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      The Northern Star. Saturday, May 23, 1846.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , MAY 23 , 1846 .

      The Struggle. The Conference.-The Strike...

      THE STRUGGLE . THE CONFERENCE .-THE STRIKE . Not only from England and Scotland , but from Ireland as well , we continue to receive the most grateful and gratifying thanks for the manner in which we have brought labour ' s question to bear upon the mind of the industrious classes , and if wo have not grossly deceived ourselves and egregiously miscalculated upon the machinery with which labour ' s battle is to be fought , we can come to no

      other conclusion than that the firmness of her sons will insure the triumph of their order . If the venal , the corrupt and profligate press of tho country devoted but a tithe of that space which it devotes to the unjust cause of capital to the meritorious side of the question , the struggle would be short and decisive , but when we read such rampant , rabid , blustering , swaggering nonsense as that indulged in by the ZWspotcAof Sunday last , followed by an article iu the Times of Monday , and which we have printed

      The Struggle. The Conference.-The Strike...

      elsewhere at full length , we confess that we enter , tain hut slight hope of assistance or even justice from the press of England ; It is well , however , that the working classes should he » r both sides of the question , and it is with that view that we have reprinted Th Times article at length , and , in the absence of all other evidence * upon that article alone we undertake to establish the innocence of our clients and the justice of their cause , while from its tone we may reasonably deduce their prospect of success . The Times , after a tortuous

      construction as to what the law would consider conspiracy , and after stating in the outset that the Central Association is an illegal body , is drawn to tho confession at last that its objects are legal , but that the confession of their legality , that is their reliance upon legal means , alone constitutes the illegality of the Association . This is reasoning more absurd than ever was before ventured upon by the rawest schoolboy . But , shifting the argument from the Central Association to the sectional strike , The Times selects some things that those on strike have done , and some things that they may yet do , as proof of the illegality of the Central Association .

      The writer did not see that we contended for the necessity of the Central National Association for the express purpose of keeping all sectional move , ments within the strict limits of the law , and thus has the Thunderer unintentionally acknowledged the necessity and the value of the Central Association , while no attempt has been made to show the necessity or the value of a combination of the tyrant masters , There is not a single argument urged against labour ' s combination that does not tell powerfully against the master's combination , and yet this defender of labour ' s rights has no difficulty in seeing the beam in labour ' s

      eye , while its vision is too obscure to see the mote in that of capital . We presume , that few working men will have perused the article in the Times without coming to the conclusion that it is a government feeler—to ascertain how far the Strong government with its reckless Home Secretary may experimentalize upon the few remaining rights hnd privileges of the working classes . Again we remind labour that we were the first to announce the coming of the projected Master * ' and Servants' Bill , and that we are now tho first to announce the coming of a much more Terrific Monster .

      We have already stated that its advent is only postponed until the objects of the United Trades shall be fully developed in the forthcoming Conference . And it is in order that the delegates should be prepared for such a result , and that they should protect their great leader against the charge of being associated with an illegal body , or a body , though legal in itself , having recourse to illegal means to carry out its objects , that we would impress upon the minds of the delegates the necessity of courage tempered with proper caution—that we would remind every man who rises to speak , that when the battle is transferred to the " cock pit" of the capitalists ,

      where the " MAIN" of labour must be fought , the more unfettered and untrammelled and unassailable their champion is , the more successful will he be in the advocacy of their cause . We learn from the press gang that the combination of the masters goes bravely on—indeed , there is nothing to impede them in their progress , while there is everything to inspire them with confidence . They have money , as the Dispatch triumphantly tells us , to live in idleness and security , while the men must pine in uncertainty . They have law to protect them , and where it appears weak they have law makers of their own selection ready to strengthen their hands .

      Nevertheless they evidently see a danger in the combination of the men to overcome which they will ultimately be compelled to appeal to the legislature for powers BEYOND THE ORDINARY LAW . As we anticipated , thejlabour force lias neither been apathetic or unwatchful , for it will be seen from the cheering and magnanimous resolution of the members of the Leicester Chartist Cooperative Land Society , that solicitude about a project which it was supposed would numb all

      political feelings has not prevented them from rendering their mite to aid in labour ' s struggle ; so that what in the outset appeared to be the cause of a single trade , has by the tyranny of the masters been converted into a national labour struggle . The men , as we anticipated , have remained firm , they have boldly performed their duty , and it now remains with their representatives and the governing body to give confidence to the soldiers who have so bravely suffered in the cause of their order .

