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2 ' THE NORTHERN STAR. October 31, 1846
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2 ' The Northern Star. October 31, 1846
2 ' THE _NORTHERN STAR . October 31 , 1846
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BV HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . wonderful Cure of dreadful _Ulearous Sores in tbe Face and Leg , in Prince Edward Island . The Trutk of ftis Statement was dul y attested before a MagUirale . I , Hcoh JUcnosAU _,, of Lot 55 , in King ' s Count * , _flo hereby declare , that a most wonderful preservation of my We has been effected by the use of Holloway ' s Pills and emtment ; and I furthermore declare , that I was very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sores in mj Pace and Leg 5 80 severs was my complaint , that the greater part of my nose and the roof of my mouth was eaten away , and iny % g had thrc-j large nlcers on it , and that I applied to bat 1
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Just Published , ¦ _** o . saw andi mporiant Edition of tiu : Silent _Friend on Human Frailty . Price 2 s . 6 iL , asd sent free to any part of ths United Kingdom on the receipt of a ' Post _Offise Order for Ss . Sd . A MEDICAL WORK on tbe _KfF TRMITIES ofthe _GENERATIVE SYSTEM , inbf , th seses ; being an enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy , and the ability of manho _ud , ere vigour has * established her empire : —with _Obsc -rations on tbe baneful effects of SOLITARY ISBXn . eF . XCE and _TJTFECTIOS : local ana constitutional WEAK SESS , NERVOUS inill-
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_, _* _«* . of matrimony , and who ever had the _susftrtune dur their more youthful days to be affected with amy - f _~» of _thes . diseases , a prions _eoina , _« f this medicine is highly essential , and of th . greatest _importancejw , c _* _Ntertmi affections are _risitedupom an « -ooen * _** fe and . ffsprmg _. _fwm a want of thes . simple . precaut , _cns . than perhaps half the world is aware _« f ; f _. r , it must be remembered , where the fountain is p » Uuted , the streams hat HOW from it cannot be pure . F ERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , Price 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d ., and lis . per box , With explicit directions , rendered perfectly intelligible to every capacity , aro well known throughout Europe t . be the most certain and effectual remedy ever discovered for _xouorrhaw , both in its mild and aggravated forms , by immediately allaying inflammation and arresting further progress .
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BLAIR'S GOUT AMD RHEUMATIC PILLS , A severe case of Rheumatism , communicated by Mr , Allen , Proprietor ofthe Nottingham Mercury . Mercury OBce , Nottingham , March 17 , 1845 . Sik , —I have the pleasure of forwarding you tho _particul-irs of a case in which BLAIR'S GOUT and RIIEUSIA . TIC PILLS hare proved eminently successful . A young woman , named Mary Wain , accompanied by her parents , who reside at _Watnall , near this town , called upou me on _S aturday last , being desirous of making ber case known for the benefit of the public .
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_COUSHS , HOABSESESS , AND ALL . _ASTHMATIC AXB PULMONARY C 0 MPEAINT 3 . _BFrEOTCALLY CD & ED _> _Bf-K'evATING'S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards of tlrirty years experience has proved the infalHbi' . itj of thtse Lozenges In the ourc of Winter Cough , Hoarseness , Shortness _^ Breath , 3 nd other Pulmonary _Maladies . The patronage of his Majesty ,, the King of Prussia , and his Majesty , the King of Hanover , has been bestowed on them ; as also that of the _Jfobiiity and _Cles-gyof the United _Kingdon ; . and , above all : the Faculty have especially -recommended them as a- remedy o £ unfailing « _35 cacy _. Testimonials are continually received confirmatory oC the- value of these _Lozenges , _* and provinz the perfect safety of tbeir use , ( for they contain na . Opiu >» » or ant , pr . ep a _* iiU » _iof that drug ;) so that th-ymay be given to female * ofthe most delicate constitution , and children ofthe moat tenderest years without hesitation .
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«• London , 68 . Clieapside . Dec . 3 , 1815 . D « a » SIB . —Having forsome time past , ass the winter approac _hed been subject to a severe Cough , my attention was lately called to your Cough Lozenges , and after taking two small boxes in the course of the _'ast three weeks , I have no hesitation in saying , that in my opinion , they are the best remedy , and have given me wore ease than anything I have ever met with , I am dear Sir , yours truly , ( signed ) William White . To Ma . T . Keating , 79 , St . Paul ' s Church Yard . Medical Warehouse , —Halifax , Novo Scotia , August 15 , 1846 . T _# the Proprietor ofKeat . _tnne ' a _Coajrh LozengeS . 79 , St . Paul ' s Church Yard , London .
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[ TO THE TRADES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND TRE . LAND IN UNION WITH THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES FOR THE PROTECTION 0 ? INDUSTRY . i The primary intention of the _"Natto-al United Trades' Association for the Protection of Industry , " .-as indicated hy its title , and as clearly expressed m the preamble of its " laws , " is tbe consolidation of such a " national unity of action _among the different sections of ' working men , " as will most effectually " plate them in a condition either to withstand * encroachments on , or to demand the rights of labour . " This irresistible *'' unity of action " can alone be compassed by the strictest conformity , on the part of each individual trade , with ! one general system of organization _.
