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News from 19/06/1891

1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

C. Harding, Snob Tom, R. Hall, Paul Hann, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, George Chambers, Jack Wire, Cotton's Patent, W. W. Wrighton, Thos. Gall, W. Brown, Thomas Wheatley, M. Tucs, G. Rickard,

Frontmatter: The Workman's Times. Business: I Am Going to Set up Business as a Prophet, Newcastle Trades Council, Funeral of a Well-Known Trade Unionist, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, The Struggle in the London Building Trade, What We Hear Building Trades. News: The Meaning of "Society," as Understood by Moderately Intelligent Beings Is "The World at Large", Several Questions Having Been Asked by Members and Favourably Replied to, and the Benefits of the Union Fully Explained, or Course, The Disorganised Workman Is Very Often Subordinate to the Masters, "On Principle Strike" The Union "Picket", Workmen's Notes and Notions London, The Men in the Easham Trade Held a Meeting on Thursday Last, and There Was a Good Representation of the Shops There, True the 'Busmen Have Not Won All They Set out For, As to the Respective Societies' Funds, the Federation Pays All Dues and Demands Made against It, Notes by Lace, The Question Is Being Asked on All Sides, A Writer under the Assumed Name of "Cotton's Patent" to the Free Press in Sutton-In-Ashfield Evidently Does Not Relish the Turn Which Things Have Taken at Hinckley, and What Is Coming to Pass by Trade Union Efforts in His Own District; for, after Reading an Account of the Meeting Held There in Support of the Strikers, He Rushed into the Print of the Free Press as Follows, Mr. Chamberlain Is Still Devoting the Resources of His Mighty Intellect to the Development of a Plan by Which Workers in Old Age May Be Assured of a Pension, How He Hung the Picture, Four New Members Were Elected, and 31 Promised to Join Us Next Meeting Night, Mr. Richard's Letter "On Principle Strike" Seemed to Me to Be a Word in the Right Place, Methods of Burial, The above Quotation Is Not Intended as a Text from Which to Preach a Sermon on That Extremely Interesting Topic of the Day, Things Are Not yet Settled with the Bridle Bitmakers, as the Employers Having Written to the Men Asking Them to Send Them the Proposed New List Back with Articles on Marked Rejected Which Men Have Rejected, and They (the Employers) Will Have a Meeting of Themselves and Discuss the Rejected Prices, but the Men Don't Think It Worth While, I Had the Pleasure of Hearing Mr. Mcgregor, of the National Labour Federation, Speak on South Sea Common on Wednesday Night Week, and I Can Assure You That He Was Listened to with Great Attention by a Very Large Audience, I Also Hear That There Are Some Very Bad Members in No. 1 Branch of G. W. And G. Labourers' Union, Which Is Chiefly Composed of Gasworkers in the Employ of the Birkenhead Corporation, Notes by Mersey District, Notes by "Gossip", A Man, While Fishing, Suddenly Fell into the Water, Enderby Notes, Operative Bricklayers' Society Missionary Work at Eccles, Ilkeston Notes, He Challenges Me to Prove That the National Labour Federation Is in a Better Position Now than in 1890, Notes by Hal Re Val, Only Those Connected with the Lace Trade Know the Need for a Society, The Men Working in Messrs. Bennett and Co.'S Sawmill Yard Loading up Have Succeeded in Getting an Advance of 3d. Per Standard All round, and … Will Make a Difference of 3s. Per Week in Their Wages, Household Hints, Wearside Notes, Stockton Notes, The Daughter of a Country Rector Tanght the Choir Boys a New Tune at a Monday Evening Practice, to Be Sung on the Following Sabbath, But to Descend, Workmen's Notes and Notions Hull, Benevolent Person (to Old Tramp):, The Forty Thieves: an Historical Essay, Boot and Shoe Notes, Blyth Notes, Sudden Death of a Workman, The Independent Labour Party in Bradford Canvassing for "Nunquam", Notes by Lucifer, "Do You Know, Prisoner, That It's Very Wrong to Steal a Pig?", Jarrow Notes, Starting with Stockton, Let Me First Speak on the Corporation Gasworks, a Subject Which Is