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News from 21/08/1891

1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

George Jaques, M. Tucs, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, A. P. Borgia, Fidus Achates, Fidus Achates, Jack Wire, John McHugh, Mr. Pete Curran, W. A. Carlile,

Frontmatter: The Workman's Times. News: Notes by Pant Hand, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, Manchester and Salford, Newcastle, By the Time This Reaches the Eye of Your Readers the Labour Representation Committee Will Have Met to Finally Decide Which Are to Be the Wards and Who Are to Be the Candidates for Next November, It Is Rather upon the Attitude of the Other Sections of Industry Towards the Shop Assistants That I Wish to Direct the Attention of Your Readers, Because We Realise That There Is Only One Agency by Which We Can Secure Those Remedial Measures Which We Claim, and That Agency We, the Shop Men, Must Provide, A Hypnotic Prisoner, Pembroke Dock and District, Narrow Escape of 1,600 Passengers Saved by Three Feet, Distressing Paraffin Lamp Accident, The Shop Assistants, through the National Union, Are Breaking Loose from the Insufferable Burden Which Their Two Enemies Have Heaped up over and around Them, Drill Sergeant to Recruit:"Did I Not Tell You to Come on Parade Nate and Clane, and Here's the Back of Your Neck as Black as the Devil, I Am in Receipt of the Following Letter, It Will Be Rather Interesting to Hear the Report of the President of the Trades Council upon His Return from the Socialist Congress at Brussels, "Say, Jones, Have You Been with the Phrenolegist?, During the Deliberations of the Council, Mr. Drinkwater Was Elected as Delegate to Attend the Trades Congress, to Be Held at Newcastle Next Month, and Mr. Holmes, of the Amalgamated Hosiery Union, to the International Labour Congress in Belgium in Conjunction with Other Local Trades, What Are the Inspectors Doing to Remedy This? Nothing at All, Fatal Stabbing Affray, Mr. A. Haddleton … Council Addressed a … Workers on Strike from the … Friday Night Last, Housebreaking at an M. P.'s Residence, Ilkeston and District, The Housekeeper's Beer, At the Monthly Meeting of the New South Wales Typographical Association the Following Resolution Was Carried, Notes by Gas, I Spoke about Coachmakers Last Time, and I Am Very Glad to Say That I Hear Several Have Joined the G. R. W. U.; but This Time I Am Going to Try and Point out a Few Things to the Men in General, as It Is to Their Interests, The Charge of Abduction Sensational Evidence, Notes by Sheaf, Exciting Pursuit and Capture, A "Division" in the House, Organizing Gasworkers and General Labourers Meeting at Bootle, Why Pine through Adversity?, Notes by Hopeful, The Citizen Has Been Studying the Reports of the London General Omnibus, the London Road Car, and the South Metropolitan Gas Companies, Meeting at Liverpool, A Voice from the Shop Assistants, Duration of Life, A Meeting to Try and Bring about a Grand Scheme of Federation Will Be Held at Limehouse Town Hall on Friday, 21st, at 7.30, When All Branches of This Union Are Invited to Send a Delegate, The Following Societies Have Already Made Grants, How the Beanstalk Failed, Household Hints, The Dismissal of Stationmaster Hood on the Cambrian Railway Is Distinctly a Matter for Inquiry by the Labour Commission, Since Writing the above Notes I Am Glad to Hear That the Norwich Dispute Is Settled by the Employers Accepting the Local Rules Presented to Them by the Men, Although One or Two of the Builders Still Remain Obdurate and Refuse to Sign, Now, Mr. Editor, I Think This a Step in the Right Direction, and I Firmly Believe That If the Societies Represented on the Council Will Only Copy This Example Set Them by the Boot and Shoe Society the Result Will Be the Same, The Good Old Days, Sheffield, I Hear That a Good Number of Men Are out of the Union, The Engineers' Delegates Believe That the Factory Inspectors Ought to Be Put on the Track of the Employers, in Order to Put a Stop to This Violation of the Factory Acts, Fall of a Roof: One Man Killed and One Injured, In the Old Days, Wit in Court Was More Frequently Heard than It Is Now, Attempted Suicide by a Lady Singular Letters, The Murder of Servant Girls in Austria, To My Mind the Most Interesting, but Also the Most Distressing, Business Was the Case of Mr. George Robinson, Ex-President of the Council, The Brussels Labour Congress Is Holding Its Meetings This Week, but at