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News from 28/08/1891

1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

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W. A. Carlile, Henry Hammonds, R. J. Derfel, Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Major Alfred R. Calhoun, Fred. John Murrell, Fidus Achates, M. Tucs, W. A. Carlile, Kenric B. Murray, S. F. Watts, Kenric B. Murray, Pete Curran, J. Bleakley, James Bleakley, H. Hill,

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Frontmatter: The Workman's Times, How to Obtain the "Workman's Times". News: Notes by Upholsterer, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, Manchester and Salford, Croydon, On Saturday Afternoon, with the Elements against Them, a Goodly Number of Canvassers, Composed of Social Democrats, Fabians, and Members of the Labour Electoral Association, Turned out to Get the Necessary Number of Signatures from the Electors of South Salford, Asking Mr. Thos. W. Harris (Editor,"Mont. Thomas," and "Special Commissioner" of the Sunday Chronicle) to Stand as the Sooral Democratic Labour Candidate, There Was a Public Meeting of Potters at Fenton on Thursday Night Week, The Daily News Special Commissioner Is Doing a Good Work for His Paper and for the Community at Large by His Descriptions of "Life in Our Villages", Mr. J. N. Bell, Corresponding Secretary, Followed, and Said It Was Two Years since Their Union Started Owing to the Usual Cause, Amalgamated Society of Whitesmiths General Secretary's Report, "Lucifer" Asks What Has Become of the Labour Electoral?, Mr. Bower's Recent Appeal on Behalf of the Midland Counties' Power Framework Knitters' Federation to the Manufacturers Has, I Understand, Yielded Very Little Fruit, There Have Been Several Papers Read at the Meeting of the British Association at Cardiff Bearing on the Labour Question, but with These We Have Neither Space nor Time to Deal, In Writing about Women Reminds Me That I Must Be Very Careful How I Express Myself, The Legal Eight Hours Day Committee Have Arranged for a Reception and Informal Conference of the Legalist Delegates Attending Congress on Sunday, Sep. 6th, at the Hall, 100, New Bridge-Street, at 10.30 A. M, That's the Girl for Me, The Bricklayers' Labourers, Leicester and Leicestershire, Blyth, On Saturday Last a Mass Meeting of Armature and Magnet Winders Was Held at the Clarence Hotel, Aldergate, E. C., for the Purpose of Drawing up a Wages List, and to Consider the Best Means of Enforcing the Same, Stout Men of Genius, Household Hints, I Am Sorry to Tell You That Work Is Not Very Plentiful in Dewsbury at Present, I Again Request Hosiery Operatives in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, to Interest Themselves in the Strike at Walker and Sons, of Which I Have Already Given an Account, Sheffield, The Workman's Times May Be Had from Mr. H. Lewis, 22, Alexandra-Street, Caldomer; or Mr. W. Collins, 53, Portland-Street, Walsall, In 1884, When the Church Congress Was Being Held at Carlisle, the Late Archbishop of York, Accompanying His Host, a Clergyman, on a round of Parish Visits, Came across an Old Irish Woman, I See Your Correspondent,"Vigilant," Mentioned Last Week That the Joiners Employed at the Blyth Shipyard Are out on Strike, The Productive Co-Operators and Distributive Co-Operators Have Followed up Their Field-Day at the Crystal Palace with a Conference at the Same Place, the Avowed Object of Which Was "The Bringing into Closer Touch the Productive and Distributive Sides of the Co-Operative Movement", Gasworkers' Meeting in Gorton, No. 1 Platform, Barbarities of the "Sublime Turk", Items of Interest, and Invitations for Me to Attend Meetings, May Be Left at the Barber's, 117, Tatton-Street, The Workman's Times Can Be Bad of Mr. Crukeshank, Cuthbert-Street, Operative Stonemasons' Notes, I See by This Week's Times "Lucifer" Is Asking "Where's the Labour Electoral?", A Meeting of the Dyers, Sizers, and Bleachers of the Manchester District Was Held in Stevenson Square, on Wednesday Evening Week, for the Purpose of Forming a Branch Section of the Federated Union, No. 5 (Lancashire) District, Well, the Directors of the Durham Gas Company Are an Energetic Set of Men, The Hartlepools, Mr. Tom Mann and Direct Labour Representation "Not Anxious to Run Labour Candidates", The Quelch Prosecution, Dewsbury, Notes by Countryman, Notes by Insulator, "Have You 'Hours of Idleness' Here?" the Maiden Asked, as She Sauntered into the Bookshop, On the Leicester Contingent Arriving at Hinckley Just after Five O'Clock, They Made the Best of Their Way to the Field Lent by Mr. Brookes, of the Hinckley Local Board, for the Occasion, Walsall, Nottingham and Notts, Cuttings from the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Having Arrived at the