      On Sunday week , the 31 st of May , Labour ' s Champion , the member for Finsbury , will arrive at Manchester . On Monday the 1 st of June , labour ' s parliament will be opened under his auspices , and , however lightly the actors in this great drama may look upon their respective parts , we tell them that not only are the eyes of the civilised world upon them , but that upon their deliberations may depend the peace of the world , butcertainly the happiness Of the labouring classes . From the accounts that we receive from all parts of the kingdom we have reason to anticipate not only a large but independent representation of the Trades , while the importance attached to their proceedings by their enemies and

      the government will ensure for their cause an amount of circulation which under no other circumstances could they have insured . Having then so long and so boldly resisted the insolent conditions proposed by their tyrant masters , we have only to congratulate the brave sufferers upon the aid now so near at hand , and to assure them , that , however the servile press , supported by their calumniators may burke or misrepresent their feelings , our columns at least shall be devoted to the fullest representation and to the unbiassed criticism of their proceedings . The men have fought a glorious struggle , and again wc say to their representatives and governing body , " Upon you depends the issue of this great struggle . "

      Woe To The Conqueror! Sir Robert Peel Ha...

      WOE TO THE CONQUEROR ! Sir Robert Peel has conquered that is , so far as triumph over party and conversion from the opinions of a long life of study to the adoption of new i ' angled notions without reflection can imply conquest , he has conquered . The great conservative party elected

      him as their chief , they placed him as their sentinel to guard their camp and to watch the movements of their enemies . They robed him in a power never before enjoyed by chief , they strengthened him with a confidence never before conferred upon leader . They had fought the battle of the hustings and were proclaimed victors , and appointed him plenipotentiary with unqualified power to stipulate the price of victory , and his terms are

      SURRENDER . Strong in numbers , closely knit in zeal , kneaded as it were in one common leaven of interest , and linked in an unbroken chain of confidence in their unanimously elected chief , they abated much of their individual energy , and like all other troops flushed with victory , they relapsed into quiet apathy ; he seized the moment of their confidence and handed them over an easy prey to the very party whom he had been elected to fight against .

      In our first comment upon those measures which have now received the sanction of the Lower House , we made the distinction between the measures and their propounder . We hailed the settlement of a question , which , more than all others had perplexed the democratic councils as prophetic of good ; while , with the great bard we were , nevertheless , compelled to exclaim , " Though I like to hear the treason , I hate the traitor . " We have followed the slow and tedious debate in its progress through the

      several stages , in the hope of discovering labour s share of the minister's triumph , but until the last night of the straggle we were kept in ignorance . The speech of Sir Robert Peel upon the last night of the debate was a mere heckling , a childish unravelling of the follies of Mr . Colquuoun and Mr . CALBT i without even a passing comment iipon the copious , the full , the statesmanlike , the comprehensive and unanswered , because unanswerable , speech of Mr . D'Israeli .

      Woe To The Conqueror! Sir Robert Peel Ha...

      ¦ The question of Free Trade has been elaborately discussed for years in the House of Commons , on the hustings , and the platform , and the threadbare arguments have been repeated ad nauseam throughout the present controversy , while we assert , broadly and without fear of refutation , that , with the exceptionof Mr . D'Israeli ' s speech last Saturday morning , the working man's side of the question has never been even hinted at in the house , while in that speech we recognize an able and convincing confirmation of every shape and form in which for years we have placed the question before our readers , and however the defenders of inconsistency and " so __ . '« ¦* - « * n ' • . l ^ . toMnYAlix