Really Worthy of Notice, and on Which I Have Written You on Some Previous Occasion, Their Annual Picnic Will Go to Gresford in North Wales This Year, and Trades Unionists Wishing to Go Can Get Tickets from Me, Which Are 4s. 6d., Including Everything, A Dunfermline Man When Once Swimming in the Forth Encountered a Shark, Notes from Southampton, As Is Well Known, This Paper Gave Undue Prominence to Many of the Rumours That Were Set Afloat by Interested Parties during the Progress of the Late Strike Amongst Scotch Railwaymen, "Puffing Billy", Bristol, A Man Named Snow, Living in the Suburbs, Was Made a Father a Few Days Ago, and He Sent This Announcement to the Local Paper, There Is Nothing Startling in the Labour Would at Present, The 'Bus Strike Did Not Last Long, and I Am Sorry for That, Extreme Limit of Human Life, I Also Attended a Meeting at Woolston in Connection with the Two Woolston Branches of the N. L. F. Mr. Mcgregor Gave His Audience a Good Trades Union Speech, All Hosiery Operatives in Ilkeston, Heanor, Belper, and Other Places Will Learn with Gladness That the Hinckley Strike Has Terminated, and so Favourably for the Strikers, Facts in Brief, The Master Wardens and the Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries Must Have a High Opinion of Themselves, Any Item of Interest, or Invitations, Addressed to Me at the Barber's 117, Tatton-Street, Salford, Will Receive My Best Attention, Labour Movements Abroad, There Was a Steamboat Called the Ethelred Came into Grimsby Last Week Loaded with Barley from the Black Sea Ports, The Ways of the Clergy Are Sometimes past Finding Out, Midland Railway Employes Trips, Barometrical Readings, Multiple News Items, "What," Inquired a Schoolmaster,"Is the Plural of Penny?", There Is Also Started the Business of Co-Operation Here, of Which I Shall Have Something to Say Next Week, The Proceedings Were Characterised by the Utmost Cordiality throughout, and Augurs Well for the Future, and If Every Member, Irrespective of the Society He Belongs to, Will Do His Level Best and Keep Always before His Mind's Eye the One Great Object of the Proposed Committee, Viz, The Miners at Herrington and District Are Beginning to Bestir Themselves to Find a Suitable Candidate for the Next County Council Election to Oppose the Masters Selected, and I Hope That Some Suitable Person May Be Found, but the General Election Is Also Coming, and Someone Will Have to Be Found to Contest That, so There It Plenty of Work to Be Going on With, I Am Pleased to Inform the Readers of the Workman's Times That the Great Firm of Tangye's Limited, Cornwall Works, Smethwick, Have without Any Solicitation Whatever Called Their Workpeople Together and Informed Them That the Hours of Labour Would Be Reduced from 54 to 53 Hours Per Week, The Case of One of the Men in Particular Affords Matter of a Very Peculiar, yet Not Uncommon, Nature, When Viewed and Considered from the Manner in Which a Person May Suck an Orange and Then Throw It Away, The Charge of "Sweating" at a Small Arms Factory, Last Monday during the Dinner Hour There Was a Man Giving out Handbills near the Railway Bridge, Announcing a Meeting to Be Held That Night in the Open Air, under the Auspices of the National Labour Federation, Chair to Be Taken at 7.30, Wolverhampton, Workmen's Notes and Notions Nottingham and Notts, A Meeting of Builders and Operatives Met at the Parochial Offices at the Instigation of the Builders at Eight P. M., Notes by Oil Pot, The Hull Painters Are Going in for a New Banner, Grimsby Notes, The Lessons of the London Bus Strike, Bishopstock Notes, Just a Word to Thank My Friend "Vigilant" for His Kind Remarks and Good Wishes, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead Notes, How He Lost His Memory, The Potteries Notes, Determined Action against Nonunionist Miners, On Thursday Evening Week the Ordinary Meeting of the Birkenhead Labour Electoral Association Was Held in the Railway Workers' Union Rooms, Price-Street, Mr. Smith, Vice-President, in the Chair, Trade in the Principal Works of North and South Stockton Is Still Brisk, More Especially in the Shipyards, Just