jr.
Warren Wilson
Andrew Torr
William Pierce
Joseph Jacobs
Franklin Osborn
Samuel Harris
C. W. Osborn
John H. Wilkins
Jacob Putnam & Co.
Derby & Tucker
John Redmond
Richard Harrington
Samuel Pitman, Jr.
Louis Bond
Richardson & Coolidge
John H. Conway
James Braden
Lucius H. Morse
Albert Wilkins
Nathaniel Tuttle
O.F. Adams
Timothy O’Shea
J. Jacobs, Jr.
James Dugan
Mahoney & Relihan
S. F. Reed
James A. Lord
R.S.D. Symonds
Brooks & Messer
Joshua Giddings
Charles Harrington
John Calliton
F. Wheeler
John Frost
W.N. Lord & Co.
Merritt Cook
James Lord
Patrick D. Egan
William P. Martin
Nathaniel Pitman
U. R. Williams
Wm. Kenney
Geo. W. Bruce
Wm. Austin
Geo. S. Hadley
D. W. Osborn
O. Kimball
Edward F. Carleton
Hugh M. Scott
Evans & Son.
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