      forth" may attempt to evade argument , in a maudlin sympathy for a defenceless minister and an assumed reprobation of glowing and not unmerited sarcasm which towered above their imagination , their expression , or their courage , yet we tell them that D'Israeli ' s speech , which we print without the omission of a single line or word , will outlive the ribaldry of a prostitute press , the scoff of a degenerate Whig leader , and the sneers of those deserters upon whose subserviency the minister has wrecked his party and his fame . We have heard speeches in the House of Commons ; we have read speeches delivered in the House of Commons , but we candidly confess that it never fell to our lot to hear or read such a speech

      as that upon which we now write . It was terse , argumentative , and eloquent ; comprehensive , conclusive , and convincing , and in the present state of parliamentary ignorance of the subject can only be answered by the sad realization of tho anticipations of the hon . member . Here are his points : —the Corn Laws , I admit , are a great fiction , but they are a fiction by which the universal traffic of the world has been regulated , and in that traffic labour has been a gainer rather than a loser by the fiction . Under this great mantle are concealed the fiction of your currency , the fiction of your taxation , the fiction of rents , the fiction of tithes and church property , the fiction of debts , loans and interest , the fiction of prices , the fiction of

      incomes fixed and fluctuating , THE FICTION OF WAGES , and the fiction of REPRESENTATION itself , partially acquiesced in upon the grounds' that labour had its share in the GREAT FICTION . Then mark how the great logician solves the problem relied upon by the free-traders . See how he demolishes the arguments in favour of free trade in corn , deduced from the increased importation of other articles of consumption . Observe the masterly manner in which he assigns to each clime and people the power of extending their produce according to the wants of newly-created consumers , and how he winds up his catalogue oflabour ' s prospects out of the unconnected threads from which economists would weave the veil to obscure the workman's vision .

      Mark how he distinguishes between the thing produced and the thing producing . He shows that the importation of all the articles employing labour and used for the sustenance of labour have been abundantly increased since the duties upon these several articles have been reduced . And then , in answer to the folly of those who have asserted "THAT THE WORLD HAS NO FEARFUL SURPLUS OF CORN TO SEND US , " he triumphantly offers the increase in the importation of TEA FROM CHINA , an article in which there is no competition , and from it he shows that the price declined from 2 s . od . to 9 d .

      while the importation within the . same period increased by millions upon millions of pounds . China has a monopoly of that article , and yet the INCREASED DEMAND insures the increased supply . He next shows , as we have shown a thousand times over , that the wages of the agricultural labourer are kept up by the fiction of the Corn Laws , and that aU other countries capable of growing corn will be invited to the pursuit by the opening of the RICH MARKET , and that , as a matter of course and of necessity , the wages of the English wheat grower will be capriciously regulated by the

      FLUCTUATING STANDARD OF FOREIGN SUPPLIES . English prices of corn , notwithstanding her Corn Laws , have been more equable and less fluctuating than the prices in any other country , and of course the opening of her ports will now subject her to still more lamentable fluctuations , while we are confidently told that FIXEDNESS is the one great desideratum contemplated by free trade . The honourable gentleman shows how the importation of cocoa , tea , coffee , sugar , cotton , and other articles has increased , while we presume economists , who 'hold out the ideal happiness of plenty , would

      have told us that it weuld be impossible for all the world to have met so large an increase in our demand for those articles within so short a period . Who does not recollect the statistical ravings of the Thunderer ? Who has forgotten the balm administered to the bleeding wounds of the affrighted aristocracy ? Who that does not remember the nursery tales of Printing House Square ? They are fresh in the recollection of panting infants and wondering old age . America for six long years could not favour us with 500 , 000

      quarters annually ; while the rest of the world was not only an empty granary but a barren wilderness , where mouths , gaping as . the Irish , were anxiously expecting relief from any kind and condescending neighbour . We saw either ministerial patronage or League gold , or mayhap both , under the storyteller ' s mask , and we marvelled how paying impudence ventured upon so bold a speculation as palpable falsehood . Well , despite the Croney ' s tale of comfort , we have since heard her lamentation over

