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THB ftORTHEEN STAR. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1843.
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TDA . RTJES desirous to perfect their sets of this JT valuable Work , will do well to apply immediately , as there is but a limited quantity of some of tbe numbers now on hand . Every Chartist ought to be in possession of this Record of the great Chabtjst Tbicmph over the Tory Governm * nt . It was the best and most RnocesEfol fepol fight the Movement party ever had . The example then afforded may be followed , with advantage , by tha Defendants in Ireland . A few Copies of that excellent Work , THE STATE OF IRELAND , « T AXTBVS O ' cOXflOR , remain on hand , and may he had in two Numbers , at Foarpence each . Ho Man can nndarsiaad the position of Ireland , or the bearing of Irish QjesticnB , who is not conversant with this perfect picture of Ireland ' s Condition ; tbe causes of her degredation , and the Rimedies for her manifold evils . London . Cleave ; Manchester , Heywood ; Leeds , Hcbson , Northern Star Office ; and all BooksellerB .
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KEEITSG OF TS . T ? ST £ ES OP THB CAUJlAisTflEN Mais TxtsT . —A rcseting ni the above TmsUea was lield © n TAHsj last iu the Talb& £ J ; : n , . Mr . Morris in tfesxhait . Tee snVject M thejremofjil of tbe gates s « , Uandovery and Pentreb&eb , to be replaced by another in a central EitastionjTsas brougat again before the meeting ; -when 2 dr . Stephen . Janes stated that he bad an objection to a toll-house beins ? erected on his property , »» , if tba gates-were ^ li ^ ontHmfid , parties of loose cbaracUr might become tenants of £ be boose , and damage might hi dons to his -woods in the neighbourhood . He therefore declined the proposal which had been made to him . Toe Clerk stated that he had no doubt that Mr . Gpderieh would have no objection to the tollhoaB 8 being erected on hia Jsnd , and it was ordered acMOBdiBglyj the land to be paid for on -ralaatsps . MX . BoiKfin , ioH-fcoatt&tAoiy presented Ms V 4 II lor tfce
loss ha hid stifetaiced in this trust , is consequence of the "ILeb&cca" outrages ; he had a < lded the whole amount of the receipts together , and compared them with those ^> t the prerionsjeax . He fonnd that the deficiency in the present year amounted to £ 31412 s i < i , sod ha claimed thai this sum , therefore , be allowed him . Tbe Chairmrn "was of opinion that tins wia not a fair method of making the calculation , and that the more common course would be for Mr . B . to have stated thB kngth of time thai the gates -were down , and no te E * tztken ; then to iavd ascertained -ihs amount taken ( taring the same periods in tbe former year , and te have claimed this sum as compensation Sox his loss . Safew trnstees being prfsent » the matter waa left over to tbe next netting . Sundry small bUis "Were presented and ordered to be paid . The meeting "Was adjonrnefi to Friday , the 20 tb cf December .
ISC . EKDI . tET J ? rRE- —On Tnesdsy morning last , aiont laif-paitt foot o ' clock , the ont-honses of a iawa called X 25 » yE # ji 3 noBgra , * & UlB parish of LUcegsad , aboatinro Jhiles froni Breccia , were set on Bze , when the . 'wlrele'srere entirely destroyed ; lnckily , thedsreiling-hense escaped thB eotilasrati&n , inwnseqnenee of the / wind blowing from the north . It appears the firmbenssvras unoccupied , "bat anew tenant was expected to take possession on the following day . It it supposed tiatBeccaand her daughters thoushi proper totave reeour * to this mode of revenge upon the IE-coming tenant , because ha became thfi-suceawcr of anoibci "who
bad given bis landlord notice of quitting ; and accordingly did leave the place on tha 29 ih Gf September Jest . The cot-houses trere set £ re to in fonr different places ; and some person ia the ne ; ghbwjrbood passing as that time , saw a jnan with a light in his hand on the premises , bnt passed on natnraBy thinkios he was tbe new tenant There can £ > e doubt that this dieyafceful outx&ge is the work of that midnight MiEracder , Becca . and her oflspring , ca will be seen by the following threatening letter , sent to the in-comir : g tenant , which is evidently the proeuctivn of that L&dy or oca cf her daughters : — ,
StB—Inasmuch as we hava tai-n in hand to take Tiew of these bardena which so heavily eppresa us , as a country and nei £ bbonrhood , we have tfconght fit to adopt some measures in orGer to ranove the esasa of snch dppresstons . ~ We class among the rninfeer cf hardships -w . th which we hoTe to contend , tbe enormons . rents ire haie in pay , an oppression which actnally redness us to rmn ; and when any farmer applies to his landlord that he declines holding his tenement at the customary rent , with a - ? i «; W of obtauJEg » reduction in his rent , in order to save himself from ruin , annthfir shameless devil comes forward and proposes . give more for the said tenement than the apparent outgoing tenant . . We ha-re been informed that yoa are guilty of the self-same transgression , ¦ which is Tirtnally
prohibited in the Bible , and reason also loudly proclaims against such conduct . In consequence of your coveting ! a . fara ^ called Xlaimffynonynedd , in the parish of ] Uscegwad , row oecspiedby Bachel Jjnes , we deem it j adTisable to inform yon that we do not sHutf yuu cr i any other individual to be so daricgly aedscioaa and impndeEt , &a to make any proposal or offer to tbe land-: lord of the said tenant , and thereby precipUaAcly < tit : oat the « id person ( via ., the present teaant ) . Be so ' kind as to grre Eaclicl thorccgh fairplay ; and we j desire also to put yea in possession of Ibis , that we do j not believe that yon will escape the chastisement of , "Beceu " i I am oss who cphold / airplay . . '
THB GoxsTXBTTLX&y Tobcb of Carmartbenahire ] ( exriaaiTs of the ^ oroo ^ b town of Cjinnarthea , wbieh j dees not pay towards the county polios rate ) consists of ; oca chief constable , six superintendents , and £ fty j Serjeants and constables : the anansl txptcse charred in i the coucty Tata fcr their support is about £ 4 . 800 . ' Of this amount , 00 less a sum than £ 1 . 374 is sTsHowed , ¦ up in the salariea of tbe chief constable and scper- ' intendents , and is the following proportions : —ccicf ' oeost&ble , £ 150- ; fuperinlendents , ^ 154 each , exclusive of clothing , travelling allowances , 4 c Thus we hare a ( uperintandest to every eighl constables . j Tss . Coxaissiox op ISQCIB . T ia prosecuting its ; lai-oars- Whattcsy be tbe result of the it qalrias nude * is scarcely yet tTen msHer of speculation ; but one good . ¦ ¦ will be at all Fleets Efiested—the Temoral of a " plnEder ) i ^ Uon , " erected - »« tboirt eren the semblance of low \ The head Commissioner , "Mr . Pra-kl&nd Lewis , has addressed the following letter * ¦
TO THB TKCnEKS O ? THB KID-WJSLLT TB . CSI . Gsxiisxsy , —1 "ksre been hiformed by ilr . Sfacey , I CJlerk to the KidweDy TrDgt , that the renter of the Otete : at Perth-Bhyd , wKch is in the Three Commotts Trust , has put a ^ bain icross a road not in that Trust , bat in the Xidweliy Trust , at the point where the two reads intersect each other . ' Mr . Ssaety informs me , that , as Trustees o ? the Kidtrelly Tract , you hare made no order , and giTcn £ O authority , to establish a G « te , or Ba * , at that place ;;
sztd that the renter cf the toll * is is so way justified is . obstructing passengm , or in demanding tolls thereat . ' The CoiumisjQanfcw enterbun bo -donbi that * tfcs ; Trustees cf tte S . idweDy Trust , will , without delay , j ascertain wbrther Mr . 3 tasey has , or has not been cor- rectly inTormed . And if tbe facia turn , on inr&stig&- j tion , to fee aa stated , that they will take steps to pra- ] vast the existeacs of an illegal obstruction to the free ; passage of a public highway , which ought not any time i to be endsred , far le » ao in the present excited state of the public mind in their district * .
