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64 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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. 1 Trades Appointed Societies By The An...
lie opinion . The seventh conclusion asserts the value of co-operative societies to working- menby contributing-, both when they succeed
and when they fail , to increase , the experience of operatives as to the relative value of manual and intellectual labor , and of capital
and the fluctuations of trade . Eighth , that there are still rules in ter many and societies to be unhesitating interfering- l with y condemned the freedom . Ninth of workman that trades and socie mas-
ties , have secured the adhesion of many prudent workmen , by undertaking- toprovide maintenance for those who are casually out of
. employment , & c . Tenth , that this union of purposes not seldom enables a majority of their members to dominate over an unwilling
minority in strikes . Twelfth , that they have at times assisted the workmen in a trade more speedily to realize higher wages , when
the profits in it have been rising ; and have , in some instances , been of advantage to the mastersby producing a greater uniformity of
, wages throughout a trade . Thirteenth , that disastrous as have been the immediate results of most strikes to masters as well as to men ,
they have not been without their use to both , by inducing wiser and more gracious concessions on one side , and less unreasonable
demands on the other . These are the leading conclusions ,- the fourteenthfifteenthand sixteenth relate to tribunals of arbitration
to which the , Committee , assign a very limited use . The seventeenth , declares that any return to the old policy of prohibition would be
mischievous and ineffectual ; while the two remaining propositions affirm the necessity and advantages of pu - blicity and general
enlightenment , concluding thus : — " That the experience of the past has convinced many of the employers , that not to care for their
hands , not to promote their intellectual and moral welfare , not to show sympathy with themand forbearance toward themis to ruin
themselves ; and that the emp , loyed are learning , that without , temperance and self-government they must be slavish , that their interests
are the same as those of the whole land , that the more they respect their own order , the less they will be at war with any other . _"
That these conclusions are most fair and temperate will hardly be deniedand no one can look into the volume -without seeing
that they , have been arrived at through much labor and patient investigation . The Report forms but a small portion of the volume .
Ten strikes in various parts of England , of recent occurrence , having been selected by the Committee for investigationthe task of
, collecting special information concerning each , and preparing an account of it , was committed to individual members of the
Committee . These separate reports are most interesting and instructive . Accounts are also given of various important combinations ;
abstracts of the Parliamentary Reports on the subject , and a Report on the Rules of the Societies . One thing the Report makes clear
beyond dispute : it is , that trades' societies have established themselves among the working classes of this country with a strength
which nothing can uproot . That this should be the case , shows
64 Notices Of Books.
64 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/64/
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