The constitution ftf the Association expressly provides that _tbe'eombincd strength ofthe Association ' shall not be enlisted in behalf of ' any individual trades contestwhether fw resistance of ' an aggression , or in' assertion of a _wlthheia _' riKht—unless * the entering upon gaeli _contest shall have-been _sancticnea _. nndbe directed , by the _CWrtral Committee ; to whom is _necesaarily deft-sated" the centralized * will and power of tlie- Associated Trades * constituting this National' F ' _cderaey of the Industrious Classes . The Centrr . _l'Comraittee deplore that it now becomes their duty to intimate that , contrary ti > - the Association ' s Laws , their several local Trade Societies have ventured upon unauthorised * 'Stiikoa ; " ' subaequintly appoaiihg to the * Central Committee for support and ' protection .
Now , obedience to the Ian- j-of " the _Association , and ' a sanse of justice rTiie to other trades , has * compelled' the Central Committee to negative-all ' such informal appl ' iba _^ tions for succour . In some instance ' , the Central Committee-had to endarSthe _conviTtion _** that- they were _rejecting _claims just in themselves ; bnt which * , if permitted to _acqulr * * the authority of precedents wonFVl have _rendered''unity of action" utterly impossible * , and conscquently Have militated again 9 t the existence of the Asso _=-ciation _itttclf . The Associated Trades are , therefore , moat _earnestly desired to hear in mind tbat they ought not , onder any circumstances , to venture upon a " Strike , " * and its conseqnences , _tmtil the fullest _particulars of each ' caso has Seen fairly submitted to the _CcnWal _Committee , and their final decision , as respects the same , _shall'liavebecB ascertained !
i _;—Because the _splrithnd letter ofthe Laws-leave tho Central Committee no other alternative than tKe withholding all _siipport _from-snch trade movements as-hava not received the _prerious-sanction ofthe Central Committee . 2 _*'—BVeause-fiueb an _illegal ( as re _3 pects the Laws of tbe-Association ) and impolitic procedure .- on the part of isolated trades , deprives the Cen tral C & nrmittefr of every opportunity of interposing * _' _* nic * _liatic . n , _arbitration , and Other proceeding ? , " as might , ; possiblj * . conduce _to-the immediate and ' amicable settlemnntof differences hotwecn employers ' and ' employed- * - and thereby , preclude the necessity for waging an expensive , and , mayhap ,, protracted contest ; 3 . —Because _ifie Central Co ' _mHiitteo are alone in-a- po » sitionto ascertain how far-the ex istingcupabilities ofthe Association are adequate to-the clean-en 'purpose _;• _tliatis , Whether tbe present _pecuTrinry ai id other resources ofthe Association are such as to ensure compliance with-the most just requirements of the ill- used workmen .
4 ;_ Bee _» use _the-ASsociation _s efficiency for good _' would be destroyed , — -its funds exhausted , —and its very existence perilled , were it precipitated , _into-contests for which it _migtitbe nnprepared , orwhicti it could not carry on to a successful issue . 5 ;_ Becau 8 e if the exertions of the _Association are not controlled by its-moans , it-will be utterly impossible that it cany at aDy times , worteoufc the intention of the recent Conference , by accumulating that * capital { £ 20 , 000 ) _whiclr-would be 3 t deter employers from undne exactions , _and'thereby hazarding _a-contest with a really national combination _ofindvtttry , upheld and sustained by its own gigantic capital . '
The Central-Committee trust th & t * tli 9 _.-abo 7 _e-reasons ,. ( and _* _others mightreadiJy . be suggested , ) will _suffico to convince the Associated Trades _tfc » _t-,-v-movem _« nt oughinot to be ventured " upon , * until suclMnovement has _beeirsanctioned by the Central ¦ Committee . " The National ' United Trades' -Association" must-never act as such * unless effectively , as _evary failure _on-i its part-would bat encourage itsenomies _. and weakea . a 8 . well as dishearten its friends . Some tirao- must- necessarily intervene-between _cam-• municating- an instance of _oppression to , the Central ; Committee , and the receipt of the Oommittee ' s instructions as respects the mode of resistance to such
oppression . Hence , an employer may take undue advantage of this _circufnitftnee _^ _bja _Bidden reduction of ? w _*\ ge 9 , _or-othcr encroachment upon-the rights of labour ; under the _pregumption-. _that-his iU-used _worimen . would have no-other _alternative than that of suC 3 umbing ; to his tyrannical proposal ) or- engaging in an- _unprepared-for " _strike . " Right-minded workmen would : of ' coarse , indignantly spurn _theformepv but they -anight place themselves in a . " wrong position '' —as regards tliew best interests—by adopting the latter alternative . The Central Committee conceive , however , that the workmen might frustrate the machinations of such - an employer , by their , flrffllj , yet with all "duerespsot" —addressing him in . such terms as these : —
_"ITotwit _' nstandinir your lack of candour in . _nofchffving given us _pm-ions notiee of your _intentioas , we- will act more honourably _town-sds you , by continuing at workbut with a most emphatic protest against * your uncalledfor terms—until such time as we have been enabled to confer "with our friends as to tlie _course- we ought -to adopt , under circumstances so _unlooked _** for- by us , and , we think , not creditable to you !" By thus continuing for a _shott time , *—and " under protest" —at their employment , the workmen would not compromise , in the least degree , their honour as steadfast * ' society men . " This politic course of action would , however , afford them an opportunity of submitting their grievances to the Central Committee . They would thus legalize any subsequent movement , on their part , and ensure for _themselves a well-prepared , ana really effective , resistance to the exactions of their " cunning oppressor ! Signed , in behalf ofthe Central Committee , T . S . Duncombe , President . T . RAimatt , Secretary . National United Trades'Office , 80 , Hyde Street , _Bloomsbury . London , Oct . 21 , 1810 .