Mr . Staeey informs the Coramissioners that tbe toll taker gives » ticket of the Three Commotta Trust to those -who pay aX Uib Cham it-bleb he sets lip in tie liEdweUy Trnstj and On * ticket , when presented at the KSweDy Gate , i » j « oper ] ylield to b * of no svaiL Tbe Gommuaioners are fully persuaded that the Trustees will gladly exert themstlres to examins into an aBeged wron ? , which is stated to be exercised undei colour of their authority . I havs the henonr to be , © entlemen , Your faitbful Bervant , THcHaS PBA 5 KXAHD JLEW 1 S . Caimarthen , Kot . 10 ,
1843-COXMITTAi 0 ? ITTEJITT-SIX BEBECCA 3 TES —The \ foOowing is the result of the apprehecaion of tbe Re- j beccaites for paliing down the pates and destroying the [ toli-bousss at Pfitkaiaerfa and Hahgrtird on the 12 th of , September last . Tbey were examined before ilr . H- 0 . Owen , Tiee-HeulfeEant of the conn ^ , and a full bench I of-magistrates , at Fisbguard . WilBam Owen ( the Lady j Bsbecca ) , James Gwynne , and Thomas Gwynne ,. were 1 committ&d ^ o the ntxt assizes , but were held to bail , ; themse ' vea in £ 100 e& « b , and two Eureties in £ 50 each , > DaTid Jvhn , William Thomas , Thomas Griffiths , j Emlyn Grfffitha , Owen Jenkins , James Morgan , Wm . ' . { Jriffilhs , Wan Baizey , Tuomas Williams , EdWBrd j Harries . John PhDUps , WHEanj John , Tbr > s . Nicholas , William Bobsrts , D . ariel -DaTies , William Jen- ! ktes , Jamtss Owen , James Pbillips , Xtevjd Phil--Jrpa , froKS Morse , Thomas Ei-ffSTdBj ThOIflaS j Hcrae , and T > a > ii&-&fJ 5 &ix , t » ere fully committed , and : held to bail , Yenisei-res in ^ 58 each , aedtwoiurettes ! in £ 2 & each . Tbe excitement in the town was T £ ry \ great , partacnlarly ts regarded the informants , Thomas Wflliiiw [ and his wife , who were obliged to be gnarded i day and night from the barracks to the Commsrcial ; Inn , where tie msgirtrates sat The prieenew were eonflned in the Naiifct-Lonse , BurrouEded by a treble guard ef marines . The Commercial Inn" was aisoi strongly guarded curing the time the magistrates were ' Bitting . . . ; ; j [ j \ i * ! j j ¦ I i 1
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their opinions on the subject to me ; and I will lay iban before the Central Committee of the above body , for thd purpose of consideration . Secondly , tbe plan a . % advertised in last week ' s Star , is another effectual mo&B of f-ssistinx ourselves . ¦ I mean tbe Operative Tailors' Association , and Joint Stock Clothes' Company , established for the purpose of giving employment to its members , by uniting their small means , to enable them to open establishments in various parts of London for the supply of clothes , to the working classes and others . The design of this Association is to create a homo market for our own labour ; U > brief into active co-operation all trades , Buch u shoemakerSj hatters , bakers , builders , sempstresses , 4 tc ; totffaot an txahange of produce through the present circulating
medium . Let all of the above trades and others assist the tailors , hy becoming shareholders in tbe above < oneerni ana ths tailors in return will assist the abos-^^ MB E ^ p- } each BBS all haTln ; an interest in e * eb ?\^ Hp > cX Tracing Comp&r-y . By these means we snalf ^ ecome customers te each other . There will be an identity of interests ; it will be tbe means ef keeping a portion of that capital within our grasp that ia now used by the moneyocracy to perpetuate that baneful an « l awful system of competition which is fast sinking the working classes of this country . The untl-Corn Law Learue say their opposition to tbe Corn Laws , arises from a desire to break the right arm of the landed aristocracy : our object should ba to break the right arm of the moneyecracy . iktffrealesl tyrant of all . Here is a wide field for alL Our female friends should unite together upon the same principle , and establish a company of their own , making the
price ef the shaies come within their meatB ; the males also taking up shares for the purpose of assisting them . Where is there a man amongst ns who would not be cL-. d to purchase bis thirt , or any other article that they may have to dispose of , instead of their being Comr > Jl £ > d , a * at present , to make shirts tor capUalUtS at three halfpence sad . fire fartbioga eaclJ 7 Whyiiot the glovers of leicester , who are now on strike , commence for themselves , and send their produce to the companies of London ; also the stocking makers , dec . In fact , let us adopt the general principle of trading for , and with each ether . I xt joice that the tailors have set the first example . They hold their meetings every Tuesday eTenusg , at the Hope Coffee Hause , Tarringdon-street , City . Do yon follow it , both political and social Reformers . By wisa arrangements this can be carried into effect . It will be the means of crippling the resources cf the tyrants , ss well as securing to ourselves the reward of enr industry .
