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jne -which J . cannot afibrd ^ o pay * or whether it "Ob . lair . that J , the member of , no association , should be made the vjctim ^ of a combination . I desire to ayoid impoguhig the jncfcfcivea of Any man , but it must be > erMe * t ftoaavwy tone ( that tfae > object t > f the placard pnt forth 4 tfis morning "by the Weavers' Gonamittee -was to pvfevdnt , by 'Violence 'and intimidation , such hands « p -were "desirous of accepting -work from Hoing"so . "In cpn , chi 8 ion , I announce td the operaiiveB ot Pteftton that I am 'Willing to provide wwk : ^ r ; airypiaad 8 that -raaj-. apply for the same at Che lehna which ' may be seen on application at my mill
~ r ~ terms which , I pledge . myself , will enable any jjood wfta * er to earn off at pair of looms Us . per week . * < Ifc . Hoflhu' -manifesto elicited a lengthy Teply Jrom the Power-loom Wearers' Committee , the chief paragraph of which is as follows : — "Mr . HoUins ( say ^ e comniittee ) has ^ giTen . a list of the * average earnings of ; sbc weavers in October , 1847 . and the Average ^ earning * of six other weavers in the tinbnti ^« f October 1853 ; and in 1847 , he gives it as 7 & < &dLg > er . pair of looms , and in 1853 . as 12 s . 6 d . iu ^ jhe ' ^ rgets to eJCphiinfthatthe ^ si 3 C'Veaver » he gives in 16 * 7 were probably working inferiorlv paid xeeds ,
whilrtin thenst of 1853 he has taken care to give ihose who havebeen working thebestpaid sorts , end * wiio ar «;^ B ^ twoAIoora weavers , and consequently , ^¦ xMpcu ^; 4 ) 6 the arrangements at the Sovereign 3 ffill , ^ i ^^ hctf ^ ve «^ v . ed ^< hbniis of It ) per cent , beisnxii ^^ r ' : Jiad Averaged more than IDs . per week j $ onn g ; th& month ^ of 0 ctoher . lTour loom-weavexs . ^ r ^^ iut ^ dlowed'dus ^ bQnns , whatever their average 4 B « rning 8 might . he ; so <^ at it ^ is only a ficactianrof the hands who reoeiTO « ny ^ benefit &om life . If Mr . Hollins ~ liad given the .. average earnings of those weavere without the bonus , or the advance he was
givmg ; during theiniaBbth tdf October . 1853 , we pre-« pnet $ Ml | it 4 roi ^ be ; fo ^ 0 §> theni 4 ur . ^ waMreis ^ JipQa . ius he ^^ aid ( sorts would « Jy hav » been ^ about LOs . per made * ^ whilst we have Jhe , # n ^ ipxi ^ 0 pf Ma $ own hands jfeo estate ; that the mj& ^ &itfaw ^ Qf ^ with the av& = ia nce' ^ i ^ i {^^^^ t ^ er ; tl | Mit |^ wimldoQitiexceed j 9 a . 9 d . per wejjc . Bnt it appears that Mr . HoUins * weavers cannot understand what he intends to do . In October la ^ h ^ satisfactory to gagjfOKJEp ^ jde . | Ehey ai ^ p ^ pared to resume workat thosefpj ^ oea atjury ^ me . Jn . referring to the av&age
wages earned an -October , 1853 ( . that was the last inp ^ hi ^ . wp |^ ed . h ^ mill before turning his workpeople o » t ) , ; he say ^ : —* I have offered , and still oflfer , tOipay ^ beq » te ? upoii . which the latter statement of wage »^ M ^ earned ; h % her than ^ that I cannot afford t ^ p ^||»*« Qgsa ^ r ^ jpaxilcvllarcl ^ is of goods- which ^ manufacture ! ' We ask Mr . Boiling what he means by this ? Our under-Otaf ^ iiPfg' ^ f 4 * 'Mh ^ M ^ -rrthat he has ^ offered , * and still gpt ^ dg ^ totpay the priceftjiaid . duTing the month of
October , 1863 j and if Jie does , meaa , this , and M intending ^ doingieo , w % not iqform his workpeople whencth . ey waited upon hint ^ of such intention ? Bad he done ** o , we ^ eel confident that he would have - had a full complement of hands . before this ; but he does not mean this , ; if 4 here is some ( Other arrangement y ^ it fully specified , we tbink . tlratwe are not presuming too much toAtk . Mr . Ho ] lins la inform the public ^ clearljr ^ and explicitly what ihat arrangement is . " JQ ^ orUmately no arrangement was come to .