UNITED TAILOR'S JOINT STOCK COMPANY . On Monday evening , a Public Meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester , was convened in the Meal House , Nicholas-croft , for the purpose of hearing the principles and objects of the above company explained . The meeting was called for eight o'clock , shortly after which time , on tho motion of Mr . Lindsey , Mr . Halsall , Treasurer to the company , was unanimously called to the chair . Mr . _Ru-salx , upon _coming forward was loudly cheered . He said he thanhed them for the honour they had conferred upon him , by appointing him to preside over so respectable meeting of his fellow townsmen . It could not be because he belonged to the tailoring trade , inasmuch as he was not in connection with that branch ot industry . But it
mattered not to him what the trade was , if he found the working men determined to do something for themselves , he was willing at all times to lend them a help _ing hand . ( Applause . ) He concluded by readin" the placard calling the meeting , and iBlroduced Mr . Parker , General Secretary to tho United Tailor's Protection Society , to explain the objects of tho " United Tailor ' s Joint Stock Company . " Mr . Parker , upon rising was greeted with several rounds of applause , which having subsided , he said it would be remembered by the journeymen tailor ' s present , that at the last annual conference of the United Tailor ' s Protective Society , held at Leeds , it was clearly proved that strikes were useless for the
purpose of keeping up the price of labour , and otherwise protecting the operative classes from the tyranny of capital . It therefore was agreed that a Joint Stock Company Bhould be farmed for the purpose of enabling them to work for themselves , by commenceing establis hments in all the principal towns in the kingdom . Tiiey therefore ( and when he said they , he meant the Executive Council ) , set to wovk immediately and drew up a load of rules for the Society , which rules was sent to John Tidd Pratt , who refused to enrol them . It would also he remembered , that in Wllitsun-week the National Trades' Conferencc was held in this town , at which lime he ( Mr , Parker ) waited upon tlie working man ' s _friend '
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T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., and shewed him the rules , and exp lained to him the objects of the Society . Mr . Duncombe told him that there was at that time an Act or amended Act , which would , he thought , answer their purpose . Therefore ae- soon as the Act was passed , they obtained it and altered the rules in accordance with its provisions , and sent tnem _again to John Tidd Pratt , who returned them , stating as his reason . " That they did not come within the meaning of the first four clauses of the amended Act for Benefit Societies . " Mr . Parker then read a clause from the Actthe purport of which was , that
, the objects ofthe Societies for which the Act was intended , was such tiiat by their co-operation they should provide for the members a greater quantity of food , clothing , andfire , and contended that these were the very objects of the UnitcO . Tailor ' s Joint-Stock Companv . Mr . Pratt , however , told them that they mightapply tn the Attorncy . generalthrough some lawyer . They did so , and he in like manner refused to certify . Mr . Parker then stated that they engaged that eclehrated lawyer , W . P _* . Rolerts , Esq ., who bad succeeded in getting the Society Registered under the Joint-Stock Company ' s Act . after which
Mr . _Parreh then read the prospectus , he took a general view of the evil effects of strikes generally ; and showed in a clear and convincing manner , the beneficial results that could accrue to the working classes if the money which _waa spent in useless and expensive strikes , was used for the employment of labour on the co-operative principle . He was proud to see that this question was taking root , not in Manchester alone , but all over the Country . Every post brought him letters of enquiry on this subject , and those who wanted to see what cooperatioH could do . bad only to go , as he ( Mr . Parker ) had done , and visit O'ComiOrville , and there they would behold thirty-five good _cottages , with
two ' , three , and four acres of land attached to them , purchased with the people ' s pence , by the instrumentality of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . ( Loud cheers . ) If they looked to London , they would find the shoemakers who were turned ont of employment by a xVlr . Kendall , working for themselves , and paying the journeymen better wages than Kendall did , and at the same time making seventy-five per cent , profit . Look , again , in this town , and they would see a splendid monument of co-operation in Oldham-street—tlie Journeymen _Hattcra' Joint-Stock Company ' s Shop . There were the Builders , and nailers , and the upholsterers of London , working for themselves . It was time the journeymen
tailors began to look about them ; for wages Were coming down , and provisions going up on a rapid scale . In Jersey , the coat , that was 10 s . making , was reduced to 7 s . 6 d . ; and in Leeds there was a'reduction * of one shilling on a ' coat , 9 d . on a pair of _trowsers ,. and 6 d . on a waf 3 _tcoat . In London , the papers told ; them , there were 8 ; 000 or 10 , 000 tailor- ? out of _wcrfe , but that they were receiving , in the * shape of support ,, ten shillings per week . This war not true ; for there were nofhalf that number in societies in London . But were these men not in the power of the levies , the masses-, the _hysonns , tlie wolves , and the foxe _? , who took advantage of such circumstance to grind the working man ' s wages down to the starvation point . One- objeet of this soeietv was to .-match _tliese men ont of the grasp of