Tue third and last proposition , bnt not least , Is that ] we should never lose sight of the necessity of obtaining ' political power ; for without it we should never be ; able to procct our labour—without it we shall continue ; to be what we are—slaves of the worrt description ; j -srithout it gut liberties will never be respected . In : : short we n quire political power as a means . The ' National Charter Association have already agrc : d to j xoupon tbt > im < 3 as soon as practicable . Where should tsose who go upon the lard seek for a market for their ' produce but cmonx those who have a direct interest in keeping them there ? The trading companies will require their produce ; they from ths trading companies iu
return . j In snlnnittlng these propositions for your consldera-; tion , I am aauated but by one motive—that of assist-) ing . fBd protecting ourselves , by placing as In a better ' position to Memand political freedom ; for , rest assured , J if the cay of our redemption takes place , it must be - by our own means . The working clauses must work out : tbtir own Balvatisn , by , as R . Peel baa said , " taking I their own aff Jn into their own hands . ** I I am , fellow-workmen , yours respectfully , [ J . W . Pabkbb , I Suffolk Coffee House , Old Bailey .
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Thb Ftortheen Star. Saturday, November 23, 1843.
THB ftORTHEEN STAR . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 23 , 1843 .
IRELAND ASD TBE IRISH , The latest intelligence of which we can avail ourselves from Ireland leaves the dispute between > lr . T . B . C . Sxith and the Irish cation in statu quo ? and bavins little to add on the subject of the squabble to what we have already said , we now travel out of the mazes of the law and leave the political labrynth for the purpose of considering the people . In truth , it is high time that some thought be given to the nation , even though the legal tools and political irons be allowed to cool the while . We have ever argued the justice , the propriety , the necessity , the expediency , aiid the indispens&bility of repealing the act of Union .
I Apart from our well-known opinions upon the ' grand principle of democracy however , we are j bound to enter . the field of general discussion with j those who , apart from politics , see the wants of ; Ireland , and are prepared to administer what they ) call practical remedies . We regret that this class i V&OEgfcniimeionB , ia unrepresented in feeling : because ; the whole value of the f qoabble to tbe two powerful I parties in the state consists in the political nses to ; yi »»* . «* W « J *** »** % ¦* w » Wkrw WU ^ JJW ASA WAlV V ^ VJltHV *** 4 A 0 \ n « * V
| | t which they can respectively turn them , Henoe we 1 find the Whig portion of the pres 3 palliating , if not I cocunending in 1843 , acts , to suppress which they pased a Coercion Bill in 1833 . Indeed , unless we can cake a strong legal distinction between a rich man aid apoor man , we are at a loss to know with what colour or pretext the Whigs , in ] 843 l can censure Ministerial stringency in the Law Courts , while in 1833 they substituted Courts' Martial in their stead . We did not reserve our strictures for the purpose oftTsmpling upon the ooaqnered . We n .- ^ d them in their palmy days as warnings of what would come . We had reminded them , time after time , that their ! acts while in office would rentier their opposition to Tory domination valueless , nnavailing , factious , and poiniless . It is even so . Not an act , however crual or ami-democratic that may be proposed by the Tory Government , to which Whig opposition maj sot be thus met and silenced : the measure is a \ modification of your own . " We now leave the field [ of faction , and turn to a consideration of those j means by which , even after a Repeal cf the Union , ! the condition of the Irish people can be alone im-1 proved . Ireland has not more reason to complain of the ami-national than she has of tbe anti-social ' evils consequent . upsn fhe Legislative Uiiion . Tht \ great and crying tvil arisiag out of the act of Union i is , that the weak nation was neglected , and kepi ' weak ; while ths strong nation was strengthened anc : i mad * stronger at its expence . Being bound bj t > j legisisHT « bosd , the representative body , —consist' ¦ \ ing for the most part of Englishmen wholly !; ignorant of the history of Ireland , tjo character o ¦! her people , her resonroes , and the means cf develop >\ lag ihen ; and taking their notions of the country from vne privileged Irish members of the Protestan ! : party , who were alone eligible to sit in Parliament ¦' , and viio w « re interested in magnifying the vices o ' i tbe Irish character as s justification for their om I ! tyranny ; the legislature so constituted , and withou ; j reference to a difference of position , has legislate ) I ¦ for Ireland as if that country was part and parce [! of England . Thus they have committed the erio : \ ! of governing two people , —diametrically opposite ii b j their pursuits , their characters , their manners am I 1 their customs—by Lhe same laws . England being fo : L J the mOStpsTt a oaDufactoring couatry , and a laxg > . 1 portion of her people having been hastily trans '•\ . formed freia aa agricultural to a aaDnfacturin ] ^ slife , it , bow demanding a great organio change ii « , '• constquenee of the iuapplicability of ancient statute te ; and cusioms to its present posilien . Ireland i » doing nothing more . Ireiand has been legis . ' ate < j . 'for , prtciBdy as though she had gone on " par il ; P ^* u" ia tie march of improvement wiih England » : » hci € a 8 ise l&w * bj which manufacttniug Englant e shoula be goTerned i . aTe been enacted wholesale foi a the goTemmeat of the x wo countries . But we tun « . from bjego&cs : and now < xam tki Repeal of th . :
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Union to be inevitable , we come to acondderatipa of those means , apart from any accompanying political measure , bj which alone the change can be made benefioiel to the people . Wo pass over the most irritating questions , be lieving thai they are but emanations from the great source of political inequalityj and we come aj once to the question of questions , the means by which alone the foundation oi future happiness can be laid . We Bhall not here deal with the question of tho Protestant Church or of the inequality of the law . These we leave as questions to be hereafter
disposed of by a people rendered politically etroajj by social inaproTement . I ^ ord DojfFEBMLINE * late Speaker ot the House of Commons , when auditor to the Irish Estates of the Duke of Devonshire , asked a Mr . Swanton , one of the Duke ' s under agents , if he could devise any means for the tranquilization of Ireland , and aa a mode of suppressing the frequent outbreaks in that country . " JVs , " replied Sir . Swanton , a very easy one . Whenever an outbreak takes place t hang the nearest landlord ,
the nearest parson , the nearest magistrate , the nearest solicitor , and ) the nearest police Serjeant vpon tht nearest tree ; and I pledge myself that you will not hear of another . outbreak in that district' * This opinion was , no doubt , founded upon the belief that those five parties were the instigators to outbreak : and therefore it shall be our present business to deal with the mode of dealTOVlDg , firstly , their interest in creating , afid , secondly , their capability to create , those periodical distoi bances .
