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News from 28/11/1890

1890; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Wm. Henry Peck, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Jay Bee, Walter J. Howell, Isabella O Ford, Jay Bee,

Frontmatter: "Yorkshire Factory Times" Postal Rates, Yorkshire Factory Times. News: A Column for Law Matters, If There Is One Thing More than Another at the Present Time Which Ought to Make an Advance in the Right Direction It Is the Question of Each Mill or Workshop Right through the West Riding of Yorkshire Having a Standing Committee, Who Should Be Prepared at a Moment's Notice to Go into the Office with Any Genuine Complaint That Any Section of the Workpeople May Have, but More Especially Does This Apply to Weaving, The King of Holland Died on Sunday Morning, The McKinley Tariff, Barry Was in No Part so Eminent as in Romeo, The Ventilation of the Yeadon Factories Was Introduced by the Chairman, Who Apparently Had Received an Anonymous Letter from Some Worker upon This Question, Watery, Fatal Machinery Accident at Keighley, Echoes from Yorkshire Mills and Workshops Huddersfield, Leeds Leeds Notes, A Foggy Night in Bristol, or a Stroll with Colston's Ghost, The Dwellings of the Poor, Industrial Secrets, The Brushmakers' Society, The Royal Mint, Well, It Came about in This Wise, Have You Pain, Doctor:"Well, John, I Cannot See Anything Wrong with You, The Chief Constable's Annual Report for the Year Ending September 29th Has Just Been Issued, and from It May Be Learnt a Useful If Bitter Lesson, Cunctatorian Fancies "The Colonel" and His Boy, The Skeleton of a Young Englishman, Who Was Lost in a Blizzard in January, 1888, Has Been Found in Kokong, Colorado, But, as I Have Said, Bob and I Had an Eye on "The Colonel", Household Hints, Answers to Correspondents, Federation Is the Order of the Day, and Even Bastard Associations Find It Necessary to Federate, and Accordingly the Federated Association of Masters and Officers under the British Flag, the Mercautile Marine Service Association of Liverpool, the British Shipmates and Officers' Protection Society, Sunderland; Shipmasters' Society, London; and Scottish Shipmasters' Association, Limited, Leith; Have Joined Together under the Head of Shipmasters and Officers' Federation, to Deal with Questions Appertaining to Them, No, Thank You, The "Workman's Times", Gleanings and Comments, On the 28th of Next Month, the Order of the Knights of Labour Will Be Twenty One Years Old, Much in Little, Impending Shipping Crisis at Cardiff Interview with Mr. J. H. Wilson, From Ploughboy to President, Benevolent Mr. Wixham, Dewsbury, Miss Ford and Leeds Weavers, The Judgment of Solomon, Cats, Bradford Bradford Notes, Another Life Has Been Sacrificed to That Moloch of Modern Times, the Express Speed at Which Employers Are Expected to Proceed with Their Work in Yorkshire Textile Mills, Europe's Labour Laws, Labour Movements Abroad, Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club, "The Colonel" Crept Upstairs, and Bob and Myself Followed, Conference of General Secretaries of Trades Unions in Connection with Railways, Multiple News Items, As I Said Last Week, There Were All Sorts and Conditions of Men in the Sixpenny Department, Yeadon and Guiseley, His Honour and Bijah, Bilstall and Carlinghow, Presently, as We Had Expected, the Bottle Made Its Appearance, A Striking Example of the Milk of Human Kindness That Flows Throught the Breasts of Some Men Has Been Put before Our Notice This Week, Guest:"Say, Waiter, I Can't Get My Teeth through the Ham", How Many More Definitions We Are to Have of What Is a Serge It Will Be Exceedingly Difficult to Say, but Certainly as Time Goes on They Increase Somewhat Rapidly, The United States Supreme Court Has Decided on Appeal That the Japanese Shuburya Jugiro, Now Lying under Sentence of Death for Murder, Is to Be Executed by Electricity, An Ohio Editor Refused to Speak to the Toast "Woman," on the Ground That Woman Was Able to Speak for Herself, and Any Man Who Undertook to Do It for Her Would Get into Trouble, I Had Been a Denizen of "The Kitchen" for about a Week, during Which Time I Had Learned a Good Deal about "The Colonel" and His Son, When the Events I Am about to Describe Took Place, Raspberries Were Gathered in East Kent a Few Days Ago, Perfectly Ripe and of Full Size, Another Case Which Is Worth Making a Note of Has Been Settled during the Week, of a Weaver Who Has Found That, Although Only a New Member of the Association, the Committee Are Very Anxious to Do What They Can to Make Employers Keep to Their Bargain, The Local Press and the Woolcombers, Let Us Now Turn Our Attention to "The Colonel." "The Colonel" Was Sobered by What Had Happened, The Malsters at Messrs. Bass and Co.'S Brewery, Burton-On-Trent, Threatened to Strike Work on Saturday Unless Certain Grievances Were Remedied, The