News from 10/07/1891
1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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M. Tucs, Paul Hann, Henry Hammond, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Fidus Achates, Jack Wire, Frank Drummond, James M'Gregor,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Workman's Times. Business: Grimsby Notes by One at the Dock Gates, The Election Committee of the Hull Trades Council Are Making Every Preparation for Their Campaign at the Next Municipal Election, Newcastle Trades Council, The London Trades Council and Mr. Thomas Sutherst, Trades Council, Morley Notes by Labourer, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Notes by Rotary Hand, Trade Is Just Moderate Here at Present, Notes by Night Bird, The Suggestion of the Trades Council Election Committee That Branches Affiliated Pay a Sum Equal to 1d. Per Member Per Annum is, I Hear, Being Taken Up with a Little More Energy …. News: I Had an Invitation to Attend a Dramatic and Musical Entertainment at the Atheneum Hall, Tottenham Court-Road, on Monday Night, in Aid of the Expenses of the English Delegates to the International Workers' Congress at Brussels, Notes by Upholsterer, Talent and Tobacco, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, After He Had Done, Bro. Russell, from the Bricklayers' Society, Gave Us a Capital Speech, Showing That Only by Combination Can We Ever Hope to Benefit Ourselves in the Least, and He Gave Us Some Hard Facts to Prove This, and Showed What a Benefit It Was to Have a Good Set of Working Rules for the Men, for, Said He, Some of the Masters Would Sooner Give an Advance of Wages than Have to Sign a Set of Working Rules; and He Begged of Every Non-Unionst Present to Look the Question Fair in the Face and Ask Himself If It Was Right That He Should Reap the Benefits That His Brothers Had Fought and Paid for, but He Touched a Tender Point When He Referred to Beverley as a Rotten Town for Organisation, Next Comes the National Labour Federation Who Seem to Be Centreing Their Efforts Chiefly among the Agricultural and General Labourers, Newcastle, After the Reading of the Previous Letter a Few Discussions Took Place as to the Qualifications of the Two Candidates, Glad to Notice, Mr. Editor, That the Secretary of the Dublin Society, Mr. R. Tisdall, Is Striving to Circulate Copies of Our Grand Medium of Communication, the Workman's Times, Unpleasant Surroundings Do Not Appear to Have the Depressing Effect in Every Instance Which One Might Naturally Expect, Neither Do Some People Seem so Sad and Disconsolate with Their Lot as Others Who Are in the Same Position, Which Policy Can Truly Be Recommended; yet When It Is through Neglect and Indifference That People Are Made to Suffer, and Means Are within Their Reach to Extricate Themselves from the Grip of the Difficulties They May Be Found in, Much Sympathy Cannot Be Exercised in Their Interest, To Those Who Know the Members of the Trades Council, Perhaps the Best Specimen of the Daily Post's Unfair Criticism Is to Be Found in a Leaderette on the Proceedings of That Body at Its Last Meeting, Plymouth Notes from Plymouth, But to Return to the Morley Corner Meeting, The National Union of Stove-Grate Workers, Which Twelve Months Ago Was Formed at Rotherham, as the Result of a Strike in Which a Ten Per Cent Advance of Wages Was Obtained, Last Week Celebrated Its First Anniversary, Radcliffe, National Labour Federation Meeting at West Hartlepool, I Take It That the Labour Party Are Absolutely Careless as to Who Shall Win a Seat If Their Candidate Does Not, Ilkeston and District, Workmen's Notes and Notions Birmingham, Enderby, Notes by Mersey District, The Workman's Times Can Be Obtained from E. Banks, Stationer, Grang-Lane, and at Mrs. Banks's, 117, Bentinck-Street, Birkenhead, Nunquam's Candidature in East Bradford Mr. Blatchford Fires the First Shot in the Campaign, I, as Well as Others, Are Pleased to See There Is a Prospect of Our Halifax Brothers Winning Their Battle, Though, I Must Confess, I Was Very Doubtful at the First, Seeing the Men in the Principle Shop in the Town Did