a Work to "John, of Jarrow", Barnsley Notes, The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes Has Been Exerting His Powerful Advocacy on Behalf of Domestic Servants and Shop Assistants, The Hartlepools Notes, Notes by Telephone, Notes by the Man from Bootle, Communications for "Democrat" (Notices of Meetings of Workers, Etc., ) May Be Left at King Edwards Stores, King Edwards-Road, Mr. Spurgeon Recently Revealed a Little of His Own Individuality While Reviewing a Book on Methodism in Yorkshire by Evincing Delight with This Criticism of a Sermon, Weil, as I Was Saying, These Are Times in Which We Are Passing through Many Strange Experiences, Notes by Jack Wire, Why He Wore the Blue Ribbon, No Vanity among Men, An Æsthetic Influence, For an Example of What Unionism Can Do I Mus Refer You to the Great Bus Strike, and as an Example of the Effect of the Victory on Other Companies and Their Fear of a Similar Occurrence Stopping Their Traffic Just Read the Concessions That Have Been Granted to the North Metropolitan Tramway Co. Employes, A Traveller Is about Leaving a Hotel, The Bricklayers of Loughborough Have Given Notice for an Advance, to Come in Force the First Monday in July, A General Meeting of the Liverpool Branch, No. 4, of the Millers' National Union Was Held at the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday Evening, Mr. Philip Harris (the President of the Liverpool Trades Council) in the Chair, All Members, and Intending so to Be, of the Longton and Fenton Branch Will Be Heartily Welcomed at the Inaugural Meeting of the New Lodge Room, Coyney Arms, Sutherland-Road, on June 27, and in All Probability the Meeting Will Be Rendered More Attractive by the Presence of One of Our Leading Advocates, "Sweating" Meeting at Sheffield, And Now for a Few Words as to How This Settlement Was Brought About, Fortunately for Hinchley, the Hosiery Strike Is at an End, Your Correspondent,"Hal Re Val," Has the Audacity to Say That the Labour Federation Won the 12 O'clock Saturdays, Newcastle Notes, A Very Important Point of Law Has Been Raised in the St. Helen's County Court Which Affects the Position of All Workmen Employed on a Day Wage, The Workers of England Have the Power to Do This If They Will Only Sink Their Political and Religions Prejudices and Come Together and Form an Independent Labour Party, Our £100 Prize Offer, Is It Not Time That Something Effectual Was Done to Place the Trade Unions of the Country on a Proper Basis before the Law?, His Honour and Bijah Going to the Bad, Public Notice, Before I Close These Few Remarks for This Week I Will Just Say That I Am Very Sorry to See a Decrease in the Sale of the Times for This Week, but Indefatigable as the Agent Is, I Hope He Will Keep on Working with a Will, and If Only Every Other Member of the Federation Would Take One Weekly, Read It, and Then Give It to Some Friend, It Might Be the Means of Increasing Its Circulation, for It Is an Honest Pennyworth, The Following Was the Order of Procession, Mr. Sutherst, Who Was Supported by Messrs. Tom Mann, G. Shipton, Ben Tillett, John Burns, and Messrs. W. G. Steadman, F. C. Baum, H. R. Taylor, and Fred Hammill, Members of the Executive of the London Trades Council, Took the Chair, Notes by Lynx, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, He Remembered It, Walsall Notes, The Laundresses' Demonstration in Hyde Park, Notes by Onward, The Hinckley Strike Has Ended Very Satisfactory for the Workpeople, Conference of Manchester Jewish Tailors on the Sweating System, Some of the Magistrates at Scarborough Have Also Been Distinguishing Themselves, What We Think, Railway Servants' Hours, Portsmouth Notes, An Extraordinary Duel, At the Close of the Meeting Mr. Mcgregor Gave Away a Large Number of Copies of Your Valuable Paper, the Workman's Times, and a Large Number of the Rules of the National Labour Federation, and I Have No Doubt That He (Mcgregor) Will Angment the Strength of This Society down Here by Three or Four Thousand in a Very Short Time, for I Know a Very Large Number Intend Joining, Notes by Railway, The Lime-Kiln Club A Fiendish Plot, Leicester