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News from 26/06/1891

1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

George Haley, J. D. Cunningham, John Abney, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, J. Mack, Owen Crummey, Jack Wire, Hod Carrier, G. Richard, Hy. Bristol, Benj Swindell,

Frontmatter: The Workman's Times. News: Bro. Gardner's Lime Kiln Club Coloured Folks and White, I Had Some Conservation with E. Bourne on Saturday, and He Told Me That the Letter He Sent to the Workman's Times Had Done a Lot of Good for the Men Concerned, In West Hartlepool, I See, They Are Trying for a Free Library, I Never Could Understand Why Working-Men Will Cheer and Shout Themselves Hoarse at Political Meetings, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, His Honour and Bijah Turrt's Wifs, End of the Bootmakers' Look-Out at Braintree Terms of Settlement, An Honest Man, Notes by Gossip, I Am Pleased, However, to Inform You That We Had a Pretty Fair Meeting, A Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades Was Held in the General Office of the Boilermakers' Society on Friday, to Consider the Dispute between the Engineers and Plumbers at Messrs. Palmer's, Jarrow, The Assistant Secretary (Mr. W. H. Ward), in Seconding the Resolution, Said They Should Not Be Content with Having Representatives on Their Various Local Boards, but They Must Not Rest until They Had a Fair Share of Labour Representatives in the House of Commons, Another Shop in Nottingham Joined the Union Last Week, The Workman's Times Can Be Obtained from E. Banks, Stationer, Grange-Lane, Birkenhead, Last Monday Night the Bricklayers Held a Meeting to Form a Branch of Their Society in Eastleigh, Anyone Desirous of Getting the Workman's Times Can Get It Wholesale or Retail at Mrs. Foxon's, Church Gate, But a Truce to Fooling, "Mr. Boatman," Said a Timid Woman to the Fortyman Who Was Rowing Her across a River,"Are People Ever Lost in This River?", There Is Very Little in the Shape of Labour News Going on This Week, so I Will Moralise a Little, and in the First Place I Would like to Make a Protest against the Use of High-Flowing and Elegant Language, Such as Is Used by a Good Many Trades Union Leaders When Addressing Bodies of Workmen, Manchester Mail Drivers, "Lynx" Has a Nice Job on Friday Night, Viz., to Interview an Employer Who Has Let Some Plaster Work Joint Contract, He Calls It, but If It Is,"Lynx" Wants to See the Agreement, The British Architect Is Unfortunately Not the Only Journal Whose Conductors Regard Agitating as a Profession, Another Large Meeting Will Be Held at Blackwalllane, East Greenwich, on Sunday Next, June 28th, at 3.30 P. M., … Mr. Editor, I Am Very Proud to Find That I Have … Helpmate in the Field, Viz., Mersey … Whose Acquaintance I Hope I Shall Soon … Pleasure of Making, That Earnest Band of Organisers, Mann, Tillett, and Co., Baby's Legacy, The Most Intense Enthusiasm Was Evoked by the Impassioned Eloquence of the Chairman, Secretary, and Others, and the Satisfactory Acquisition of Members as the Result, The Labour Commission, Notes by Mersey District, I—With Your Permission, Now, Friend "Lynx," a Word with You, In Connection with the North Birmingham Parliamentary Division a Great Open-Air Demonstration in Favour of Labour Representation Is Advertised to Be Held on the Old Pleck on Monday Next, June 29, at 7 O'Clock, Meeting of Hosiery Operatives at Arnold, Now, These Gentlemen Who Are Promoting "The Man Blatchford's" Candidature Are a Graceless Lot, Some Martial Women, Dr. Moir, Who Was Received with Loud Applause, Said He Was Pleased for Two Reasons to Be Present, "Autolycus" Has a Great Admiration for the Firm of Mann, Tillett, Southampton Notes, I Hear, Sir, That Things Are Looking Rather Dark for the Pattern Makers in This District, The Resolution of the Principle of Equality Being Applied to All Whose Trades Unionism Is Genuine and beyond Question, Was Introduced in an Excellent Speech by Mr. Farrah, and Seconded by Mr. Harris, Each of Whom, in the Course of Their Remarks, Referred at Great Length to the Necessity of Labour Unions Being Brought into Closer Unity with Each