News from 05/06/1891
1891; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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J. D. Cunningham, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Hal Re Val, Hal Re Val, Fidus Achates, Fidus Achates, Thiety Gaugh, Banbury Cross, Hard Nut, Mr. John Russell, W. T. Tebb, W. Bates, William Noble,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Workman's Times. News: Some of the American Advertisements Are as Comical as If Written for Fun, Fear of Disease, Workmen's Notes and Notions London, Lost Property Recovered, It Is Not Difficult to Do This, The Bold Pirate, His Honour and Bijah Retribution, Josh Billings' Philosophy, In Addition to Placing before the County Council Facts like These the Committee of the London Society of Compositors Were Enabled to Quote from Correspondence between Mr. Drummond, Their Secretary, and Messrs. Rider to Make the House a Society House and to Pay the London Scale, I Have Dealt at Much Length with the State of Affairs in Connection with the Clothing Trade Alse Where, That Here I Can Only Briefly Indicate How Matters Stand for the Benefit of Readers in the Country Who Do Not See Our London Edition, I Sometimes Get News from Correspondents in Queensland Colory, and I Generally Find That Matters Are No More Pleasant in the Lether Trade than Here, The Royal Commission on Labour, Anyone Who Is Willing to Supply Me with Labour Notes, Notices of Workers' Meetings, Short Reports, Etc., But I Do Wish the Women Themselves Would Take up This Question More Earnestly, or, Failing That, That the Working Men Who Are Trades Uniconists Would Devote Themselves to Pushing the Trades Union Propaganda Amongst Women, A Smart Child, Then "Scribbler" Speaks of a Man Going to a Church to Steal, and He Accidentally Caught the Bell Clapper, Rang the Bell, and of Course, Let the People Know What He Was About, In a Local Paper of Saturday I Have Read What Will Be Good News for Navvies and Others Counected with Canal Making, and I Hope It Will Turn out a Big Job, Notes by Gas, My Old Friend the Sheffold Telegraph Is to Me an Unfailing Source of Amusement, The Movement in Favour of Establishing a Working Federation among the Riverside Trades of the Port or London Is Progressing Satisfactorily, Enderby Notes, Southampton Notes, Another Recent Action of the Present House of Commons Should Show All Hosiery Operatives, in Common with Other Workers, the Great Need There Is for Labour to Be Properly Represented There before the Working Class Can Expect the Legislation so Much Needed, …Appointed at the above Meeting …The Members of the Dyers' Union on …At Bary's Hall, Sackvile-Street, I Am Also Pleased to Announce That on Saturday Afternoon a Meeting Was Held in the Presbyterian Schoolroom There for the Purpose of Forming a Branch of the Compositors' Association, The Members of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and the General Railway Workers' Union Assembled in Strong Force in Steven, Would Members of the Federation Please to Remember the Next Meeting, On Wednesday Evening Week a Well-Attended Mass Meeting Was Held in the Queen's Hall, Brikenhead, under the Auspices of the Liverpool Trades Council, on Behalf of the Bakers' of This Borough Who Have Been Thrown out of Employment, Owing to the Refusal of the Firm of Messrs. Singleton and Sons, Large Employers of Labour, Mr. Turtle of Tranmere, Mr. Grainger, of St. Paul's Road, and Mr. Delamore, of New Ferry, to Grant a Small Increase in Tehmen's Weekly Wages, The O. B. S. Have Sent a Letter to Our Corporation Calling Their Attention to Certain Navvies and Stonemasons Superintending the Sewers, Brother Gardner's Limeklin Club Brother Kanaby Gone Aloft, Things Seem to Be Going on All Right Here Just Now, Household Hints, I Notice That Mr. Everitt, One of the Speakers, and the Treasurer of the Union, Said That the Only Way in Which They Could Definitely Win the Strike Was for Every Cabman in the Employ of Members of the Masters' Association to