News from 19/12/1891
1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
A. R. Burns, Richard Woosnam, Paul Herring, Alex Paterson, Katherine St. John Conway, Major Alfred R. Calhoun, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Frederick Sutton, J. W. Gardner, Christopher Lee, A. J. Champion, M. Tucs, Thomas Askey, C. J. Rowe, Festina Lente, W. Collins,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Workman's Times. Poem, verse: And While We Are in the Poetry Line, We May as Well Proceed, Poetry, A Grumble (To the Editor), Somebody Has Sent Me a Little Thing about the British Beggar, and I Think I'll Give It a Show, Just Now the Press Is Full of Bits about Royal People, Splashes and Flashes, The British "Black" Smith, But I've Not Done with the Muse yet, A Holiday Reminiscence, Looking Forward. News: Dennis (the New Ploughboy to the Mule Which Has Insisted upon Standing Motionless for an Hour), Notes by Pant Hand, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, "Does Your Sister Susie Ever Say Anything about Me?" Asked an Anxious Lover, Millers and Bakers Astonishing Facts about German Bakers, Quite by Accident I Came across Mr. William McLellan, the Energetic Secretary of the Scottish Hackney Carriage Drivers and Stablemen's Union, and He Invited Me up to His Office, and We Had a Crack about His Union, By-The-Bye, the Railway Companies Are Drifting Back to the Old System of Working Their Employes 14 and 15 Hours a Day, And, Unfortunately, This Man Has the Public Ear, Notes by Orthon, The Bookbinders' Strike, I Would like to Draw the Attention of "Shave Hook" to Rule 47, and Compare Same with His Notes in Workman's Times for November 7th and 28th Respectively, Oldham Notes, Notes by Democrat, The Oldham Fabian Society Claims to Be an Independent Labour Body, and Is Prepared to Deal with Election Business from a Purely Democratic Standpoint, and Therefore They Ask the Workers of Oldham to Cast Their Votes in Favour of Its Nominee, The London Correspondent Is My Delight, Sir Alfred Hickman, Having Made an Attack on the Fabian Society, Miss Katherine St. John Conway (Late of Newham College, Cambridge) Will Deliver a Reply at the Exchange Hall, Sunday, December 20th, at 8 P. M. It Is Hoped There Will Be a Good Meeting, Scarcity of Blacklegs, The Independent Labour Union for Nottingham, Blackburn, John Wesley's Advice, Bro. Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club, American Freedom Is a Thing I Much Admire, The Fabians, One of Them Has Been Enjoying His Little Self, As Mr. Davitt Is Now Announced as the Anti-Parnellite Candidate for Waterford, and His Connection with the Labour Movement Is Quoted as a Prime Reason Why He Should Be Considered the Most Popular Candidate the Anti-Parnellite Party Can Produce, an Admission He Has Made in a Recent Letter Becomes of Importance, Reddish (Stockport) Notes, Middlesbrough Notes, The Recent Successful Agitation among the Glasgow Printers for an Advance of Wages and a Reduction of Hours Has Spread to Other Parts of Scotland, It Has Often Been Asked, Why Cannot English Factories Be Run Night and Day, as Is the Case with Factories in Some Parts of the Continent?, New Customer, Household Hints, Eccles, Miss Oldenough:"Why Tom, I Am Not Little over Theire Tom Terrible", There Has Been "Much Ado about Nothing" Lately in the Local Branches of Some of Our Larger Trade Unions, Stockton Notes, A Charge of Intimidation Quashed, Likeston and District Notes, The British Amalgamated Union of Basket Makers Bristol, Wood Green and District Labour Council, Notes by Rasp, Birmingham Notes by the Town Crier, Boot and Shoe Notes, Notes from Brazils, Modern Society, "What Did Noah Live on When the Flood Had Subsided and His Provisions in the Ark Were Exhausted?" Asked a Sunday School Teacher of Her Class One Sunday, I Listened to the Discussion with a Great Amount of Interest, Which Was Rather of a Personal than a Professional Character, Items of Interest and Invitations to Attend Meetings May Be Addressed to Me at 