Ireland being a wholly agricultural country , and ? 0 laws being in existence for the developement of her agricultural resources , we shall firstly , grapple with the Landlord and Tenant question . The poverty , the rebellions , the heart-breakings , the murders , the 'dissensions , and the expenses arising out of the present system of managing land in Irelaud , mast be dealt with by tbe Government with a firm and resolute hand . It is folly to talk of the inability of a Government to interfere with tbe Landlord ' s title to the raw material , while year after year it deals so capriciously and injuriously
with the title of him whose capital is expended upon the land , and the labour of him by whom it is made valuable . Government must interfere ; and that right speedily ; whether tinder a Legislative Union or a domestic Legislature . The interest of the tenant , and the interest of the labourer cannot bo served without equally serving the interest of the landlord , and therefore it becomes the duty of tho Government and Legislature to look into the causes which tend to create dissatisfaction in the miuda of those two parlies . The uncertainty of tenure , and the legal expencs of establishing title , even ¦ ¦ - n 0 1
under lease , or accepted propssal , as vrer as want of capital , are the three great evils that must be boldly met , and instantly destroyed , as regards the tenant . To effect the first objfot—namely , oertainty of tenure , the Government have a power to give immunities to tenants-at-will , or with short leases , which would render the practice disadvantageous to the landlord . and thereby compel him to grant such Iea 6 o as would ensure the full expenditure of the tenant ' s labour and capital . With regard to the second evil that of establishing title , eveu under a lease , against
a landlord who has all the law upon his side , and all the means of harrassing at his disposal , there ia but one remedy ; that of giving an equitable jurisdiction , in all such cases , to the Assistant Barrister at Quarter Sessions ; and who shall be bound to decide upon the equity , and not upon the law , of the case ; the evidence for his governance to bo furnished by the clerk of a County Court , where all leases should be registered at the landlord's expense , and who should be bound to attend with notice of the cases to come ou at every Quarter Sessions : the Barrister ' s judgment , if iu favour of the title , to
be conclusive ; aud if against the title , tho tenant shall have a right to appeal to » Jury , to be then summoned , for the purpose of adjudicating upon an issue submitted by the Barrister . In cases of portions of rent being paid upon account , a mere acknowledgment upon unstamped paper should be admitted as proof ; and in all cases , the right of distress should be taken away , and tbe landlord , like &U other cieditors , should be thrown upon his action for the recovery of his rent ; and , fair dealing being the object , he should have as prompt and inexpensive a mode of redress as is accorded to tho tenant .
The practice of distraining cattle , of impounding , selling them by auction , and buying them in , by the middleman , for very frequently not a twentieth of their value , wiile no account of the sale is ever rendered , leads to more extensive disturbance , and subsequent evil results , than almost any other grievance . It i ' b not at all unusual for a middleman , aoeom panied by a host of under-tenants , to drive off the whole stock of Borne unfortunate tenant to a distant pound in the dead hour of night ; while the tenant , to profce # t himself against ths aggression of the middleman , has paid hiB rent to , and holds the
receipt of the iead landlord . Tnus situated , the poor tenant has no alternative but to replovy the stock at a great expense ; while he is compelled to give security for double the valus , until tho case shall be disposed of in the Sheriff's Court . If , upon the other hand , he cannot procure the required security , bis cattle are allowed to stand in a cold pound until the oay of auction , when the poundkeeper presents him wiih an enormous bill for fodder never ustd . Will aDy man say that a tenant so treated , and thrown for protection upon
expensive and dilatory law , wnich he . c&Tinot procure , is not justified in taking the summary law into bis own hands ! In many cases , he doB 3 do so : and many is the man who has been hung ia olden times , and many is the honest man now working in chains , for having STOLEN his own property from the thief who stole it from him in tho dead hour of aijjht . Is this , we would ask , a '" practical grievance" ! and are the family of the expatriated victim likely to bo admirars or voluntary obeyers of those Jaw = by which ruiu and desolation has been brought upon them ?
As it would be iinpossiblo to discuss these allimportant subjects in one or two articles , we shall continue to animadvert upon those great social changes which are indispensable to the very salvation of the Irish people . Meantime we would direct tho attention cf Mr . 0 'Connfj . l to that course which is now being pursued by the English Chartists ; namely the familiarizing the public mind with those salutary chanjjea to be produced by the achievement of theii political principles . The Chartists dealt in
declamation until they had created a public opinion against those wrongs endured by tho working people . That opinion being : created , they aro now engaged ia directing attention to tho advantages calculated to flow from a change to thtir projected system . Mr . O'CosJfEiL has the advantage of more enthusiastic and confiding disciples ; he has a wlio 2 s nafiou at his back ; and in order 10 strengthen him in his demand for political equality , ns » he source of justice , we would counsel him also to turn from declamation
to practice , and to develop © to the Irish people , not so much the injustice they have suffered as tbe prosperity , the coifllort , and the abundance they are capable of achieving . To this end let him call to isio councils men not learned in the law ; but informed of tbe capabilities of . the country and the people ; and let him draw up auch a digest ( which he can do ) as will convince not only Irishmen but Englishmen , that there is yet tbe ; meaus of enrichiDg the poor
without trencbiBg on a single privilege of the rich . We will be bound to say that with one fortnight ' s labour , and assisted by such men , Mi . O'Connell would exhibit a balance sheet in favour of the new against iho ' . old Bystem , which "wonld turn Irish agitation into-a universal demand , before which the strongest government should quail and bend . The political question is sufficient to ' excite the democratic mind cf England 1 but the financial
features must bo developed , in order to ensure the co-operation of the middle and monied classes . Let Mr . O'Comkell then try his hand for ona short month ia the Cabinet ; and without requiring any
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declamation for that period , the weekly reports of hia social compilation , delivered in the Conciliation Hall , will , without committing himself , or even mentioning Repeal , feed the flime , and nurture the desire for such a rule as will produce such a boon ; while the very publication of a compendium of his labours would bring him in more money than the national tribute . Seeing his power to effect good , it shall be our study to strengthen rather than to weaken him ; while , by way of caution , we would now remind him , thai O'Connkll ' s aelf can only destroy O'CoNNELt . We Bhall continue the subject until all Bhall learn who do not wish to remain igaoraut .
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THE ROBBING TRUCK SYSTEM . On many occasions we have brought to the notice of the public tbe fact that several statute laws , passed ostensibly and avowedly lor the p&orccriON of the working population , have been openly set at nought ; their provisions disregarded by the employers of labour , without , as it would appear , either fear or care as to the consequences ; and indeed , judging from the impunity which has been accorded te the tranipiers-upoa the positive requirements of law , it would seem that there was not much reason why they should either fear or care ; for the " consequences" hitherto have almost invariably been , not only exemption from punishment , but a pocketting of the " plunder" that could by these means be wrung from tba lap of ill-requited industry .
