News from 02/10/1891
1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Ferdinand Gilles, R. J. Derfel, Tom A. Hannam, Francis Beckwith, Major Alfred R. Calhoun, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, A. Letchford, Shave Hook, Silly Sussex, Silly Sussex, Fidus Achates, Fidus Achates, George Jacques, J. H. Hadfield, John Young, J. J. Marshall, Jos. Wilson, Thomas Wilson, James Bleakley,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Workman's Times. News: The Union of Engravers (Calico Printers and Paper … Hold Its First Annual Social Gathering on Saturday Evening at the Zoological Gardens, Belle, The Members of the G. R. W. U. In Wakefield and the Surrounding District Must Be Congratulated on Having Been Successful in at Least Forming a District Council, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, Mr. Lane Then Gave a Description of the Straits to Which the Employers Were Put in Order to Obtain Blackleg Labour, and in Conclusion Dwelt on the Fact That They Were Now in the 21st Week of the Struggle, and It Was Impossible for Them to Go Back, and He Hoped That the Men Whom He Was Addressing Would Use Every Effort to Bring Their Struggle to a Successful Issue, The Niggar at the Post Office, A Demonstration and Mass Meeting Will Take Place on Sunday, October 11th, under the Auspices of the Hammermen, Enginemen, Machinemen, Helpers, and General Labourers' Union, National Amalgamated Coal-Porters' Union of Inland and Sea-Borne Coal Workers and Teamers and Trimmers Brill and Shelley in the North Again, A Few Weeks Ago a Fireman at One of Our Local Collieries Was Unfortunate Enough to Get His Water Low in the Boiler, and Caused a Collapse of the Tubes, Derby, W. S. De Mattos Delivered a Public Lecture at the County Forum, 50A, Market-Street, Manchester, under the Auspices of the Manchester and District Fabian Society, on Saturday Evening, September 26th, on "Socialists and the Coming General Election," to a Crowded Audience, And Now, Mr. Editor, I Have Nearly Pumped Myself Dry, Questions for Candidates Can Be Had from Me on Application, on Condition They Are Sent to the Parliamentary Candidate, His Juvenile Days, I Quite Agree with "Stoker No. 2" That These Parties Will Do a Vast Amount of Good If Carried out in a Proper Manner, and I Am Pleased to Say That I Did Not See a Man among Our Party but Conducted Himself in a Proper and Respectful Manner, After Endeavouring for at Least Three Months to Obtain an Advance of Wages for the Different Telephone Operatives Employed by the National Telephone Company in Brighton, a Final Answer Has at Length Been Received by the General Secretary (a. J. Walker), at an Interview with the General Secretary of the N. T. Co. On Monday Last, See "Coming Events" Column for Notices of Meetings, &c., Notes by Mersey District, Notes by Gas, During This Last Week Messrs. Fletcher, Son, and Fearnall, of Limehouse, Had One of These Ships to Repair, and Members of the Hammermen and Labourers' Union Were Sent on Board to Work, I Have No Doubt but What There Are Many Non-Society Men in the Iron Trade Who Are Content to Be outside the Club, More from a Careless Habit than from Any Objection to Joining in with Us, Another Federation Likely to Be Brought about Shortly Is the One Proposed between the Northumberland and Durham Miners and the National Union of Coal Porters, The Branch of the National Boot and Shoe Operatives' Union Here Numbers Some 550 Members, and the Amalgamated Society of Cordwainers about 250, It Is a Great Shame to See Such a Body of Men as the M. R. Have, and Not Half of the Members in This Society Belong to That Line, Mr. H. Cork, President of the Lambeth Branch, Occupied the Chair, and Mr. C. Massey the Vice-Chair, But This, by the Way, U. O. P. A. Notes, Barometrical Readings Month Ending September 25TH. 1891, Mr. Ben Tillett as a Parliamentary Candidate, My Right-Handed Friend, Mr. W. E. Harvey, of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, Is Destined yet to Render Further and Greater Services to the Class He Represents, A Letter, Posted in Brechin to One of the Fair Sex, Not above a Hundred Miles from Luthermuir, Had, in Addition to Its Necessary Address, the Following:, Household Hints, The Next Quarterly Meeting of the Federation Will Be Held in a Few Days, When Reports Will Be Presented from the Various Societies and the Details of Carrying out the New Scheme Will Be Discussed, Gilles V. Aveling Why Gilles Distributed the Aveling Leaflets, Middlesboro, The Terms of Agreement Are, It Is Reported, as Follows, Gasworkers' Meeting in Manchester, United Machine Workers' Association, Sir, There Are Many Critics Who Have Said Gas Stokers Did Not Know What to Do with Their Spare Hours Only to Spend Them in Public-Houses, Now for the Office! upon Reaching the Office the Secretary Was Most Cordially