News from 29/05/1891
1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Paul Hann, Ink Slingee, Ben Brisrley, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, George Copsey, George Chambers, Fidus Achates, Fidus Achates, Geo. Lovett, E. Bourne, Big Drummer, W. Brown, J. S. Keenan,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Workman's Times. Business: The Crisis in the London Tailoring Trade, What We Hear Building Trade, Long Eaton, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, The Federation of Trades, Trades Council, In This Scheme of Federation of Trades or Central Committee Composed of Representatives from All Societies, or Whatever It May Be Termed, Which Scheme, by the Bye, Is Contained in a Resolution, the Origin of Which Was the Subject of Comment, Occurs the Following, The Morley Trades and Labour Council Met on Saturday Night Last, When Their Rules Were Read and Passed, and Officers Elected for the Year, Hebburn Notes, Diary of Public Meetings Electrical Trades Union, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Nottingham and District Trades Council, At the Present Time in Birmingham Trade Unionism in Some Societies Is a Sham and a Mockery, The Trades Council Being a Representative Body (and Perhaps More so than Any Other Trades Council in the Kingdom outside of London), Should Try to Use Its Influence in Bringing about a Uniformity of Action Amongst All Classes of Labour with Regard to the General Requirements of Representation Both on Local Governing Bodies and in Parliament, Which to My Mind Is the Most Urgent Question at the Present Time They Have to Deal with, but I Am Afraid the Council, like Individual Organisations, Allow the Same Evils to Impede Its Influence, Viz. Selfishness and Party Feeling, Laundries and the Factory Acts, The Braintree Bootmakers' Lock-Out Meeting of Various Trades. News: Some Coroners Are Curious Persons, And Now, Mr. Editor, I Expect I Have Raised a Hornets' Nest about My Ears, but for That I Don't Care, Mr. Wilson Looks Well, but Is Much Thinner, but What Could We Expect after Six Weeks on "Skilley?", Workmen's Notes and Notions Sheffield, The "Big Shop" at Sutton-In-Ashfield Has Certainly Made Rapid Strides since Joining Hands with Their Fellow-Workers Elsewhere in the Cause of Unity, and Has Already, in Some Measure, Proved Itself a Grand Addition to the Ilkeston and District Hosiery Union, I Wish to Say, in Answer to a Newcastle Correspondent, That I Have Not a Scheme of National Insurance Ready to My Hand, and at Present It Is Not My Intention to Develop One, The Mule Would'nt Kick, I Find That I Have Made a Jump from Wednesday to Saturday, but I Suppose There Is No Objection to My Jumping Back Again, The Sub-Committee Appointed to Draw up the Rules for the Rotherham Trades Council, Held Their Second Meeting in St. George's Hall on Friday Evening Last, and Did an Exceedingly Good Night's Work, The above Committee Resolved to Invite the Members of All Trades Societies in This District the Attend a Mass Meeting in St. George's Hall, on Wednesday, June 3rd, to Consider What Action Shall Be Taken by Them on the Occasion of the Forthcoming Visit of the Prince of Wales to the Town, The Hard Lot of the Aged Poor, The New South Wales Labour Commission Is Unearthing Some Very Strong Evidence in Favour of Unionism, I Notice That the Delegates Were in a Critical Mood and Protested against Several Items of Expenditure Incurred by the Conjoint Committee, Notably £3 3s. 2d., By the Way, the Lockmakers Will Start on Their Other 5 Per Cent Rise (Which They Obtained in February Last) on the First of June Next, Making Them 10 Per Cent This Year, I Find I Shall Have to Make Another Jump If I Mean to Preserve Any Semblance of Continuity in These Notes, A Correspondent Has Sent Me a Tit-Bit from an American Journal, The Sights of the Blind Curious Anecdotes, There Have Been Some Scores of Labour Papers Started during the Last Twenty Years, and They Have All Failed, Morley Notes, If the Secretaries of the Various Societies Would Just Drop Me a Note or a Post Card Intimating Any Onward Move They May Be Making, It Would Not Only Encourage Me but It Would Encourage the Thousands of Your Readers to See That We in Manchester Are Keeping Pace with the Times, and Are at Least Doing Something to Hasten the Time When Working Men Will Sink Their Party Differences, and