45, Nashville-Street, West Craven-Street, Salford, News Items and Invitations to Attend Meetings Will Receive Prompt Attention If Addressed Nemo, Care of Mr. Mcgurgan, Coal Dealer, 79, Ryder-Street, Collyhurst, Barrow-In-Furness Notes, Verily, the Great American Public Is a, Nottingham and Notts Notes, Hyde and District Notes, There Is a Great Amount of Sickness Here, and Especially Amongst the Ships' Crews, The Poor Globe Is Dreadfully Exercised at What It Call "Truckling to Trade Unions", Notes by Dodo, Meeting at Bury, Woman's Sphere, The Strike of German Printers Its International Aspect, Sunderland Notes, Among Those Who Know Pete Curran, the Greatest Satisfaction Is Felt at His Adoption as a Parliamentary Candidate by the Council of the Woolwich Labour Representation League, and Hope That the Member Will Ratify Its Choice, The President Stated That the Mansfield Branch Had No Delegate on the Trades Council, Although They Paid for One, National Union of Paper Mill Workers Meeting at Pendleton, Stafford Notes, Multiple News Items, The Contest at Waterlow's Has Its Comical Side, At the Last Meeting of the Trades Council It Was Decided to Run Candidates for the School Board Election, Which Takes Place in February or March Next, Notes by Lineman, National Union of Shop Assistants, Hull Notes, His Honour and Bijah, … Has Been a Feeling for Some Time Amongst the Members of the Engineers' Society That They … with the Trades and Labour … and I Am Glad to Say the Feeling Has so … by the Time This Is in Print One of the … Will Have Moved in the Matter, and I Trust … Will Be Arrived at That They Will Join … in the Trade Council, East London Fabians, A Father's Love, The Sheffield Daily Telegraph Has Been Rather Less Savage of Late in Its Attacks on the Labour Cause and Its Leaders, Mr. Drummond Has Issued a Circular to the Members of His Society, in Which He Gives the Names of the Members of the London School Board Who, in Answer to a Letter Addressed to Them by Him, Have Signified Their Willingness to Vote for Giving Printing Contracts Only to Such Fir Ms as Pay the Rate of Wages Current Amongst Fair Employers to the Whole of Their Workers, and Conform to the Recognised Regulations Respecting Hours, Overtime, Apprentices, &c., And Now, Liberals and Radicals, Come Hither and Watch Me with My Penny Tack-Hammer While I Strive to Batter Your Idol to Fragments, Mr. Councillor Barber Next Gave a Short and Touching Address, Bradford, The "Town Crier" Invites Correspondence from All Who Have Any Grievances, Well, What Is the Change Which in My Opinion Is Required?, Wolverhampton Notes, Did You Ever Hear about the Prince of Wales's Wink?, Fabian Notes, Perils under Water, A Special Meeting Was Held on Tuesday Last in the Central Hall, to Consider the New Scheme of Federation in Connection with the Hosiery Trade, Waterlow's Still Hold out, and Threaten to Build a Workshop in the Country, and Mccorquodale's Men Came out on Strike Last Saturday, on Which Date the Men at Twelve Additional Firms Handed in Their Notices, Oh? What? You Didn't Know I Was on Speaking Terms with Royalty!, When Is That Confoundedly Slow, Sleepy, Dead and Slive Rabbit Hutch, Stalybridge, Going to Move and Start a Fabian Society or an Independent Labour Party, or Something to Shake Things Up?, Compliments of the Season to You, My Boy, If There Isn't a Bit of Coal in the House I so Long, Notes by Rotary Hand, The Divorce of Labour from the Land Is Not Peculiar to England It Seems, Special Summoned Meetings Will Be Held of the Kensington and Lambeth Branches of the E. T. U., on Tuesday Next, at 8 P. M., A Correspondent in Another Column Euters the Lists in Defence of H. H. Champion, A Wonderful Willow, The Federation Delegate Meeting Took Place at Leicester on Saturday, When the Rules, with Slight Alterations, Were Adopted, Mr. Chamberlain Is Now Posing as the Friend of the Labour Party, A North-Countryman Received Notice a Few Days Ago That He Had Won a Diamond Ring in a Great Lottery Advertised by a Certain