sueh as had been enumerated . He- was struck the other day by observing - , _n-ritten on the wall of the Club-house these _worda— " Misery every day . " There was misery every day ; if they had a job of _worX-j-f-bey were in misery ,, for fear that w _* hen it was done there would be no more . In fact , in work or out of work , on the road or at home , it was too * true , the lot of the journeymen tailor was misery every day . The objects of this society were to mend this state of * things by employing the members ,. first giving the- best of _wajres , and selling a good article as cheap as- others . And * this they could do , for * they had amongst them ali the talent requisite either * for cutting or stitching ; - and although they would tme to pay for premises , they would not have to supply the mean . * - to put a master info a princely mansion
and keep him at a princely rate . This would at least be some advantage- to them , inasmuch- as it ¦ wou ld enable them to compete with others . They wanted ; _- ] l lo come forward and * take up sharcs , for they were desirous of" opening two establishmentsin this town , as speedily as possible ; one in the sale ' and the o . her in fhe bespoke department . And there wasno doubt but that the other trades would support them ;* in fact , had they had such establishments- last winter when the strike commenced ; the employers would have been vary careful about the manner in which they treated their workmen . It was * true that that strike had produced apathy ; and no . wonder . But he was proud to' say , that the Protective Society was- not destroyed , as had been reported . The nest balance-sheet would be the largest they had ever * had . They had now 107 towns in the society . Mr . P .. then said ,, the rules of the Co-operative Sooicty , or United Trades' Joint
Stnok Company were in tbe _presB , and would ! be printed in a few days , Parties wishing them could have them ; .-and when'they had read them ,, he hoped they would become shareholders . lie was about to make a visit to Scotland , and he would pledge himself tO'make known the principles-there ,, and their-old friend , tbe Northern . Stew *; would also make known to the working classes of this * country , that the tailors-were about to do something for themselves .. Mr . Parker then resumed his seat amid much applause . " The following resolution was then moved by Mr . Gash , andi seconded by Mr . Lindsey ;*—That meeting having heard the Objects of the " -United Tailors' Joint-Stock Company" * fully explained , _belicvethetn eminently calculated to secure the end in view , vixi _, the _amelioration of the distressed condition in which , the trade U now placed * , and further , this meet _, ing-pledges itself to use all means ia its-power to promote the same . "
On the motion being pat from the chair _* it was carried unanimously . Mr . Littler moved , and Mr . Lindsey seconded a vote of thanks to the chairman , _whicliiwas agreed'to . The chairman acknowledged the compliment in a brief speech , and the proceedings terminated . We subjoin the Company ' s prospectus : .
PROSPECTUS OF' THE TOUTED TAILORS ' JOI _3 ST STOSK COMPANY , for securing beneacial employment to operative Tailors . ( Provisionally _registered . ) Present proposed capital , 430 , 000 in 40 , 000 shares of ten shillings each . Deposits , two shillings pes share . President—Mr . John , Gash , _24 > , Dumville-stre * t , Manchester ' . _Fi ' _iJe . / _Yesid'e'jl—Mr . Thomas Lindsay , 20 , Doleiield , Manchester ; Treasurer—Mr . "William Halsall ,. _« rocer , & _a . ; 61 , Hargreavcs-strcct , Hulme ; Solicitor—Yf , p , _Egberts , Esq ., 8 , _Princess-stsreet , _Manchester ; Trustees—J ; Eage ? , Esq ., M . D ., St . _Petcr's-squaus ,.
Manchester ; Jt . C : Hulley , Esq ., M . D ., St John-street ,. Manchester ; —— Booth , Esq ., M . Di , _Qreat _Jackssnstreet , Hulme ; i _> ro «! sionat Committee—Messrs . J . W _* . _Parkei . '; . Temperance Coffee-house , 5 , St . John-street , _ManclBCSter ; Patrick Flanagan , it , Royton-street , Manchester ; * Williiim Tunaicliff , 5 , Johnson-street , Cheeilian- * _-,. Manchester ; Thomas Davis , 9 , Saxon-street , _Snlfbud , Manchester ; Robert M'Kinzie , 27 , Royton . street , Manchester ; Richard littler , 22 , Mount Pleasantstreet , _Salford , Manchester j John M'Cutclion , 87 * , Crown-street , Hulise , Manchester . _Secretai * if—James _Ronayao _, 21 , _Cathi-rine-st-reet , _Lowio-a-road , _Ranches ter .
The Provisional _Commitles appointed by a general meeting of shareholders , held in Manchester on the 14 th of Oetober , 1846 , have to announce that their arrangements for receiving subscriptions are completed , and that they will commence operations as soon as a sufficient number of shares are subscribed for . Tbe Capital ofthe Company to be applied to the opening of clothing establishments in Manchester and other large towns , whenever practicablo and desirable to the Absorption Of surplus labour , by employing its members at regular hours , and at the current wages of the toWU wheresoever such establishments axe opened , and in . clean and well ventilatud workshops ; shareholders ( of the tailoring trade ) to have priority of employ ment . Any person ( whether of the trade or not ) is eligible to become a shareholder , and can hold any number of shares , but entitled to one vote only .