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WEEE 33 NG OE . GOMPOBITOES . 3 ? hb usual quarterly- delegate meeting of the London Society-of Compositors was held-on Wednesday evening ,, at ^ fihe Harp-alley Schoolroom , Shoe-lane , when upwards of 500 delegates attended , when it appeared by the Keport of the "Trade Council that the society is int a-very flourishing- condition , having increased within the but -four years from 1300 to 2600 paying members ^ that the fund ' s of the society show an increase on the quarter of 2332 . 14 * . 7 d . ; and that there has been-plenty of employment for the members—MoTOthanfo-the corresponding quarter of 1352 . We may , ihowever , remark that since Christmas the
busil * j * r < faas been slack , though ' not so much bo as at the aame period in previous years . . No doubt within the last'iew ^ years the printing business has been considerably expanded , but the report observed , that among ether items ^ of relief which the [ London compositor now experienced , was the emigration within the last four years of some 300 or 400 of his -fellow-workmen . Besides discussing certain trade matters , interesting only to themselves , the meeting discussed London Assistance to the Preston Strike . —A deputation attended from the Factory Operatives of Preston ,
phi , has lately issued , inviting a Conference of the representatives both of Capital and Labour interested in the above strike , . was hopefully alluded to , as affording an important opportunity by which both parties might eventually settle these serious differences , which have continued so long , and created so much acerbity and estrangement of feeling , both on the part df employers and employed , and which have brought the latter to the lowest depths of poverty and misery , immensely , aggravated by the -present greatly enhanced prices of the principal necessaries
of existence ; Belfast Compositors . —The compositors also contrabutedSdL-towards-assisting the Belfast printers to remedy arrowing evU , which , has been long prevalent among them , namely , the employment of boys only , in preference to journeymen . 3 > y some employers ; and in all the other Offices in Belfast , including the liberal and popular newspapers , the proportion of men and boys is in some instances 9 men and 17 apprentices ! The number of journeymen in Belfast is € 7 , and the number of apprentices 17 . 6 !
An JEndeavour to Delete Overtime *—Jl suggestion was laid liefore the meeting from the chapel of Messrs . Savill and Edwards , in reference to an ¦ eviLwhieh . inconrenienees the jcomposUor very much , without yielding ^ Mm adequate-compensation : the employers having the power ( accordingto the Compositors locale of Price *) of reqturing the journeyman to -W ; ork ^ from six in the morning jHU "ten in the evening , " without extra entolument ^ Iilch the employers , when in a rush of work ( whicli in some offices occurs for considecable jreriods at various seasons of the year ) invariably require . Before six inthfi morniug ^ and after jtenin th&evening thevcompositor has -per scale
a certain . amount extra per . hour . in ladduion' to the price of iiis work , newspapers excepted , which War m tmiform ^ prioe per thousand types , wbether done during the day or during the night . The subject was miaved'to stand over to the annual general meeting oo ?" the trade , shortly to be held . But we have no doiibt that others might assist the compositors in . endeavouring to correct this evil of unpaid oyertime , ^ those m . tb ^ c » m me rcial jor literary world who jrequire to have recourse to the services « f the composilors , would timeiheir orders more j udiciously , as it is snot wholly the employers' blame , but the blame rests in a great raeasure ^ with authors , editors , publishers , and others , whose business it is to supply
c ° pjf * ¦ . ' - ^ Stute of ike " Preston Strike . —According to Mr . Matthews , the delegate from Preston at the printers ' meeting , the strike , which has now- lasted twentyone weeks , has been made for the restoration , of 10 per cen > t ., which then employers deducted from the wages of the employed in 1 S 47 , with the promise and understanding thatthey would restore the 10 percent , when prosperity again enabled them to do so , which , as we understood Mr . Matthews , thirty-two out of thirty-eight firms did add previous to the strike ; l > ut theretnairiing six firms declining to do the same , the thirty-tw-o ^ who had made the advance of 10 per cent , withdrew it , and hence the Preston strike and lock-put . Mr . "Matthews stated that Blackburn is fully employed , and that there the employers ( are now
paying 43 £ ; per cent , jnore than Preston was paying previous to the strike . He also remarked , that the maximum earnings of adult factory operatives in Preston , when fully employed , was only 18 s . and the minimum 12 s . 6 d . ; that Blackburn manufactures similar ^ fabrics tothatof Preston ^ and that when the reduction took place in ' 47 / in the -wages of employment , the manufacturer was . not subjected to reduction inthe price of his goods ; and that seeing by the building , of fttctories and the erection of additional machinery by the manufacturers , that matters were in a prosperous condition , the operatives were encouraged to ask for the restoration of the 10 per cent ., and hence the present exile of 2000 of them from employment . X . X .