Other, and as a Means of Preventing the Recurrence of Friction Arising between Certain Organisations in the Town, For My Part I Cannot Help but Think That Ambition Is the Cause of Trades Unionisn Being in the Background, A Scotch Gentleman Plagued by Poachers Procured a Cork Leg Dressed in a Stocking and Shoe, and Sent It through the Neighbouring Villages by the Town Orier, Who Proclaimed That It Had Been Found in a Man Trap on the Previous Night in Mr. Ross's Grounds, Who Desired to Return It to Its Owner, No. 7 Branch Is Going on Very Well, Only We Have Certain Members Who like to Draw the Advance of Wages 2s. 4d. Per Week, Got by the Society, but It Goes against the Grain to Pay the Odd 4d., Ilkeston Notes, Irish Porter, Calling out Name of Station, "Magneto" Had Better Invade Hull, The Textile Operatives Were More Successful in Their Clause, Insisting upon Sufficient Particulars Being Furnished with All Work to Enable the Operative to Calculate How Much He Will Have to Receive for the Work When Finished, Household Hints, Visitor:"Now, Tommy, I Must Be Going, The Cradley Heath Chainmakers Were Not so Fortunate with Their Amendment Limiting the Size of Iron on Which Women Should Work, as on a Division They Were Defeated by 87 Votes to 64, John Burns on the "Workman's Times", Wearside Notes, Mr. Thorne, Who Was Greeted with Cheers, Said He Thanked Them Very Much for the Token of Esteem with Which They Had Presented Him, Stockton Notes, That the Papers Cannot Understand Him When He Says One Party Is as Good as Another for the Working Classes, and That Neither Will Legislate until Public Opinion Forces Them to Do so, The Worst of These Anonymous Attacks Is That They May Be Made by the Men Who in Their Public Life Are Doing All They Can to Curry Favour with the Very Men They Malign behind Their Backs, Electric Light Operatives, Bell Fitters, Winders, Telephone and Telegraph Wiremen, and All Electrical Operatives Who Have Not yet Joined an Organisation Kindly Communicate with Magneto, 50, Wansey Street, Walworth Road, When They Will Hear of Something to Their Advantage, It Is Not Only, However, That the Banner of the Independent Labour Party Has Been Unfurled in Bradford, Boot and Shoe Notes, Blyth Notes, I Should like to See That Labour Representation Scheme Adopted by the London Trades Council Developed, The Dawn of a Better Day, I Also Sec. Mr. Editor, That the Author of That Serial Story, Seab Printer, Via Mersey District G. W. And G. L. Union, Has Awoke with a "Slaplong … as to Almost Entice the Two Correspondents,"Telephone", Notes by Lucifer, The Gasworkers and Bricklayers' Labourers Are Taking a Step in the Right Direction, At the Longton Police Court, on Wednesday Week, William Hodgkiss, Contractor, Employed by the Lane End Colliery Company, Was Brought up Charged with a Breach of Special Rules 40 and 44 of the Coal Miners' Regulations, by Failing to Secure the Roof of His Working Place, by Which Neglect He Impeded the Ventilation of the Mine, Notes by Fabian Notes, The British Architect, with the Usual Ignorance of the Capitalist Press upon Labour Matters, in an Article on the Ethics of Trade Disputes Makes Some Remarks about Labour Journals, Which Are Not Justifiable, I Have Not Done, However, with Quotations from the Bradford Press, I Try to Be Serious, but I Can't, What We Hear, Items of Interest or Invitations for Me to Attend Meetings May Be Left at the Barber's, 117, Tattonstreet, Salford, Barrow-In-Furness Notes, Railway Servants' Hours The Cambrian Railway Company and Its Employes, The Weekly Papers Are More Amusing than the Dailies, English Patents, But the Working Man Audience Seemed Satisfied with the Whole of the Proceedings, Eastleigh Notes, It Is Very Disheartening, and I Consider It a Direct Insult to a Secretary Who Has to Work Hard during the Day and at Night, When He Requires Rest, but, for the Good of His Fellow-Workers, He Sits down and Writes These Summonses out, and His Thanks Are the Non-Attendance of These Unmanly Mates, I Think the Gasworkers and General Labourers' Union Pretty Well Occupy Space with Their Meeting, Mr. Mark Hutchins Said That It Gave Him Great Pleasure to Be