      BENDING GRANARIES ]; SHIPS WAITING THE FIAT TO DISCHARGE AT HOME AND TO LOAD ABROAD ; Capitalists made nervous by the unsettled state of the question , and not daring to speculate until they could buy upon some SOUND PRINCIPLE of exchaKge . Our great friend was deaf , or at least dumb , when we assured him that the prices abroad would not regulate the price at home . That it was not what could be conveniently spared by other ceuntries , but what could bo capriciously speculated on by capitalists , that would find its way to the wealthy

      market , and that a little from each would give us a destructive surplus , which would scare labour from the domestic mart . We laid down the scale by which —with risk , freight , and insurance—corn-growing countries could sell with a profit in our market . We showed that speculation would produce surplus , that surplus would produce low wages and unemployed hands , that unemployed hands would produce crime , expence , heavy poor rates , agitation and fluctuation of prices . We showed that wheat capriciously bought abroad must be capriciously sold at home , and always to the disadvantage of the home grower , who

      was the labourer ; who was the best customer in the manufacturing market , and who , when neglected , was the most dangerous customer in the political market . We have never been answered , we never can be answered , but we have been confirmed . Mr . D'Israeli has logically confirmed our every assertion . He used his inanimate figures well , he might have used his animate figures better . The non-arrival of foreign cattle is not consequent upon religious faith , it proceeds from the facts that at the time we stated , namely , that cattle was a commodity of which no

      country could have a surplus . It is a surplus that eats , and cannot be stored for speculation ; and , as we stated at the time , there not being an existing surplus of a commodity that required at least five yoars for its growth , the effect of the cattle tariff could not be felt till tho autumn of tha present year . Cows that were served by the TARIFF BULL in August , 1842 , would not calve till May , 1843 , and their produce would not be fit for tho English market till next autumn , [( and barely then ) , the period wc assigned for the devclGpcmctife of the Cattle Tariff .

      In 1842 , the Sun and the Chronicle childishly answered our arguments , by showing us that because Spanish beasts , imported as an experiment , and sold for £ 12 10 s ., could not bear the cost of £ -i 10 s . transit , that we were safe from intruders . But we explained , that while 35 per cent , was a large outlay for conveyance of experimentalists , that a suitable arrangement for the transit of heavy beasts , worth from £ 25 to £ 40 , would reduce tho cost of transit to 5 per cent ., against which the English feeder could

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      not contend . We showed , that the present scarcity is a consequence of the panic of 1842 , and that cattle which ought to have been held as stock , were foolishly sold ; whereas now , stock is dear , because graziers and feeders are supplying the place of that which they ought not to have sold , and because a superabundant crop of turnips has induced farmers to overbold their sheep . However , we bail the repeal of the Corn Laws , not for the substantive or the immediate benefit that the change will confer upon the labouring classes , but for the many collateral issues that will arise from ** sv 4- Ann 4-A « j ] TIT— _ T- ___ — Jl it j _ J . T- — _* -. a . » . ««^ « .. »••* . a ! J

      the experiment , and which must be adjudicated upon according to the position assumed by labour in the struggle which is assuredly at hand . We hail the change because it will strip ignorance of its prophetic importance ; because it will exhibit the real complexion of pale-faced philanthropy ; because it will teach the credulous , who have confided in the sophistries of a hollow-hearted , interes ' . cd , reckless , speculating faction , the folly of supposing that the same parties can feel an equal interest in the well-being of living man , and in the success of his inanimate , unconsuming competitor . We hail the revolution because it must be Woodless , as the disorganisation of party confederation will ensure the union of labour against which ignorance , sophistry , and

      inconsistency , will struggle in vain . We hail the change because it will knock the last crutch from under limping Whiggery ; because it will tear the new mask from off the face of hypocritical Toryism . We hail the change because IT WILL MAKE ONE of the mighty class of labour , which , to say the truth , has been disunited by ^ the promised benefit from cheap bread , high wages , and plenty to do—the exploded trinity of the unity of humbug . And , while we hail the change , we cannot fail to express our admiration of the incomparable speech of Mr . D'Israeli , which will go far to prepare the national mind for the result of Ministerial inconsistency—a speech which , we feel convinced , every working man in the kingdom will read , mark , learn , and inwardly digest .