Destination, Bro. William Hancock, the General Secretary, Was Elected to Take the Chair, Supported by Bro. William Williams, the Assistant General Secretary, in the Vice-Chair, Mr. Burton's Mission to Brussels, Notes by Nonshan, Labour Movements Abroad, Domoniao Character of the Cat, There Is a Very General Opinion among the Cabmen That These Men Were Wrongfully Convicted, and Accordingly the Executive of the Cabmen's Union Decided to Give Hawkins a Suitable Welcome on His Release, Newcastle-On-Tyne, Multiple News Items, Lucifer Matches, Mamma: That's a Giraffe, Tommy", His Honour and Bijah, Now Is the Time for Federation among All Classes Connected with the Shipping Industry in Liverpool and Bootle, Mr. Ben Tillet Has Been Making One of His Too Rare Appearances in the Pulpit, A Brave Deed, The Patent Catapult, The Workman's Times Can Be Obtained from T. Chapman, 9, Northbrook, Whitehorse-Road; T. Edwards, 84, Gloucester-Road; or T. Letts, 55, Cobden-Road, South Norwood, Mrs. Quizine: Gretchen, I Am Told Hans Has Given You a Beautiful Engagement Ring, A Question Which Is Rapidly Coming to the Front in London Is the Abolition of Contracting and Subletting Work Required to Be Done by the County Council and Local Vestries, The Strike of Ironworkers at Openshaw Has Now Resolved Itself into a Struggle of Endurance between the Employers and the Men, Wearside, Labour Representation Is What Is Urgently Required, and a Great Effort Must Be Made at the Next General Election to Send as Many Bona Fide Working Men as Possible to Parliament, and in the Event of Not Being Able to Do That, to Send Those Representatives Who Sympathise and Vote on the Side of Labour, Fabian Notes, The Ilkeston Conservative Miners' Association Is to Me a Funny Thing, I Makes Very Little, If Any, Real Progress, The Workman's Times Can Be Obtained from E. Banks, Grange-Lane, and Mrs. S. Banks, 117, Bentinck, Birkenhead, The Brussels International Congress, What Will the Saturday Review Have to Say of the Conduct of Sir Peter Lithu in Discharging Arscott and Young on Their Own Recognisances to Come up for Sentence If Called Upon, These Very People Who Complain of Working Men Having Their Meetings in Public Houses Have for a Long Time Posed as the Friends of the Working Man, yet There Is Not a Room in the Royal Borough of Salford Where Working Men Can Congregate, with the Exception of the Town Hall, Which Is a Very Inconvenient Place, In 1890 the Fabian Society Had Extended Its Activity throughout the Kingdom, and the Work Had Increased so Much That the Executive Induced Mr. Pease to Again Occupy the Position as Secretary, Devoting a Portion of His Time to the Work Only, but This Arrangement Had to Be Altered in April, 1891, as the Secretarial Work Had Quadrupled, and It Was Found Necessary to Secure the Full Time of the Secretary, at a Salary of £100 Per Annum, John Holgate, 89, Spenser-Road, South Hornsey, London, Writes, Notes by Shellback, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead, Sir Peter Edlin in an Amiable Mood Arscott and Young Discharged, A Sign of Talent, A Well-Known London Amateur Went down to a Country Theatre to Play Othello, No. 2 Platform, Smart Youth into Barrel-Organ Man), I Am Very Sorry to Record the Death of One of Our Staunchest Members, James Ridley, and I Am Sure His Bereaved Wife Has the Sympathy of All His Fellow Workmen in Leeds, Sheffield, and Manchester, Beginning Early, Notes by Jack Wire, Notes by Transmitter, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from J. L. Brauntury, 548, Attercliffe-Road, Direct Labour Representation Great Demonstration in Bradford, Notes by Gasworker, Tom Mann and the Representation of Labour, Grimsby, The Men Are Now Beginning to See the Faith That Is to Be Put in Capitalistic Promises, as They Were Sent down Here with the Assurance That There Would Be No Further Reduction, Bro. Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club "All Lie like Troopers", The Secretary of the Wolverhampton Fabian Society (32, Waterloo-Road, North), Informs Me That the Fabians Are Having an Autumn Course of Lectures Here, Some Time Ago the Cardiff Branch of the O. S. M. Had under Their Consideration an Amalgamation Scheme, "A Look… Writes: Sir.