Rally round the Standard of Labour, Each Doing His Best to Promote the Welfare of His Brother Worker, Mr. E. Halford, the Secretary of the New Organisation, Attended at the Usual Fortnightly Meeting of the Bradford Branch of the General Railway Workers' Union, at the Granby Hotel, Bradford, on Sunday Evening, When, after Being Addressed by Mr. Halford, Most of These Present Gave in Their Names to Become Members of the New Organisation, I Attended a Meeting of the East End Tailors on Saturday Night in the Tailors' Hall, Booth-Street, Spitalfields, On Saturday Evening Mr. Toller Attended a General Meeting of the Members of the Bradford Branches at the Oddfellows' Hall, Thornton-Road, Bradford, I Wonder When Men Will Protect Themselves and Join Trade Unionists Societies, Jeremy Taylor on Marriage, Ilkeston Notes, The Independent Labour Party in Bradford Formation of a New Organisation, United Machine Workers' Association General Secretary's Address, Young Husband (Meeting His Wife at the Railway Station), Notes by Merseyite, Household Hints, Wearside Notes, Stockton Notes, I Regret to Hear That One of the Officials of the Tees District Committee Has Withdrawn from That Body, I Don't Think There Is Anything in the above That Is Unreasonable, but the Employers Have Been so Long Accustomed to the Uncomplaining Attitude of Their Workmen That They Could Scarcely Believe Their Eyes When These Demands Were Placed before Them in Black and White, Boot and Shoe Notes, Not Being a Member of Either of the Labour Unions, I Am Sby of Letting Myself out to Be Knocked off My Pins by a Shot of the Mind Your Own Affairs Kind, but I Will Risk It, and I Thank I Can Manage to Stop One of That Sort If It Comes, and I Feel That I Am on the Square, Anyway, That Shipyards Are Very Dangerous Places to Work in Is Obvious by the Numbers Who Happen with Accidents Almost Daily, and Being so It Behoves Every Man, More Especially Labourers, Who Have but Small Wages When Compared with the Wages of Mechanics, to Belong to Some Society Which Would Give Them Accident Benefit, And Now, Mr. Editor, as Many of Your Correspondents Think That Scribbler Does Not Report Fair, and Seeing That You Have Plenty of Others from Our Important Boroughs, Monkey Island, and West Dock, I Shall Drop My Pen for a Few Weeks and Try My Hand at Selling Instead of Writing to Your Valuable Paper, Jarrow Notes, How Russian Girls Are Courted, A Dainty Meal, The Following Dialogue Took Place Lately in a Hartlepool Shipyard, between a Delegate of the Labour Federation and a Man of the Labour Union, Who Had Got Started That Morning to Work, I Was Very Much Pleased with Your Article Anent the Treatment of Mr. S. Story, of Sanderland, and Hope That the Workingmen of Silksworth, Sunderland, and District Will Stand by Their Champion, On Friday, in the Co-Operative Hall, New Herrington, the Members of the National Labour Federation Met to Hear Mr. Mcgregor and to Discuss Amongst Other Things the Best Method to Adopt to Gain Recognition by the Colliery Agent of the Earl of Durham's Collieries and in the Coal Trade Generally, but Although the Little Wren Tried Hard to Get He Was Not Able to Get There in Time in and Not Being a Member of the N. L. F., Paraffin Lamp Fataliin at Hester, Darm the Two Days That I Snatched from the … I Chanced to Visit … Manufacturing Town of St. Eelens, and I Was Surprised and Pained to Learn That They Had Never Heard of the Workman's Times, Now, What Strikes Me as Strange in Connection with This Matter, Is This, Iron Moulders, The Attempt to Form a Board of Concilliation, for Instance, after a Resolution Being Passed That a Representative Should Be Sent on Behalf of the Council to the First Inaugural Meeting, and a Certain Element Being There to Raise an Opposition to the Movement Being Carried into Effect, the Duly-Elected Representative from the Council Dare Not, and Has Not up to the Present, Given Any Report of That Meeting, Bradford Bradford Notes, A Conference of the Representatives of the Key Filers and Their Employers Was Held on Monday, for the Purpose of Discussing the Question of a Rise in Their Wages of 3d, Notes by Pencil Stick, Ipswich, Richard Griffiths, K. Of L., Is Dead, Now, Sir, I Think I Have Gone Far Enough This Week, Labour Movements Abroad, I Notice from a Glance at the Weekly Barometer That the Mercury Is Again Falling at a