There That Evening to Bear Testimony to the Valuable Services Rendered by Mr. Thorne to the Cause of Labour Generally, I Believe Mcgregor Went down North Again on Thursday Night, but I Hope We Shall Soon Have Him Back Amongst Us, for I Know He Has Made Many Friends during the Time He Has Been Amongst Us, for I Know He Has Made Many Friends during the Time He Has Been Amongst Us, One of the Most Regular Disputants at the S. L. F. Meetings, Held in the Bull Ring in This Town, Threw out a Hint Last Sunday to Those around Him Which Might Well Be Acted upon by Speakers Propagating Our Views, When Will the Hosiery Operative of Nottingham Take up the Question of Amalgamation?, What a Mean, Contemptible Spirit It Is Which Trick Make for out of the Educational Deficiencies of the Working Man, Notes by Nonshan, Notes by Pencil Stick, Facts in Brief, Labour Movements Abroad, Oh Dear! Oh Dear, A Night of "Hair-Breadth Scapes", Leeds Notes, Multiple News Items, In Conclusion I Can Only Wish All Branches of the E. T. U. The Same Success That We Are Having in Sheffield at the Present Time, The Bakers of the Country, Unfortunately, Are Not so Well Organised as They Might Be, and We Are Always Pleased to Note Attempts on the Part of Officials of the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers and Confectioners to Point Them out Their Duty, Workmen's Notes and Notions Nottingham and Notts, And Now, Sir, You Will Allow Me to Make a Short Reply to My Stockton Friend,"Hal-Re-Val", The Chairman, in Opening the Proceedings, Said They Had Met to Do Honour to One Who Had Fought Long and Well in the Cause of Labour, Your Correspondent,"Gossip," Mentions the Probability of an Open-Air Demonstration in Connection with the G. R. W. U. Being Held at an Early Date, The Brushmakers Have a Grievance, Which Will Be Brought before the Council on Its Next Meeting, W. H. Ward Said That He Was Proud to Be on That Platform That Evening, and See His Superior Officer Presented Presented with Such a Splendid Token of Gratitude by His Fellow-Workers, Bradford, Rumour Has It That There Is Another Storm Brewing, But the Mention of Votes Recalls Me to My Senses, The Japanese Potter, Grimsby Notes, I Am Sorry to See That the Strike of the Employes of Messrs, Irving, Son, and Jones, Rice Millers, … Street, Still Drags on Its Weary Way, Secret Kindnesses Done to Your Fellow-Creatures Are as Beautiful as Secret Injuries Are Detestable, The Carpenters and Joiners of Grimsby Had a Meeting Last Week to Take Steps for an Advance of Wages, but Not Being a Carpenter or Joiner, I Was Not Allowed in, but Had to Be Contented with What One of the Members Told Me a Week Later, By-The-Bye, This Strike Is Creating a Good Deal of Bona Fide Interest, and It Appears That the Executive of the Nottingham Hosiery Union Have Got a Case of the Right Stamp in Hand, On Tuesday Night Mr. Solly, Organising Secretary of the G. R. W. U., Held a Meeting in the Clubroom of the Home Tavern, At the Other Meeting on Wednesday Afternoon the Audience Only Numbered One, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead Notes, Notes by Scribbler, I Hear That the Book Edge Gilders' Society Are Going in for the Eight Hours Day, While Walking through Victor-Street, New Clee, One Day Last Week, I Was Surprised to See a Very Large Building There, Mr. J. H. Wilson Has Been Addressing the Sailors and Firemen of Dundee, and in the Course of Bio Speech Announced That the Seamen and Firemen's Union Intended to Enter the Lists against the Shipping Federation by Running Their Own Vessels, A Few Days Ago, to Suit the Convenience of a Master, the Employes Were Obliged to Empty an Oven While the Heat Was Intense and Unbearable, and to Carry Its Contents within a Yard from Another Engaged in Firing, and Afterwards Bearing the Same through the Excessive Heat of the Sun, The Railway Workers (Who Were on Strike at Christmas) and Who Were Afterwards to Receive 1s, A Handsome Woman Pleases the Eye; but a Good Woman Pleases the Heart, Good Old Giphy House, Sheffield Tramcar Men and Long Hours, Notes by Shellback, When a Woman Gets a Red Spot on the End of Her Nose the World Charitably Remarks