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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1851
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ipBpHE UNITED PATRIOTS' NATIONAL BENEFIT SOCIETY , AND Si i BRTnSUEm'l » E rMEUOLUiA > CDASD BUILDIK & SOCIETY . United in acttaa . Enrolled and Empowereu D . y Act of Parliament to extend over the United Kingdom . . AGENTS HEeClIin ) TO SOEH tOCAUTlES IN ALL PASTS OF CHEAT BBtTAl V . ¦ Bankers . —Ike Commercial Rank of London ( Branch ) e , Henrietta Street , Covent Garden . Society ' s 0 § . ct . —So . 13 , Tottenham Court , Aew Road , St . Pancras , London . Dasiel WnittM Bcfty . Founder , Manager , and Secretary . —Mb . Jobs Smith , Treasurer . . iSodSociEn ' s SIeeiisg HdssE . — 'Lamb and Flag , ' Rose Street , Sew Street , Covent Garden . -MeetingB every luesaaj evening at Eight o ' clock . BEXEFITS ASSURED IN THIS SOCIETY . The Member being Tree to Half the Benefits in Six Months from his date of entering . IstDiv . 2 nd . Dir . SiAMf . 4 th . M j- s J 'J I' £ s T £ » . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . A & & *• * *• "' Iln Sin Sickness i » r Week 0 18 0 .... 015 0 .... 011 0 .... 0 9 0 .... « ' « ¦• " IDeaDeathofMcaiber 20 0 0 .... 1 G 0 0 .... 12 0 0 .... 10 0 O .... b » » - " ¦ " IDeaDeathofMember ' sWifeorXonunee 10 0 0 .... S 0 0 .... 6 0 0 .... 3 0 » ;;•• . * XX" 5 0 0 IXosl / KsLvfire .. .. Froui £ 5 to 20 0 0 £ 5 to 20 O 0 £ 5 tol 5 0 0 £ utolO 0 M ? ™ » » & u ° { SntSnperannaadon , per Week .. .. 0 6 0 .... 0 G 0 .... 0 4 0 .... 0 * « . «• » » « P For Medicine , Gift , Widow and Orphan , Ben efits , fte .. see and read the ruleE .
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THE EIGHTH AXXIVERSMtY A 55 B BALL OP THESE FLOURISHING INSTITUTIONS , Will be celebrated on Tuesday , July Sih , 1 S 51 , at Highbury Barn , Tavern , Wington . lit . John Smith , treasurer , in * hfcMr'S » on table atT W 0 o ' clock precisely . Tickets to admit a Gentleman to . Dinner and BaU . 4 s . « d ; S ? iT ^ i . **« £ » Sdv to Dinner and Ball , Ss . The BaU wiU commence at Eight o ' clock in tbe Evening :. Single Ball Tickets l * S ° ^ % aoWa Lady and Gentleman , or T « o Ladies , Is . Cd . Tickets to be had of the Secretary at Sie Offlre ~ at Highbury Barn Tavern , and of the Stewards . Conductor of the BaU , Mr . Clements .
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EMIGRATION . THE BPITISH EMP 1 UE PEUMAUEST EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION * SOCIETY . To cecnre to each Member a Farm of not less Uiau T « renty-Five Acres of Land in America , by small Weekly or Monthly Contributions . Xosdos OracE ' . —13 , Tottmfcam-court , New-road , St Pancras . —D . W . Rufft , Secretary . OBJECTS . VALUE OF SHARES . Topnrchasealarge tractofLandinthe Westerni States Each Share to be of the ultimate value of Twenty-Five cf America , vptm which to locate Members , giving twenty- Vmais . ^ r < lise ( | by Monthly or Weekly Subscriptions , five acres to each share subscribed for . ,- „ , « , - asfoUows : — T ^ , erect- . MB ** ££ ^ . y ^ . ^ fT ^ ° [ $£ A payment of Ninepence per week for ten years will land on each allotment , rrevioTis to the arrival ot tne ^ v ^ ^ £ ]|) ^ ^ y ^ ^^ rf ^ T ^ rtvideforthelocation of groups , holding the Land pence pw week for fifteen years will amount to £ l » lto . ; ™ common as wU as for individual securing to each bonus £ o 10 s . Repayments may be madetothe Societym S ^ couS and separaterig hUandimmunities . Money , Produce or Labour . To nnrcbase in lar » e quantities , for the common benefit , Prospectuses , Rules , Forms of Application for Shares , sOl iieressars live and dead stock , and other requisites , and every other information , may be h id at the Office as sunnlyinjr each Member on location with the quantity re- above . AU applications by letter , addressed to the Seereouired at cost price . tary , must be prepaid , and enclose a postage stamp for To establish a depart , from which to provide each family reply . By enclosing twelve postage . 'tamps a copy of the with the required quantity of wholesome food , uutU their Rules will be forwarded , post free . Forms of Entrauce hy own laud produced sufiicientfor iheir snpport . enclosing three postage stamps . Agents required in all parts of Great Britain .
