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News from 12/06/1891

1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, J. B. Glaster, James Dunn, G. Haley, W. H. Blow, John Kelly, Thomas Brennan, James E. Kay, Fred Collingwood,

Frontmatter: The Workman's Times. News: Notes by Upholsterer, Since I Introduced the Times Here 36 of Its Regular Subscribers Have Gone Away to Different Towns and Got Jobs at as Much as 5s. To 10s. Per Week More Money than They Were Paid Here; so If Men Want to Help to Better Their Position and Get Justice Done to Them, They Will Practice What That Paper Teaches Them, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, It Is Generally Refreshing to See Ourselves as Others See Us, and Perhaps Mr. Tom Mann and Mr. John Burns Will Be Obliged to Us for Noting That the Only Thing about the 'Busmen's Strike Which the Birmingham Daily Gazette Regrets "Is That Messrs. Mann and Burns Are among Its Leaders, I Am Glad to Learn That the Stockton New Park Will Be Soon Commenced in the Laying out of It, The Following Are Specimens of the Mode of Treatment Culled from Letters to the Local Papers from Employes, The Banking Classes of Australia Are down on the New Trades Unionism (Just as They Are in England), and Bankers Rave about Them Not Knowing Who They Are, His Archery, Notes by Tim, Leeds Leeds Notes, Mr. Tom Mann Was the Chairman at the House Dinner of the United Democratic Club on Saturday Night, The Labour Commission, Notes by Gas, "Daughter," Said Mrs. Bellows Indignantly, after John Jimpson Had Taken His Departure,"How Came Your Hair so Disarranged?", Self-Tormentor, It Is a Wonderful Place for Disillusioning a Body, Workmen's Notes and Notions Leicester and Leicestershire, On Sunday Evening Messrs. Bartley and Halford Attended a Meeting of the Bradford Branch of the General Railway Workers' Union, at the Granby Hotel, Union-Street, Bradford, Southampton Notes, Good News, Mr. Editor, The London Carpenters & Joiners' Strike Meeting in Hyde Park, The General Meeting of the Smethwick Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Wood Sawyers and Wood Cutting Machinists Was Held on Saturday Last at the Plough Inn, Oldbury-Road, Smethwick, Ilkeston Notes, Working Men of Bootle, Call and Order Your Workman's Times at 133, Derby-Road, Notes by Hal Re Val, The Lock Makers Have Got on All Right with Their Second 5 Per Cent on Saturday Last, and They Want It, for They Cannot Get Money Enough to Make Them Independent Now, so I Hope Trade Will Be Good for Them to Get More, Household Hints, A Few Intelligent Men of the Union Informed Me That My Notes Have Been Read Every Week with Much Interest Amongst the Men in Withy's Yard, and That My Dialogue Was Reckoned Entirely to the Mark, Just One Other Small Item, and Then I've Done Jawing This Week, or You Will Say I Am like the Great Stanley, Ha! Ha! News Again, The Monthly Meeting of the Leicester Building … Council Was Held at the Working Men's … Street, on Tuesday Week, While upon This Subject, I Ought to Mention That the London Society of Compositors Have Addressed a Circular Letter to All Members of Parliament Requesting Their Favourable Consideration of the Trades Union Provident Funds Bill, Prepared and Brought in by Mr. Howell, Mr. Broadhurst, Mr. Burt, Mr. Fenwick, and Mr. John Wilson, to Exempt the Funds of Trades Unious Paying Provident Benefits to Their Members from the Payment of Income Tax on Their Investments, Stockton Notes, There Has Been Some Talk of Forming a Tra… Council in Birkenhead, I Always like to Hear of Schemes for Assisting the Very Poor to Lead More Comfortable Lives, Boot and Shoe Notes, Blyth Notes, A Tall Sort, There Is Nothing Stirring Amongst the Various Other Societies, Mr. J. H. Wilson and the Cardiff Stipendiary, I Should Say That There Was a Great Deal of This Flitting in and out for the Greater Portion of the Evening, First, Then, Let Me Call the Attention of All Concerned to the