That Her Blood Is out of Order; but Just Let That Spot Appear on a Man's Nose, and Everyone Will Declare They Smell Whisky as Soon as They Get within Twenty Feet of Him, Notes by Upholster, The Hartlepools Notes, Notes by the Man from Bootle, Our Friends on the Congress Arrangements Committee Are Putting Forth Great Exertions in Order to Make the Next Trades Congress a Great Success, Both from a Business and a Pleasurable Point of View, and It Is to Be Hoped That the Numerous Trade and Labour Societies in the District, and throughout the Country, Will Most Loyally and Thoroughly Co-Operate with Them in Answer to the Appeal That Is Being Sent out to Make the Newcastle Trades Congress and Demonstration of 1891 Beat the Record of All past Efforts in This Direction, Something like a Pick, I Have Been at Two of Mr. McGregor's Meetings This Week, I Am Indebted to a Friend for What I Consider a Good Idea in Connection with Technical Instruction, Which Is as Follows, Banbury Notes, Mr. T. O'Brien, Secretary of the Brentford Branch, and Mr. G. Haley, Secretary of the Ealing Branch of the Navvies' Union, Also Addressed the Meeting, Which Wound up with Three Hearty Cheers for the Cause of Labour, And Now I Come to a Titbit of a Different Character, Now, Sir, This Spirit of Mutual Assistance among the Industrial Orders Is a Principle Which Claims the Energetic Encouragement of Every Well-Wisher of His Kind, Founded as It Is upon Broad and Ber Evolent Grounds, and Sufficiently Comprehensive to Stretch through Time into Eteruity; and Surely the Person's Who Neglect to Avail Themselves of the Advantages It Is Capable of Conferring upon the Individual, the Community, and the Country, Indeed, upon Mankind Generally, Is Shirking His or Her Duty, Surely the Day Has Gone by for the Members of One Society to Ignore Those of Another Organisation Whose Interests and Objects Are Identical to Those of the G. R. W. U., a Society That Is Fighting the Same Battle as Ourselves, under the Same Conditions, Though under a Flag Which Differs Only in the Title Inscribed Thereon, Mr. Anderson, Who Was Well Received, Delivered a Rousing Speech, The Standard Is at Present Distinguishing Itself by Its Hostility to Labour Movements, The Labour Electoral Is Relying upon the Local Trades … to Rally around, and, According to Their Strength in Birkenhead, Something in the Way of Direct Labour Representation Could Be Done If They (… Trades Unionists, Not Officials), Our £100 Prize Offer, Driving a Coach in the Rocky Mountains, Topics of the Times East Bradford, The Question of the Management of State and Municipal Works Is of More Importance than Is Usually Supposed, But Did You Mark That Other Statement at the End of the Quotation?, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, The Potteries, A Master Was Explaining That the Land of the World Was Not Continuous, The Independent Labour Party in Bradford "Nunquam's" Candidature, Mr. Thorne Eulogised the Brickmakers for the Noble Manner in Which They Fought This Battle, Walsall Notes, The Agitation Commenced by the National Union of Paper Mill Makers for a Saturday Half-Holiday Is Already Bearing Fruit, Notices of Workers' Meetings, or Any Other Kind of Communications for Democrat May Be Left at King Edward's Stores, King Edward's-Road, Mistress:"Is the Chicken Dressed for Dinner?", Answered, A Meeting of the Committee in Connection with the Railway Strike Employes' Fund Was Held in Edinburgh Last Week, I Am Glad to See That the Services Mr. C. J. Drummond, the Secretary of the London Society of Compositors, Has Rendered to the Cause of Labour for Many Years past Are to Be Recognised on Saturday Night by the Presentation of a Testimonial, What We Think, National Association Builders' Labourers, I Cannot Help Expressing My Opinion, Mr. Editor, in Favour of the Independent Labour Party Recently Formed in Bradford, and Which I Hope Will Be Successful in Returning the Selected Representative of Labour, Notes by Railway, Late in Starting, The Bradford Observer, in Common with the Other Bradford Papers, Is "Down in the Dumps" over "Nunquam's" Candidature, Leicester and Leicestershire Notes, But