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3 IATBI 3 IONY JIflBE EASY : OB , HOW TO WIN A LOVER . MISS ELLEN DAWSON continues to send free to any address , on receipt of thirteen postage stamps , plain directions to enable ladies aud gentlemen to win the affections of as many of the opposite sex as their hearts may desire . The proposal is simple , but so captivating and enthralling tbat all may be married irrespective of age , appearance , or position ; and last , though not least , it can be arranged with sucfc . ease and delicacy that detection is impossible . Just Published , Sinth Edition , ETIQUETTE OXJ . OVE ; OR , ADVICE ON MARRIAGE . H 7 io toi & rry . ' andutfcenlo Get Jfarried ! Addressed to all Young People . By Elles DaWsos . Price Is . or Free by Post for Fifteen Stamps . OriMOXS OF THE PHESS . _ This charming Httle book abounds with information : it is one we should recommend to the perusal of our young ftiends , especially to those contemplating marriage . —Ladies' >' £ WS . - „ the instruction of
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eminent French physician , who , after devoting many years to this particular complaint , has , at length , discovered a certain and effectual cure , which , in no case , bas failed ; and , it is , alone , by the pressing solicitation of those who hare been entirely relieved of this disfigurment , that has induced her to advertise it , for the benefit of others . The receijie wi ! l be forwarded , free , to any address , on receipt of 3 * . Cd . in Postage Stamp ; , or postoffice order , payable at the General PostOfiice . Bewabe of Spcmods Imitations . —The only genuine article bears the name of Ellen Dawson , on the wrapper or label . Address Miss ELLES DAWSON , Po s t Office , Gray ' s . in-Hoad , London .
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SHIP I 2 v A \ DRUHY-LAflE , St A'icholas-square , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . MAETIN JUDE begs most respectfully to intimate to his Friends , and the Public in general , tkat be has entered tbe above Inn , and having made arrangements for a continued supply oi Articles of the best Quality , which will be sold at tbe regular Trade prices , trusts that they will give him a share of their patronage and support . Fbiue Ale .. .. 4 d ., 5 d ., and Cd . per auart . Losdos Stoct cd . ,, H . B—Drury-lane is close adjoining Mr . Halmbra's Concert Rooms . M . Jnde having been appointed agent for the National Patriots Benefit and Building Society will afford ereryinformation connected with the same to parties ap p ' . yins : to him . Miners and others visiting Newcastle will find every accommodation at the above establishment .
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CUBES FOIl THE UiVCUItED ! HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil . Extract of aletter from Mr . J . H . Alliday , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . Sib , —My eldest son , -when about three years of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went , oa gradually increasing in virulence , when besides tbe ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under the eye , besides seven other * on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which vtas expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy bad received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital
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Jus t Pu b li s hed , IN KOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND , n A L IP O RN I . a , U ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS . ' WITH A MINUTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DI S COVERY OF THE G OL D RE G ION , AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In . tbe course of the work will be given PLAIN BISECTIONS TO EHIGURS TO CALIFORNIA , OR THE UNITED STATES , OR TO CANADA ; AUSTRALIA ; HEW ZEALAND , OB ANI OTHER
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In Aos . at One Penny each , splendidl y Illustrated A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ' ENGAGED IN THE SEECH FOR SIR J . FMNKLIN CONTAIN INC ALL THE
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Mw Publishing in Xbs . al One Penny each . By the Authoress of' The Gipset Girl . ' Each Penxv Numbeb , of this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print THE TRIALS " OF LOVEOB ' WOMAN'S REWARD- . BV Mas . II . M . LOWNDES , ( Late HANNAH MARIA JONES , ) AutUoiess of 'Emily Moveland , ' « Rosaline Woodbridge ' ' Gipsey Mother , ' Scottish Chieftains , ' 'Forged Note , ' W edding Ring , '' Strangers of the Glen ,, ' Victim of Fashion , '' Child of Mystery . ' etc .