Not Turn out with the Rest, The Reasons Adduced for This Course of Action Are on Account of the Respectable Position Upholstresses Are Expected to Keep, and the Luxurious Class of Work in Which They Are Engaged, and, Finally, the Impressive Fact That Several Well-Known Firms Have of Their Own Free Will Paid for Some Considerable Time the Higher Rate of Wages Now Demanded, Navvies, Bricklayers' Labourers, and General Labourers Meeting at Walthamstow, Last Monthly Night (July 6th, 1891) the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers at the Meeting of the Liverpool Society Announced to the Members the Gratifying Fact That the Circle of the Provincial Societies Was Morally and Financially Complete, and That Each Member Was Therefore, in a Position to Take up the Benefits Springing from the Amalgamation, Advising Them to Summon Their Revising Committee Together Again as Early as Possible to Proceed with the Revision of Rules, in Other to Meet the Requirements of the Changed Conditions Produced by the Amalgamation, And Now I Have Finished, Eastleigh and Bishopstoke Notes by Yokel, Leicester and Leicestershire, A Little Girl Who Was Told That Her Father Had Gone to the Pole to Vote, Asked "If the People of the Tropics Voted at the Equator", Averted Suicide, Exasperating, Blyth, And Now I Come to Another Matter, But the Manner in Which the Press Treated the Requisition Was Instructive, and Even in Some Instances Amusing, It Is Really Surprising That with Such a Complete Block of a Large Firm, and the Number of Men Affected, the Reporters on the Dailies and Evening Papers Did Not Get in the Know, and Thereby Make the General Public Aware of a Strike of Such Importance, Stout Men of Genius, Notes by Hod-Carrier, Household Hints, With Reference to the Rise of Salary, the Majority Seem to Agree on That Point, as Being a Thing Necessary, yet Contending at the Same Time as to the Consistency of a Further Advancement upon the Increase of Membership as Is Suggested, Sir Peter Edlin and the Imprisoned Busmen, But There Is Another Little Item of Genuine Interest to Notify, and That Is, That the Last Named Gentleman Was Returned on the Occasion of the School Board Election of the Neighbouring Town of Dalton at the Head of the Poll, From the Ignorant Officiousness or Intentional Maliciousness of Those Who Write Leaders for Our Capitalist Press, Good Lord Deliver Us, Arbitration Is a Great Principle, but until Some Means Are Adopted of Making Those Who Agree to Be Bound by the Decisions of an Arbitrator Honour His Instructions, Arbitration Is Not Much Use, The Technical Education Committee Met on Thursday Week, the Mayor in the Chair, Famous Rubies, Manchester Brassfounders and Finishers' Society, Obduracy Is a Thing to Be Admired When It Is Found in Men or Anyone Contending for Their Rights, and When Such Is the Case, Whether It Be in the Matter of a Strike or the Interest of the Individual, It Should Merit the Sympathy of All Right Thinking Men; but When It Is Found to Prominently Figure in the Actions of Men Who Act Oppositely, Such Actions Should Be Regarded with Disgust and Abhorred by All Who Love Freedom Pure and Undefiled, Barnsley, Barrow-In-Furness, Boot and Shoe Notes, The Policeman's Charge, The Shipyards Are All Slack, and Overstocked with Men Wanting Employment, the Prospect Being Anything but Good, Very Old Potting, At the Same Hour the Carpenters and Joiners, Who Are Holding a Grand Demonstration in Support of Their Eight Hour Movement, Will Be Assembling on the Thames Embankment, The Te Deum, The Hartlepools, Non-Unionist Perpetual Grumblers of the Electrical Fraternity, I Commend to Your Notice the Result of the Application from the Sheffield Branch for a Rise of Wages on Behalf of Messrs. Taskers and Sons Employes, Who Have Gained by Two Weeks of Combination What They Would Never Have Received by Snarling and Graumling at Their Condition outside of the Pale of Unionism, Items of Interest and Invitations for Me to Attend Meetings May Be Sent to the Barber's, 117, Tatton-Street, Salford, Circulars Are Being Distributed Freely Announcing the Next General