the Time of Writing (Tuesday) Not Much Had Been Done Except Preliminary Work, Operative Stonemasons' Notes, A Sailor's Fatal Leap, The Hartlepools, A Cab Horse Killed, Two Mutilated Coins, It Will Be Seen from the Report of the Adjourned Meeting of the London Society of Compositors That a Grant of £30 Was Made to the Carpenters Strike, and That It Was Decided to Have a Ballot as to Whether an Additional £70 Should Be Granted, The Men of Messrs. J. Hartley and Co., Glass Workers, Sunderland, Have Now Been out on Strike about 27 Weeks, Hysterical Women and "Jack the Ripper", The Labourers round Banbury Understand the Benefits of Organisation, for the Older Ones Tell Us That They Were Members of the Agricultural Labourers' Union Some Years Ago, and Obtained a General Rise of 2s. To 3s. A Week, with Scarcely a Struggle, but When They Left the Union Their Rise Left Them, What an Old Man …, The Labour Party Ought to Have One Man in the Town Council for Every Ward in the Town, Banbury, Man Killed by a Bull, Chase after a "Swell" Thief, Walsall, How French Officials Elicit the Truth, Notes by Nonshan, The Labour Vote in St. Anne's Ward Is Likely to Go against McMillen, Now as the Labour Commission Is Anxious to Get All the Evidence Together They Can, Especially for Government Servants, What Steps Are You Taking to Place a Report before the Commission, The Day Workmen Have Surely Got Some Little Concessions Made to Them, Multiple News Items, I Beg New, and in Future, to Subscribe Myself, Lost Teeth, His Honour and Bijah, Old Charms, Probable Labour Candidate for South Salford, Workmen's Notes and Notions Nottingham and Notts, One Rule Which Has Been Framed Exempts All Members Who Are out of Employment from Payment until They Again Resume Work, and I Think It Would Be Wise If They Frame One Which Will Prove Beneficial to Those Members Doing Next to Nothing, … and Invitations for Me to Attend … May Be Left at the Barber's. 117, Tatton, I Am Asked to State That a Fabian Society Will Be … Bradford, and That All Persons Willing to … with a. T. Maths, 10, … Leeds, There Is One Thing I Should like to See, and That Is I Should like to See Some of the Members of the Hartlepools Trade Council Turn up to Good Old Mac.'S Meetings and Give Him a Little Assistance, for in All His Addresses It Is Trades Unionism First and His Society Afterwards, and This Is the Principle Adopted By, The Assistant Secretary, W. H. Ward, Was the Speaker at the Meeting Held on the Same Morning Opposite Christ Church, East Greenwich, The Labour Party in Salford, Wearside, "I Live in Julia's Eyes," Said an Affected Dandy in Colman's Hearing, Whether Benjamin Gregory, of Ilkeston, Is Capable of a Physical Demonstration I Do Not Know, but I Learn from a Very Authoritative Source That the Manager at a Certain Colliery Has Stated His Determination to Test Ben's Qualities, Should Be Step on to the Colliery Premises, on Any Matter Connected with the Miners' Association, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead Notes, Fabian Notes, Shocking Accident with Molten Metal, "Two Too Much", London Society of Compositors, Lincoln Joiners Are out on Strike for 1d. Per Hour Advance on 6¾d. Per Hour, The Workman's Times Can Be Obtained from E. Banks, Grange-Lane, or Mrs. Banks, 117, Bentinck-Street, Birkenhead, Now, Fellow-Workmen, Do Give This Your Attention, and Look into the Future and Picture Yourself and Families in Two Different Lights, I Am Glad to Say Unionism Is Getting on the Increase Here in All the Different Branches, and the Few Members That Have Gone Bad in Our Branch Will Do Well to Pay up, or They May Be Sorry for There Neglect before Long, I Hope the G. W. And G. L. Union Will Investigate the Case of One of Their Members Who Lately Lost His Work Here, and Is Now Working out of the Town, Mcgregor Is Still Going on with His Mission, The Lady and the Judge, A Fatal Fight for £1, Josh Billings on Courting, Some Time Ago a Union Was Started Amongst the Match Girls in Liverpool, Whose Number I Should Think Would Go into Four Figures, but It Only Lasted a Short Time; in Fact, Had Ceased to Exist before It Had Had Time to Mature, Another Mushroom City, "W. M. T., " the Author of "Public and Social Letters" in Reynolds, in His Last Contribution, Has a Bit of a Hit on His Own Account at "Labour Leaders" and Labour Newspapers, Notes by Jack Wire, A Signeous Incident, A Hornsey Romance, Charge against a Bank Cashier, The Assistant Secretary, Who Had Been