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CRUEL TREATMENT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IS TOTMLL-FIELDS PRISON . A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE -O . held in the NATIONAL HALL , HIGH HOLBORN , ( Opposite Day and Martins , ) On Wednesday Evening , Jpne 25 th , 1851 . For the purpose of adopting a petition to the House of Commons , praying for an inquiry into tho inhuman and illegal treatment inflicted on Ernest Jones in the above named prisen . Thomas Waelet , Esq ., M . P ., in tbe chair . Lord Dudley Stuart MP : Sir Benjamin Hall , Bart ., M . P . ; T . S . Uuncomue , Esq . " , M . P . ; Milner Gibson , Fsq ., M . P . ; and several other gentlemen are invited and expected to attend . Ernest Jones will also attend , and fully detail the treatment to which he has been subjected . Chair to be taken at half-past Seven , for Eight precisely . Admission free .
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TOOTIIACIiE PREVENTED . Price Is . per packet ; post-free , Is . Id . BRAKDE'S ENAMEL , for FILLING DECAYING TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUND AND PAINLESS , has , from its unquestionable excellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad . Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY ot the cause of Tooth-ache , and hence its great success . By most other remedies it is sought to kill the nerve , and so stop the pain . But to destroy the nerve is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth then becomes a dead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of iunanunaxioa wnA taia as would re : u \ t from any other foreign body embodied in a living organ . BRANBE'S ENAMEL does not destroy tlie neroe . butby RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE TOOT / 1 , completely protects the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which pain is caused . By following the directions , INSTANT EASE is obtained , aud a LASTING CURE follows . Full instructions accompany every packet .
American Tklegraphiso Is Sweden, Norway, And Dbn-
American Tklegraphiso is Sweden , Norway , and Dbn-
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. — . an gentleman ( Mr . William Robinson ) has obtained the privilege for fifty yearsof erecting and managing lines of magnetic teleg r a ph . in the united kingdoms of Sweden and Kbrway . A company has been formed including some heavy , capitalists of this city and Stockholm , and the work of erecting the line is to be at once commenced . There is reason to expect that a similar privilege will be obtained from the govern- / meat of Denmark , and in ail it is expected that ? some 3 , 000 miles of telegraph communication will be conferred on the Scandinavian peninsula' by Yankee enterprise . —New York Tribune . ' The Murom w Belgium , —The extraordinary trial in Belgium for fratricide concluded after twelve days in the condemnation of Count Bocatme to deftibi and tUe acquittal of his wife , ;
Publishing Every Saturday, Motes Toi . . T#E , People;.
PUBLISHING EVERY SATURDAY , MOTES TOi . . T # E , PEOPLE ; .
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i v A new Periodical , to renecc me mum me age , and prepare the people for tbe advent of popular power , containing forty columns of close print ( besides wrapper ) roa * ewot « esck . By ERNEST JONES , Of the Middle Temple , Barrister at Law . The following articles have appeared already : — The Poems composed by Ebnest Jones in prison . A Letter on Co-opebatjon , showingthe fatal errors of the present movement , and the remedy . ¦ Letters on the Chartist Pbocbamme . giving the reasons for each clause , and answering the Times , etc . The Minore CiAss Franchise MEASUBE-why will it injure the People . Omi LAND-its Lords and Serfs-A tract for Labourers and Farmers—and other matter .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , Od 5 ce , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE herebyaniiounce the following meetings : — On Sundai ncx' , at three o'clock in the afternoon , the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening next at the Cr « wn and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , a lecture will be delivered .