Paper, but as He Was Required to Send Twopence to Pay Postage, He "Concluded That It Would Not Be Worth While, The Nottingham Men Certainly Had Not so Unpleasant an Experience, Another Proposal on the Eight Hour Question Comes from Mr. Bernard De Lisle, Who Is a Parliamentary Candidate for the Wirral Division of Cheshire, A Fishing Excursion, Cradley Heath Notes, Tailors and Tailoring, The London Society of Compositors Have Voted £500 to the German Pristers Strike Fund, Frankly, I Think There Is Very Great Hope If the Trade Unionists and Co-Operators of the South Are Warned by the Mistakes of the Trade Unionists and Co-Operators of the North, Two Firms of Shipbuilders in Sunderland Have Proposed to Their Men That They Should Accept a Forty-Eight Hours Week, Which Meaus a Reduction in Time Worked of 8 Per Cent-er a Reduction in Wages of 5 Per Cent, By the Way, Mr. Editor, We Have Rather a Curious Strike Here Just Now, Newcastle Notes, Malcom Khan Has Been Delivering a Speech, A Column for Law Matters Rules, This "Free" Country! Victimising Labourers at Accrington, Notes by Nemo, Having Said so Much I Must Confess, That I Have Not Much Hope That Co-Operation, as Described, Will Be of Much Use to London Trade Unionists, Raps from the Residuum, Mr. John Morley Has Been Thrusting a Ramrod into the Delicate Framework of the British Constitution, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, Workmen's Notes and Notions Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead, To-morrow (Sunday) J. A. Anderson Will Lecture in the Albion Halls, under the Auspices of the Labour Army, on "The Legal Eight Hours Day", Well, He Asks Me a Question—That the Labourers in Huddersfield Have No Union, and Only Get 5d. To 5½d. Per Hour?, The Vellum Binders Are Winning Hands Down, Here Is Mr. Gladstone, for Instance, Accusing His … of Breaking All Their Promises, and Hunting That, Huddersfield and District Notes, Glasgow Notes, What We Think, Kind Regards for "Shellback," "Clinker," and Their Colleagues, and Last but Not Least, That Able Scribe "Telephone", The Scotman Quotes, with Smug Self-Complacency, Mr. Tom Mann's Latest Declaration That "He Did Not Believe Such a Bill (an Eight Hours' Bill) Would Be the Most Ready Way of Obtaining Solid Advantages," and Attributes This Change of Front to the Fact That Mr. Mann Is a Candidate for the Secretaryship of the Amalgamated Engineers, and "Appears to Have Discovered That This Body, Which Has Been One of the Strongest and Best Managed Bodies of Its Kind in the Kingdom for a Large Number of Years, Is Not in Favour of Legislative Restraint of Hours of Labour", Oddments, Leicester and Leicestershire Notes, Now, I Am Writing These Comments for a Paper Which Has a Circulation Not Only in London and the South, but in Every Large Town in the North and the Midlands, A Gentleman Who Had Lost His Wife, Whose Maiden Name Was Little, Addressed the Following to a Miss Moore, a Lady of Diminutive Stature, The Toilers Are like Slaves Set Free, Who Have Received the First Instalment of Their Birthright; They Need Teaching How to Use It, Manchester and Salford Notes, The Fabian Society Country Lectures, The Wood Engravers, a Report of Whose Formation Meeting I Gave Last Week, Have Appointed a Committee to Draw up the Rules, &c., Which Will Be Submitted to a Meeting of the Profession Early in the New Year, The Question of Starting a Co-Operative Tailors' Society Was Discussed, The Party Politics of Socialism John Burns on the Independent Labour Party, Mr. Tom Mann Is Announced to Speak in Stockton on January 8th Next, United Shop Assistants' Union, Subsequently a General Meeting of the Members in Manstield Was Held at the Same Place, When There Was a Splendid Improvement in the Attendance as Compared with the Last Meeting I Reported, I Am Much Concerned about the Following, After the General Secretary Had Concluded His Remarks, a Vote of Thanks Was Accorded Him for His Visit, West Bromwich Notes, Notes by Agitator, Notes by Stoker, So Now, Mr. Editor, There