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News from 16/08/1889

1889; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

William Cryer, Sylvanus Cobb Jr., Miss Kate Vaughn, Thomas Cooper, Henry A. Goodyer, James Brown,

Frontmatter: Yorkshire Factory Times. News: Organisation Meeting at Haworth An Enthusiastic Gathering, Pete Was Resigned, That Factory Operatives Should Not Have Learnt the Danger of Cleaning Any Machine Whilst in Motion, with the Innumerable Accidents, More or Less Serious, That Have Occurred within the Memory of Even Very Young Persons, Appears to Us to Be One of the Things That Are Incomprehensible, The Power of Eloquence, The Course He Would Tare, Notices, A Tooth Out, Doctor:"And Now, as to the Swelling on the Back of Your Head, There Is Nothing Serious about It at Present, but You Must Keep Your Eye on It", "Ma," Said Bobby,"Is It Wrong for Little Boys to Tie Tin Kettles to Dogs' Tails?", Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, A Gorilla's Bride The Remarkable Adventure of an African Woman in the Congo Region, A Royal Angler, Lawyers in Texas, Factory Act Prosecution at Meltham, The Danger of Water Filtors, The Meeting at Howorth on Tuesday We Are Very Glad to See Was One of the Most Successful Meetings That the Weavers' Organisation Has Been Instrumental in Bringing about, Not Only from the Number of Names Which Were Given in at the Close of the Meeting, but Also from the Tone of the Meeting from Beginning to End, A "Reight" Sort of an Employer at Batley A Strike Settled through "The Factory Times", Mr. Waite, in His Remarks at the Meeting of His Weavers at Batley on Saturday, Told Messrs. Gand Turner That It Was the Duty of the Weavers' Association to Equalise the Rate of Wages in the Heavy Woollen District as Far as Lay in Their Power, Life in the Far West, A Column for Law Matters Rules for Enquiries, Moorish Husbands and Wives, The Dispute at Stainland Still Goes on, and It Appears to Be Coming to a Question of Endurance Rather than a Question of What Is a Fair Wage to Pay, "Yorkshire Factory Times" Postal Rates United Kingdom, Echoes from Yorkshire Mills and Workshops Huddersfield, Her Bitter Foe, General News, Ginevra, Serious Accident at a Balloon Ascent, Claim for Wages by a Piecer against a Minder, How Much Should a Person Eat?, Important Patent Appeal Proctor V. Henry Bayley & Sons, The Deputation of Recognised Labour Leaders from America Seem to Us to Have Missed Their Way at the Outset of Their Investigations, or Even Prior to Their Departure from America, How an Irish Soldier Won the Victoria Cross, "Yorkshire Factory Times" Reporting Staff Instructions to Correspondents, Dr. Harper's Patient, Some of the Differences between John Bull and Brother Jonathan, Organisation Meeting at Horbury, The Carpet Weavers' Association and Murdoch's Men, Sequel to a Breach of Promise, The Miser, An Honourable Sort of a Man, Preservation of the Eyesight, Household Hints, As It Ought to Be, The Condition of Labour in Bradford Mills III, Seeing Her Off, Dangerous. Editorial: We Are Much Surprised at the Apathy Shown by the Weavers of Leeds and District, after the Many Drubbings They Have Had at Various Times from Their Employers, and We Wonder When the Bulk of Them Will Be Thoughtful Enough to Become Connected with Their Organisation, Doubtless There Are Some of Our Readers Who Would like Us to Give as Much Publicity to Anything That Has a Tendency to Show That There Are Manufacturers Who Desire to Do the Best for Their Workpeople, as Far as Is Possible, with the Undue Competition That Arises from Men Who Have Neigher Thought nor Conscience for Anything or Any Body but Themselves, Law Cases Embezzlement by a Mill Manager at Burnley, Notes on Passing Events, We Wonder If an Employer Has Any Conscience Who Can Pay an Able-Bodied Man 9s. Per Week for 56 Hours' Work, Williams, The Technological Examinations in Weaving for 1889 Section II.—Wool and Worsted Weaving, We Have Received a Communication at Our Office in Respect to a Certain Firm in the Huddersfield District Who Are in the Habit, We Are Told, of Working Their Hands Illegal Hours, and They Request Us to Forward the Letter to the Factory Inspector, We Very Much Regret That in Our Article of August 2nd, Entitled "The Royal Visit to Halifax," "Our Own Commissioner" Should Have Supplied Us with Information Which We Have since Found to Be Inaccurate in Very Many Material Particulars with Reference to the Dispute at Standard Works, Once More We Are Told That in the Colne Valley a Reduction Is Going to Take Place or Has Taken Place in the Weavers' Wages, and Though It May Be Only a Small Amount, Namely, the Extras for One Cut, It Really Proves the Old Saying to Be Once More True That Straws Will Serve to Show Which Way the Wind Is Blowing, and That the Weakest Must Go to the Wall in Any Fight That Goes on between Capital and Labour, and That Unless Labour Is so Far Organised as to Be Able to Hold out for at Least Some Little Time They Are Simply Playing into the Hands of Capital by Standing Aloof from Trade Unions, We Do Not Wish in Any Sense That Readers of This Paper Should Come to the Conclusion That Our Columns Are Only Open to One Section of Factory Workers, We Are Glad to See That the Weavers' Association Are Still Determined to Make Hay While the Sun Shines, as We Notice They Held a Meeting at Horbury in One Part of the West Riding on Monday Night, and at Haworth on Tuesday in Another District, A Bingley Man's Home in America, We Were Shown a Piece of Cloth the Other Day Which Had Been Sold as a Worsted Piece Which Had Not One Particle of Worsted about It. Poem, verse: Jimmie Cobe, the Grinder, Poetry A Tuft of Heather. Fiction, drama: The Gunmaker of Moscow; or Vladimir the Monk Chapter XIV, Ethel's Love, or True and False Chapter XX, The Gunmaker of Moscow; or Vladimir the Monk Chapter XIII, The Butcher's Boy and the Baker's Girl, Ethel's Love, or True and False Chapter XIX, Ethel's Love, or True and False Chapter XVII. Classified ads: Joshua Marshall and Co. (Limited), Public Announcements. Business: The Dispute in the Lace Trade at Nottingham. Letter to the editor: Letters to the Editor, An Appeal to Wool Sorters To the Editor of the Factory Times, An Appeal to Workers to Unite To the Editor of the Factory Times, The Trials and Troubles of a Tuner To the Editor of the Factory Times.