—I Am Glad to See an Answer to My Letter, and That There Is Going to Be a Try to Put a Stop to This Worse than Rotten … of Working till 7 P. M.", On Sunday Afternoon the Navvies, Bricklayers' Labourers, and General Labourers' Union Held a Demonstration on a Piece of Waste Ground Opposite the Salford Docks, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, Clerical Temperance Orator (to Beggar Who Has Asked for Alms), Demonstration in Southwark Park, There Is a Handful of Potters on Strike in New-Castle-On-Tyne, and There Are Not Sufficient Potters in the District to Support Them, The Races Being Now over, Work Has Been Resumed, and Trade Matters Will, I Have No Doubt, Again Be Prolific, I Hear That There Are a Number of Builders' Labourers in Liverpool Who Have Not yet Joined the above Branch, What We Think, The Navvies, Bricklayers' Labourers and General Labourers' Union Are Holding Meetings in Various Parts of Leicester for the Purpose of Getting as Many as Possible to Join Their Union, Railway Workers' Demonstration in Bradford, Birmingham, A Brighton Correspondent Asks Me to Print the Following Announcement, Mr. Joseph Kelly District Organiser Upper Reaches of the Tyner Strongly Regretted the Fact That There Was Not in Sheffield Anything like the Unity of Action between Tradesmen and Labourers That There Was in …, It Is a Great Pity That the Unfortunate Dispute between the Executive of the Boiler Makers' and Iron Shipbuilders' Association and Their Clyde Members Should Ever Have Arisen, The Workman's Times May Be Had at Mr. Stephen Lee's, Newsagent, Regent-Street, Cowpen Quay, Blyth, Eastleigh and Bishopstoke, Demonstration of Operative Stonemasons New Lodge Opened, The Tonypandy Lodge Just Opened by Our Pontypridd Brothers I Consider to Be a Great Acquisition to Our Society in That Part of Wales, Being Situated Right in the Heart of the Rhondda Valley, Where There Are Any Quantity of Masons, Who Scarcely Know There Is an Operative Masons' Society in Existence, and Who Cannot Help Themselves, and Why?, On Friday Night Mr. Picard, of the Gasworkers' Union, Addressed a Public Meeting in the Market-Place, Durham, on the Conduct of the Gas Directors, and Also the Attitude of the Local Press, What It Is to Be Appreciated, Workmen's Notes and Notions Llkeston and District, How People Die, This Incident Has Set Me Thinking of a Somewhat Similar One at Bow-Street about Three Months Ago, in Which Three Cabdrivers Were Concerned, Notes by Magneto, Demonstration at Walham Green, The Strike and Lock-Out of London Carpenters and Joiners. Editorial: Illness of Mr. S. F. Watts, Mr. Ben Tillett and West Bradford, The Potteries. Poem, verse: How Happy the World Might Be, Poetry Worker and Idler, Our Boys. Weather report: The Moon and the Weather. Business: South Shields, Newcastle and District Trades and Labour Council, The Condition of the Potting Trade, Boot and Shoe Notes, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Manchester Branch of the Electrical Trades Union, The Amalgamated Society of Engineers Tom Mann on Reform of the Constitution, The Pleasures of Poverty, Isle of Dogs Notes, At the Meeting of the Trade and Labour Council on Friday I Was Glad to Find Them Unanimously Giving a Vote of Thanks to Mr. Osmond for His Defence of Their Action in Regard to the Building of the New Schools, Notes by Vigilant, Long Hours in the Papermaking Trade Meeting at Stoneclough, Singular Dispute in the Leicester Shoe Trade What Is a Legal Notice?, Manchester and Salford Trades Council The School Board Election, Stockton, Socialism and Trade Unionism Second Article, The London Trades Council and the Carpenters, The Gambling Nature of Modern Commerce, and the Legalised Method of Plundering the Labouring Classes Which the Gentlemen of the City Pursued, Soon Became Intolerable to Mr. Pease, and He Began to Ask Himself Whether It Was Consistent on His Part as a Socialist to Remain a Member of the Stock Exchange and Assist in the Nefarious Transactions Sanctified under the Name of Trade, but Which Are in Reality a System of Blackmailing, Wolverhampton, To the Secretary and Members Bolton Trades Council, Notes by Plastic, Trades Unionist Meeting at Birkenhead Speech by Pete Curran, The Strike at Blyth Ill-Advised Action of a Trades Council Delegate. Fiction, drama: Maud Morton Chapter I, Maud Morton Chapter II Adopted, The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap Chapter LI. Letter to the editor: The London United Trades Committee of Carpenters and Joiners, Offices: London Chamber of Commerce, Botolph House, Eastcheap, London, E. C. August 24th, 1891, Strikes and Strike Funds To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Trades Union Congress To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Trade v. Surplus Labour and Trade Councils To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Dear Sir,—Be Cosmopolitan Research Associatin, in Reference to Your Comment of Your Having Been Ignorant of the Existence of Such an Association, I Beg to State a Few Facts Concerning Its History, Mr. Editor.—Dear Sir, As I Expected, My Confession of Ignorance as to the Aims and Objects of the Cosmopolitan Research Association Has Brought Me a Few Particulars, Which I Give in the Writers' Own Words, The Labour Party in Nottingham To the Editor of the Workman's Times. 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