Birkenhead Electoral Association, an Organisation Which Is Capable of Doing Much to Elevate the Masses, If Some Practical Assistance Were Given by Each and Every Member, and Some Course Adopted Whereby Its Rank Would Be Immediately Strengthened, Jarrow Notes, Morley, The Baccarat Scandal, I Am Deeply Concerned in the Grievances of All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Mr. Consul Hayes Sadler, Writing on Labour Prospects in Chicago, Speaks Unfavourably of the State Being a Place for Emigrants from England to Come To, The Cabman's Strike, The Preparations for the Laundresses Demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday Next Are Progressing Apace, The Birmingham Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Boot and Shoe Makers Have Decided to Go in for an Advance of 6d. Per Pair All round, with a Slight Advance on Extras, About Wild Oats, A Serious State of Affairs Has Been Exposed at Birmingham by Mr. W. J. Davis, General Secretary of the Brassworkers' Society, Who Alleges That Sweating Has Been Carried on in the Royal Small Arms Factory in That Town, Bristol, In View of the Movement Headed by Mr. Chamberlain for the Providing of Old Age Pensions for British Workmen, a Few Particulars of a Scheme Which Is to Be Laid before the French Chamber by M. Constans, Minister of the Interior, May Not Be out of Place, The Coal Trimmers in the Harbour Are Very Busy, a Large Number Have Been Started This Week to Night Shift, America Is the Land of Big Things, Let Me Give a Word of Warning to the Nonunionist Joiner, Broadway, New York, Funeral Directions, … That the Society of Designers and the Member Is Still Improving, and the Members …Sing, She:"Darling, Do You Love Me?", Sir Charles Lilley Has Had a Special Vote of Thanks Accorded Him for His Address When Laying the Foundation Stone of the Brisbane Trades Union Hall, Mark Twain and the Lady Passenger, A Few Epitaphs, Talking about an Independent Labour Party, I Am Glad to Be Able to Tell My Readers That "Nunquam," of the Sunday Chronicle, Has Undertaken to Fight in East Bradford on Independent Labour Lines, Labour Movements Abroad, Well, Sir, the Strike at Messrs. Cochrane's Works Has Ended, by the Men Submitting to the Reduction Asked for of 5 Per Cent, after Being out Nearly a Month, and This I Fully Expected, as They (the Pipe Pit Men) Have No Support, During the past Week a Rather Unexpected Visit Was Made to One of Our Factories by the Inspector of Factories (Captain Armstrong), I Mentioned Last Week That the London Society of Compositors Were Taking a Ballot on the Question Whether the Provident Benefit Should Be Extended for Six Weeks, I Should Think Anyone Reading Your Valuable Paper Would Not Hesitate to Become a Trades Unionist, Seeing What Low Wages Are Being Paid about the Country, and yet Some Men Have the Face to Tell Me That Unious Are No Good, and I Know That the Union Has Got Them Shorter Hours and Better Wage; but There Are Some Animals That Go about with Long Tails That Have Better Principles than Some Men, Barometrical Readings, Multiple News Items, I Am in Receipt of the Monthly Report of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners for June, As My Readers Will Admit, There Is a Genun … about the Foregoing, The London Correspondent of the Evening News Has so Seldom an Encouraging Word for Say for the Toiling Masses or the Advocates of Labour's Rights, That I Cannot Refrain from Quoting a Portion of His London Letter of Tuesday Last, I Believe There Is a Little Friction at Present down Here between the Shipwrights and Joiners, Topics of the Times, There Must Be a Screw Loose Somewhere, as It Is Now Twelve Months since a Motion Was Unanimously Carried at a Council Meeting of the D. M. A. That Shorter Hours for Boilerminders and Firemen Be Sought for, and Has Been There Once or Twice since and Each Time Passed, but Where These Motions Have Gone or What Has Been Done to Carry Them