Attending a Meeting in Stratford, Having Put in an Appearance, Was Called on to Follow, Which He Did in His Usual Impressive and Humorous Style, A Discussion Arose as to the Advisability of Paying a Levy of Threepence Per Member a Week into the Federation, and Making the Federation the Strike Fund, I Had the Pleasure Last Thursday, Grindstone Accident, … Bounce about Being the True Friends … the Local Liberal Press Is the First to … up at the Conduct of Those Working … Determined to No Longer Be Led by the … Parties and Factions, What Do You Think?, How to Obtain the "Workman's Times", The Hull Building Council, I Am Glad to Say, Is a Complete Success, Leeds, A Suicide's Letter to His Wife, I Must Thank "Yokel" for Speaking about the Branch of G. R. W. U., for He Has Put Words into My Mouth That I Had Forgot, Physical Training in Schools, … Spent Three Months in … with E. R. Pease the Secretary … Society, Studying the Social …, An Ex-Chief Constable Charged with Theft, Walker-On-Tyne, A Woman with a History, A Terrible Death, There Is an Aspect Which I Hope May Receive the Attention of an Abler Writer; That Is, as a Recent Writer Suggested, the Poverty Prevalent in the Cases of the Majority of Potters, Golden Thoughts, Now as Englishman I Ask You Where Is the Liberty That We Are Supposed to Have in This Country?, Savage Assault by a Lodging-House Keeper, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, The "Concession" Made by the Directors of the Sheffield Tramways Company to Their Employes in Response to the Agitation among Their Employes Is Not at All Likely to Give Satisfaction to the Men, The Potteries, Enderby and District, Everybody Seems to Have an Opinion That the Agricultural Labourer Is a Fool, There Is Nothing More Remarkable in This Strike than the Devoted Way in Which the Picketing Is Conducted, I Am Sorry to See the Blackpool Brothers Take the View They Have with Respect to the Application Now before the Society, and Emanating from the Peckham Lodge, for a Grant of £100 to Assist the Carpenters of London, The Plasterers of Halifax Are Still Striking, but Gaining Ground, What We Think, The Crisis for Local Tram Workers Has Come, A Yankee Playbill, At the Monthly Meeting of the Council on the 12th of August I Was Pleased to See Mr. Hardstaff Again in the Chair, after a Severe Illness of about Six Weeks, and Sincerely Hope He Will Continue to Improve, Birmingham, Birmingham Typograph …, A Thrilling Rat Hunt, Persecuting a Nurse, Stealing a Diamond Ring for a Sweetheart, A Respectably Dressed Man (24), Who Had Given the Name of William Williams, and Described Himself as a Waiter Who Had Just Lost His Situation in London, Has Committed Suicide by Hanging Himself at the Police Station at Kingsclere, near Newbury, Whither He Had Been Taken in Consequence of His Extraordinary Conduct at Newtown House, the Residence of Sir Alexander J. Arbuthnot, A Foolish Youth, … through Study of the … Other Forms of Labour … He Intends Resigning His … Order to Devote, The Co-Operative Festival at the Crystal Palace on Saturday Last Was a Great Success, at Least That Is the Impression We Gather from the Reports in the Press, These and Many More Excuses Are Daily Rendered, and It Is Clearly Manifest the Closer the Workman Has to Keep to His Labour in the Hope of Earning a Small Pittance, the Less He Thinks of His Share of the Profits," and Unity Is the Faintest Imagination, Another Meeting Was Held on the Sunday Following, When One of the Sugar Workers Took the Chair, Stockton, There Are a Few Working Men Though I Find That Are Sensible Enough to Try to Better Their Everyday Life, A Girl Assaulted in a Train, On Saturday, August 39th, a Trades … Outing Takes Place to West Mersea to Celebrate the Formation of a Trades and Labour Council for Colchester and District, An Irishman, Struggling to Get on a Pair of New Boots, Exclaimed, A Cute Clerk, Burnt from Head to Foot, Vitriol Throwing by a Barmaid, Now That the Shop Assistants Have Stepped into the Labour Movement, and Are Doggedly Pacing the Adamant Road Which the Older Trade Unionists Have Been Laying on Their March to the Seat of Power, and That Storehouse Which Contains the Antedote That Shall Cure the Grievous Wrongs Which the Labourers and the Children of Labourers Have Been Suffering so Patiently for Ages, A Parochial Romance, There Is Just Such Another Silly Little Strike on at Norwich, with about Six on the Roll, North and South Shields, If the above Reports Are