Come out on One Day and the Strike Would Be over in a Week, Joiners and the London Strike and Lock-Out, Previous to the Printing Contract, so Baruptly Terminated, Being Given to Messrs, Wearside Notes, Stockton Notes, Essay on Man, I Am Not without Hope That the Result of This Uprising of the Jewsih Workers Will Be to Their Lasting Benefit, Boot and Shoe Notes, And as for the "Plans for the Spending of It, the Spirit of Enterprise, and the Ingennity Which the Plans Involve," the Mannal Labourer Maynot Have Had Anything to Do with, but Those Who Had Were Labourers, Nevertheless, and in the Majority of Cases Were Literally Wage-Earners, the Same as the Muscle Labourer, A Gentleman Was Wondering Why There Are so Many Bad Reputations, When a Friend Said:, The Cabmen Are Still Holding out against the Excessive Prices Paid for Bans in the Summer Season, and One Result of Their Movement Has Been That Very Much Lower Prices Are Being Charged All round than Is Customary in the Height of the Season, I Was Much Interested in Reading the Report of the Labour Electorl Association Meeting, and Beg to Differ Entirely with the Strictures That Have Been Passed upon It from Different Quarters, More Especially with the Attack upon Bloor and Davis for Having Accepted the Hel of Thep Local Liberal Association to Run as Labour Candidates at the Next General Election, As You Go to Press, Mr. Editor, the Labour Electoral Branch Meets, and They Have a Big Order before Them, A Little Girl Who Was Asked for a Definition of Marriage Said,"You Go in Church Two and Come out One", A Bishop's Wit, Now, Sir, I Have Gone Further than I Intended This Week; but I Had a Conversation with One of My Fellow-Townsmen on Saturday, End Be Tells Me That There Is a Prospect of the N. L. F. Being Re-Started at Boggle Hole, as He Was at Whitby during the Holidays and Told His and My Mates the Difference of the Two Parts, but Did Not Forget to Tell Them That the Better Wages Was Obtained through Being Amalgamated Together, and Being Members of the N. L. F., Probable Strike of London 'Busmen, There Is One Other Matter I Have to Mention "John" Warns Us to Be Careful That "Scribbler" Don't Betray Us, The Stupid Boy, Notes by Pencil Stick, Telephone Men Will Be Glad to Hear That the National Company's Wiremen Have Received an, Labour Movements Abroad, That Second-Hand Book, By the Removal to Driffield of Mr. J. Craven, the Hull Branches of the a. S. R. S. And, I May Add, the Ranks of Trades Unionists Generally Have Lost an Earnest and Hard-Working Supporter of the Cause in the Town, Weaving in Ancient Times, Leeds Notes, Barometrical Readings, Multiple News Items, Occasionally, However, the Great Unpaid Betray a Glimmering of Intelligence, Hull Notes, Topics of the Times, Amalgamated Society of Mill Sawyers and Wood-Cutting Machinists, Workmen's Notes and Notions Nottingham and Notts, An Executive Committee Meeting Was Held at the Clubroom, Bilston-Street, on May 27th, and It Was Resolved That Unless the Firm Paid the Price Agreed upon by the Conference, All Members Should Give Notice to Cease Work at This Firm, The Branch Was Opened on the 14th, Mr. W. Housten Was Voted to the Chair, and after Thanking the Assemblage for Thehonour Conferred upon Him He Called upon Mr. R. Mcillveen to Readthe Correspondence from the General Secretary (Mr. A. J. Walker), Also the Pamphlets and Labour Cuttings Fromthe Workman's Times, Notes by Fabian, Ikeston Notes, Liverpool, Bootle, and Birkenhead Notes, The Potteries Notes, I Had No Time to Answer "Magneto's" Proposition Last Week as to Giving Labo, Not Having the Faculty of Being in Two Places at Once, "Alas! How Times Change!, The Needs of Working Women, Notes by Shellback, "I Am Sorry to Notice That the "Barometer" Keeps Falling, and Cannot Imagine for One Moment Why?, Last Sunday I Called in at an Open Air Meeting of the Social Democratic Federation Held in the Bull Ring, and Heard a Good Little Lecture from Mr. Tooth, Who Demonstrated in a Very Clear Manner the Evils