Is No More News at Present from That Roving Correspondent of Yours They Call, After Being Introduced to the Meeting by the Branch Secretary, the General Secretary Addressed the Men, Here Is a Little Instance of How the Workmen's Best Efforts Are Taken Advantage of by This Brutal System of Ours, Notes by Magneto, The Organisation of Women, Any Subscriptions Sent to 113. Editorial: We Stated a Few Weeks Ago That Dr. John Moir, of Canning Town, Who Had Been Addressing Meetings in South Monmouth with a View to Becoming the Labour and Liberal Candidate for That Division, Was in Danger of Being Thrown over by the Wirepullers in Favour of Baron Profumo, Young Fysh, Tramway Work in Liverpool, Since We Last Wrote the Liberal 300 Have Had a Meeting, and the Executive Have Recommended the 300 to Accept Baron Profumo as Their Candidate, And so, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let Us Work, Suneon Twigg (Errand Boy) Salutes You Once More, Answers to Correspondents, Mr. Threlfall Has Been Appealed to in Our Columns Several Times Recently to Give His Version of the Arguments That Induced Him to Sign a Correction Issued by the Parliamentary Committee on the Subject of Kier Hardie's Resolution at the Trades Union Congress, We Have Been Favoured with a Verbatim Report of Sir John Gorst's Speech at Ashton-Under-Lyne, and We Gather from It That Sir John Is in Favour of the Establishment of Boards of Arbitration in Labour Disputes, with Power to Render a Verdict on the Rights or Wrongs of Any Particular Dispute, but He Would Not Entrust These Boards with Power to Enforce Their Decisions, As a Parting Fling, Let Me Say That We Have No Orators in Brum Suitable for the Town Hall (Except, of Course, Jack Haddon—And Joe Chamberlain), and the Affair Would Have Been a More Glorious Success If a Labour Orator Had Been Invited, What We Want to See Is the Abolition of Sweating, I Am Glad to Say That Our Labour Army Orchestra and Choir Are Soon to Be Accomplished Facts. Business: Life in the Far West A Night Run, Derby Notes, The Hosiery Trade, as Far as Leicester Is Concerned, Is Still Very Good for the Time of the Year, and the Out-Look for after Christmas Is Very Promising, and I Hope the Shoe Trade Will Improve to Such an Extent That the Men Will Be Started on Full Time with the New Year, Discussion on the Federation of Trades, The Example Which the Leeds Trades Council Are Setting Might Be Followed by Example by Other Trade and Labour Councils, The Hosiery Trade in Nottingham Is No Better, The Trades Council Had a Demonstration in Commemoration of Their 25th Anniversary on Friday Last, in the Town Hall, and a Torchlight Procession from the Bull Ring, Co-Operation for the Boot and Shoe Trade. Fiction, drama: Maud Morton Chapter XXXIV, The Lost Lady of Lone, People of the Period, Maud Morton Chapter XXXV, Maud Morton Chapter XXXIII. Letter to the editor: Female Organisation To the Editor of the Workman's Times, To the Editor of the Workmans, The Power of the Vote To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Carpenters' Strike To the Editor of the Workman's Times, An Independent Labour Party To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers and Confectioners and Arbitration To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Kidderminster Notes, The Federation of All Trades To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Manchester Corporation Workmen To the Editor of the Workman's Times, United Builders' Labourers' Union (Brighton Branch) To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Mr. James Macdonald and the Amalgamated Society of Tailors [Third Letter], Champion in Australia To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Lock-Out at Buckfastleigh An Appeal. Shipping news: Some Well Known Shipowners Send Their Ships to Sea, Manned by Brave British Seamen Who Have to Live in Rooms That Are Not Fit for the Housing of Dogs. Classified ads: Multiple Classified Advertisements.
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