Tbe Crystal Palace.
TBE CRYSTAL PALACE .
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The following Engravings of this . unrivalled edifice , are now ready , and may be had at this Office :-I—View of the Exterior of the Building ; a magnificent print—two feet long—exquisitely engraved ; from a drawing furnished by Messrs . Fox and Ilenderson ; and consequently correct in every respect . Piuce only Sixpence . II . —Proofs of the Same Print , printed on thick Imperial Drawing Paper . Pbice One StllCUKG .
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DEFAULTING- AGENTS . We are again under the necessity of stopping the papers this week from several other Agents whose accounts are in arrear . We have in no case stopped an account unless where it has been long iu avreav , and where numerous applications have been made for payment . Subscribers who are disappointed will therefore know who to blame . Any one who experiences difficulty in procuring the Horthem Star can be regularly and punctually supplied by communicating with this Office .
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PutszKt is earnestly requested to forward his address immediately to Feargus O'Connor , Esq 24 , Netting Hill-terrace , Notting Hill , London . Ekkest Jones—We cannot publish your communicationit is an advertisement . Hungarian IIefugeeb —The following sums have been received by Mr . T . Brown : —Mrs . Sturgeon , 2 s . ; Mr . Iicivis , 2 s . Cd . ; Wilson ' s ,. Wardour-street , Soho , Is Gd . ; Society of Irish Democrats , per Mr , Reynolds , is . Mister , per ditto , Is , ; Mr . Collins , 3 s . Gd . A . B . Uelafobce . —Your report came too late on Friday morning . We have noticed the meeting . To the liwToit op THE * Norther Stae . '—Dear sir , —
have enclosed postage stamps amounting to 4 s . Gd ., from five friends , to be applied as follows ' . —Honesty Fund John Douglass , Cd . ; James Blake , Is . j A . 11 ., Is . ; John Nobes , 6 d , ; John Tolfree , Cd . ; Winding-up of land Company : J . Douglass , fid . ; James Blalie , Cd . lam sorry that I am not enabled to send more , but every little is a help . —John Douglas , Gosport . —[ We are sorry we have no room , for the tetter accompanying this notice , -Ed . N . S . ] G . Caviu . — Your communication arrived too late . We have no room at disposal on Friday morning . It shall appear next' week . X Y . K . —The N ort h ern S tar is supplied with punctuality every Saturday morning by \ V . S . Itobarts , Newsagent , < fcc „ Dudley-street , Kidderminster .
The Northern Star Saturday, June 21, 1851
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JUNE 21 , 1851
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CONSPIRACY AGAINST LABOUR . , In the course of a few vreeka a ttia , l -witt take place at Stafford , in which the whole of the working classes of the empire are deeply interested .. The defendants in the cause are , virtually , the representatives of all who live by their labour ; and the question at issue is ho less than this : Shall working men , in future , be permitted to exercise any power whatever in the fixing of their own wagesor shall they , at the risk of fine or imprisonment , ' accept whatever the employers choose tooffepthem ?
; God knows ,. the unseen , but potent and insidious , power of capital leaves them but little real power in the decision of these questions ; but still the law , in words , recognises their rig ht to exercise it . By the provisions of the Act 6 Geo ., IV ., cap . 129 , Trades ' Unions are legalised under certain conditions , and the right is expressly recognised of combining for the purpose of " fixing and determining the rate 67 wages , and tbe hours or
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time for which they shall work for any manufacturer . " It seems , indeed , strange that , in a land of so-called , liberty , such a specific enactment should hav | been necessary ., The right of a free man . ' to'dispose of his person and his services as he pleases , constitutes the essential difference betweeri'him and the slave , who is treated ^ as the property ' ; of his o wner , condemned tovrfabour according ^' to his will , and remunerated according to his pleasure .