The law against Truck , affurda a remarkable instance of tbe disregard to which we have alluded . The requirements of that law are positive , plain , palpable ; the penalties many , and easily enforced : and yet it ia notorious that this said law ia svtat nought , trodden under foot , every day we live . In several extensive districts of the country the practice of Tauck is almo 3 t universal . There is no secret , no disguise , about the matter . It is hotorious ; known to all ; and the parties practising it not only dare to look their fellow-men in the faee , but also regularly appear at church or chapel ; snivelling there as loud and as long as the rest cf the canting tribo ; aud sit aud hear , composedly and undismayed , the denunciations of God himsel f fulminated against the mon that " defraud tho labourer of hia hire . "
In iho performance of our duty , as advocates for tho toiling aud tho toil-worn , wo have often had to expose and drag to the blaza of day the infamous practices of infamous thieving men , in the matter of Truck . We have had to give remarkable instanoes of peculiar oppression aud fraud . ; and have more than once showed the means that exist to put the practice down . On the present occasion we have to put the " reader in pps = es £ ioa of a case , where the law has been made to reach the guilty parlies . That case ia vastly important . It teaches the working people how to go to work , to get "justice . " Thb law is thebk : and wherever there is a case of truck , the workman who is made to suffer , ought to take advantage of it .
It is also manifestly the interest of the general phopkeepers to unite , as at Rochdale , to aid and ? rote ( Ct the working man in hia appeal to the Bench . Tne Truck system must be injurious to them . It supersedes their business altogether . If the men woro not tied to the master ' s tojimy-shor , and farced to take from him shop-goods at twentyfire per cent , above the market value , the men would ; have their wages , small though they may be , to spend among the legitimate shopkeepers . As it is , they are not able to go near them . Thus deprived of custom , they : are cheated out of their profits ; robbed of the legitimate means of living . How slavish then must they be ; how devoid of public spirit ; how cowed ; how broken down to the very earth , are they , when they quietly permit
themselves to be thus treated . Why do not they ' spirit ou" the men to lay informations ! Why do not they look out for cases , and get all the particulars in legal train I Why do not they uuite amongst themselves , » nd form a fund to dofray expences in case of defeat ; and to render support in particular inataucts of master ' s * engeance > evinced in the " turning-off " of the justice-seeking workman 1 If the shopkeepers had au atom of public spirit ; nay did they know and care for their own duty to themselves , they could soon rid us of the Teuck system i root and branch . The following case , which shows both shopkeepers and workmen their duty , was transmitted to us by a correspondent . He accompanied it by a fewiremarks , from which we give the following : —
41 Blethering Dickey Cobden , and Bright John with their whole clan of mock-humanity mongers , may shed rivers ef crocodilian tears over the miseries of the " bread tax'd' white slave victims ; they may pluck a quill from the sooty wing ' oftho archfiend himself , and dip it into tbo bile of his satanic liver to write their abuses , and maledictions of the landlords ; they may denounce them with the maligDity of fiends , and call to their assistance the whole of the press-gang ; they may expend fivo times ' a . hundred thousand pous » j' in lying corncraik tracts , and travrllisg pedlars ' expences' to preach , up the * virtues' of the cotton-lords , aud the excellencies of the factory system ; but who can believe them sincere in their wish to ameliorate the
condition of the toiling millions , wheu such startling facts as the following meet the eye of the British public ! And this is , alas ! but one solitary case ; one isolated proof of the hypocrisy , cant , and blarney , of the grasping , icy-hearied ( avarice ; of the barefaced , wholesale robbery of that horde of thieves —TUE L 0 RD 3 OF THE LOKG CHIMNEYS . " Kochdale . —On Monday the Court was crowded to excess . : Tue Magistrates upon tbe Bench were Clement Koyds , Wui . Cbadwick , Gap . Ashworth , and James Taylor ; Ki quires . Samuel Kerahaw and Mark Heywood , poweiloom fustian weavers , summoned Messrs . John Baron , Richard latteraalt , and James Tattersall ,
fustian manufpcturers , of Barnford , near Hey wood , for having p ; : id their wages ia goods of various kinds iustead of paying them in money . Mr . Richard Hurr , solicitor , appeared on tbe behalf of the complainants , aud Mr . Wuitebead , solicitor , on behalf of the defendants . It appeared that defendants have a cotton niill at Bramford , besidta which they ate partners in an exfens ve colHery iu their immediate neighbourhood . Messrs . TaUaiiall also keep an extensive saop near tbe works . This case caused considerable excitement ; more bo , perhaps on account of an association eatdWished at RocbdaiB fi > r the purpose of putting down the Truck Systens > which in well known to be oarrlsd on to a ereat
extent : amongst some of the manufacturers and Coal Kings , in the vicinity . Mr . Hunt read tho Act of Parliament against tba Truck System . He stated that Kerabaixr had two distinct costs against the defendants ; one for the 4 th , and the otbfer far tho 18 tb of August . Oa tbe former date he had been paid a fortnight ' a wages in gote « J 9 instead of moK « F , and tad been charged thirty-flve per cent , higher than any other Bhopa in thu same neighbourhood . Karsbaw having beeu sworn , stated that h « commenced working in the cotton inUl belonging to the d ^ fendnnta about Christmas last . He wove fustian on the power loems , and was paid at tho rate of 2 s . lid . per tin . His wages
wbUtd average about 9 s . a week . His wife worked in the card room , and she bad very poor health , and could not earn much . The names of Richard and James Tatterssll Were over the door of the ubop ; they aold everything that Was used by a family ; ha eeldomgot any money for wages ; be had occasionally borrowed a shiiiixu ; or two fiom the book-keeper ; they bad a reckoning every other Friday ; but he always was in dbbt on a pay day . On the 4 ' , h of August , bis fortnight's wages were sixteen sbilltags ; the whole of which were stopped for goods . He did not finger one single farthing , He bad a wife and three small children ; be was charged 4 a . for 20 lba . ot floor , while Jack Bell , another shopkesper in the neighbourhood . Bold it for 3 s . Cd ., tho same quality and « aantity CandleB Were O ^ d per lb . soap the Same ; meal l 8 , 6 d .