Taken into Mr. Fletcher's Private Room, and upon Making His Business Known, Mr. Whiltshaw, the Manager, Said That the Ship Was Not Dangerous to Work On, Fred: Papa, I've Made a Discovery, Mr. Crozier, the Secretary of the Bricklayers' Society, Has Been Inspecting Places in Course of Construction in London, and His Opinion of the Workmanship Thereon Does Not Redound to the Advantage of Employing Cheap Labour, Would the Members of the Labour Federation Show up on Saturday Next, I Cannot Help Thinking That the Removal of Upholsterers from the Existing Order of Society Will Be a More Difficult Task than Can Be Imagined by Those Who Arrogantly Assume That Whole Orders of Men Engaged in Both Useful and Artistic Work Can Be Disposed of by the Utterance of a Word, as Though They Possessed the Power of an Arch Magician, Boot and Shoe Notes, In Answer to a Question as to How Many Blacklegs Were at Work, Mr. Lane Said He Might Be Exaggerating If He Said There Was 500 Spread All over Over the Vast Area of London, but Desired Them to Remember That 57 Firms Had Already Conceded the Men's Demands, Now That's Rather Rough on Some Members of the Committee, and Conclusively Proves That the Members of This Deputation Know Their Men, and Are Not Altogether Devoid of That Grim Northern Humour That Is the Life and Soul of Committee Work, In Conclusion, Let Me Just Mention That the Question of Fair Wages and Hours and the Insertion of a Clause in Corporation Contracts to Bind Contractors Comes up for Discussion on Thursday First at the Town Council Meeting, General Railway Workers' Union Branch Meetings, Walthamstow Notes, Croydon Notes, That Was Sufficient, Those Words Acted like an Electric "Spark," for He Turned round and Said,"I Don't Want My Work Stopped, I Was Glad to See the Deep Interest Taken in the Delegates' Report, and after a Little Discussion a Hearty Vote of Thanks Was Accorded Them for Their Services, The Workman's Times to Be Had at E. Banks, Grange-Lane, and Mrs. S. Banks, 117, Bentinck-Street, Birkenhead, And Time It Was so, They Are Trying to Form a Labour Electoral … North Manchester, It Has Been Decided by the Nottingham Express to Send a Special Commissioner over to America to Inquire into the Working of the M'kinley Tariffs, as It Affects the Lace and Hosiery Trades, A Sweet Memory, The Strike at the Central Still Continues, and the Engineers Seem Determine in the Matter, and I Believe They Will Gain the Day before Long, Nottingham and Notts Notes, There Was a Numerously-Attended Meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in Liverpool on Thursday Evening Week at the Odd-Fellows' Hall, St. Anne-Street, Mr. W. McMillan Presiding, Ilkeston and District Notes, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places, Up to This Point Mr. Bedford, Who Had Evidently Miscalculated the Temper of the Meeting, Had Got on Very Well, but This Was as Far as He Did Get, The Navvies Employed on the New Railway Works Here Have Had a Few Disputes with the Contractors on the Wage Question, The Well-Known Comic Dick Haddawy Then Gave as the "Railway Guard" and the "Lodging-House Brigade," and He Fairly Brought down the House, Our General Secretary, Mr. James Holmes, Gave His Report of the Two Congresses on Friday Night in the Form of a Lecture, Mr. Jenkins, of Manchester, Occupying the Chair, and about 200 Being Present, "George," Said a Girl to Her Been the Other Night," "Here's a Piece in the Paper Headed "Kismet", He Has Lately Caused Much Criticism by the Statement of His Views on Labour Representation in Parliament, Now I Think a Powerful Society like the Amalgamated Engineers Ought to See That a Section of Their Trade Were Made to Keep to the Terms of Their Agreement, and Not to Throw Another Heavy Expense of a Strike and Conference on a Small Society, … by Anthony Snodgrass, Wedding Incidents, Workmen's Notes and Notions Newcastle, Your Correspondent "Working Potter" Referred to This Question a Few Weeks Ago, Labour Movements Abroad, There Is Little of an Eventful Nature to Record in His Career, … Morning a Good Gathering of Workers … Bedford Bridge to Listen to an Address … "Socialists and the General … Mr. Hugh Sinclair of Newcastle, Was … Delivered a Very Earnest and …, Preston Notes, In Answer to This, Lyons Sent Me the Following Letter and Guarantee, Stafford Notes, Courtship and Marriage among the Indians, Multiple News Items, Newcastle Legal Eight Hours League, Paganini's Beloved Violin, First Diner:"What Makes the Waiters in These Continental Hotels Hold Their Heads so High?" Second D.:"Wait till You Get a 'Whiff' of the Food, and Then You'll Understand", Then There Is the Question of Women Labour, Which Ought to Be Taken up the Same Way the Dust Question Was Taken Up, Surely the Disparaging Remarks I Am Hearing from Certain Quarters, in Reference to the Operative