It is indicative , however , of the veal slavery of the labour class , whether it is chattel . or wages-slavery , to note how , in the Act-referred to , the exercise of the right thus recognised , is hedged round with restrictions and conditions . The fact that it is the master legislating for the servant is stamped on every clause ; and conjoined with that fact another peeps out—namely , the innate con sciousness of the injustice perpetrated on the producing classes , and the fear lest they should become—in consequence of this grudging recognition of their rights—powerful enough to enforce them . Narrow , indeed , are the limits within which they are permitted to
actguarded the language whith allows them the liberty of setting a price on their own labour , in conjunction with their brother toilers . Capital is visibly uneasy lest the helot should , by these verbal concessions , be enabled to escape from thraldom . Tho monopoly of political power , combined with social and monetary predominance ; the possession of greater intellectual advantages ; and tha exclusive command of all the legal , municipal , educational , and commercial machinery of society —are , by the owners of capital , deemed scarcely enough to counterbalance the irresistible claims of labour , or to justify their own fundamentally weak position with reference to it .
Trades' Unions , however limited in their operation , however unequal to the task of grappling with all the depressing and deteriorating agencies , which are constantly at work upon those engaged in manual labour , have yet been of immense practical service . They are not the best , but as yet they are tho only effective means by which a barrier has been erected against the continuous aggressions of those who hire labour , and who give as little as they can in return for its products . Rapid as has been the downward tendency of wages in late years , caused by tho immense additions to machinery , the supercession of skilled
manual labour by these machines ; and the consequent increased competition in an exceedingly overcrowded labour market , the reductions would have been greater but for Trades' Unions . Had they not been in existence , there would have been no drag whatever on the car of the competitive Juggernaut . Masters have been compelled to pause , and count the cost of a protracted and expensive struggle with organised bodies , who not only knew their rights , but were resolved to maintain them . Having done so no doubt in many instances they "let I dare not wait upon I would . ' '
One of the great drawbacks to the extended power and greater usefulness of those societies lay in their isolation and localisation . This rendered it comparatively easy for the employers to attack and subdue them in detail . The small , separate local societies were necessarily limited both in means , experience , and knowledge of the best mode of coping with their powerful and wily antagonists . Hence , they soon exhausted their pecuniary resources , or were provoked into a course of action which unwittingly bi'ought them within reach of the fangs of the law . The Judge and the Gaoler were invoked in aid of tho long purse , and the local resistance to the tyranny of capital speedily quelled .
To meet this want a National Organisation of the Trades of the United Kingdom was formed in 1845 , of which Mr . T . S . Duncombe , M . P ., accepted the Presidency . The name of that gentleman was a guarantee to society at large that nothing illegal or unconstitutional would be attempted , ; md to the working c l a s ses , on the other hand , that tiieir interests would be promoted and protected in an intelligent , moderate , but uncompromising spirit , The whole of the machinery of the Association was constructed in this spirit , and from the moment of its commencement has been directed with tho view to protect the honest , fair-dealing employer , as well as the honest labourer in the assertion of
his just claims . The existing state of tho law was carefully considered , and . the course prescribed for the Association defined in strict accordance with it ; while tho great lever by which it was proposed to obtain an equitable adjustment of disputes between employers and employed , was a friendly and impartial mediation and arbitration between the contending parties . That Association has not , unfortunately for the interests of . the . Trades themselves ,
received that universal support which its constitution and its objects so well entitled it to ; but during tho period of its existence it has amply demonstrated the superiority of the principles on which it is founded , and the mode of its procedure , Through the medium of arbitration and mediation alone , and at an inconsiderable expense , a greater number of victories have been gained for various sections of the industrious classes than by any Association of the kind ever before established in this country .
It is the existence of this Association , and , through it , of all other Trades' Associations , which ia now menaced by tho prosecution instituted by one or two employers in Wolverhampton . The readers of the Slar are so familiar with the facts connected with the " turn out" of tho Tin Plate Workers in that town , that it would be a waste of time and space for us to restate them , were it ever so briefly . The excellent weekl y letters of Mr . Peel , the Secretary of the Association , leave nothing to be added on this head , aud the y must , to all reflecting workmen , prove the necessity there is at tho present moment for a vigorous and an earnest effort to support the Association against its powerful and unscrupulous opponents .