      Parliamentary Review. The Corn Bill And ...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Corn Bill and the Tariff have at length escaped from the limbo of the House of Commons and made their appearance in that awful " other place" so often mysteriously alluded to , and in which their strangulation has been predicted , with more or less confidence , by various Protectionist prophets . Hew much of truth there was in these predictions will soon be seen . At present the appearances are by no means of a favourable nature for the minister . His pet measures for the session have escaped positive mutilation or shipwreck cither on the Scylla of Protectionist opposition or the Charybdis of Irish

      tactics . But the delay caused by both , has impaired the prestige with which they would have been in " vested had their introduction to the . House of Lords been two months earlier . To be sure , Peel has maintained his original majority with the addition of one , but the month of May , which was to be witness of a universal famine if the Corn Bill did not pass , has waned into old age without exhibiting such general destitution and , disease as the potato-panic mongers at the close of last and the commencement of the present year unanimously predicted both for Ireland and this country . Had the minister ,

      despising any temporary or factitious aid to be derived from such a source , relied entirely upon the great principles and the wider experience to which he afterwards referred , the position of his measures in the Lords would not be in the slightest degree weakened ; but the great stress laid by himself and his lieutenants on the potato failure , and the manner in which we are approaching another crop of that useful root without the realization of the predictions in which they freely indulged , will no doubt put a power into the hands of the Peers which they will not be slow to avail themselves ef .

      These and other damaging circumstances contribute to produce a general feeling of doubt as to the fate of the ministerial policy in the Lords . The Duke of Richmond announced the most determined opposition , under the leadership of Lord Staxlet . A meeting of Protectionist Peers , very numerously attended , has taken measures for organizing the strength of the party , and bringing it to bear effectively on the divisions . The liberal journals speak dubiously , and the Post triumphantly , of the

      approaching struggle . It is within the list of probabilities that a resignation [ or a dissolution , or both , may intervene before the certain victory of the League and Peel . Be it so . The people ' s cause gathers strength from the collision of hostile parties . Each defeat sustained by a political party sends it back to the people for support . The people are beginning to learn at what price they should give that support , without which no party whatever can long exercise power iu this country .

      With tlie exception of the discussion on the Lace Bill , in the Commons on Wednesday , the proceedings in Parliament this week have been of a very dull . description . One whole evening was devoted to a debate arising out of the disputed Bridport Election . Upon such subjects , members are afflicted with a cacoethes loaucndi , an itch for talking which would be unexplaiaable if we did not recollect that , however stupid on other matters , they must be all tolerably well versed in the mysteries of a contested election . No doubt most of them are belter

      acquainted with a tariff of votes than of customs ' , duties , and it is always pleasanter to talk about what one knows than upon topics of which you are wholly or partially ignorant . " Bribery and corruption , " to use the hacknied parliamentary phrase , are , however , inherent vices of our present vicious representative system , and disputes between the two great factions , or individual members of either , on such a subject , are simply disgusting because neither of them are in earnest , neither of them feel the system itself to be immoral and degrading , neither of them sincerely desires its reformation .

      The only people's questions discussed this week and last , were the Lace Bill of Mr . Buncombe , and the Ten Hours' Bill of Mr . Fielde . v . The Commons , on a division , threw out Mr . Duncombe ' s bill by a majority of 85 , the government were only saved from being beaten by a majority of 30 or 40 on Mr . Fieldek ' s bill oh the previous Wednesday by putting up Mr . Gaud well , the Secretary of the Treasury , to speak against time .

      These contradictory decisions upon cognate subjects are somewhat puzzling , and especially so when we find among the majority against Mr . JDuxcombe s bill the names of Wm . Bkckett , J . Brotherton , W . Ft Cowper . C . IIindlby , and others who have long prided themselves on being supporters of the regulation of labour in factories by legislative enactments . There is something more in this conduct than meets the eye . What can be the cause of it ? Do the parties named , and others sim ilarly situated , merely look upon the Ten Hours' question as a species of