Dismal Rate, I Have Reported Miss Abraham's Speech Elsewhere, but Here I Must Venture to Pay Her a Compliment Which Is Thorougly Well Deserved, Multiple News Items, Having at One Time Said Some Hard Things of Mr. Joseph Lee, of Birmingham, Ex-Secretary of Sawyers and Woodcutting Machinists' Society I Now Wish to Express My Regret for so Doing as I Learn from Some Police Court Proceedings to Birmingham That He Was Not a Free Agent in the … Altogether, and Very Likely Found Himself in a Bad Corner, Hull Notes, His Honour and Bijah, Topics of the Times, A Very Different Record Is Shown in the Balance Sheet and Report of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Which Has Just Been Issued by Mr. E. Harford, the General Secretary, The Old Federation Scheme Dished up in a New Form Came up for Discussion at the Trades Council at Its Last Meeting, Notes by Thorough, At Least 5,000 Men Are Affected by the Strike, but They Have a Powerful Society behind Them, He Didn't Take It, Grimsby Notes, I Have Been Asked Several Questions Lately about Leasehold Enfranchisement, The 36th-quartarly Report of the Associated Ship Wright's Society Has Been Presented to Us, and We Are Glad to Find That This Well Conducted Organisation, of Which Mr. Alexander Wilkie Is the General Secretary, Continues to Flourish, Considerable Time Was Wasted at the Last Meeting of the Trades Council over the Apportionment of the Proceeds of the Labour Sunday Collection at the Great Thornton-Street Chapel on Sunday Week, Notes by Shellback, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead, The Typographical Association, A Curious Dog, The Hartlepools Notes, Bro. Gardner on Elections, Notes by Telephone, I Am Very Glad to See That Some of Our Trade Union Officials Do Look Forward to the Good Times Coming, When "Man to Man the Whole World O'er Shall Brothers Be", Notes by One in the Crowd, … That in My Last Note … to a Vacancy That Would Occur in … by … of the Council Mem … Association, Workmen's Notes and Notions Manchester and Salford, On Sunday a Demonstration Was Held in Sunderland in Honour of the Convention of the a. S. Of E. Being Held in That Town, and It Did "Wreny" Good to See the Procession with Its Bands and Banners Marching through the Streets to the Theatre Royal, Which Was Packed to Hear the Delegates of the a. S. E. Speak, and to Give Them a Trades Unionists' Welcome; and Would You Believe It, Mr. Editor, That Amongst Those Who Turned out with Their Banners to Welcome the a. S. E. Executive Were to Be Found Tyneside Labour Union and Also the Drapers' Assistants!, Notes by Steel, Sudden Development, Sitting down on a Dog, A Qnaker and a Hot-Headed Youth Were Quarreling, Policeman (to Group of Small Boys), Newcastle Notes, No Matter, This Thing Has Got to Stand as Written for, with Few Exceptions, It about Represents the State of Affairs round This District on the above Day, When the Masses Leave Home Early and Go in for Enjoyment in Down-Right Good Earnest, Getting Their Hand Deep down in Their Trousers Pockets And—Frequently Keeping Them There; at Least, That Is the Experience of the Average Railway Porter When His Fondest Hopes Are Dashed to the Winds by the Crnel, Our £100 Prize Offer, Golden Thoughts, Mr. Murray Davis, in Seconding the Resolution, Said It Was His Desire to Be Always of Some Use to His Fellow-Workmen, and Though He Was Tired after the Prolonged Conference in Dublin, yet He Thought It Was His Duty to Come and Assist the Brickmakers in the District of Ballynafeigh, With Respect to His Successor It Is Too Soon to Speak, Notes by Plasterer, Barometrical Readings Week Ending May 22ND, 1831, A Friend in Ireland Sends Me a Report of a Meeting of Brickmakers in Belfast, Which I Think Will Interest Members of the Gas Workers and General Labourers' Union, Ropemakers, Twine Spinners, and Dressers, Walsall Notes, Notes by Onward, Notes by Bill from Whitby, But the Standard Is Not Always so Enigmatical, George IV on One Occasion Casually Entered a Private Apartment at Windsor Castle, and Encountered, Somewhat to His Surprise, His Valet, Who Was Seated at a Table Loaded with Viands and Eating with Great Avidity, … for Those to Swallow Who on the … of Trade Preach from Press and … That It Is the High Wages and Short Hours … That Is This Country That Is Killing the Trade, Another Anomaly I Find Existing in Liverpool