soliciting pecuniary assistance , which was heartily responded to by the compositors voting them a sum of 20 / . per week , for the period of ten weeks , should this unhappy dispute not be brought to an amicable settlement sooner . Mr . Matthews , the delegate from Preston , informed the meeting that within the last ix or seven weeks the trades of London had contributed upwards of 10001 . towards the same object , among the items of which amount was n sum of 200 J . contributed by the Amalgamated Engineers The circular which the Society of Arts , John-street Adcl-
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ME . PANIZZI ONCE MORE . Alfred Jones , the driver of one of Thompson ' s cabs ( No . 850 ) , -was summoned before Mr . Hall , of Bow-street , to answer two complaints preferred by Mr . Antonio Panizzi , keeper « f the pnnted-book department of the British MtiBeum . Mr . Punizzi stated that he charged the defendant' w ? th insulting bebavMur , and with neglecting to give him a ticket . On Wednesday afternoon , the 4 th instant , he sent a porter from the Museum to get him a cab , but ho returned with the answer , "No -one will come . " Witness walked
to the dtand in Southampton-row , it beine then between seven and eight o ' clock , aud saw four or five cabs , bat no driYers . Supposing they had gone into public-houses , or something , he continued for some time to bawl out for the cabmen , btrt "the waterman , apparently , and two or three other m « n only laughed at him . Eventually , on seeing defendant with bis cab , witness desired him to come to the pavement to take him up . He did so very slowly , and witness went behind the cab to look at its number , upon which defendant exclaimed , " Don ' t be in a passion , " and puffed the smoke of a cigar in his ( Sir . Pankzi ' s ) fuco . Witness said , "This is not respectful conduct , and you know it , " at the same time demanding the number of nis badge . The cabman stood in such a position that witness was obliged to pnt his lace close to the man ' s breast in order to see his badge , and while doing eo . defendant blew another puff into his face . Witness ordered him to desist , but he replied , "
have paid for it ( the cigar" ) , and shall smoke it . " All this time the other men were laughing and jeering ^ t'him , trnft when witness had taken his seat , and diwebed the cabman te > drive him to Belgrave-square , they cried out , " You ' ll never eet there . " The defendant woald not ring- ** knock at tbehouse where witness alighted , and never delivered up a ticket of bis number . ,, * . * . The defendant said the occurrence happened on the first afternoon after the great Snow , and the gentleman came np > in a great -passion from not being able to get * cafe . Witness could not pull up close to the kerb-stone , owing to theanow ^ and this excited him very much . He ( defendant ) was certainly annoyed urt the gentleman ' s manner , but he took the
cigar out of hismonth when the eentlemaai ; was taking his number . and also when ho opened the door of the cab . [ To > compkwaant]—Did I not ask you to partake of « twket before storting , nor at any time ^ A . , Mr . Panizzi—Certainly not ; and you did not take the cigar out of yourJnouih . Samuel Wright , a journeyman watchmaker , of 97 , Windsor-terr&ce , City-road , said that he happened to be-passing at the time , and-was -attracted by the crowd . The gentleman was < very much excited , . but the cabman did not pufiT his cigar in compl ainant ' s face , mor use any ^ butivetiangaage . When the . gentleman . got into the cab the driver offered ± . o give Lima ticket , but the . centleman . 8 aid , " You . be damned and-xefuBed to have it . witness on hearing the gentleman
soy tbatbe would maxertne cabman pay cor it ,-called atta& stand next day and left bk address , Btaiing that he would attend-as » witness , if necessary . Mr ^ Panizzivstatediliab this evidence was wholly , false . . Mr . " Hall said it was perfectl y ridiculow to suppose thai m ^ j £ taileman qf comvmajprvprvtty tooulfiL maJcesuoh a false cJia ^ rgBi 4 ffawst ^ cubaum ; * axi& the witness , injmaking ontsa case ior the defendant , had ewen -gone farther than the cab » man bhnself , -who did not say that Mr . Panizsi refused to take a ticket . Besides , the defendant was liable to a penalty <^ . ^ Qs . jbr smoking at aM tekUe oa du ^ f . The cabman was fined JM ) s . Jortbje 4 * o . offence 3 , and costs or 21 days .