Sheffield Branch of the Associated Iron and Steel Workers of Great Britain Are Evidently up to the Times, Notes on Passing Events, What Need to Dwell on the Barrowing Details of the Next Few Days, Debate on the Gas Dispute in Leeds, Shop Meeting of Weavers at Longwood, Next Week—Mr. Gardner on Boarding House Crimps, Seamen's Homes and Union Stores, Law Cases Breach of the Factory Act at Yeadon, The Workers in the Dyehouses and Finishing Places, and the Labourers of Sowerby Bridge Generally, Have Now an Opportunity of Becoming Combined, since the General Labourers' Union on Saturday Night Opened a Branch There; and, If One Dare Believe the Statements Then Put Forth as to the Wages of Those Working in These Departments, We Are Bound to Conclude That It Is Time Something Was Done to Raise the Workers of Sowerby Bridge to a Decent Level, Golden Thoughts, What We Hear Bradford, A Most Interesting Gathering Was the One Held on Monday Evening at the Central Schools, Twenty Thousand Deaths from Cholere Occurred in the Neighbourhood of Shanghai during the Months of August and September, Shop Meeting of Weavers at Great Horton, It Is Not Enough That Men Who May Be Tarred with the Same Brush Are Content to Take the Word of Prosecuted Manufacturers and Let These Gentlemen off with Legal Cost, Various Cases under the Factory Act Were Tried at the Leeds Town Hall, on Wednesday, before Mr. Bruce, and We Are Glad to See That the Cases Were Won, Especially the First One, Where Lads Were Employed Overtime, There Will, No Doubt, Be a Large Gathering of the Friends of Labour on Monday Next at the Complimentary Tea to the Labour Representation, The Meeting of Parliament Was Opened with the Usual Noise on Tuesday, but the Only Points of Interest to the Workers as a Class Were the Usual Notifications as to Resolutions to Be Moved and Bills to Be Brought On, Prosecution of Yeadon Manufacturers under the Factory Acts, A Little Hero, In Our Last Issue We Noted a Fact at One of the Firms in the Huddersfield District Where a Weaver Had Been Weaving a Certain Warp, and When Her Ticket Was Made out the Price That Was to Be Paid Was 8s. 6d. Per Piece, but When She Had Been Weaving Some Time, and Drawn for Two Pieces out of a Five Cut Warp, the Price Was Suddenly Lowered to 6s. 10½d, The Dyers of Leeds Have a Tickle Job before Them at the Remaining Firm Still on Strike, Breaches of the Factory Acts in Leeds, An Irish Post-Boy Having Driven a Gentleman a Long Stage during Torrents of Rain, the Gentleman Civilly Said to Him,"Paddy, Are You Not Very Wet?", On Monday Night a Youth Named Joseph Turner, of Scholes, Wigan, Attempted to Murder a Former Employer, Mr. Campbell, Hairdresser, by Shooting at Him Twice with a Revolver, A Wish, Halifax, The Statement of Miss Abraham, Are the Wages Paid to Female Workers at Messrs. Reckitts, Which We Referred to Last Week, Has Elicited Further Correspondence between Miss Abraham, That Firm and Their Solicitors, the Upshot of Which Is That They Demand Her to Withdraw and Apologise for the Statements Made, and to Give Five Guineas to a Charitable Institution in the Town Which They Will Name, the Apology to Be Published, Failing Which They Will Proceed against Her for Libel, There Will Be Found in Another Column a Meeting of the Weavers of a Certain Firm in the Longwood District to Which We Should like to Draw the Attention of Our Readers for a Moment or Two, Remarkable Tom Kelley, Meeting of Weavers at Halifax, Mr. John Burnett's Blue Book. Editorial: We Do Not Often, in Our Columns, Deal with the Co-Operative Societies in Our Large Towns, but We Should like to Call the Attention of One of These Large Societies to One Very Important Question Which Was Very Briefly Mentioned at the Last Quarterly Meeting, and Which May Be Mentioned Again If the Committee Do Not See Their Way to Deal with It in the near Future, Namely, the Question of Shortening the Hours of the Shop Assistants, Bob and I Had Our Eye on "The Colonel", The Dyers' Dispute at Heckmondwike Is, We Are Sorry to State, in a Gloomy Condition, We Notice Occasionally That Some of Our Correspondents Are Much Exercised Respecting Certain Irregularities in the Factories Especially in Country Places. Poem, verse: Bob Shuttleweller's Dream, Poetry A Smile, Let It End. Business: Midland Counties Trades Federation Meeting in Wolverhampton, Does Improved Machinery Injure or Benefit Trade?, The Board of Trade and Strikes and Lockouts Protest by Working Men, Hull Trades and Labour Council, She Had Business with Congress, Notice to Trade Union Secretaries. Fiction, drama: The Bailiff's Scheme Chapter XXVIII, The Stone-Cutter of Lisbon Chapter XXXIII. Classified ads: Stead and Simpson Limited, Multiple Classified Advertisements, Public Announcements. Letter to the editor: Letters to the Editor The Cotton Trade and the Wage Question, How Trade Societies Should Be Managed Letter II.