Plumbers' Association's Name Not Appearing in Any Lists of Contributions to the Carpenters' Strike Fund Is, to My Way of Thinking, Far from Being True Unionism, "Patrick," Said an Irish Gentleman to His Servant One Morning,"I Heard Last Night, from Undoubted Authority That You Have Had the Audacity to Go and Tell Some People That I Was a Shabby Old Rascal, a Mean Fellow, and Anything but a Gentleman, Fast Travelling on Land and Sea, I Was Invited to a Large Meeting on Thursday Week at the Crown Inn, Bridge Street, to See If There Could Not Be a Society Started to Discuss the Different Subjects Which Are in Our Minds at the Present Day, Grimsby Notes, Madame Denis, the Great French Actress, Had Just Stepped from the Stage, Having Played to Admiration the Part of Zara, The Tailors of Hull Are Imploring the Assistance of All Trades Unionists, What Is the Good of Belonging to a Union? What Good Has a Union Done for Us?, Fabian Notes, The Potteries Notes, South Wales Notes, Mr. Sprow, Late of Southampton, and Victim of the Shipping Federation, and Now of Rotterdam, Where He Is Organising the Seamen and Firemen, Writes as Follows, A Resolution Has Been Carried at the King's Cross Branch of the O. B. S. Pledging the Meeting to Support a Federation Scheme of All the Building Trades, and Many Prominent Trade Unionists Are Supporting It, National Seamen and Firemen's Balance Sheet J. H. Wilson Unmasks "Dodo", … Robert Austin the A. S. F. Have … and I Am Sure That Wherever …Mmer Is Heard There Will Be …Rrow for His Death, The Rewards of Capital and Labour in Industrial Enterprises Interesting Figures, Bought to Say before I Go Further That Mr. Bedford, Who Took the Chair, Was Not Announced to Preside on the Bills Calling the Meeting, Notwithstanding the Spleen and Venom Which Is Frequently Appearing in the Capitalist Trade Journal against Us, There Is a Bright Cloud to Be Seen Now and Again, and I Have the Information to Hand Which Tells Me That All That Is Said and Written against Us Is Not Swallowed by All the Employers, for on Monday Week Mr. Kellham, of Glossop-Road, Invited His Workmen to Accompany Him, with His Wife and Family and Two Friends, to Castleton for a Day's Outing, with an Intimation That He Would Be Very Glad to See Their Wives or Sweethearts with Them, and the Whole Shop's Crew Accepted, and They Journeyed Thither in Carriages and Wagonettes, Brighton Notes, Next Week the Annual Congress of the Amalgamated Railway Servants Will Be Held at Birmingham, Last Thursday Week a Meeting Was Held in the Church Institute, North Ormesby, under the Auspices of the N. L. Federation, A Party Nemed Johnson, Dr. Aveling Will Probably Reply, Banbury Notes, National Labour Union Meeting in Newcastle, Rotherham Notes, Last Sunday Afternoon a Conference of Working Men Was Held in One of the Places of Worship in Stockton, the Subject Being " the Influence of Christ on Labour Emancipation", The New Labour Party, Operative Lathrenders, Golden Thoughts, Receipt for Old Age, Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club Retribution, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, A Crusty Storekeeper, A Shepherd's Dog, Typographical Congress in Manchester, The Sunday Forenoon Another Meeting of the … Was Held at Gateshead, the Meeting Being … Bloom's Auction Tent, off Sunderland-Road …Councillor Ford Again Presided, The Council Are Preparing Their Manifesto on the Municipal Elections but Has Decined Only to Contest Three of the Six Wards, His Honour and Bijah An Idle Fellow, Your Correspondant "Fabius" Pretends to Know More about the Formation of the Gasworkers and General Labourers' Union than Those Closely Connected with That Body, These Lines Have Been Nearly All Blame, but It Is with an Anxious Desire to Help My Fellow-Workers to Gain the Share of the Earth and Its Blessings That Are Theirs by Right, and That Have Been Slowly and Surely Sneaked from Them in the Course of Centuries, The Executive Council of the Amalgamated Protection Union of Hammermen, Enginemen, Machinemen, Helpers, and General Labourers Have Issued a Notice to All the Ship Repairing Yards Demanding the Employers to Pay Three Shillings Per Day Extra Pay to Members of Their Union Working upon Oil Vessels, What Say the Ratepayers of Newington, Queen's, Sutton, and Albert Wards?, Just What I Expected after the Injunction Granted Last Week by Justice Henn Collings to Restrain the Early Closing Association from Passing a Resolution, Notes by Railway, Overworked, Leicester and Leicestershire Notes, Of Course, in the Speaking Department, the Centre of Attraction Was Mr. Tom Mann, The Liberal Party Have a Big Opportunity at Newcastle-On-Tyne, but It Is Too Much to Hope That Due Advantage Will Be Taken of It, The Following Notice Has since Been Issued to the Members of the Hammermen and Labourers' Union, And Let