and Leicestershire Notes, But There, Manchester and Salford Notes, Well, Now, He Says He Took Plimsoll's Advice, and Left-The Rotten Ship, Not the Sinking Ship, Now, Sir, I Have Admitted before That the Ship Was Rotten, If Not in the Same Words but by Whose Actions Did It Become so?, Mr. Alfred Evans, Secretary of the Printers and Stationers' Warehousemen, Cutters' and Assistants' Union, Whose Head Offices Are at 24, Bride-Lane, Fleet-Street, E. C., with a Manchester Branch at 22, Queen-Street, Manchester, Sends Me Some Particulars about That Society, from Which I Gather the Entrance Fee Is 1s., and Subscriptions 4d. Per Week, There Was Once a Parson Preaching to His Congregation, The Deputation of Engineers That Waited upon the Employers on Monday at Newcastle Asked the Employers If They Could Withdraw the Notices, and the Suspension of Men Already Out, The Following Are the Terms upon Which the Strike Has Been Settled, Notes by Presser, Ah, Well! Never Mind, It Is a Commonly Accepted Idea That Because Trades Unions Are Now Lawful Societies They Can Be Compelled by Process of Law to Fulfil Their Promises to Their Members, The Resolution Was as Follows, I Say, Men Are Gradually Beginning to See the Great Need of Protecting Themselves, and I Am Sorry to Say We Have in Our Midst Men Who Get No Farther, The Ipswich Journal Reads the Leaders of the Eastern Counties' Labour Federation a Fine Lecture Apropos a Recent Opinion of Clare Sevill Read, That There Were Tens of Thousands of Acres of Land Pining for Want of Capital, Free the Land from the Clutches of the Present Monopolists and You Free Labour, for as It Is Labour Alone Which Creates Land Values, It Is Only Fair That Labour Should Derive the Benefit Thereby, Which Benefits Are at Present Monopolised by Idlers, Notes by Leaguer, Now I Suppose I Shall Have to Take Some Name so Allow Me to Call Myself, When Is the Judgment in the Plymouth Intimidation Appeal to Be Delivered?, Falling in Love, Sunday's Demonstration in Hyde Park, Where the General Railway Workers' Union, the Laundresses, and the 'Busmen Turned up in Such Strong Force, I Need Not Dwell upon Here, as a Pretty Full Report Will Be Found in Another Page, "Nunquam" for East Bradford, A Venerable Bedford Gentleman Had Never Read Shakespeare's Plays, and Was Advised to Do so during the Winter, Birmingham Notes, A Joint Meeting of Representatives of the a. S. R. S. And G. R. W. U. Was Held as the Foresters' Hall on Sunday Afternoon Last, to Devise, If Possible, a Means of Local Federation or Joint Action on All Questions Locally Affecting Organised Railwaymen in the Town of Hull, Notes by Magneto, Sheffield Notes, The Workman's Times Can Be Obtained at Mr. Banks's, Stationer, Grange-Lane, Birkenhead, Notes by Early Bird. Poem, verse: Poetry A Labour Song, Too Old for Work, Sweet Home, Another Victim. Fiction, drama: The Old Life's Shadows Chapter XXXVII, The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap, Tall Yankee Stories, Chapter XXXIX Cap Frees the Captive, An Eel Story, Chapter XXXVIII Toward the Light. Letter to the editor: To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Letters to the Editor Old Age Pensions, Operative Bricklayers' Society Election of General Secretary, Ilkeston and District Hosiery Union To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Labour Party and Its Leaders To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Again, Mr. Editor, There Are Other Paid Men That the Gentleman Referred to by Mr. Rickard Could Better Employ His Time by Watching, Seeing That Their Salary Is of Fabulous Figures, South Wales. Editorial: We Had a Member Who Has Had a Week's Wages Standing for about Two Years, and He Laid His Case before the Committee of the Branch, and They Went to a Solicitor, and I Am Pleased to Say That the Whole of the Money Has Been Recovered, Topics of the Times, The Scavenger and the Magpie (With Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe). Arts and entertainment: I Am Interested in the Welfare of the Drama, and I Welcome Every Sign That a New "Star" Is Likely to Find a Place in the Thespian Firmament.