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News from 15/05/1891

1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

James Greenhalgh, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Fidus Achates, Benjamin John Cooper, Thomas Elliot,

Frontmatter: The Workman's Times. Review: A New Labour Party. Business: Working for a New Banner, I expect the Trades Council discussion re the so-called eight hours demonstration held on Sunday, May 3rd, will be referred to by others, The Trades Council, I have had a copy of the Leather Trades Circular and Review sent me from which I gather some curious facts about the abrotive attempt to raise the wages of the tanners at Bermondsey, The Strike in the London Building Trade Threatened Lock-Out, Trades Council, Federation of Lancashire Trades Councils, "Sweating" in the Baking Trade, Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Electrical Trades Union, Trade Unions and the Income Tax, What We Hear Building Trades. News: Washington's Birthday, A Question, Asked the Other Day, as to Whether the Sale of Liquor to Children Is Allowed in America Has Led to an Examination of the Liquor Laws of Thirty out Offorty States of the American Union, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, A Perfect Cure, I am sorry to see that another man has been sent to prison for three months for alleged intimidation in connection with the strike at Spratt's dog biscuit factory, Bermondsey, "Locusses and Wile Honey", Sunderland Sunderland Notes, The bakers seem very enthusiastic in their union affairs, and if their enthusiasm is guided by national authority their success in the present struggle is imminent, It is said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, Leeds Leeds Notes, Notes by Gas, Goole Notes, The Bootmakers' Lock-Out at Braintree Demonstration in the Public Hall, Herkomer's "On Strike," affected me in a very different manner, Amalgamated Society of Designers and …, The Capitalistside of the question was put in a succint style by the president of the Victoria Employers' Union, Mr. E. E. Smith, at a recent annual meeting of that body, I notice that Mr. Lewis Lyons, the president of the International Tailors' Machinists and Pressers' Union, is standing as a Labour candidate for the Vestry of St. George's-In-The-East, Death of Sir John Moore, The Parson's Creed, Fildes'"The Doctor," represents the interior of a miners cottage, Status of Oriental Women, Savings Bank Clerks and Their Wages Strange Step, While the master builders stand much as they did, the United Trades Committee are carrying the war into the enemy's country with a veugeance, Household Hints, Notes by Index, Wearside Notes, But I am done with him for the present; and now I want to point out how one of his satellites, the superintendent of the East Greenwich Station, has been carrying On, Support and Sympathy from Co-Operators, First, then, I have to congratulate the the bakers of Birkenhead, on their numerical strength, for I ascertained that they have a total membership of 160 or 170, all good, sound members, and, judging from the foregoing figures and remarks, there is no room for non-union bakers in this town, if employers would but do justice to them in their present struggle and Grant them what Is considered, when judged from every point, a very moderate request, Workmen's Notes and Notions Hull, Boot and Shoe Notes, Fact, Endin' up De World, When I went to the Academy it was certainly not with the intention of making copy out of it, but I was so disgusted with the want of sympathy with the woes, and the lack of appreciation of the poetry of the work-a-day world shown by the artists in their choice of subjects for pourtrayal, that I felt I ought to utter my protest, Mother, As to what class of labour I represent, no one knows better than "Shellback" that until very recently I was a dock labourer, and have suffered in consequence by being permanently injured for life; and moreover, if necessary, that I could take my "trick" Even with "Shellback", It appears from the reports of inspectors of factories that there are still some dark corners of the country in which the infamous truck system is in full vogue, Trades Council, Notes by Nonshan, Notes by Pencil Stick, The Idms-Kiln Club, Labour Movements Abroad, The cabmen are winning all along the line, But talk about intemperate language, how does this sound?, Notes by One of the Crowd, A Certain Shop in Sutton-In-Ashfield Should Se an Object Lesson Taught Them in the Hinckley Strike, Her Dreams, I Am told that some action is being taken irregard to the election of coroner for Grimsby, That is the reason why so many London leader writers gloat over the alleged failures of trade unionism?, Multiple News Items, On they went to the place of meeting, where two chairs were made to act as a platform, and as soon as the band finished playing "See the conquering hero comes," the Chair Was Taken by Bro. J. Fitch, who, in a very few and appropriate words, explained the objects of the meeting, and at once called upon Bro. Harry Picard to address the meeting, Barometrical Readings, Whatever the women may say, or their self-constituted champions may say for them, the male chainmakers of Staffordshire and Warwickshire have not hesitated to place upon record their opinion of the desirability of women and girls working over-thick iron in their industry, I Have Received a Pamphlet Entitled "The Eight Hours Work Day," by a. K. Donald, Gasworkers' Breakfast at Birmingham, His Honour and Bijah, Topics of the Times, The muster took place opposite Christ Church, and at a few minutes past seven the procession, headed by a drum and fife band and banners, wended its way down marsh-lane by the blacklegs' dwellings, the band playing some lively airs, which in the stillness of the evening resounded, and while filling the hearts of the processionists with glee, seemed to strike terror into those of the blacklegs and their wives, who had not even the courage to stand at their doors, but acted the part of "Peeping Tom" at the Windows, Death of the Old Wife, Workmen's Notes and Notions Nottingham and Notts, Can anyone explain why the National Labour Union and the Federation are harrying each other the way they are doing, or point out what advantage the cause of Labour is likely to gain by It, The Bradford Mercury, A writer in Reynolds' has been quoting a recent utterance of the Standard on the Labour demonstration as an instance of the real views of the Tory party,"no matter what they may say to gain votes", Notes by Thorough, On Keeping Things Clean, Everything went on smoothly until one day last week the superintendent came along and gave verbal notice to forty of those men, whom he told