and Absurdities of Our Present Social System, The Members Did Not Want a Paper Union, Yorkshire Men Are Credited with Very Keen Perceptions, and Perhaps "Bill of Whitby" Is No Exception to the Rule; but If "Scribbler's" and "Elephant's Rocks'" Notes Bears the Interpretation That He Puts on Them, Then I Will Have to Change My Name to "Thick Nut", But, Mr. Editor,"John of Jarrow" Did Not Tell the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth, When He Said in Reply to "Scribbler" That He Left the Federation (as He Explains) Not on Account of the Action of the Officials, but Because They Had No Money in the Funds, and Had to Wait Four Months for 5s, The Independent Labour Party in Bradford The Labour Union at Work, There Will Be Something More Done on Next Meeting Night, When All Members Are Respectfully Requested to Attend (Especially Those in Arrears) at 7.30 Prompt, When the Matters Referred to above Will Be Thoroughly Gone into with a View to Having Them Remedied, "Shamus" Is of Opinion That If Electrical Men of All Grades Were to Pull Themselves Together, Mix More into the Questions of Bettering Their Present Condition, Fight as Valiant Men Ought to, Not for Themselves but for Their Cause, They Would Be Sure to Achieve a Grand Success, I Am Deeply Concerned in the Bearing of the Information That Follows, The Youngest People, Notes by Telephone, Jaggs, A Negre's Philosophy, Well, in the First Place, I Am a Fresh Catched 'Un, and Consequently I Have Not Read the Writings of "Scribbler," "John of Jarrow," and "Embryo," but for the Last Three Weeks, and It Has Taken Me This Time to Muster Sufficient Courage to Write You, and through You, Reply to Them, The Branches of the National Labour Union at the Hartlepools and Stockton's Are, I Understand, Having Large Accessions of Members, I Sincerely Hope All Other Trade and Labour Societies Are Doing Equally Well, Claim against a Miners' Friendly Society Important to Colliers, At Last the Hinckley Manufacturers Have Conserved to Meet Mr. Holmes, and Hopes of a Speedy…Are Now Entertained, Mansfield Does Not Bear the Democratic Impress Which We Should like to See, Neither Do the Working Class Therein Appear to Be so Actively Alive to Their Own Interest as Should Be the Case, "Big Drummer" Seems to Be Afraid of Making Known the Voting Strength of the Workers in Liverpool, and States That to Bring about This Knowledge Capitalistic Money Has Been Offered, "The Workman's Times" Volume II, Banbury Notes, A Package of Literature of Various Sorts Reached Me Last Week, Labelled, Organising Agricultural Labourers, Newcastle Notes, I Sincerely Regret to Learn from Last Week's Times That "Scribbler" Is Inclined to Give Us No More of His Notes, at Least for Some Time to Come, So I Don't Know "Shellback", Notes by Unity, On Thursday Evening the Ordinary Weekly Meeting of the Birkenhead Electoral Association Was Held in the Rooms of the General Railway Workers' Union, Price-Street, There Is No Change Report in the Position of the Carpenters and Joiners Who Are on Strike, or Who Have Been Locked Out, I Stated a Fortnight Ago That the London Society of Compositors Were Balloting the Members on Two Points, Namely, First, Were They in Favour of Amending the Copyright Act Making It a Condition of Copyright That All Books Should Be Printed from Type Set in the United Kingdom or the Countries within the Copyright Union: and Secondly, Were They in Favour of Granting the Sum of £100 in and of the Vienna Printers on Strike, The Tides, The Workman's Times Can Be Had from the Following Places in Newcastle, Walsall Notes, Bedford, You Know, Mr. Editor, I Am in the Same Position as the Lady Who Was Looking through a Magnifying Glass at Animated Nature, Notes by Bill from Whitby, But Here Is Something More about Royalty, End of the Oldham Engineers' Strike, I Have before Me a Copy of the Memorandum Agreed to on the 24th November Last between Messrs. Harford, Tait, Watson, and Sunter, Part of the First Clause of Which Reads as