Eaeb share to be paid by a deposit of two shillings , and by instalments of not less than twopence per week per share ; but subscribers disposed to pay up their shares at oncu in full , or by larger and more rapid instalments than here _required , would more effectually assist and promote the objects ol this Company by so doing _. As soon as tbe instalments are paid up , a scrip certificate of shares will be issued to thu shareholder . The design of this Company is , to elevate and improve the condition of operative Tailors , and release them from the degradation to which they are reduced by unprincipled competition . Steady and respectable Journeymen Tailors , are earnestly invited to assist in carrying into effect the above laudable objects , by becoming shareholders , which are easy of attainment by honest and systematic co-operation .
Tradesmen of all classes are also respectfully invited to become shareholders , who will receive 10 per _centi interest por annum upon the capital advanced , and a participation in the management of the affairs of the Company by the Directors—consisting of two-thirds of operative Tailors , and the remainder of other occupations . The Company will be enabled to supply the public ivith clothing as cheap as can be obtained at other establishments , and of the best quality they being enabled to command first-rate talent , both in the cutting and sewing departments _. Applications for shares , rules , and other information , to be had of tho Secretary only , at J . * , Y , Parker ' s Temperance Coffee-house , 5 , St . John-street , Manchester , A ccpy ofthe rules can be had by enclosing four pos * tage stamps .
Porm of Application for Shares . To tbe Directors of the United Tailors' Joint Stock Company . I request you will insert my name for ——Shares in tho above Company ; and I hereby undertake to pay the instalments and conform to the _ItulcB andRo . _gulations of the Company . _A ame in full ,,.,,. , » Residence , Trade or Occupation ( if any ) Date . „ . „„ . „ ...,.....,. „ .....,.........
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N . B—Trade Societies are recommended to form Committees to receive weekly contributions from individuals disposed to take up shares , as they best can afford ; and when the requisite sum for deposits is paid , each person to send a written application in accordance with the preceding form .
MANCHESTER FUSTIAN CUTTERS . A special and delegate meeting was held on Monday last , at ; the house of Mr . Henry Chutam , sign of the Cotton Tree , Great Mount-street , Manchester , Mr , George Fitton in the chair , when the following resolutions were resolved upon and carried unanimously : — Moved by Mr . Seth _Travers _, Warrington , seconded by Mr . James Clayton , Jun ., Lymm , That it is highly important in order to insure confidence between workmen and their employers , that the present rate of wages should continue to be paid , there . tore we are determined to use every legal means in our power to uphold and fully maintain the present scale of prices . Moved by Mr . Charles Faulkner , Cadishcad , seconded by Mr . Thomas Butterworth , Lymm ,
That in _furtherance of petitions presented last session ofPnrliamcnt . _jirsijing that children under thirteen years of age be not allowed to work at Fustian Cutting , a Bill be prepared to that effect , and submitted to Parliament early in the f _»; _flicouiing sessions , Moved by Mr . John Elledge , GravelIloic , seconded by Mr . Hubert Robinson , Warring ton , That as all will be benefited by such a Bill , all should contribute towards the expence * thereof , therefore it is resolved , thaR a levy of so much per head takes place , ami each district appoints a treasurer , to hold the money until called for , to defray the _expenees of tbesame . Moved hy Mr . William _Davies , Manchester , seconded by Mr . Abel Young , Cadishead , That the thanks of this meeting are due and are hereby given to Lord John Manners , for his kindness in present _, ing our petition , and for his exertions in the House of Commons on behalf of the ? ustian Cutters . I
Moved by Mr . James Walmsley , Manchester , seconded by Mr . Charles Dearden , Manchester , That tbe thanks of this meeting are due nnd are hereby given to tbe Editor of the Manchester Courier , for * bis uniform kindrrc . 18 in giving insertion to any communication we may intrust into his hands _.
_NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES . Wednesday evening . —Mr . Jacobs Lectured to the Dyers in Dyer ' s Hall , Charlotte Lane , when thorough approbation was expressed of the _National _Associartion , and a _second general meeting : agreeed on . Thursday . —Attended the Type Founders of Edinburgh . Friday . —Delivered an address to the Ropemakers of Glasgow , hr tbe-Painter ' s Hall , Irongate , who expressed themselves satisfied the plans of the association was the » nly means of _benefitting their trade , and a general meeting agreed to be convened thereon .