into Effect Is Almost a Mystery, The above Letter, as Mr. Siddall States, Was Sent out by Him Some Time Ago, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following … in Newcastle, My Readers Will Remember That Last Week I Mentioned the Fact That the Queen's Autographs Were Being Hawked up and down the Auction-Rooms of the Country, I See That the Attempt of the Government Police to Fasten a Charge of Intimidation on the People's Man, To Wives, Notes by Fabian, The Board of Cencilation and Arbitration in the London Boot and Shoe Taade Had a Bit of a Breeze at Their Last Meeting, Leicester Will Soon See the Introduction of Some New Machinery, Amongst Which Is to Appear the American Lasting Machine, in Which the Question Arises as to Whether It Is Going to Be of Any Benefit to the Working Class, Somebody Has Sent Me a Copy of the Anti-Jacobin, in Which I Find, Marked, an Article on "National Insurance", Now, Just a Few Words about the Fishermen, The Flattering Encomiums, Mr. Editor, Passed upon Your Voluntary Correspondents Cannot but Be Acceptable to Them as Ample Reward for the Amount of Labour Undergone in Contributing in a Small Way to Keep in Existence a Paper Which Some of Our Labour Leaders Have Pronounced to Be the Best Labour Paper in Circulation, I Nearly Forgot, Mr."Magneto," to Tell You Our Newsagent Is Working Very Hard to Sell the Workman's Times, The Potteries Notes, I Looked round for Labour Members and Friends of Labour, Hours of Labour of Railway Servants, The Braintree Bootmakers A More Conciliatory Tone, On Another Question Closely Allied to Labour Representation, Lord Ripon Showed That He Had Learned a Lesson Much Needed by His Peers, "Not Guilty, but Don't Do It Again," Seems to Have Been the Verdict of the Braintree Magistrates in a Recent Alleged Assault Case Arising out of the Lock-Out at Mr. Fuller's Boot Factory at That Place, But If This Is to Be Achieved Money Will Have to Be Forthcoming More Plentifully than as yet, Mr. Otley Next Referred to the Strike at Halifax, Yorkshire, and Hoped the Men in London Would Not Forget to Support Them in Every Possible Way, as by Such Help Success Would Be Assured, and Concluded by Calling upon the Members to Remain Firm to the Union Hoping That When He Again Visited Deptford He Would Still Find Them Progressing, Manchester Chimney Sweeps, Wearside Notes by Wreny, Barnsley Notes, The Hartlepools Notes, Why, Sir, Really, What's Got John?, I Ask the Operatives as a Body, Have They Done Their Part?, Federation, The Royal Arms and Flags, The Chairman Said He Would Ask Mr. … Barnsley, Secretary, to Say Just a Few … Mr. Carbutt Said That Whatever He Could … Them in the Way They Would Have to Keep Their Books, He Would with Pleasure Do It, The Baby's Autograph, Last Week I Brought the Report of the Action of the London Society of Compositors on the County Council Printing Contract up to the Point Where the General Purposes Committee Recommended That the County Council Do Not Accept Messrs. Rider and Son's Tender, as They Were Not Satisfied That They Paid the Rate of Wages Recognised as Fair for London Work, Notes by Gossip Notes, Shefflield, On Friday Night I Went down to Northam to the Open-Air Meeting, Which Was a Very Large One, The Church Was Beautifully Decorated with Sweet Flowers and the Air Was Heavy with Their Fragrance, The Secretary Read a Communication He Had Received from the Town Clerk of Liverpool in Which Was Enclosed a Copy of a Resolution Passed by the Sweating Committee of the Council, While on the Subject It May Be Well If I Quote for the Benefit of the Master Builders Some of the Numerous Advances Which Have Been Made to Carpenters and Joiners in the Provinces during the Present Year, Banbury Notes, I See the Blackleg Is Still Stalking about the Country, When I Wrote My "Notes" Last Week I Was Not … That a Meeting of National Shipyards and Hugmeering Federation Had Been Held in Manchester on Saturday, and That