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CRIMINAL KECOKJX It has been stated that < erej » l » abtociioBS' « f'young pertoijft ^ of hoth'sezes have neently ocenreed , : « Bd ^ som ojalarm . has ^ been felt . A servant girhwas nseizedaat Hammewmith by * ruflBan . She was not far from home . sFortunatelythegdmad of coming footsteps madettbe scoundrel jump into a cart and drive off . * The girl was orach hurt . An < x > ld woman tta » been severely beaten and injured in Hatbonrgatden ., Tltemurder of the boy Medhurst , whose body was . found at EaBt Acton , has caused the Government to offer . a reward of 1002 . Forthe discovery , of the-murderer . A man Tiamed ^ Wildbore ^ jDublican , of . Bishop ' s Stortford , has been arrested on the information of a man who niade a 6 haise-cart for him , similar to the one in wbidh Medhurst was driven Taway . Wildbore doesnet answertdtheclescription of . the driverrof the cart asgiven l ) y the boys who were witnesses . 'He is portly and hasgrey hair . ^ The man ra the cart was described as having black bushy whiskers . One of the boys , Jackson , identified V /^ ildbore , bat not with jjreat certainly . The other boy saia Tie did not know him . IViiabore himseh * said hehad not been "in London in the cart for two years . < $ lrl Corrie , ~ the magistrate at Clerkenwell , remanded Wildbore after having haa a privatetalk with the police . Theinojiestwas resnmed on Monday . The evidence tit Dr . Glover and Mr . ^ Francis -Showed that violence had been used ; but the former thought poison might "have been
employed . The inquest-was adjohrned . The '" West End Stefinge for the HotiselessT ' oor '* ' has been carried on by one Guyenette with a sham committee . He made about five-and-twenty shillings a week'b y it . He was" the , proprietor . " The dodge was shown up by one of thecollectors being acensed of fraud and forgery . At the Worship-Street office Michael Regan appeared t < V answer a charge of 'brutal assault upon "hiswife . He had beaten his wife about the head and face with bis fists knocked her down , - then jumped upon lief'body and head , and finally cut her head open by repeated blows of a spade . She was taken to a hospital , and he was , remanded for » week , bat upon his being again brought tip , the wife wa * pronounced too much injured to attend , and he was therefore again Ternanded , when the poor woman-was in attendance . She still seemed very weak , and spoke with great faintness , but only ' said enough . to intimate Ihat she had no more- 'to state against the praoner . declared that he- was not in thohabit of ill-using her , although she had before stated the reverse , and apologised for the man ' * ilUusage of her by saying that he was intoxicated at the time , 'the policenaan . having as . positively stated them both to hare been perfectly sober . . . , . Mr . D'Eyncourt said—From the evident reluctance with which the complainant . even now comes forward , it would bemanifestly useless for me to send thi $ case for trial , as Ioat first intended to do ., for I entertain no doubt whatever that , ; if I did pursue that course , she would not appear against him , and he would escape altogether without punishment . % shall therefore exercise the summary powers with which I am invested , and sentence the prisoner to be committed t f * the House of Correction for six months and to be kept < xo _ hard labour . The prisoner heard the sentence with indifference , and without remark . Scenes in Barnsbury-park remind one of stories told of Italian brigands rifling brilliant guests at a ball . There is there a set of ruffians who terrify alike the weak and the strong . At Belitha-torrace lives Mr . Russell ; from Tiia window , on Christmas-day , ho Baw two men , uamed Mortimer , illusing a man , and ho interfered , and being himself assaikd , knocked his roan down . Shortly after this scene , and while Mr . Russell , with his father and brother , and other members of bis family , were regaling themselves on Christmas cheer , the prisoner , with another fellow and two women , entered bis house b y wrenching the lock off tho « trcet-door , and , on Mr . Russell hastening from hia parlonr into the passage to uncertain the cause of the outrage , he encountered tho gang , and three times felled thefirstnamed prisoner before he was overpowered by the otlicns ,
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_ 34 - t } THJE LEADER . £ S atobjpat ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 14, 1854, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2021/page/10/
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