If they have any doubt on the subject , let the facts we are about to narrate show . how intimately their own interests are implicated in this struggle . A few weeks ago , a body of Silk Dressers formally gave iu their adhesion to / the Association of United Trades . At the same time they forwarded to us a printed copy of an address , in which they set forth their reasons for that step , and their views as to the general position and prospects of the labouring classes in this country , with a request forfits insertion . We complied with that request . The document will bo in the recollection of our readers , and we may leave them
to pronounce upon its character . To ourselves , it seemed a calm , impartial , and by no means exaggerated statement of the case on the part of Labour against Capital . There was no violence , either in word or in spirit , manifested in it . That it exhibited an antagonism between the two great primary elements of wealth was no fault of the Silk Dressers , but of the false and vicious organisation of society which places these two powers in hostile position . They took what they considered a correct view of their own position , and thev called upon their fellow labourers , vdioic interests were identical- with their own . to follow their example .
What has been the consequence ? The emtlV ^™ ? , " . eeifl " " * « ^ e in . formed /' ttio address in the Star , came into 2 ! , * ? JW W wishing to know who wrote ifc and failing to discover tho author , at once discharged nine of those whom he suspected of having taken an active part . 'We shall say nothing of our boasted freedom of opinion , nothing of the liberty of the Press , alia of free speech and ; writing , which dan only be exweiaedia tbi im of such arbitrary and
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senseless tyranny as this . If the emptachums supremacy over the minds , as well Z the persons , of his workmen ; if , 5 „ addit ^ to their being efficient operatives , he nV mands that they shall think onl y as hi pleases , and have no opinions save ' thosn that are satisfactory to him , he has in the present disorganised and licentious state of society , a nqht to insist upon such conditions ' Whatever may be thought of the rationality or the justice of the demand , he may make 4 and hire men on such terms when he can find ' them degraded or hypocritical enough to con sentto them . As far as in him lies ho
, mav reduce the workmen he employs to a conditio n tar below that of the slave ' s on an American plantation ; because , if the slave o wner does deny his » chattel" the right to think , he at all events takes the responsibility of feedingclothing , and housing him in health and iu sjj ness ; which is more than the master of the whiteslave does . But we submit that even in this ' chaotic ' and subversivemal-amngement of ca pital and labour , the power and the rig ht' to interfere ought to end in the employer ' s own workshop . Outside of that he should not be permitted to step . Not so thinks the Leeds " master , " who " came into
the shop in a great rage , " on finding that his mea dared to think for themselves , and that a newspaper printed what they thought . Simple discharge from his employment was not sufficient for so audacious and atrocious a crime in this " free country . " He sent the names of the discharged men to all the other masters in the same line , with a warning against employing them , because they " are union men . " The consequence has been , that several who had obtained other employment have been discharged , aud all arc now doomed by this horrible and monstrous proscription to starvation , as far as the employers can carrythat sentence into effect .
Now , we as k , is not this a gross and flagrant conspiracy against Labour , on the part of these masters ? A conspiracy far more dangerous to society , and far more deadly in its consequences , than any conspiracy of workmen against masters can ever be ! Property and life are hedged round—and properly sowith every imaginable security ; and the slightest violation of the law is followed by sure and severe punishment . The masters have besides this , in all cases , their capital and an overstocked labour market to fall back upon , in the case of a dispute with their workmen . At
the worst it can only be an inconvenience to them , and the loss of profits which they would otherwise have made . Very different it ig with the working men hunted and proscribed as these Silk Dressers are . The con . spiracy against them touches their very means of existence , and is calculated to drive them either into the workhouse or the gaol . Charity or crime are the sole resources which such un infamous and disgraceful prosecution loaves them . Yet for this deadly and vindictive
conspiracy tho law has no penalties . The master , class may brand men with a mark which leaves them no alternative , save starvation or disgrace , with impunity , while for the labour-class , tho assertion even of their admitted and acknowledged rights in an open , moderate , and studiously-pacific spirit , is beset by such legal traps , pitfalls , and suares , as to give revengeful and malicious employers the power of instituting prosecutions , meant only to harass and to impoverish those op » posed to them !