There Is Another Rumour Circulating Which, for the Sake of Common Honesty, It Is to Be Hoped Is a Mistaken One, Manchester and Salford Notes, Jarrow, The Strike and Lockout of London Carpenters and Joiners Demonstation in Hyde Park, The Following Resolution Was Unanimously Passed by about 2,000 Workers, and Copies Have Been Forwarded to the Gentlemen Named, Notes by Presser, The Dispute between the National Millers' Union and Irvine, Sons, and Jones Still Continues, as That Firm Have Not Conceded the Men's Demands, At Chester-Ie-Street on Friday Night, a Public Meeting Was Held in Furtherance of the National Labour Federation, After a Few Hours' Discussion as to Whether the Cards of Members Belonging to the Various Labour Organisations Should Be Recognised by the Dockers' Union, the Trades Council Considerately Resolved to Leave Matters as before, and the Cry of the "Docks for the Dockers" Shall Continue to Resound through the Land and Be the Main Argument in Support of Trades Unionism with a Large Number of Dockers Whose Intelligence Is of the Order That Prevents Their Consideration of Trades Unionism Except from a L. S. D. Point of View, There Was so Much Correspondence to Be Read at the Trades and Labour Council, That There Was No Time to Go into Local Business, And so It Comes about That in East Bradford the Standard of the Independent Labour Party Has Been Raised; and the Man Who Carries It Is None Other than the Man Who Has Done so Much to Make the Realisation of Its Principles a Possibility, I Shall Follow the Rule of Certain Other Correspondents of Yours, Who Trust to Others to Report That Which They Care Not to Undertake, and I Hope to See the Proceedings Referred to by Some of Your Correspondents Whom I Saw at the Meeting, The O. B. S. Are Nominating Several Gentlemen for Office of Secretary, Birmingham Notes, Notes by Magneto, Sheffield Notes. Letter to the editor: National Labour Union V. National Labour Federation To the Editor of the Workman's Times, To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Blyth Shipwrights and Mr. Burt's Award To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Mr. Haley and the Brentford Board of Guardians To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Ilkeston and District Hosiery Union To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Letters to the Editor "Labour Versus Labour". Business: Morley Notes, Notes by Gas, Hull Notes, Newcastle Trades Council, A Strike in the Iron Trade Averted, Notes by Jack Wire, Workmen's Notes and Notions Newcastle, "On Principle Strike" Victims of Trades Unions, If John Wants to Prove Himself a Bona-Fide Trade Unionist, Let Him Do so by Confining His Pen to Its True Principles, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, The Electrical Trade Union To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Blyth and District Trades Council, The First Meeting of the Hull Building Trades' Delegates Is down for Friday, July 3, at the Friendly Societies' Hall, at 8 P. M, The Royal Commission on Trade Has at Last Got to Work, and the Dockers Have Had the Honour of Standing in the Box as First Set of Witnesses. Poem, verse: Poetry The Workman's Song, An Old Weaver's Plaint, True Nobility. Fiction, drama: The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap Chapter XL, The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap Chapter XXXIX, The Old Life's Shadows Chapter XXXVIII, The Missisippi Pilot's Story, The Old Life's Shadows Chapter XXXIX. Editorial: Plymouth Plymouth Notes, But Stay. Let Us Run over These Statements of "Phonograph's""When the Full History of the Endeavour to Run a Labour Candidate for the Eastern Division Is Brought to Light There Will Be Many Funny Disolosures", Portsmouth Notes, Nourishing Summer Drinks, And Now I Wonder When We Shall Have a Visit Again of Those Firebrand Agitators, Chipple:"That Man There Is One of Our Millionaires", Answers to Correspondents, On Sunday Afternoon Our Local Fabian Society Commenced Their Open-Air Propaganda for the Season, When Mr. Gardner Took the Chair, and Mr. T. Proctor, Nottingham, Gave an Address on "Socialism", The Terrible Octopus.