Meeting, Which Takes Place in the Mechanics' Lecture Hall on July 16th, and I Earnestly Hope Every Member of the Society Will Attend, and Bring as Many Non-Members as Possible, and Induce Them to Join, Bro. Gardner's Limeklin Club Am Life Wuth Livin, The Trades Council, I See That Mr. J. H. Hyndman, the Social Democratic Candidate for Chelsea, Had a Skirmish with the Police on Sunday over the Right of Free Speech on a Piece of Vacant Land Close to Sloane-Square Station, Of a Somewhat Different Character Is a Paragraph Penned by the Gossip-Writer in the Bradford Weekly Mercury, The National Union of Warehouse Assistants Held a Meeting on Monday Night at the Loyal United Friends Hall, Hebburn, Nottingham, This Auracular, Voracious Person Then Goes on to Explain That the Joiners Having about 40 Delegates on the Council Were Thus Able to "Nobble" the Voting on the Election of Officers and Committee, as There Were Only Left Some 60 Poor Inoffensive "Neutrals," Who Were Left Entirely at Their Mercy, the Numbers Present That Night Being about 101—so Says "Auracular", Steckton, Shorter Hours, What Has Become of Our Friend "Gas" This Week? I Hope His Holder Has Not Exploded, Mention of the Laundresses Reminds Us That Another Effort Is to Be Made to Obtain for Them the Boon of the Factory Acts, Would You Believe It, Mr. Editor?, The Loughborough Branch of the National Association of Builders' Labourers Was Opened on March 23rd, and Numbers 95 Members, Which Is Very Good for Such a Small Town, and There Is Every Prospect of the Surrounding Districts Going in with Them Now, Notes by Pencil Stick, Facts in Brief, Each of the Gentlemen Made Short Speeches Pertaining to Sanitation and Ventilation, and the Well-Being of Those Who Were Employed in All Factories, &c, Thanks to the True Spirit of Trades Unionism That Our English and Scotch Brethren Possess, They Have Not Succeeded in Getting the Sort of Upholsterers That They Would Like, Taking the Fort, But Let Us Proceed, Labour Movements Abroad, "General Bronson Is a Fine Lawyer, but He Still Shows the Effects of His Military Training", Now, Mr. Editor, It Is a Hard Job to Stop, but I Must, for I Don't Want the Kick out for Taking Too Much Space on My First Attempt, so Will Close by Adding That I Hope to Be Able to Say a Bit Next Week about the Fair Rent League That "Hawk's Eye" Made Mention Of, Those Who Have Not Had Enough of Oratory by the Time the Bakers and the Carpenters Have Told Their Tales May Then Cross over to Battersea Park, Where, at Six O'clock, Speaking Will Commence from Several Platforms in Aid of John Burns's Election Fund, Multiple News Items, There Was Some Disturbance at the Royal Albert Dock Last Thursday, Owing to a Number of Stevedores Being Discharged by the P. And O. Company for Refusing to Load the Steamer Mirzapore on the Wednesday, Which Was the Stevedore's Annual Holiday and Excursion to Southend, Unless They Were Paid Double Time for so Doing, Customer:"Look Here, Waiter, I Asked You Five Minutes Ago for a Napkin." Waiter:"Yes, Sir, I Hear You, Sir; but the Gent at the Next Table Hasn't Finished with It yet, Sir", Gunshot Wounds, Gainsborough Notes by Eagle Eye, It Appears to Be Popular for the Correspondents of the Workman's Times to Take Unto Themselves a Non De Plume, If It Comes to Be a Question as between the Measures Passed by Liberals and Tories, It Will Be Found, I Think, That Both Sides Pass a Good Many Useful Measures, Here Is a Report from a Mate of One of the Steam Trawlers, Taken from Him When He Arrived Home after One of His Trips, United Boiler Scalers and Stoke Hold Labourers New Banner for the Poplar Branch, Passing Thoughts, "Jack Wire's" Notes on Amalgamation Are Making Hosiery Workers Begin to Think, The Overtime Question in the Hosiery Trade Is a Question of Such Importance, and There Is Such a Diversity of Opinion on the Subject, That It Is Quite Time It Is Quite Time It Was Thrashed Out, Then, Sir, Mr. Myers, Always Thoughtful, Well Versed, and Teeming with Unionism, Called the Muses to His Aid, and Let off a Brand New Song Which He Had Composed for the Occasion Entitled "The Mill