REDDITCH . The _SrniKE . —We had hoped in _detaiiins an _account of this affairbetween the Needle Manufacturers and * their men , to have had by this time thepleasure of announcing its termination ' , but from the information-before us , we regrettfi . it we cannot maife this _announcemsnt . The-strike has now continued * two months , and begins to be most seriously felt . Scarce a day presents itself bnt more hands are thrown idle . We would beg to ask , _aa-a passing remark , why blunts and _Setweens should not be paid for the same a _» _sbarpa ) . straw needles , & c :, they are sold at the same price ; and even giving the-advance , the profits are nearly double on this description of goods , from-the fact that ? tlie same weight of wire ,, will make nearly
or quite double the quantity of thousands , whbh in many branches are an immense saving . We are positively assured'that even if the price first asked was given , _itwduld ' _not make one penny par _thousand-ilif ' _- ference to-tho masters . Another act of injustice the pointers have been subjected to ( to- the honor- of Messrs . Hemming and Bartileet ,. and some few others-, they are too high ,, minded , just ,, and' patriotic ta _» be guilty of sucli _* meannes 3 ); the principles names apapplied to needles in the course of manufacturing are— "Best , "' "Best Common , " and' - "London . " ' Now , in . pointing very little difference exists , they are obliged to be done as well- as possible , but the price of" London ' is-6 n . per day ' s work-Jess than the other . Now ,. in _= order to cheat the pointer , " Best
Common , '" and many packets or Best ( which are both of one-price ) 'when given out to he pointed , are ticketed " London ; "' on return the tickets arechanged _to-their proper names .. Now by this system ! the men _aro-robbed of , we may say ,. scores of pounds . This fact will speak * trumpet tongaed to the kingdom _^ at large . Let the basescribbhrof " Cato > Street" notoriety deny this if he can , wc defy hinii It is scarcely _, creditable that a fellow who-knows no' more about pointing than the stones do of him , should have the audacity to write barefaced untruths ,. against 3 body _, of men every way his _superior Sliadesof the _ba-elybetrayed and murdoicd _Thistlewood , Ings ,. Brunt ,
and Tidd , rise up in judgment , and by your presence crush-Ms guilty soul . But his designs-have failed' , a _» d he is now despised and execrated , and most justly .. We are happy , to * announce * the arrival * of Messrs . Bush and Williamson , from the- Central ; Committee of the United Trades , and we trust at the meeting ofthe Employers * , which we are informed would take place on Wednesday or Thursday last , that the strike will be brought to-close . Q , uery . —What are the Stampers and Hardeners doing that they have not joined the Associated Trades . If report speaks t » ue ,. the former stand much in need of doing so ..
[ We understand that the employer * , have communicated to _thoJCentral Committee of the United Trades , their intention of-considering the proposition of the "Committee . " ]
BARNSLET WEAVERS . A public meeting of the Journeymen Weavers in this town , was held in Mr . Acklam ' s large room on Monday last , for the purpose of forming an association of the _Jjoumeynien Weavers .. The circumstances which have called thi-3- union into existence are as follows : —Those persons who are- householders ,, have weaving shops with large rooms varying from two to six in a shop , and some have a monopoly of scores of rooms . These fellows care nothing about the price of the work , as they contrive to-live out ofthe labour of otherSi The manufacturers give the work to them , so that the journeyman has not the least control overthe price of his labour . In fact , tbe journeymen are completely crucified betwixt these labour monopolisers and the manfucturers . Under thissystem a practice
has sprung up which is 3 , most crying grievance , viz , —that of finding reeds , geers _, _flaniers , and other materials , which in justice the workmen ought not to find , as it would be just as-reasonable for the _manufacturer to demand that his men should find him a capital to carry on his business . But these fellows ¦ w ith a great quantity of looms , care nothing about this _grievanee , it affords them a fine pretext for charging the journeymen 3 d . in the shilling , and two or three shilling per week ( which 19 under the mirk ) , where a loom stand ought to be sixpence . In slack times , these reed and geer finders monopoliie all the work , while those that are either too poor or too honest and upright to find these things , have to go without work . The following resolutions were passed , and a Committee appointed to draw up rules : —
That m tha opinion of this meeting tlie formation of a union of the journeymen weavers throughout the manu . factoring districts , to act in _conduction with the United Trades * would enable us to _contend with better success against the insolent averice of our cruel oppressors , and also materially assist us in remedying many of the domestic grievances which we as journeymen have so much reason to complain Of . That the enactments made by the manufacturers on their workmen ' s wages , prove the necessity of all honest men uniting to resist their desire of plunder , that this meeting therefore agree to form a journeyman union for the purpose of compelling the manufacturers to pay an advanced uniform rates of wages ; and also to resist all tyranny andabu * e tiiat may be practised no matter from what quarter emanating .
THE KEIGHLEY WOOL COMBERS . The struggle betwixt these men and the anti- wa _^ es league still continues , without any material alteration . Last week one of the masters who lately informed a deputation that he wanted no wool combers , sent for a few of them and gave them the very libel ral offer of setting them on _auain provided they would go in at the wages they had when he turned them off , and sign a document that they would belong to no Union , This generous offer was declined with the contempt it deserved . This insolent proffer has had
the effect ot stopping tho relief afforded by the Guardians to many of the men , the Board telling them that as they now had an offer of work they durst no longer find them _employment . The refusal of the Board to continue reliet under these ; circumstances , is looked upon by the combers as making porochial relief to depend on the will of a few manufacturers . The men , however , mean to try next Board Day whether every degrading offer they meet with is to be a sufficient excuse to a Board of Guardians for depriving them of their legal and constitutional rights .
