Fair-Trade (Newspaper) - July 11, 1890, London, Middlesex 47o 1890. Of course we shall be told these should turn to That is the stereotyped comfort of the and alone have lined their what we should ourselves hesitate to call a to It is a human consolation to that the paradise of these idlers is threatened with a speedy Royal Arsenal Supply now better known as the Woolwich Co-operative celebrated its coming of age last week and among the of ' Chairman of the declared - A great change of opinion had taken place Co-operation was now quite and sign of the intelligence of men call it a great instead of a political as It was of purity of food and Some complained that it was driving out the hut that was the fate of. many unsuitable to present It was but a new method more in harmony with the was a necessity out the this consummation devoutly to be wished has been the will have a famous opportunity of their something or so of Fair-Trade truth that can ascribe their ignoring of our to their still uncOnquered Free Trade One of Sir Arthur shrewdest observations was that most people the deep slumber of some from which he timidly dreads to can account for a who j can write the and not at once 1 a thoroughgoing The passage will be found on of the Co-operative News of 5th inst. If men will only look at not with the single eve to their advantage thing can lie done but to multiply societies ru allow of. their multiplication co-operative will surely wreck whole As an instance crass ignorance allied to which competition has I was describing the work's for at to the wife of a member of our local who perhaps we get a bit cheaper from them than our productive societies And this seems the ruling when it comes to their husband's wages and of. they sing to n different I mention this as instance here among but we have many who understand the thing in. arid are determined to wear clothing produced under the healthy and conditions of true the worker is held to be thing more than a mere slave or serf of the master or If is done productive will have to be to meet their but must tie if we wish to escape from the miserable disgraceful scramble called lice a condition more suitable for beasts than civilised Ax admirable bf introducing the eight system in their Workshops has been by Messrs. S. cc engineers no change in the weekly they have reduced the time of labour to eight hours only to the condition Full time is and in the event of any workman failing to work full then the increased shall be forfeited and the broken week paid for fin the of sickness or other reasonable excuse to the of ' As expenses and in such that their or only partial use may difference between profit and honourable punctuality on part the their employers worse off for i their amicable and enterprising The example is worthy of A over the tactics of the railways in the south of Ten years ago was the and it was quite a treat to get one the main lines running the -i attaining your goal within a reasonable proximity of the time specified in improvements have and last year the Great Western bore away as having achieved a greater total punctuality than any other in the kingdom the ran it very And the Great to be in somewhat has established departures in more ways for some years it has the luxury of a bath in real sea in your own at a scarcely more than nominal It was a happy thought to lay the to swell the but a vet happy and mutually beneficial is foreshadowed in the following paragraph with reference to some new arrangements the Croat Kastern Company has suggested for securing a produce the a conciliatory conference of railway directors leading and have resolved upon a scheme which actually the of a list of to whom parcels may be and the Hi the farmer of such prices tin y may fetch after deduction of is a matter full of significance association ob railway carriers ami The scheme is not yet definitely accepted by the but it is being carefully and dispassionately ' The bringing of producer and consumer closer at the expense middleman especially the home con- sumption of native produce rather than of are objects dear to every They heartily of the action of the Great Eastern and hope for its That room for such imitation is instanced in the following report from another vegetable growers send a deal to but not of because London supplied so. much from Jersey and Vegetables carried from Jersey to London cost twenty-five a from Penzance shillings But the rates imposed by the Cornwall would become otic vast only twelve -or fifteen hours from which Londoners could supplies of vegetables every instead of having to import them from the Channel Islands and the directors of the Great-Western Railway know their own if they could see their way to a lowering of which might be balanced by extra business after the fashion of the we might have our early vegetables the extra and patriotic relish of their being English is much to know that the Government has appointed a the approaching expiry of various European Commercial the effects of such probable termination of the treaty and the arrangements to be made in the place in the interests of great body of the names submitted is Mr. as a champion of British industry however much he be of Sir Isaac Lowthian an able but the best authority m the world for questions so gravely affecting industries interests to which his career has made him a The with the exception of Mr. of Foreign who such treaties at his and Mr. Frederick of who has also given almost a life work to our international and judges of them by on our the other however eminent in their cannot be regarded as on the They comprise Sir Sir Joseph Colonel FI. E. the and Mr. The Committee has the good to have able secretary in Mr. of the Board of following valuable item to the this following from ' Commercial Dictionary of 1846,' and also from show that under Protection the total amount of taxes paid upon wheat and flour most ridiculously and Were not over 3'/.' annually per head of the - Taxes on- Thirty-two Tunder Protection in the years wheat and flour for ' Duty Average duty per s. 1816--1S27 10,338,554 Under Act 9 c. 60, July 15, 1828, to April 29, 1842 14,157,856 3,889,443 4!- Act 5 April 21), 1842, to ' Jan. 5., 1X44 3,510,834 1,710,623 ' y Ditto 1844-46 4,278,852 6 2| 5 7h. 32,286,096 6 Previous far as and export taken amounted practically to Thirty-two years Free 1855--1886. Total amount Tea 10,481,776 Tobacco repealed 1874... 112^520,522 Dried fruits for period only 1S7 1-86... 7,992,674 by Sir Robert 352,961,499 in small on which he said under certain fall wholly on the the effect would be to hinder of the to so low as to-be injurious the agriculturists dependent on And it must borne that the distress of never mils to re-act on the other When the former are involved in difficulties their demands for the products of the loom and of our colonial possessions so the market is glutted with manufactured as well as with It uniformly found that the that is occasioned .to the trading part of the community verv exceeds all that they gain by the temporary fall in the price of raw It is a mistake to suppose that the duty and drawback now referred to would be advantageous to the