for I 21 ba ; old butter lid . per lb . ; brown sugar 94 . Mr . Hunt said he could purchase the same quality for 6 J . Mr . Whitehcad cross-examined Kernuaw at considerable length , but elicited nothing fftTourable to bis clients . The complainant said , he waB never present when other persons were paid , and he alwaysi took a book with him to the shop which waa furnished to Mm by defeadanta , and Mr Tattersall or bis daughter alwoys wrete in the book ; he seldom drew or paid money ; however , on the 2 ? th of July ; he received a fortnight ' s wages , amounting to 17 a 4 d ; and on tile 4 th of Augusti his wages amounted to 16 s , and it was stopped by Mr . Richatd TaUersall for goods . He ( Mr . JRiohard Tattersall ) always took caie to have him by himself when bo settled with bim . The bcofc-k ^ eper signed for M ^ sre . Baron aiulTattersall , for goods to him , tho payment for which had been stopped
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out of his wages . ) Mr . Richard Tattershall wished Mr . Baron to be examined ; but the Magistrates replied , that he being one ] of the party , although not connected . with the shop , he could not fee admitted ~ ti a witoess . Mr . Wbltehead called a number of the workpeople who are now engaged' at the defendant ' s mill , and they all declared ( that thafr wages were paid in money . Some of ( them had seen complainant odraw money ; but none of them would speak at to the 4 th of Angus' - Mr . Royda said it was a gross case of tbe Truck System , and the Beach had decided on convicting Defendants in j the penalty of £ U and costs , Ut , Hunt said bis clients would not pree ? the other chaises
on condition that the expences were paid and the shop given np . Mr . Richard lattemll replied , that his father formerly kept tho shop , and bad been to tbe habit of turning o » 6 r £ 5 . 000 per annum , by wholesale and retail . His father was now dead , and they could not draw ths concern to a close in a hurry , but they were intending to ( do so . Mr . Whitehead consulted with the defendants a few minutes , and then agreed to the conditions . Mr . Royds said , as the complainants appeared to 10 sickly persons , it was ultimately agreed that they should have one-half of tbe penalty ; and . the Association established for putting down the Truck fiv « N » m the otbwfceJ * -
After giving the case , our correspondents exclaims : "There ! Mr . Editor : what think you of the religion of this Methodistical Sabbatarian Saint Dicki Tattersall ! He is a beautiful specimen of the genus of land sharks , who , under the specious mask of cant , and the garb of Methodistical sanctity , ( with an appetite ten times more voracious than - the Pharisees of the olden times ) , deyocr the houses of the foob ! a { sample of the snivelling crew ,
who are constantly ! crying for ' cheap bread , 'while THEY BOB THEItt POOR WHITB SEEPS OF 34 PEB CENT . OF THE SCANTY WAGES OF THIilB TOIL ! Such monsters ought to be branded in the forehead with the words 'Factory , Cheap Bread Thief : and had I the office of branding committed to my trust , I would take care the characters should be as deeply seared as hot iron could make them : 'for the land stiuka , so numerous is the fry . '"
Of all the sickening hypocrisy that can even be conceived , that of aniAnti-Monopoly-bawling , "freetrading , " " cheap-bread" demanding Employer pursuing the thieving praotise of Tuuck , is surely the moat hateful ! Is it possible to imagine of deeper disimulation , or more wicksd insincerity , than for a man to Effect great interest on behalf oi the working people ; and evince an uncommon anxiety to procure for them " cheap bread , %£ t the very time that he is forcing them to take ms bread some thirty per cent , above the market price 1 How sickening to hear a man bawl for "Fuee-Trade , " when he will not leave even his workmen free to trade with the legitimate shopkeepers of his vicinity ! How sincere must be the loud professions of Anti-Monopoly from the mouth of such a wretch ! *
And yet , we grieve to say there aro many such . We must proclaim it as our firm conviction ; a conviotion forced from the actual oases that have come under our own observation ; that the majority of TrucksTEssin Yorkshire land Lancashire will be found to be arrant Free-Traders ; mouthing advocates of " . CAetrp Bread , High Wa « es , and plenty-to-do " Take the following as a specimen : — In the parish of Saddieworth the practice of TnccK is in extensive vogue . Many masters pursue it : but by far the greater part of , them are ' * Free Traders . " One case is deserving of special notice .
There is a " master" in that parish , known as " Lord Lothehdale . " He is crammed up to the throat with " sympathy for the poor ; " would " go almost through fire and water" to procure for the toiling millions the inestimable blessing of a " cheap loaf : " aud yet this contender for " Free Trade , " who ties bis own workmen to his own counter ; this denouncer of monopoly , " has had man in his employ who have not touched a single shilling ( in money ) from him , for wages , during a whole twelve month I 0 , the j blessings ot freedom ! O , the sweets of " anti-monopoly" 1
Not long ago , a workmen iu the employ of this same "Loud Lotheedalb" applied to his landlord , and begged of him to take a piece of cloth in payment for rentj ; for he could not procure money to pay with . He showed the piece that he had been obliged to take from " Lord Lothebdale" ; and stated that it had beeu valued to him at Hi . a-yard ; and he desired tbe landlord to take it from him at that price . The landlord
happened to be a maker of cloth , and knew something of its worth . He told the applicant that he would furnish him with a far better piece at 10 s . a-yard ; and ; the man had to oairy tbe piece into the neighbourhood of Oldham , and part with it at ii . a-yard , to get money to enable him to live and " pay his way . " There ' s Fhee Trade !" This workman was M free" to sacrifice nearly OBe half of bis earnings before he could command the necessaries of life !
That there many " Lobd Lothebdalks" in the manufacturing districts , is proved by tbe following article , which we extract from the Sura ; a " frek"trading" journal . ) Wegive give it entire ; for . it will be found deserving of attentive consideration . It is valuable , not only for the facts it contains , but also for the general reasoning on the general question . It is altogether most admirable ; especially when we rennet that it is from a Leagub Organ . Here it is : — \
" Under tbe heading of ' Track System Extraordinary , ' in a late numbsr of the Halifax Guardian , we find a most Instinctive exemplification of the evils and oppression connected ! with & syatsm which we thought had long since been ] exploded . The voice of Parliament has bean always so strong against it—tbe appeals of the present Lord Hathetton ( when Mr . Lyttlnton ) , and other members of the House of Commons , elided so prompt and decided a response from the Legislature , discountenancing nnd discontinuing the system altogether , j that , notwithstanding rumours which have from time to time reached us of its still lingering in particular manufacturing localities , where
the wealth of the great masters or employers was all powerful , and the remonstrances of the operatives futile as to their effect , unless , indeed , in the result of entailing their dismissal—we could hot induce ourselves to give credit to . « ucb allegations . Bat at Oldham , a summons taken out by one of the coal-miners of Mr , William Whitehead , ! a large colliery proprietor in that neighbourhood , agataH this gentleman , bos ascertained the fact of the existence of the ' Track System' beyond all doubt or question , throughout a large range of manufacturing district The nine shillings claimed by the miner had been deducted by tbe employer 7 rom tbe wages of the complainant , on account of rent for ' a house which complainant had never occupied , nor ever seen , nor been offered the key of . ' It had been taken
from this complainant , Brierley , at the rate of oue shilling per week , ' although he had to pay rent for another house , under ! another landlord , at which , it was more convenient for him to live . ' Now , the bouses which Mr . WhiteheaS was tbns indirectly forcing-the complainant and others , bis follow miners , to occupy , were upwards of s mile and a half from the colliery where they worked . ' ) Tbo Halifax Guardian assures us that * there are hundreds of cases at Oldham , Aehtonunder-Lyne , Rochdale , and other vicinities , where -the operattvea are forced ] to pay rent for houses , whether they occupy them or not . ' The magistrates severely remonstrated with the coIHery-owner , Whitehead , In the case immediately before us , ' on his unreasonable conduct , and ordereel the wages claimed to be paid to Brierley immediately . *
" The conduct of master-minufacturera , colliery and mine owners , and other capitalists , who resort to this nefHrious system off defrauding their labourers , and enriching themselves by the same operation , is one tbe social mischief of which is fully commensurate with its moral dishonesty . Surely it is galling enough for the industrious operative ! whose destiny is cast , as it were , in the class of incessant manual labour , te contemplate their happier fate who succeed to , or have acquired , the means of employing it . on a great scale . It is galling enough for the weary artisan to contemplate the comparison which each passing hour ' s experience forces upon him , between the luxury of their condition , who bave only the task of « looking on , ' in order to watch the ' well-arranged precesees by which their capital is madeto re-produce and multiply itself , -with their own doom .