Me First Thank "Magneto" for His Kind Invitation to the Naval Exhibition, Manchester and Salford Notes, "I Live in Julia's Eyes," Said an Affectionate Dandy, in Colman's Hearing, What Is to Be Done Here?, Mr. Bedford: Perhaps You Know the Reason Why the Meeting Has Been Called Together, and, If You to Perhaps It Is Wise That I Should Enter into a Little Explanation, Georgia Hospitality, The Deputation from the Sanitary Association Consisted of Dr. Lambert, Mr. R. H. Nicholson, and the Rev. James Bell, and They Made a Strong Appeal to the Council to Co-Operate with Them in Reforming the Sanitary Conditions of Hull, A Meeting of the Representatives of the Organised Railway Men of Hull Was Held in the Foresters' Hall on Sunday Last to Devise Means Whereby the Voting Power of Hull Railway Men May Be Used in Furtherance of the Principle of Labour Representation, I Hope the Working Men of the Potteries Will Move in This Matter, and Bring It before Their Respective Members of Parliament's Notice, and If They Will Not Do Anything in It, to Get Somebody to Represent Them That Will Do Something for Them There Will Be Better, Brighter, Happier and More Comfortable Times in Store for the Potters and Their Families, Hartlepools Notes, Passing Away from Ashdale and Skirting: Llangwym, Still Another Mile or so Northward and Hook Colliery Is Reached, I Hope and Treat That None of Your Readers Will Think for a Moment That in Correcting Those Statements I Mean to in Any Way Disparage Mr. Tillett, Whitstable, The Strike at Messrs. Walker and Sons Does Not Look like Coming to an End, the Firm Having Refused to See a Deputation from the Midland Counties Power Framework Knitters' Federation, Real Dance of Death, There Is Also Another Bit of News I Should like You to Report, On Tuesday, 6th October, Electrical Operatives Wishing to Join the E. T. U. Will Have a Good Opportunity by Attending the Clarence Hotel, Aldersgate-Street, E. C., at 8 P. M. Until 11 P. M., Mr. A. G. Terry Will Be Pleased to Supply You with All Needful Information, Birmingham Notes, But, Again, Notes by Magneto, Sheffield Notes. Fiction, drama: The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap Chapter LX, Maud Morton Chapter XII, What We Think, Maud Morton Chapter XI. Editorial: Notes by Upholsterer, Bloomin' Prosperity, In Our Efforts to Induce All Eligible Men round Here We Have at Different Times Circulated Handbills and Rules, &c., Amongst the Men at Some of the Collieries, but We Have Occasion to Complain of the Animosity Shown by Some of the Enginemen Who Happened, Unawares to Us, to Belong to the South Yorkshire Enginemen's Protection Association, Better Known as the Old Barnsley Association, Who Even Went so Far as to Tear up the Papers, &c., Handed to Them for Circulation, Sparks from the Anvil, Answers to Correspondents, Is Tom Mann Also among the Prophets?, Too Much Mother-In-Law. Stock tables: A Writer in the Stock Exchange Says There Is an Attempt Being Made to Establish, in Connection with Land Labour, a System Akin to the Federation Ticket in Connection with Shipping. Letter to the editor: Raising the Money for Bona Fide Workmen Candidates To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Information Wanted To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Lathrenders and Foreign Competition To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Saw Mill Notes To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Basford Dyers To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Letter from Mr. Gilles To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Co-Operation in Leicester To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Mr. Tom Mann as a Champion of Labour To the Editor of the Workman's Times. Poem, verse: Working Men and Their Wives!, A Christmas Hymn "Place! upon Earth", Poetry Back to the Land. Business: The Last Meeting of the Hull Trades Council Was, without Doubt, a Most Interesting and Instructive One to Those Who Were Fortunate Enough to Participate in the Treat Provided, Trades Council Demonstration at Middlesbrough, Hull Notes, At the Last Meeting of the Trade and Labour Council, a Matter Was Brought up for Discussion Whether, in the Event of a Society Affiliated with the Trade and Labour Council, Coming out on Strike Other Societies Would Refuse to Work with Imported Labour, A Sublect Came before the Trades Council Respecting the Affiliation of the Stove-Grate Moulders with the Council, Mr. John Wilson, M. P., and the Trades Union Congress, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead Notes, Newcastle Trades and Labour Council Municipal Representation and the London Joiners, Stockton Notes, Birmingham and District Amalgamated Galvanizers and Tinners' Trades Society Formation of Branches Nos. 1 & 2. 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