The National Association is now placed in the front of the battle for the labour-clase . The violent and unjustifiable conduct of tho Master Silk Dressers , no less than tho orosccutton of the Wolverhampton Employer ? , proves that its existence is considered incompatible with the maintenance of irresponsible and unchecked tyranny . It is for the trades of this country to say , if they will suffer such a conspiracy against their class , and their
dearest interests , to succeed ; or whether they will rally round the standard thus uplifted , preserve the right of association , and all the consequent influence and power which such associations confer upon their order . Every Trades' Society in the kingdom is directl y interested iu the struggle . If the United Trades Association is declared illegal , no other society of the like kind will be permitted long to exist . Working men of Great Britain . ' UP , TO THE RESCUE !
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ANTI-HUMBTJG . Cant and Hypocrisy have suffered a defeat this week Since the days of Saint Andrew Agnew there has teen a succession of efforts to deprive the working classes of all power of locomotive recreation or enjoyment on a Sunday . Not content with immuring them iu close , unventilated , unhealthy workshops , cellars , and garrets , six days in the week , they would deprive them of a mouthful of fresh air and an hour or two of sorel y needed relaxation
on the seventh . Under pretence of promoting morality and the interests of reli gion , the grossest interference has been attempted with the domestic comfort and the social freedom of the labouring classes . The various Sabbath bills brought forward have never interfei-ttd with the luxuries and enjoyments of the rich . Their meddling has always been confined to the ' poor ;—in that respect acting no doubt upon a scriptural maxim : "To bira that hath much , shall be added , while from him that hath little shall be taken away that which he hatb . " The rich man may enjoy his luxurious club room , its large assortment of newspapers and periodicals , and its well
appointed cuisine and wine cellar , without i raising a frown on the sanctimonious visages I of the Pharisee ? , who pretend to be anxious i about the sanctity of the Sabbath . They t see without any manifestation of horror < m- pcrbly caparisoned carriages driven to > church by jolly fat coachmen , attended by j footmen bedizened with tawdry finery , aid 1 displaying wondrous exuberance of calf f in tight fitting white stockings . They j have no compassion for tho thousands 8 of eoolcs , assistants , and scullions , who are e kept at work in the underground stories of our ir great mansions , in preparing the recherche > . e feas t s , - which" are' to grecfc those " miserable e sinners , " their masters and mistresses on their r
return from their devotions—neither care they y for the precious souls of the butlers and the e lacqueys who attend the well-spz-ead board . L No Act of Parliament is proposed to shut up ; f > the Club House , prohibit carriages , and pre- escribe cold mutton , bread , and water , for the ie Sunday dinner in the Palaces of tho " West efc End . " Perhaps this may he aU the result of of pure pity . It is said that it is hard for a a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven ; in ; and knowing that they are on tho broad and nd straight road which leadeth to destruction , > n , the Sabbatarians may , through a pardonaWeW © > human weakness , wish to compensate for thethe > eternal deprivation of happiness , by strewfnging ; a . few additional flowers in tbe path of thethe j unhappy people who are on the wrong way . .
_ It is only with the poor , to whom an oppo-po- » site destination is pointed out , that they be-be-¦ come ferociously pious aud self-denying . " Be-Be--cause they are virtuous , there shall benomoraorea cakes and ale . " They demand thatthe commonnona bakehouse shall be shut up—that the tap sballballll be stopped—that the newsman shall cease from ' romB his labours—the oranges and apples be so- so-ieluded fioMsightand untouched—thesteamere , iers , ? , railway trains , and all other kinds of
locomo-imootion be arrested , and all o * it of an overflowinfyingig solicitude for the moral and the spiritual vsel-vseM fare of those upon whom they inflict tbestbes < s < deprivations . Again they act on the scripturaturaa maxim , "Though much tribulation shallydl y ^ gain the Kingdom of Heaven . " The end cad oo the journey is to he a sufficient compensatioiatioioi for all the miaeriea and privations hy vbicwhiclcl tbe path ia besetv . '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 21, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21061851/page/4/
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