Girl," the Refrain of the Finishing Line of Every Stanza Breathing a Deprecatory Opinion of Nonunionism, I See in the Newcastle Notes That There Is a Great Deal of Speculation There as to Who Should Occupy the Presidential Chair at the Next Trades Congress to Be Held in That City, From Various Accounts Which Have Reached My Ear Concerning the Size of the Labour Demonstration I Reported on Last Week, I Have Come to the Conclusion That I Was Not Present When It Was Largest, I Have the Pleasure to Announce to Your Readers That the Rev. H. Williamson, of Dundee, President of the Dundee and District Mill and Factory Operatives' Union, Paid a Visit to This Town the Other Day for the Purpose of Addressing the Mill Operatives on the Advantages of Unionism, Wearside, I Am Sorry That "Fireman" Has Chosen to Manipulate the Proposed Scheme of Amalgamation of Railway Societies, and Treat It as a Medium for the Introduction of Matter Totally Foreign to the Point at Issue, Dublin Notes by a Dublin Boy, "Jack and Sinker" Know How Well Organised They Are at Heanor, and Has Had the Pleasure of Seeing a Display of the Splendid Ability of Hosiery Operatives There to Set Matters Right in an Emergency, and "Jack and Sinker" Would Tender the Same Advice to Them as He Is in the Habit of Doing to Others, with Regard to Non-Union Men, Viz., to Use Every Legal Means to Make Such Men Feel More like Traitors than Brothers, I Was at the Opening of the Dockers' New Rooms on Saturday Night and All Was Complete but One Thing, and I Looked Everywhere for the Hospital Box Mr. Waddingham Promised Them, but It Was Not to Be Found, and the Consequence Was That All the Coppers Promised to the Hospital on Opening Night Were Lost, Bro. Harrison, Amalgamated Joiners, Then Addressed Us Principally upon the Question of Labour Representation, This Being a Pet Scheme of His, and When He Referred to an Independent Labour Party It Was Plain to See He Had the Meeting with Him, for It Caught on Properly; and If All Societies Are Not Much in Sympathy, as the Painters Are, with Labour Representation, Then Woe to the Candidates, Both Parliamentary and Municipal, Who Are Not in for Labour Questions When the Time Comes, There Are Gossip-Writers and Gossip-Writers, Though, Manchester and Salford Notes by Fidus Achates, Falling Seven Hundred Fest, A Woman's Devotion, The National Labour Federation Mr. James M'Gregor Interviewed, There Was a Meeting on Saturday Night of Willeyers and Fettlers Here, and after the Speakers Finished Talking a Good Number Planked down Their Money and Joined, and I Expect to See a Good and Flourishing Branch Here Soon, A Schoolmaster of Burslem Lately Received the Following Note of Apology, Josh Billings Reflects That If a Man Is on His Way to the Woods to Commit Suicide, and a Bull Suddenly Gives Chase, the Chances Are That He Will Run for His Life, Notes by Battery Box, I Have No Labour Items of Importance This Week, but Hope Things Will Be More Lively By-And-Bye, They Are Also Taking Steps for the Next November Election of Town Councillors, and Have Formed an Election Committee to Go into the Business at Once, and the Following Resolution Was Passed, Proposed by Mr. Stubbins, Putting the Best Face upon It, Now What the Fishermen Want Is This, Mr. Bristol, of the Hosiery Union, Is of an Opinion That Mr. Wheatley Has Been Proved to Be Wrong in the past, and That Unless Mr. Wheatley Can Adhere to Strict Facts, It Is of No Earthly Use Contending with Him, The Whole of the Attention of This Society at the Present Time Is Absorbed in This One Main Question, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead Notes by Nonshan, Work about the Docks Is Going on as Usual, For Upwards of Six Years a Fellow Workman, Thomas Lewis, Better Known in the District as "Worcester," Has Been Suffering with Consumption, Notes by Telephone, Frodingham and Scunthorpe, Notes by the Man from Bootle, From the Same Source I Also out the Following, Bury, Notes by Jack Wire, During the past Week the Executive Committee of the British Amalgamated Union of Basket Makers Have Been Sitting at the District Club House, Red Lion