Facts Which I Have Reason to Believe, Prosecution or Persecution?, Notes by Magneto, Notes by Plastic, The Strike and Lock-Out of London Carpenters and Joiners, Servants and Breakages. Editorial: We Hear a Good Deal about the Housing of the Poor and the Unsanitary Conditions of Our Dwellings, The Strike at St. Helens, If We May Term It Such, for There Are Only Three on the Roll, Is Simply Sickening, Our Contributor "Fabius" Is Evidently Determined to Do What He Can to Draw Attention to the Propaganda and Propagandists of the Fabian School, … Whisper to Our Yorkshire Friends That … Workers Are Stirring up, Stimulated … Bradford and Colne Valley, and … Requsition Is in … Another Well Known Friend … of Course, During the Week We Have Been Fairly Startled, Our Ears Are so Often Filled with Complaints of Workmen against Men Placed in Authority over Them, and Who Exercise Their Authority to the Very Letter, That We Are Bound to Draw a Line, but There Is One Case Which I Think Worth Recording, Plymouth, Our Present Work Here, Mr. Editor, Consists … Strengthening the Branches Already Formed, Bro. Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club Inconsistencies of Religionists, If We Had Been Working Hand in Hand We Could Have Passed the Remainder of Our Days Here in This Nice Little Country Town or Village Unmolested by Anything, and When the Eight Hours' Day Comes, Which I Hope Won't Be Long, We Should Be Able to Attend to Our Cottage Gardens and Not Feel Over-Tired, Whereas If You Don't Organise Yourselves, When You Get Home You Will Sit down and Be Glad to Stop There or Go to Bed, for You Will Feel Too Tired to Do Anything, and What Will Become of Your Nice Little Garden in the Front or Back, and the Little Necessaries a Man Can Do When He Gets Home?, A Case Has Just Been Brought under Our Notice Which Shows the Great Necessity of Watching the People Who Tender for Public Work, Grimsby, We Sleep, but the Loom of Life Never Stops; and the Pattern Which Was Weaving When the Sun Went down Is Weaving When It Comes up To-Morrow, Our Friends of the O. B. S. Still Keep Pegging Away, Now Let Us Look at the Moral Side of the Question, We Have Had a Series of Grand Successes This Year so Far, without Any Strikes of Importance, We Are Hearing a Great Deal about the Labour Triumph in New South Wales Just Now. Songsheet, music: Federation Is in the Air. Letter to the editor: Female Organisation To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Independent Labour Party A Few Sparks from Sheffield, Eastleigh and Bishopstoke, Notes by Plasterer, The Regulation of the Hours of Labour To the Editor of the Workman's Time, The Royal Commission on Labour Mr. Ralph Young's Evidence, Mr. Editor, You Will Have to Print Me a Special Copy of Your Times for This District before We Have Done Organising, for from What We Hear You Will Soon Get a Lot of Correspondents from Here. Poem, verse: Poetry The Labourer's Lament. Business: "Vigilant" Will Be Pleased to Forward Trade News to This Paper, and Will Either Attend Trade Meetings, If Invited, or Secure the Services of Co-Worker to Give a Report of the Same on Application to Address to Be Found at the Bottom of Notes Each Week, Owing to the Holidays Trade Union Notes Are a Scarce Commodity, so Teesite, Not Caring to Make Bricks without Straw, Begs to Apologise for His Short-Comings This Week, and Conclude, and Then His Him-Self Away on to the Everlasting Hills and Enjoy the Ozone Breeze, and Listen to the Babbling Brooks, Having Recently Been Appointed to the Trades Council, Perhaps the Opinions of a New Delegate May Be Interesting to Your Readers, The Walsall Trades Council Held Their Monthly Meeting on Tuesday Week, When the Hours of Railway Servants Were Well Discussed for the Tenth Time, Newcastle Trades and Labour Council, The Trades and Labour Council Are Just Now Being Severely Sat upon by the School Board Chairman, Who Ostentatiously Places Himself in Front of Men of His Class, Saying,"As Chairman of the Board, If There Was Anyone to Be Shot at He Was the Man", Notes by Lace, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Notes by Lucifer, Nottingham and District Trades Council, Leicester and Leicestershire, Notes by Grinder, Railway Accidents in 1890, Trade Being Quite Dull with a Shopkeeper in One of the Principal Towns of France, He Placed in His Window the Following Placard, Socialism and Trade Unionism, Morley, Hull. 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