Follows, …Finish My Notes This Week without a …Praise to the Railway Workers' Orphanage, Notes by Railway, Since Last Week There Has Been a Great Change in the Position of Affairs in the East End Tailoring Trade, Elder Mcbain (on a Saturday Night, as the Clock Is about to Strike Twelve), Leicester and Leicestershire Notes, A Young Lady, Who Was Rebuked by Her Mother for Kissing Her Intended, Justified Herself by Quoting the Passage, On Monday, the 1st of June, a Grand Smoking Concert Was Held at Mr. E. Hargrave's, Lambeth Walk, for the Benefit of Brother Phipps, Who Has Been Laid up for Some Considerable Time, Among the First Notes I Sent the Workman's Times I Pointed out the Benefit an Accident Fund Would Be in the Shipyards, and Whether It Was This Suggestion That Set the Ball Rolling I Don't Know, but at Messrs, Two Irishmen Were Working Together Amougst Crushed Bones, When One of Them Said, What Gave Origin to the Aforesaid Was a Letter Which Mr. Bristol, Secretary to the Ilkeston and District Hosiery Union, Forwarded to the Free Press, and Which Had the Natures of an Appeal, Financially, for the Despised and Poverty-Stricken Strikers at Hinokley, Provoking "Thirty Gauge" to Pen the Following Anti-Unionist Letter, Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Notes, I Understand the Ultimatum of Messrs. Bolckow Vaughan, and Co., to Their Employers on the Expiration of the Notices Is to Be, Hebburn Notes, Now, Mr. Editor, a Word with "Embryo" and "John" in Conclusion, The Operative Bricklayers' Society An Appeal to Non Unionists, The Philosophy of the Police Coursts Has a Flavour All Its Own, Middlesbro Notes, A Step in This Direction Is Being Taken in Connection with the Laundresses Which Deserves Recongnition, Smugglers, Oh, Yes, There Is "Fainplay", The Labour Commission Composition of the Sections, The Dispute in the Sheffield Tailoring Trade, The Home Secretary and the Laundry Deputation, The Secretary Read the Minutes of the Previous Meeting, and a Motion Was Made and Carried That They Pass as Read, Birmingham Notes, Sheffield Notes. Editorial: Manchester and Salford Notes, Of Course We Must Bear in Mind Societies Are Not Formed in a Week or Two, but I Am Glas to See There Are Members Jointing Every Week, I See by the Bills on the Wall That We Are Going to Have Throught Missionising in Trades Unionism All Next Week, I Have Heard That Mr. J. H. Wilson, Our Energatic General Secretary, Will Be in Liverpool Shortly, Probably on the 29th, Labour Representation in Melbourne, Australia, Answers to Correspondents, The Labour Movement in Bradford, The Strike of East End Tailors, The Labour Party and Its Leaders, Yes, Mr. Editor, We Have Just Had Two Days to Bring Back Thoughts of Summer, and of Course We Have Made the Best of Them We Could, I See, Sir, We Have a Slight Fall in the Barometer This Week, Belfast, To Show Your Readers the Difficulty Our Organisers Have to Contend With. Business: The Propagandist Committee of the Hull Trades Council Is Not Receiving the Support and Recognition of Its Labours Which the Voluntary Efforts of Its Members, on Behalf of Trades Unionism, Entitle It To, A Complaint against an Ilkeston Trade Union To the Editor of the Workman's Times, …Trades Council, Jarrow Notes, Sunday Parade of the Hull Track and Labour Council, The Braintree Bootmakers' Lock-Out Meeting in the Market Place, Blyth Notes, Trades Unionism among Women, Federation What It Will Do, Electrical Trade Union (Manchester Branch), Notice to Secretaries of Trades Unions, Notes by Magneto, At the Conclusion of Business They Heard a Very Interesting Account of the Labour Movement in Workington by a Late Resident of That Place Named Mr. Madoks, Who Also Pointed out the Fact That Varous Labour Representatives Were Returned in That Town through the Influence and Work of the Local Trades Council, Could Not Some of the Leading Trades Unionists of This Town Get up Some Public Meetings?, What We Hear Building Trades. 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