      "political capital , " out of which they can manufacture a spurious popularity , which would be in danger of destruction if the question got into the hands of an honest , determined , and successful member like Mr . Buncombe ? We have our suspicions that the solution of the anomaly is to be found in some such feeling . The excuse upon which most of these Ten Hours' members deserted Mr . Duxcombe on Wednesday—namely , the interference with adult labourthat hon . member distinctly stated his intention to abandon in committee , and there voting against the

      second reading , is , therefore , without the shadow of a reason . We trust that the operatives in the manufacturing districts will carefully -watch the movements of their professed friends at this critical moment . Power with all its blandishments is busy at work to divide or silence them . The struggle oh the Ten Hours' Question will soon be renewed . The deserters , the quibblers , and the absentees on that occasion must be marked for a suitable reward when they next make their appearance on the hustings We must have no more of such shameful trickerv

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      and riding off upon special pleas as that which led to the division of Wednesday last . Against this defeatj however , we are happy ( a place the Debate of the preceding Wednesday , on the Ten Hours' Bill , and which a press of other matter precluded us from noticing last week . Honestv talent , eloquence , argument , philosophy , and fact were arrayed in an overpowering phalanx in support of the measure . Never was any question so trium . phantly argued , or so unanswerably demonstrated as the necessity , the justice , and the policy of a Ten Hours' Bill , on that occasion . Its opponents were 1 * 1 _ nr > . -

      few , and these consisted of miserable tricksters , who wish to play fast and loose with great questions , aa mere instruments for serving party and personal interests ; blockheads whose natural stupidity has been rendered more intense by the artificial addition of a stupid system of Political Economy , and contemptible but greedy hypocrites , who raised the cry of protection | against the reduction of wages , for the purpose of securing to themselves the augmented profits which they believe that free trade measuresin

      con-, nection with unrestricted labour , are sure to yield them . Of all the cants in this canting world , save us from tlie cant of hypocrisy . If there is anything more disgusting than another it is to hear men , notorious for their grinding down of wages upon the slightest pretext of bad trade , slack markets , or damaged work , or greater competition among themselves , come forward with elaborate calculations to prove that the workmen will earn so many pence less in the week if their toil is limited to that prescribed

      by nature as the limit of healthy endurance . The operatives unanimously reply to these humane persons , " We are perfectly ready to run the risk of a reduction . " But so careful , so tender are these self * elected guardians of the interests of the operatives , that they will not permit them , ignorant shortsighted wretches as they are , to have any voice in the matter . " We know best what is good for you , " is in effect their answer . " Place confidence in us , as your best friends . " Miserable self-deceivers ! Do they imagine that they can thus hoodwink the sharp-sighted intelligent operatives of England ? No ! they are too well acquainted with the actual working of the Factory System , to be deluded by such a clumsy and transparent attempt at playing the philanthropist and poor man ' s friend , .

      Among the few opponents of the Bill , a young man named Trelawnev made a speech , which was remarkable only for the glib manner in which it was delivered , and the impudence of a person like him venturing to sneer at the opinions of such men as those who have advocated the regulation of labour in factories . Presuming to lecture these mistaken sentimentalists on their ignorance of sound princi ples , and the true way to promote the welfare of the working classes , this very green young man informed them , that the best way to improve the condition of the operatives , was to establish parks , to widen

      streets , and ventilate houses . All very good things in their way , no doubt . But of what use , can Mr . Trelawxev tell us , would parks be to the poor wretches cooped up in the " rattle boxes , " in the heart of Manchester , from half-past five in the morning to half-past seven or eight in the evening ? How much of sunlight will there be left after that time , to brighten the factory labourer's stroll in a park , two or three miles away from the mill , even if the exhausting , protracted , and enervating nature of his toil did not of itself produce the desire for rest ? Yet this is a specimen of the humbug , out of which these would-be friends of the working classes

      continue to manufacture a character for enlightened philanthropy ! As to wide streets and ventilated houses , all we can say is , that ail the widening of streets we have hitherto seen has only tended to crowd the poor more into smaller streets than they had before , because the rents in the new ones were too high for them , and could only suit a higher class of income ; and if the factory operative is to live 15 hours in the mill , including the time going to , returning from , and taking meals in it , the ventilation of tko dwelling in which lie is permitted to spend so small a portion of his waking hours , is of but very trifling importance .