Inn, Highcross-Street, for the Examination of Accounts, Revision of Rules, and Transaction of General Business, Mister Editor, Do You Think There Are Any More "Nunquams" to Come up, or Are There Any More Bradfords If They Did?, Nunquam's Candidature, Workmen's Notes and Notions Leeds, The Lion of the Evening Was Mr. J. Mort, Who Received a Testimonial Subscribed by the Workmen He Has Had under His Supervision, as a Mark of Their Esteem, Meantime Let Us Direct Our Attention to the Playful Little Efforts of the Bradford Press, Morganatic Marriages, Titus O'Mallen's Progress from Conservatism to Socialism, Rich Old Party, I Shall Leave Mr. Kelly to Deal with the Points Raised by "Fireman" as to His Personality, and Which I Consider Grossly Unfair to That Gentleman, and Here Remark That the Severance of His Connection with the G. R. W. U., and His Subsequent Election as General Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Lurrymen and Carters' Union Does Not, in My Opinion, Detract in the Least from the Soundness of the Arguments Advanced by Him in Favour of Amalgamation, and It Would Be Childish in the Extreme to Introduce and Perpetuate a System of Boycott on All Those Who Do Not Come up to "Fireman's" Standard of Moral Perfection, A Girl's Essay on Frogs, Grocer (to Clerk), Missionary:"Now, How Can I Get These People to Attend Church?", The Workshops Question at Leicester Is Now in a Fair Way for Settlement, Yes, Mr. "Cunctator," I like Your East Bradford Notes, and You Must Go on, and I Believe Victory Will Be Your Reward, and If You Want Any Outsiders to Come and Help, Apply To, Domestic Life among the Indians, Mr. Samuelson Tells Us of Two Unions—The Carters and the Cotton and General Porters of Liverpool—Who Have Been Convinced of the Necessity of Conciliation, and Have Introduced Arbitration Clause into Their Code of Rules, Yes, Councillor Johnson, Labour Will Be Honoured If Labour Honours Itself, If It Does Not Allow Itself to Be Gulled by Party Wirepullers, and Put off the Register by the Party "Bogie Man" (Registration Agent) Who Is Just Now Abroad, Seeking Whom He May Devour, and with a Few Men like Yourself, Councillor, We May Be Able to Achieve Something yet, Topics of the Times East Bradford, The … Had a Mass Meeting on Saturday … Few of the Non-Society Men Being Present, The Principle of Federation Amongst the River Side and Transport Trades Adopted at a Meeting Held in the Popular Town Hall Some Weeks Ago Is Shortly to Be Carried into Active Operation, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, Can Any of the Readers of the Workman's Times Favour Me with the Name and Address of the Secretary of the National Union of Shop Assistants, or Any Information regarding the Benefits, &c., of the Same?, Notes by Bruno, The Potteries, The Origin of the Alphabet, Notices of Workers' Meetings, or Any Other Communications for "Democrat," May Be Left at King Edward's Stores, King Edward's-Road, A Glaring Instance of the Way in Which Men Who Are Dressed in a Little Brief Authority Abuse Their Position Is Furnished by the Action of Mr. G. B. Kennett, Town Clerk of Norwich, Who, Doubtless Acting under the Instructions of the Mayor and Corporation, Has Issued a Warning to the Men Engaged in the Norwich Brush Strike, Setting Forth the Pains and Penalties for Breaches of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875, Your Readers Will No Doubt Wonder Why All This Shaking of Dry Bones, In This Connection I May Just Mention That Dr. Aveling Who in Addition to His Dramatic and Musical Criticism for the Daily Papers, and His Propaganda Work in Connection with the Labour and Socialist Movements Is a Great Authority on the Game of Cricket Has Just Re-Published a Series of Sketches on "Comic Cricket" Contributed to Ariel over the Signature of "The Cockney Sportsman", Visitor:"You See, I'm Distantly Related to the Montmorenci Family, and Have Blue Blood in My Veins", Railway Servants' Hours, But the Party of the Workers Would Do These Things; Therefore It Is to the Party of the Workers That the People Must Look, and It Is the Candidates Put Forward by the