The manufacturers employ amongst them an Inspector , at a , very handsome salary , to look after their property ; the honesty of the combers and weavers have made the fellow ' s situation almost a sinecure , and through want of regidar business in his own line they are now employing him and another in hunting amongst the moors for ignorant and unprincipled characters , who will lend themselves to the destruction of tbe very business by which they live . Wo are sorry to say that the mission of these agents are sometimes attended with success , and last week they discovered a being of this kind at Furahill , _abaut five miles from Keighley . The fellow was induced to pay a visit , along with his jackass , to a small firm in Keighley , when the poor animal ( by far the nobler of the two ) was degraded by having its back loaded with " under wage-wool . " Tiie manufacturers who had supplied him , thinking that his poor ignorant dupe- might he annoyed by the combers , very kindly
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followed after him to see that nothing happened to him on his way home . He overtook him on the road accompanied by a good many combers , who were ' quietly walking along with Mm , and either apprehensive of a disturbance or wishful to make one * very officiously tried to procure a constable , but with " . out success . On arriving towards home the black sheep was met by a crowd of his own neighbours and amongst them his wife crying bitterly , and begging of him to take the wool back again . The frantic state ofthe wife , and the entreaties ofthe crowd who assured the owner ofthe wool that the man was ? _Li _r-T . deg _* _- _^* - d character , and would think _JittJe of claiming it as his own property , so wrouehfc upon the manufacturer that he brought it back again with him ! ° _^ One of the tricks the manufacturers have been lately playing off is that of _emplovinct _ZXt jji _*
awOTo . to put out work under false pretence- * and thus make the Bradford combers _iratSStkl iu time hAT' _I- _' ha _5 been , . arried on f 0 > - some _MureZtT _^ ove _™ u ' / nd itis hoped that in down the wages of themselves , and others who are suffering every thing for the general good . „<„ n- c , ? . mtn * ttee return their kind thanks to the various trades and Towns throughout the _countrv , ? _ftfel _^ i ? _" _^ n ° thc ir cry for helP : and trust thatthDv w _!! not allow them to fall into the mereI less tangs ot their cowardly oppressors .
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_ FumwiD ? . at Strkple CL & _moK . —On the loth instant , an inquiry was commenced at the school _, room . Steeple CJaydon , into the circumstances _attending ihe death of Thomas Shirley , who , it wag alleged , had died from injuries received in a pugilistic encounter with his brother Joseph Shir . ' er . The inquiry was twice adjourned , and did no terminate till Friday , the 23 rd instant . It appeared from the evidence adduced that , on the night of Thursday , the _1-fth _instant , the deceased and his brother Joseph were , with other persons , drinking until a late
hour . it the Milk Pail _public-house in the _village of Steeple Claydon . A quarrel occurred berween the two brothers , and they went to the parish pound where a fight took place between them at two 0 clock id the morainy . Both the men appear to have been intoxicated ; but the deceased was _adhI _X IV n mr e state , lia « "is bro-! ii Sl _^ ? i 0 u am 5 _- ° roun { , s h *"' been fought Thomas Shirley became insensible , and was carried to h » father ' s house in tlie _vlllaRe _, _wherehl S _f in a Ve , _^ t ! me - The J y _^ turned a verdict of nwnsla . n . _hter against Joseph Shirlev _, as principal , and against John _Pamrbonme and " Ri .
_cnaru _Oross , who acted as seconds to the _comba-3 / _. aT _^' ' ; , T , ie * v w _* re _accordingly committed to Aylesbury Gaol on the coroner ' s warrant , _fortria _) at the next * asshes . 1 _Dbattjs moM STXRVATi ( OT . -On Saturday , two inquests respecting the circumstances attendinc the deaths of two persons , both of whom died fronfstar vation ; - The first commenced on the bodv of Mary Mifes aged _seventy-three . The evidence showed that the onlyl support of the-deceased and her husband was Is . and a loaf weekly , from the Whitechapel Union , and casual re ? ief from their neighbours Through the dread of being separated , they would not avail themselves of the offer to enter the work-boii 3 e : ; Deceased was recently attacked with a lingeringr illness , brought on by the want of necessary food , of which she died . The apartment occupied by them gave every _apneara-ce of the
utmost destitution . and want . Yerdict— " Natural death . " The second inqui st on the body of Charles Green , ageaBfty-three . The daughter of deceased stated that her father being out of employment , upwards ot nine months , lie was supported by witness and her mother , but was greatly in want ofthe necessaries _oFlife . On Thursday he was seized with vomiting _blocdj . the ' oarish _surgeon was sent for but be-shortly _afterw-rds died * The jury recorded in this * ease a similar verdict . _Sjicidk op & Cabman . —Oh "Wednesday , Mr . Mills held an inquest on the body of Robert Watts . Ifc appeared by theevidence of deceased ' s wife , that he was-an inveterate drunkard , and passed half his time in bed , to recover from the effects ofthe spirifllOlia _ltftllAKC lift . _Jm » _m 1 . . l .. _« r _« -. IU- _-il . _„ V-li- _»**» , _ . _v ic _iiin _uuniiffiiie
. _.., _uu .., , m . inner nan . Alter having been into . Tic . ited for three days previously , became home on . Friday morning , and went to bed .. On Saturday morning she went out , leaving hini still in bed , and on h ° r return . _'found that he had strangled himself by _menns of a rope fastened to a bed-rail , and twisted round his neck . Yerdict , that . deceased destroyed himself , whilst of unsound mind , causedby the habitual use of intoxicating liquors . _IS'CBKnlART _TlBE AT THE SflEFFIEIB ToW . V HaIX . —On Saturday morning , about half-past one o _' cloclr , two gentlemen passing the Town Hail , perceiverf ' a smell of firo proceeding from tbe cells where the disorderly night * prisoners are confined . Tbey instantly gave the alarm to the officers in the inte * rior , and assisted them with a good supply of water .