      The aspect of tthe house during the whole debate showed the strong public interest taken in the question . It was very well attended on both sides from the commencement , and towards the time when a division was expected became quite full . Had the government , as we have already stated , not put up Mr . Cardwe-lii at the last moment to speak against time , tkey would undoubtedly have been defeated , and we trust that upon the next debate they be so in spite of all trickery and manoeuvring whatever , Let the delegates be incessant in their endeavours to secure votes ; above ail let them adopt as their motto

      THE TEN HOURS' BILL AND NO COMPROMISE , and ere long this hard-fought contest , prolonged for so many years , will be crowned by a victory , unstained by violence , and sanctified alike by the holiness of its objects , and the nature of the weapons by which it has been won .

      Co Jfatitev* & Cortt3dmrttfn&

      Co jfatitev * & Cortt 3 DMrttfn &

      The Notorious Jackson And Northumberland...

      THE NOTORIOUS JACKSON AND NORTHUMBERLAND MAGISTRATES AGAIN . TO 1 HE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN STAR , ResPECTED Sir , —I , some time ago , through the medium of the Star , called the attention of the miners and the public to the ease of the Biteabout miners , and the oppression and injury which had been practised upon them b y their just and merciful master , Mr . Henry Jackson , coal owner Bearmoor Colliery , near W ' oolcr . I showed that this same Jackson had not only been robbing the men of one-third of their wages , but that he had plaeod the men ' s lives in imminent danger by taking the horse out of the " gin , " aud thus leaving the poor fellows below in the pit , and that he was daily violating the law , by evading and setting at defiance Lord Ashley ' s Act : —5 uud G Vic . I also

      stated that the magistrates all refused to grant summonses for the recovery of the men ' s wages , and refused to interfere in the matter , because none of the men were killed ! Since the publication of the facts the men , being shut out from justice , have sent a memorial to Government ,-praying them to institute an inquiry into the matter—to puuUh the guilty parties —• and to strike off the commission of the peace , as unworthy to act therein , the Wooler magistrates , providing they were proved to have acted as the memorialists described . It appears that a copy of the memorial has been sent to the magistrates , who have since then expressed their willingness to grant summonses ; now they have no objection to infcrtere ! What will the readers of the Star think when I state

      that , since Sir James-Graham has written to them , the magistrates have positively issued a suaimoHs against Jackson , without being solicited by the men ! Truly a change has com soer the spirit of their dream . ' After issuing this summons against Jackson , the following notice was served , at tlie eleventh hour , on the men . " Take , notice . " — A " Special Heeling" of tho magistrates will be held at Ford , on the sth day of May , 1 M , at eleven o ' clock iu the forenoon , tohearvour com . plaint against Henry Jackson , owner of Wmoor ( Biteabout ) Colliery . Kobert Waddel , Solicitor ,

      , ., , Clerk to the Magistrates . As the men only received this notice a few hours before the meeting , and as they were not prepared with any one to defend them or conduct ttnjir case , they very naturally refused to attend , so that the sapient justices and Jackson had the meeting to themselves . What follows will scarcely be credited nevertheless it is no less strange than true . The men write to ' me as follows : — " The constable read over this notice to us in our houses , we told him we hud not applied for tfie summons , we were not prepared , and should not attend . Jackson attended , and on tho constable asking who ivas to pay him , the magistrates and Waddle said , the men ! He said the men had not employed him , but they told tho constable to tell Jackson to stop the men ' s wages to pay him with ! and if they ( the men )

      were not contented with it , they had to come to them and they would grant a summons , and tell all about it . So Jackson has stopped our wages to pav their expeiices , viz ., 2 s . Gd . from George Hay ; 2 s . fid . from Thomas Bruce , and 2 s . 6 d . from William liny \ * Three working men ! In all the anuals of the injustice and trickery ot the master class , and the « great unpaid " did you ever hear of a trick tike this ? The magiSIralea grant a summons without the knowledge of the men , and then order Mister Jackson to stop the men ' s wages to pay the expences ! This is not the only lime , by many , that the men ' s wages have been stopped by Jackson ; lie fined them - . 's . Gd . each for first going to the magistrates to try to obtain summonses against him , and now he tines them 2 s . 6 d . each for-not going- / Can insult , wrong , or oppression go further than Jackson has carried it ? But having the magistrates

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 23, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23051846/page/4/