This { consequent though it be on the eternal and iaevi Uble iBtqualities of the Boolaloonditlon ; U , shortly , to toil from morn till night , under many sordid aggravations of want , distress , and despondency , in the scrap ipg together their leaser pittance of the same talismanfc commodity , money , which , being necessary for the exigencies of their bare subsistence , disappears- —by a disastrous inversion ef th « principle * that govern the larger masses of capital—with a rapidity that affords no opportunities for iucteaaa or expansion . Bat he feels this disparity with tenfold bitterness and force when he sees that those Very exigencies , those very hardships , bis despondency , bis distress , his want , are converted into engines , in the band of his employer , for decreasing even that modicum of wages , already so fractional « b to have subjected him to these painful sad humiliating influence * . j . " Let us consider what the operation of the Truck * system is » on the cue of tne mill , colliery , ot mine
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owner , respectively , and on tbat of the operative * whom the former employs . The former finds , that of the capital invested in his works , such or such a proportion is devoted entirely to wages , Hia first care is to reduce the rate of these as low as he can , bo a a to diminish the aggregate per ceiitage which they represent , or the cost ( toiim } of production . He fltids tnafe the difference between this coat , all incidents included ( with interest on the plant , buildings , and machinery of the concern , &c ) , and tner xetarns fc » mHsea , exhibita an average profit—being a certain per eentage en the capital so invested . It occurs to him , that by paying a given proportion of the wages of bis workmen
( which form so large an item in the cost of production ) in stores and supplies , instead of money , he may mak « a twofold profit ; that Is , tnat 09 may purcaMe tha stores and supplies wholesale , and at first hand , with a considerable profit from the discounts the dealer * will allow him for his ready money or his short bills ; and that he will sell them to his workmen at some advance even on the retail prices which they would have to pay to their tradesmen . Bat by this mode of procseiing be pntsitontof the power of the operative to go to the best market for aay commodity he may want . He pats it out of the man ' s power to dispense ( as he may desire to do , with the view of hoarding up a little
pittance for- some contemplated purchase or deposit , say at the year ' s end ) with any such commodity altogether . For if be have consumed it one week , as the truck book at the store . - will show in every man ' s case to the manager or overseer , he dares . not to discontinue it in another . There would be an inference created against him , immediately , that he had supplied himself wiih it in some other quarter . And here ws may leave what would be tbe result of such a simpler , every day exercise of huf own free will Ia a private matter of this kind , to the labourer or artiznu connected -with a concern thus managed . There is / says the writer in the Halifax Guardian , « a colliery
in the neighbourhood of Heywood , near Bnry , wher « the manager keeps a shop , and all the hands who work at the colliery are forced to purchase provisions at the shop kept by the manager , or the ]/ must have no work . Some of the operatives reside two miles from the £ > hop > and yet nearly the whole of the toages are paid in go 6 ds t at about fifteen or twenty per cent higtier than at any shops in the same neighbourhood . The above system is carried on to an alarming extent , both among colliery masters and manufacturers / Yet , io the face of facta like these , there have been found advocates of thf « atrocious and grinding device even within the walls of Parliament , who would bave peraaaded the public *
if they could , that no manufacturers , or mine owners , ever encouraged the truck system , except oct of a desire to accommodate their workman with the best supplies at the cheapest prices . Amiable solicitude of amiable men ! Thus act the despots of the Easti from the most en light ended of them , the Pacha of Egypt , who first sets his own prices on all the growing cropi of corn , or millet , or cotton ia bis dominions—then declares by fi / niaun that he is < the only dealer in such commodities , and will pay all men for them , and at such prices ; and , lastly , sets aa army on foot to ' superintend' the bringing into his Highness ' s granaries and warehouses of the stores of all
reluctant or refractory contributors—down to the petty Saltanns and R * jas of Pidor , or the Soloo Archipelago , or Sumatra ;—who being bent on trading with European captains , issue their mandates , with their own autocratic prices annexsd , reqniring their people to dispose toithem , the Sultauns and Rajas Jn question , without the least delay , of their bales of pepper , their betel nut , cbank , gold dn « t , edible birds' nests , or any other commodity , the trade of trafficking in which they are willing and prepared to take entirely off the hands of their independent subjects ! Thank God 1 the day for such transparent humbugging ( we know of no other term in ail tbe languages that would express our idea ; is
past ia England . Truck-system capitalists may talk of being actuated , in this sort of scheme for making tba workman disgorge a portion of his wretched wages before he has left the pay table , by kindliness and charity on their part and a desire to consult bis private interests , alone—to their steam boilers or their furnaces . Such professions are not more substantial than ths vapour of the one or the smoke of the other . Bnt tho same provincial journal from which we have been quoting , supplies us with one other illustration of the
results which the comprehensive truck * system' includes , that we shall leave to speak fur itself , as an instinctive snggQ : > tioa of the moral and domestic benefits it must infuse into the social circles of the most hard-working , and tbe worst paid , classes of our labouring poor : ¦—* A . colliery master , ne : ir Rochdale , has now a number of females working at the bottom of the coal-pit . The police have been made acquainted with it . ' " An « l we , for our parts , shall not lose sight of this remarkable and unqualified statement . It will doubtless call for future comment . "
To this it is scarcely necessary to add another word . The ** points" respecting Tblxk are strongly put by the Sun . We trust his readers will duly weigh and profit by them ! If so , some of the "humbugging ' he so forcibly describes , and 80 earnestly denounces , will be put an end to . Last week we intimated , iu a Note to Correspondents , that this thieving practice of Tbuck had manifested itself in a most unusual and unlooked-for place ; on the Railway belonging to the North Mid " land Railway Company . Such is the fact . It has been introduced there ; though not by the Directors of the Company . Still it is there ; and if the Directors , after this public " direction" of their attention to the fact , do not interfere to put it down , they will , they must , be regarded as sanctioning , aiding , and abetting it .