Party of the Workers That the People Must Support, Notes by Railway, The Co-Operative Wholesale Society Have Added One More Vast Pile of Bricks and Mortar to Their Revenue by Erecting Very Large Shoe Works at Knighton Fields, And That Superfluous Wealth and a Superabundance of This World's Goods Do Not Constitute the Man It Takes Sir Walter to Show, Squire Bray's Courtship, At Durham on Saturday the 20th Annual Gala of the Durham Miners' Association Took Place Amidst Splendid Weather, The Election of General Secretary of the Operative Builders' Society Has Resulted in the Choice of a Londoner, as Was All along Foreseen, That the Eight Hours Question Is an Important One No One Will Doubt, but I Think so Far as the Plasterers Are Concerned It Would Be Well If They First Enrolled Themselves into the National Association, Though the Discussion of the Question of Eight Hours Might Be Taken up in the Lodge-Rooms as You Suggest, I Have Also to State There Is a Strike on at the Same Yard, the Platers Having Turned out against the Engineers, as the Platers Allege the Engineers Are Doing Work Belonging to Them, Viz., the Covering of the Steam Pipes on Deck; and When the Deputation Waited on the Manager, He Very Politely Told Them They Could Remain out of the Yard until He Sent for Them, The Election of General Secretary of the Operative Bricklayers' Society in the Place of Mr. E. Coulson, Resigned, Has Resulted in Mr. John Batchelor, Kennington Branch, Receiving the Highest Number of Votes, I Just Called in at "Lucifer's" Last Saturday Night, and Was Very Pleased to Make His Acquaintance, I Was Saluted Very Admirably and Very Ably Last Week by Our Old Friend "Lucifer," and It so Happens That I Know the Value of It, But It Will Not Soon Be Forgot How This Selfsame Operative Prominently Figured in a Little Incident Which Occurred Shortly after the Heanor Hosiery Operatives Began to Embrace Unionism, Great Interest Is Centred Here in the Strike of the Liverpool Tailors, Notes by Coalie, Now, What Do You Say,"Plasterer?" Will You Have Another Try at Organising the Spreads of the Metropolis?, Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.'S Works Here Are Now Better Employed, and Their Steel Works at Grangetown Are to Start More Fully To-Day, Four Mills and Their Respective Furnaces and Pits Being Put On, When May I Expect Notes from Dewsbury?, Sheffield Sheffield Notes, Notes by Jim of Sunderland, I Have Not the Pleasure of Knowing "Electric Spark," but If He Is a Member of the Trades Council, I Shall Be Pleased to Make His Acquaintance at Our Next Meeting, Notes by Magneto, Jones Propounded the Following … at His Club, Notes by Plastic. Editorial: We Want a Man in Every Branch to Go out in the By-Ways and Shed the Light of Unionism Amongst the Non-Members, Our Labour Councillor Millington Is in Clover This Week—Three or Four Dinners (Public) to Attend, What We Think, Thus It Seems the Writer Would Have Us Believe That He Never Heard of Such Theories before; That Such "Strange, New, Wonderful Justice" Is Quite Impossible, and Not Worth Considering; That, in Short, No "Sane" Man Will Trouble Himself to Discover Whether There Is Anything in Socialist Theories of Justice or Not, The Strike and Lock-Out of London Carpenters and Joiners, Notes by Gossip, Answers to Correspondents, Middlesbro, Adorer: as We Are to Be Married in January, Should We Not Announce Our Engagement?" Sweet Girl:"No, No; Not yet, Not Yet", Hull. Poem, verse: Poetry God Defend the Right, "The Workman's Times" An Acrostic. Fiction, drama: The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap, The Old Life's Shadows, The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap Chapter XLII. Classified ads: Public Announcements. Letter to the editor: Shipwrights and Mr. Burt's Award To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Letters to the Editor The Constitution of the O. B. S, Second List of Contributions Received To the Editor of the Workman's Times, National Labour Union Versus National Labour Federation To the Editor of the Workman's Times.
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