They Had the Matter under Their Consideration, and Decided "That Should the Engineers Refuse to Accept Such a Reasonable … of Settlement as Arbitration or Conciliation, That the Executive Be Empowered to Take Any Steps They May Think Advisable to Protect the Interests of Those Trades Represented on the Federation, Another of the Actions for Perjury Preferred by Mr. J. H. Wilson, Secretary of the Seamen and Firemen's Union, against Certain Cardiff Boarding Masters, Was to Have Been Heard at the Cardiff Police Court on Monday Morning, Some Person, Who Evidently Wishes to "Pull the Strings, Got a Paragraph in Our Local Evening Paper One Night Last Week, to the Effect That Messrs. Patterson (Durham Miners), Mr. Bright, of the Shipbuilders and Boilermakers' Society, and Mr. Wilkre, of the Shipwrights' Association, Had Been Chosen as Three Gentlemen from Which to Select a President for Next Congress, Newcastle Notes, Ipswich Ipswich Notes, Uncle Mose's Wish, I Contend That This State of Things Could Not Exist Were It Not for the Abuse of Our Present System of Party Government, The Strike of London 'Busmen, Our £100 Prize Offer, "Well, Never Mind, Johnny, If You Did Make a Mistake", Notes by Plasterer, Notes by Bruno, An Old Election Dodge, Dodgson:"Moses, It Likes Me That These Tronsers Are Too Short", Walsall Notes, The Hard Drinkers Are Thankful for the Cold Weather, Brother Gardner's Limekiln Club, The Slaters Are Coming Slowly up with the … of the Other Halfpenny or No Slating, What We Think, Mr. Davis Will Not Shirk the Responsibility of the Situation, but Courts the Fullest Enquiry, so It Is to Be Hoped That the Matter Will Not Be Allowed to Drop, I Have a Little Item of Good News to Communicate, Mr. Editor. Mr. J. Cassar, of Edinburgh, Is Energetically Circulating Copies of the Workman's Times among His Brother Trade Unionists, and Using His Best Endeavours to Try and Persuade Them to Take a Copy Regularly, The Appeal of the Houghton Miners against the Decision of the Magistrates Who Fined Them 1d., The Brickmakers' Strike Still Continues, and the Men Are More Determined than Ever, as They Are Receiving Their Weekly Allowance, Which, We All Know, Is Not Sufficient, but It Is as Much as Can Be Expected from a Union Whose Weekly Contribution Is Only 2d. Per Member, Chester Notes, Mr. Dunn, on Rising, Said: as This Is Not the First Time I Have Addressed Some of You Here for the Purpose of Trying to Organise the Female Workers of the Various Large Works in the Town, It Is Not My Intention to Say Much to You To-Night, Only the Other Day the Right Hou. A. J. Balfour Had Something to Say about the Party System, But for Putting Pressure on Members of Parliament Commend Me to the Laundresses, The Following Is an Extract from the Letters Ferred to by Mr. Haley, Another Meeting Has Been Convened, the Committee Having Issued a Printed Circular Addressed to Journeymen Upholsterers, and Impressing upon Them the Utmost Importance of Joining the Society If the Movement Is to Be a Success, It Really Looks as If the Contest between Mr. J. H. Wilson and Mr. F. W. Lewis, the Recorder of Cardiff, Was Likely to Prove Historical, His Honour and Bijah "Them Women", Notes by Presser, Anniversary Dinner, The Branch Was Then Formed, and a Very Successful Meeting Was Brought to a Close with a Vote of Thanks to the Barnsley Branch for … to Assist Them in Forming the First Female Organisation in the District, The Key Filers Are Still Working on to Improve Their Down-Trodden State, for They Are a Class of Very Poor Paid Men at Present, Workpeople's Pensions, The Liverpool County Council Could Do with a Few Lessons from the London County Council on the Question of Fair Contracts, Notes by Onward Notes, Now, When Socialists, in Support of Their Schemes of Municipal and Government Management of Industries, Call Attention to What Has Already Been Done in That Direction, Merely to Justify the Assumption That Something Further