The facts of the case are these : —The repairing of the North Midland Line , from Leeds to Maabro ' , ia contracted for by one Joseph Pickering , who resides at Oakenshaw , near Wakefield . His contract is for seven years ; two and a half yeara of which are now expired . He employs at the present time about 200 men , as plate layers and labourers . As a matter of course , they are on all parts of the line « from Leeds to Masbro ' , tbe extent of hia "take . " These men , when in employ , earu 25 . 6 d . a day . That is the rate at which they are paid ; but as they are not allowed to ork ia rainy or frO 3 ty weather their earnings will not reach more t ^ aa 10 s . a week on the average .
Well , this Picketing , not content with the profits accruing from his contract , has determined to procure that tbe wages the men earn under him shall be spent at his tommy shop , that he may get the profit which of right belongs to the numerous shopkeepers at all the places where the men live . He has accordingly issued a list of articles he deals in , having opened a store at Oakenshaw ; which list he has bad distributed amongst " his men" on all parts of the line , as far as his " take" extends . One of theso lists is in our possession ; and it sats forth the prices per stone , per pound , and per ounce , of teas , of coffees , of sugars , of soap , of tobacco , of fruit , and of spices ; as well as of " sundries ; " the latter comprehensive head including all sorts of things , from flour and bacon down to black lead and epsom salts .
When the lists had been distributed , the " clerk of the works" went round to the men , to " seek for orders . " Cunning Isaac ! No breach of the law there ! Pickering thinks he is driving a coachand-six through it in fiae style ; or rather a " heavy luggage train . " " Seek for orders" indeed I The poor ien-shilling-a-week men knew the meaning of that dodge . No " prog , " no work ; no work , n » living : so " orders" were given . Now for tha result ;—Sir , —We see by yoar valuable journal that you have got scent of the TRUCK , shop on the North Midland Railway , Knowing that you are an enemy to tyranny , we send you tbe particulars of the barefaced robbery practised on us .
On the 9 th of this month we were requested to order from the clerk of the works what we wanted from the Truck shop . Against our will we ordered a little ; knowing if we did not we should have no more wort . Tee goods were ' ordered' on the 9 th inar . and received on the 11 th . When the goods came , we found to oat surprise and dismay a larger quantity than we had given orders f » r . As much came as was due for our wagea . Sir , you should have s « en us poor men trudging along the line to , our homes with bags on oar biekf * numbered , and with Pickering ' s name in fall oa
them . We have to work hard ; but it is doubly bam to have no choice where we shall spend our money . We have sampled the goods we received , with what w » have bought at other markets ; and according to tbfl opinion of other dealers , we are paying fromtwwity five to thirty per cent , above the market price . Who * ¦ we bought our own goods previous to this TrnpkJ 5 hop » it was an advantage to as from one to two abJUingP per week . Please , Sit , give this publicity , and you -will oblige , thosb who abb suffering fb . 0 h thb h * rj > of Oppression .
Come that ia pretty good I Qne or two aapnj 8 a * week , bobbed outr of ten ! andthat from men ettr ployed on the North Midland Railway . We belieW the representation to be perfectly correot . Tfie lisk of prices sets flour forth at 2 s . 5 d . per " stone K&Q best Ab selling in Leeds at 2 s . 2 i . Bacon is set f ? r& at 7 a . per lb .: 1 st Leeds it can be had at 4 d .: # »« ; aiSA ; and " 6 h 6 ulder-pieces at 6 d . So that wee }» readily believe that the things are from 25 to 30 P ?* cent , abbve the market price . But how are the Directors of tho Railway to " " terferet What hare / Awto do with tuis m » ttffV
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CO-OPERATJON-UinOl * IS STRENGTH . TO JOUBSETSSS TATXOES AKD OTHERS . PiLLCiir-WOEEJtEy , —Having for seme time pa * i taieii so active part in the iierropolitan Tailors' Pxoteciion Society , I Venture ta offer an opinion as to wbai 2 concei-re to be tfcs fcert moa&of protecting ouisfelva * ram n » jast caapEtidon . L 3 Tge pufciie meetings fcavt been held frcm time to lime , of the trade ; all havi agreed in dtucxiEdng the aggression of tiie -monej tjraata ; but w& are at sta aa to tbe means ai securing ran protection lor car labour- Many kave been the P ^ bb-proposed . Some are for enrolled benefit soeieMrs ; oierajai KsaElr . galarge fnufl to support & „„ , who may become thtVy tinis or thtir employers ; others foi S T ^ - ° l ** r ^*?^ employers ind « m : oye 4-sSorvbwh Ke fallacious ; fonrhUe capital is in ths ascendant , and lai-onr imstrate , no good can ever be tSected , unless-we torn attention to the three followins proportions s-RBt , a general nnion of the S tooVviiheia , txceptlon , boa in town M ™ e » S lansles as » ffl a nates : I ay fences , bt ^ nwlbTj form a largB inpefiiant in the Ubon ? msrket , ^ have onfertanately through tbe pre ^ t ^ te of tbina become our greatest competitors ; for , here u ^ ^ of oar attemplJEg to hrfn ? onr -wagta ap to the orudna atandard , vrhile there are thousanelB of femafe , %£ > are eompdJaJ to nake -w » au » ata Irom { ourpentse t&ei aadtrcnscM torn «< 3 . per pwr . Infleeo , jasiies ds mands tbat Q ^ y shall be , protected aavieU m oai selves . To carry"into fcSact iMi object , % natiow delegate meeticg of the bade should be called , to * at BirmiDgham , as the ctnlreof ELghnd , as early * pOBsibJe , to agree neon a plan 6 t union , rash as ti Uiner ** Assoeiation / for inrfancej who have set Bpte&lid example to their brethren . We also thool t ^ te np our po sition in the ranks of labour , in oppes "TO ^ to a ll ty » uny . We , too , shecid have our leg ) adviser j oar Roberto . We can havo the SorihcrnSic a > onr national crgac ; and , if ^ he Miners can co the ttingg , srhb are as nrcch t-ppressbd as -we are , surely v can do ^ he ike . ' Thfiitfore , I shaU take it a 8 a £ avci jf any individaiis in 2 * 9 kiB ^ uom -Bil toajBUues !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct829/page/4/
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