with Regard to the Labour Electoral Association, They Are Not Made Any the Worse by the Attitude of the Jewish Tailors in the East End, Notes by Railway, But I Must Preserve Myself from Becoming Too Utterly Serious, Mr. Johnson, and Some 157 Ratepayers, Have Memorialised the Local Government Board to Institute an Inquiry into the Doings of Our Corporation in the Matter of Selling Land to the M. S. And L. Railway Company, and Allowing the Said Company to Have Five Acres More than They Paid For, Strike of Ironworkers at Oldham, Mr. Wilson Evidently Does Not Intend to Let the Matter Drop, as He Has Applied for, and Obtained, Six Summonses for Perjury against the Six Principal Witnesses in His Late Trial, A Large Meeting Is Expected on …, These Old Men, Many of Them, Have Had to Go into Our Workhouse, I Have Been Unable to Obtain Any Labour News Again This Week, Now, in Conclusion, No One Can Hate Worse than I Do This Running down of Labour Leaders, I Am Mightily Amused at the Efforts Made by Some Employers to Keep Their Workmen in Leading-Strings, The Lockout of Joiners in London, Rotherham, Breaking It Gently, I Have Given a Report of the Meeting in St. Andrew's Hall in Another Column, Many an Old Shopmate Will Learn with Regret of the Untimely Death by Drowning in the Tyne of Jim Frost, Cabinet Maker, A Painful Duty, Middlesbro Notes, Nottingham and Notts Nottingham Notes, I Have Nothing to Do with, nor Am I Concerned with, the Action of the Band Committee in Throwing Cold Water over the Resolution of the E. C., Mr. Peter Curran, General Organiser of the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers of Great Britian and Ireland, on Being Introduced to the Meeting, Said, I Trust That Those Delegates Who, at the Last Meeting but One of the Trades Council, Objected to Hull Being Represented on the Labour Electoral Congress, Will, after Reading of the Good Work Done at the Meetings Just Concluded, Agree That the Expense Incurred in Sending a Representative Was Money Well Spent, Birmingham Notes, Notes by Magneto, The General Executive of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Who Have Been Holding Their Convention in Sunderland during the Week Were on Saturday Entertained to Dinner in Lambton Castle by the Right Hon. Earl of Durham, I Forgot to Mention That the Only Men They Could Procure up to the Present Are One of the Masters' Sons and a Collector. Editorial: What We Think, We Are Sorry to Learn That "Scribbler" Has Determined to Cease Sending Us Notes, and Should Be Pleased to Hear That He Has Re-Considered the Matter, We Notice That the General Secretary of the Caledonian Railway, Mr. Thompson, Has Announced to a Deputation of Men from the Various Departments Certain Concessions as to Hours and Pay, Notes by Index, The Labour Party in Bradford, Answers to Correspondents, We Are Sorry to See That Our Contemporary the Engineer Should Lend Its Columns, Even under the Pretence of Quoting the Opinions of the Union De Charleroi, to the Dissemination of the False Idea That Leaders of Trades Unions Squander the Money of Their Members in Personal Expenses, One of Our Most Respected Correspondents Draws Our Attention to the Fact That a Mr. Hartley Is about to Visit This Country, Banbury. Poem, verse: The Shipowner's Grievance, Poetry The Labourers' Song, Why Some People Go to Church. Fiction, drama: The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap, ChapterXXXIII Cap's Visit to the Hidden House, The Old Life's Shadows, Cutting It Out, Chapter Xxxiii Once More Together. Letter to the editor: Conciliation and Canvassing in Liverpool To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Friction between Grimsby Trade Unions To the Editor of the Workman's Times, National Pensions for Old Age To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Free Education To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Letters to the Editor The Nottingham Lace Trade Society, The World's Labour Exhibition To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Friction, Jealousy, and Prejudice among Trades Unions To the Editor of the Workman's Times, John Burns Replies to Lowis Lyons To the Editor of the Workman's Times, The Overtime Question To the Editor of the Workman's Times, A Step in the Right Direction To the Editor of the Workman's Times.
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