might as well produce their union card, which he was informed, no matter what they said to the contrary, they possessed, And, by the bye, Mr. Editor, I notice in the columns of the last issue of Workman's Times under the heading of "What We Think" a statement to the Effect That upon the Liverpool City Council There Is Not a single bona fide labour representative, Grimsby Notes, Carpenters and Joiners' Society, They recently held a social gathering in the Pendleton Co-Operative Hall to celebrate the concession by the company of a 54-hour working week, and it was thought a fitting time to acknowledge the gentlemanly conduct of their manager, and to give to him an expression of their esteem, Middlesbrough, House Painters Organising, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead Notes, Sittingbourne and District Notes, South Wales Notes, Hours of Railway Servants Important Suggestions, Your correspondent "Bruno" has taken me to task for criticising the Action of the Labour Electoral Association in Birkenhead, and, in answer to my remarks, tries to wriggle out an excuse for their adoption of Mr. Daniels as their candidate in the late election for Board of Guardians, and with autocratic and imperious men from his high pedestal of course pooh-poohs and sneers at the arguments of your less fortunate scribe, and also twits me about my knowledge of the qualifications necessary in such an election, It seems strange that all the hostility to these clauses comes from only one section, yet workmen stand silently by without one single word of remonstrance, and have not, up to the present at all events, passed one single resolution in regard to It, although they boast of having a most compact organisation with their workmen's clubs and social institutions spread all over the city, The Labour Electoral Association, The Hartlepools Notes, There are two unions of joiners, and I don't know how many of cabinet makers, but there are several, and they all pull together without friction, and I thought the engineers did the same, but I see by the article on the intimidation cases in the Workman's Times they are on the same racket as the two Labour unions, Notes by Telephone, Notes by the Man from Bootle, In the Weekly Issue of the Telegraph There Is a Writer Called "Phonograph," and This Is What He Had to Say Last Week about Tillett's Caudidature, Any workman having any grievance or anything he wishes brought before the public can send communications addressed "Corner Loafer," care Elvin and Johnson, Booth Ferry-Road, Goole, and the same shall be attended to, Queer Taxes, Miners' Meeting at Leeds, The new banner for the Tees district National Labour Union is expected to be unfurled in a short time, and is now well on the way, I was very sorry I could not attend John Burns' meeting in battersea on Tuesday night week, because I should have liked to give him a good report, It is generally supposed that men grow wiser as they grow older, and that they see and understand more clearly the ways of the world, past, present, and future, when they have nearly lived through their day, than when they first faced the world in the early morning of their life, Newcastle Notes, There is not much to report in connection with the carpenters and joiners' strike, I Can Often Hear of One of Those That Are in a Bit of Authority at One of the Gasworks Passing Some Sneering Remarks about the Officials of the Branch of Gasworkers, Our £100 Prize Offer, So I have presumed to lecture, have I, Mr. Trotter, and you want facts next time?, Release of Mr. J. H. Wilson An Enthusiastic Greeting, An Eight Hours Day for Miners, The London County Council Is continuing in its enlightened policy, Papermill Workers and the Shorter Time Movement, History of the Stars and Stripes, What We Think, Ethel, The Deacon's Pig, Again, Mr. Editor, I have something good to write, about the G. W. And G. L. Union, Mr. Cowey and the Eight Hours and Labour Questions, It Is Not Often That One Has the Pleasure of Seeing Such an Earnest Lot of Trades Unionists as Were Present in Hull Last Week, Warrington, A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette has been reading the report of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, which shows a reserve of £239,509, Meanwhile the Commission Is proceeding leisurely to work, I was very sorry, Mr. Editor, to see that no report was made of the last meeting held by the Liverpool Trades Council, and, as it is so far past, i will not go into the detail of it, but i should like to point out that among the work of that body, at its last sitting,there was brought forward a resolution of very great importance, and will be invaluable to trades unionists if it is carried out, as I presume it will be, Manchester and Salford Notes, Birmingham Notes by Democrat, One Gratifying Feature of the Press Comments, However, so Far as They Have Gone, Is the Absence of Any Deliberate Condemnation of the Promoters of the Proposed Labour Candidature, A Wonderful Dog, Now, It Will Be Apparent from the above That Those Who Want to Free the Workers from the Clutches of the Politican Are in Good Company, On Sunday morning a spirited address was delivered at Trafford Bridge by Mr. Alfred Settle on "The Politics of Labour", As to the difficulty in such an election, why raise It?, Notes by Magneto. Editorial: Lynx's Notes, Important Notice to Correspondents Whit-Week Holidays, Soothing Repose, We are glad to see that the Nottingham and District Trades Council mean business, We should like to draw the attention of those advocates of women's rights who hold that females should be at liberty to undertake any kind of work, however arduous or unsuitable, to the evidence given in an inquest at sheffield on the death of a girl of eighteen, who was killed through being knocked into the street from an upper floor landing by a bag of corn which swerved while being pulled up to a higher storey. Fiction, drama: The Old Life's Shadows Chapter XXVIII, Chapter XXIX A Threatening Outlook, It is wonderful how quickly this idea is spreading, The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Mad-Cap Chapter XXXI. Poem, verse: That Brighter Day, Poetry An Appeal to Workmen, On the Sailing of an Emigrant Ship. Weather report: The Weather Lore of May. Classified ads: It Was Low. Letter to the editor: How the Workers Will Get the Wealth They Produce To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Overtime in the North To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Conciliation in Liverpool To the Editor of the Workman's Times, Letters to the Editor The Parliamentary Penny, Birmingham Ironplateworkers and Their Employers' Boycotting System To the Editor of the Workman's Times.