Can Be Done, They Are Sometimes Met with the Query from Uneducated Workers,"How Is It That the Employes Are Treated as Badly in Government Shops as in Private Manufactories?", The Commission That Is Getting at the Truth about the Hours of Railway Servants Has Had Some Strange Evidence Put before It, and I Cannot Help Wondering, Considering the Way the Commission Is Made up, What Kind of a Report It Will Present When the Time Comes for That Interesting Performance, You Have, I See, Another New Writer from Stockton This Week,"Hal-Re-Val", Nottingham and Notts Nottingham Notes, "Nunquam" for East Bradford, The Independent Labour Party in Bradford "Nunquam" to Stand for East Bradford, The Marquis of Ripon Delivered a Very Sensible Speech on Labour Representation at the Annual Dinner of the Oxford University Palmerston Club on Saturday Evening, I Notice That Mr. Tom Mann Was a Speaker at a Meeting Called by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers on Sunday Morning in the East India Dock-Road, Birmingham Notes, Notes by Magneto, Notes by Early Bird. Editorial: Manchester and Salford Notes, We Know Individuals Serving on the Executive Whose Characters Are Blameless, and Who Are Eminently Trustworthy in Themselves, Workmen's Notes and Notions Hull, Well, Sir, in One of Our Local Papers the Following Appeared under the Heading "Employing Non-Union Labour", Mention of the Evening News and Post Reminds Us How Completely the Attitude of That Paper on the 'Busmen's Strike Justifies the Comments We Were Forced to Make Last Week, We Are Going to Have a Visitor in the Person of Mr. J. H. Wilson, the Friend of the Sailor, Who Has Suffered Imprisonment at Cardiff—For What? Why, for Being What the Capitalists Call an Agitator, I … Your London Correspondent Would Give Us a Little More News as to the Great Strike of Carpenters and … at London, I Think, Mr."Magneto," That Our Delegate Is Asleep, as I Have Not Seen Him for Several Weeks, and I Think We Should Have Some Account from the Trades Council. Letter to the editor: Letters to the Editor, Labour Versus Labour To the Editor of the Workman's Times, To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Brentford Guardians A Case for Investigation, Grimsby Notes, Portsmouth Notes, Amalgamation of Railway Men To the Editor of the Workman's Times, To All Electrical Workers To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Recent National Labour Federation Conference To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Amalgamated Society of Mill Sawyers and Wood Cutting Machinists To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Tyneside and National Labour Union and Grimsby Dockers To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Operative Bricklayers' Society, Election of General Secretary To the Editor of the Workman's Times. Poem, verse: Poetry, Wake up, Ye Poor Toilers. Fiction, drama: Two Stories of Niagara, Chapter XXXVI Tessa's Situation Darkens, The Old Life's Shadows Chapter XXXV. Continued, A Wonderful Lion Story, The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap ChapterXXXVI, Chapter XXXVII Cap's Return. Prayer: At a Negro Prayer Meeting One of the Brethren Earnestly Prayed That They Might Be Preserved from What He Called Their "Upsettin' Sins". Arts and entertainment: After This Concert Was over the Bulk of Those Who Had Been Present Resolved Themselves into a Committee to Aid the 'Busmen in the Strike' That Was about to Commence at Midnight. Business: Birmingham Trades Council, Notes by Thorough Notes, Notes by Railway Notes, The Walsall Trades Council Are Evidently Moving a Little Better Now, as They Have Had Their First Anniversary, New Astle Trades Council, Enderby Notes, Notes by Lace, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead, Action against a Trade Union, Any News Respecting the Proposed "Trades Hall" for Hull Will Be Thankfully Received by Me. Review: Review The Old Order and the New.