which tbey poured into the cell where " the fire originated . It was afterwards ascertained that a lad _,, about eighteen years of age ; . naraed Thomas Gillman who bad been , brought in the previous evening * on a charge of drunkenness , and who bad concealed about his person * -some Iucifer matches _^ had set fireto the straw bed on which he was to have reposed . The remaining persons were taken from their cells immediately , and the fire was extinguished without having extended its ravages to any further portion ofthe building than the cell' in which the young incendiary was- incarcerated . The clock , which is a convenience and' ornament to the town , was da maged by the engines during their operations upon the * fire .
Shocking Affair at _Pbsrith . — -Last week , the town of Penrith was thrown into a state of great excitement , by constables taking James Donahow , an Irishman , who died before he was got to prison . He became faint on his way there , and on examination , it was found that blood was gushing out of his shoes , and he died within ten minutes . Deceased had a bad leg previously , and in struggling with the constables * the old wound broke out . In the earh / part of the day he had been intoxicated , and quarrelled with his wljfe , and his passion was so _great that he actually burned his hens and chicken * -in the fire in his own house , hacked the clock case , chairs , and other furniture to pieces , afterwards burning them , and was in the act af heating water to scald a fat pig alive .
A Daring Burolakt in the open daylight was committed at Ga ' tcorabe Rectory , Hants , the residence of the Rev . Dr . Thompson , during his absence at Giatcombo Church , where he was performing divine service . It appears to hare been the custom in the family for one of the servants to remain in the house whilst the others went to church and on thfe occasion , it happened to be tbe footman ' s turn to stay at home , where he remained until , at tha termination of the service , the old clerk ofthe pamh _, Mr . Hookey returned , for the purpose of depositing his master ' s surplice and the kev * . of th <» ChU _° \ _Ji f _^ » d t , le _Potman Sd hand and foot to the chair , with a table cloth thrown over us head . He stated that , -whilst sitting in the pantry , he thought he heard the cat in the doctor ' s room On going out to see , be met a man _coming out ot one of the apartments with a pistol in his hand , that he then retreated back to the pantry , where he procured a loaded sun . and . adv . n „ _£ _*; , *< r t «
meet the robber , discharged the gun at him , but the contents unfortunately - * - eat in another direction , and the charge was lodged in the stairs ( which ara shattered ) : that tho robber then _discharged his pistol in the footman ' s face , but his aim , it appeared was also very wide of the mark , as he escaped . The uproar produced a second depredator from another apartment , who pursued him into the pantry , where one of the gang kept guard , whilst the other proceeded to search for a rope with which they bound him in the manner already described . On examining the house , it was found that the doctor ' s bureau had been forcibly broken open , and a considerable amount of casn taken therefrom , and that the housekeeper ' s bedroom had been enterod , and from her box a large sum of money and securities to the amount of about ninety pounds abstracted . Not an article of plate was missing although many very valuable articles lay within their reach .
MonE PoisosiNo _.-An inquest was held at Codnor-park , on the body of a child aged lour months , whoso death took place from the effects of laudanum administered the day before by her nurse girl , a child named Elizabeth Parker , aged twelve yean . J * rom the < mJcnce which _was taken before . the jury , it appeared that the nurse had sent another girl foe a pennyworth of laudanum on Friday morning , and that she had poured half of it down the child ' s throat , and m about half an hour afterwards she took it home , and tbe mother of the child asked the nurse whether she had given the child anything , to which she replied she had only given it two teaspoonsfull of ale . Tbe jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Elisabeth Parker , who was committed for trial .
Accident at tub Blackwau . Terminus . —A serious accident occurred at the Blaekwall Railway works , on Saturday , to a man employed in the engineer ' s factory as a lobourer , he fell * with a _heavj / load of iron , whereby he received a fracture ol tb'd right leg and a severe contused body . Lamentable Accident . —A shocking accKlcnt happened on Monday last to a man employed r , n the farm of Mr . Soobey , Gayton Thorpe , to frighte _' j crows from the land . Being " furnished with a gun and powder , but no ahot , he substituted for tV _, e latter a piece of blackthorn stick , a few inck <\ s long , and sharpened to a point , which he had _placed inside the barrel , when by some means he _touched the trigge r _> and discharged the gun , and the muzzle being to * I wards him , the stick was loilgp . d in his side neat > tho shoulder . Though it was ' extracted almost mi-1 mediately , the poor fellow * _-Mied a few hours after * wards .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 31, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31101846/page/2/
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