Newsman And Morning Mail And Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 5, 1865, London, Middlesex AND SUNDAY MOBNING MAIL AND JOB TEAKS MISSION FEBRUARY PRICE ONE BETWEEN EMPLOYED AND mentioned in our last number that the differences between the master builders and the men in their employ regarding the proposed by the in Birmingham and the midland to which the strife was had been In a subsequent edition we had to state that the matter was not finally Now it is and the men who had struck against the proposed note are again at With this result neither the employed nor the employers are entirely Both parties suggest the propriety of forming a taken from the two for the purpose of arbitrating on differences and forming regulations to guide the It is an excellent symptom that this suggestion comes from the committees of the masters and the men at the came Lockouts or strikes resemble They may decide the comparative strength of the but they cannot show the right or the Even when a point in dispute is gained by either a lookout or a the cost may very much exceed the In these cases also the pecuniary expense is only a and a limited of the That good feeling which should be maintained between men in the relation of employed and employers is destroyed for a and often is not renewed for a long In many quarrels both parties could perhaps concede that they have been a little in the An arbitration affords time to and an interval passed in that manner often makes For this even if it stood the proposal deserves a It has been already tried in one business and has been Many years ago the letter press printers of Edinburgh and Glasgow adopted regulations of of and of minor details in their business and they have kept the A similar arrangement might be equally efficient in other Building employs in this country legions of It includes not only and but also the kindred trades of and This great body of men have endeavoured for some time to obtain of the hours of labour rather than an increase of From obvious peculiarities in their em a considerable part of their day is frequently occupied in passing from their homes to their and in returning from their move their homes to the neighbourhood of their employment because the latter and has no element of On that the men in large towns have long preferred short time to long wages in smaller where obs are often miles from their the operatives take the same course for the same conten tion arose in the where the men Bought reduced and the masters desired their operatives to sign a document binding to join the trade while they con tinned at these employers This paper was and the Saturday was in the midland the members of the masters union de not to employ any operative who hod not a note from his previous It was understood that thin mea sure was chiefly planned to defeat the operatives Public opinion was already expressed against the proposal which has been now given and arbitration is suggested in ita Many operatives have long proposed some means of arbitration under legislative powers and sanction but even a board framed would have a moral influence which both parties would often Now that a body of employers so large as those of the building trade in the midland counties have proposed a marked progress is made in the They or their secretary says for that the men have many rules which are onerous to the and that these rules are enforced by the amount of in the sick tad other funds of the The men reply that their have several for tun auot her for the a third and fourth perhaps for different all and one of small amount for the maintenance of They show their which are patent to any person who may be curious respecting No part of the fond ia employed to support strikes without a special vote of the branches or lodges of each So much circumlocution exists in the that during the six weeks strike in the midland counties the official grants of the societies have not been obtained The funds eent to the men on strike have been voluntary levies or but we fancy that the opera tives generally those at least who are engaged on the trade in The societies of masters and in conceding the necessity of admit the propriety of improvements in heir customs and More than one regulation quoted by the secretary of the employers is preposterous 3 but some of the man either deny the existence of these or allege that they are locally All these matters can be more readily by mutual in a friendly than by open j and of the last few weeks have largely pro the important questions in the relationship of and trades wiU profit by this A strike exists among the lace t the dispute be reasonably A arisen among a portion of the iron workers from stringent laws rather than reduced A friendly conference would secure an arrangement by one of the parties in the The great strike of in shire originated in a proposed reduction of consequent on a fall in The colliers admitted the of some re but they said that coals were only one clement in the production of and wages in the price of they wanted to not how but how little they should be equitably called on to The request was not and is one that a board of arbitration would conceded in a few It was refused a few months of misery and the loss will not be recovered in a few ovl if it does nothing much in admitting the right of the men to be to be in formed on matters affecting their and to treated on a footing of as persons with in their and for to be equitably In and in some other it will do more for the good of of and of in than triumphs of a be wrung out of the sufferings of a A ten per has been proposed in the wages of iron puddlers and all the other artisans engaged in the production of The reduction will pass without apparent in some dis but it has caused a strike in North When the men at furnaces and the mills the attendants on the pigiron the and the go without employment or In the part of at the industrious iai lose a They pay this price to resist a of ten per on Five weeks of to a reduction of ten per in earnings A strike for five exactly if it be quite as much in one direction as the employers in If it be it makes the reduction for the But the men aay that it the accumulation of stock and is one objectionable enforcing short 1 The necessity of this ten per fall in earnings is an obvious subject for because the items constituting the outlay on iron are all known and there is not in exhibiting a with the profit or the business at the present or at other resembles corn or cotton in having a the cal of immediata A master M the building trade competes and contracts for If erroneous calculation he must bear his own but the ironmaster must sell plates or rails for what he can get for aa prices rose or fell it has been a custom of the or diminish The men say that the care fully observed on any decline and but bered on a revival and rise in the iron omissions do not affect the principle which would by a of arbitration and reference and this principle proves how easily per week in money to the the amount in other matters to the and a large of bad all lost or and would Have been econo mised or prevented to North Staffordshire by arbitration in the iron REFORM MEETING AT meeting was held on Tuesday night in tho Victoria to consider the of mentary and IK supported resolutions condemnatory of the conduct House of Commons in neglecting and calling Ministers to fulfil the pledges they had so solemnly given to the Viscount the eldest son of Earl sup ported the A to of the further enfranchisement of the people was THE BEST SHOT IN THE BRITISH parade at Winchester barracks last Colonel presented to Colour Sergeant a silver ofthe valuo of 22 and bearing Presented by Colonel commanding the 4th battalion of tha Rifle Colonel and the officers of iho Rifle Depot Battalion to Colour the best shot in the British Army and of the Rifle Depot Battalion in the course of ending 1st of LOST IN THE named of Brio vels has been lost in the snow in He was engaged in measuring timber at and in tho while on his way to his a distance of several he got into a deep from which he to It was freezing very and the imhappy man was frozen to Load shouts were heard by inhabitants of farm house but they conjectured that these were made by woodmen diverting themselves on their way and took no notice of The deceased leaves a wife and a family of 1C A TERRIBLE NIGHT IN THB Sunday the Donald who had been conducting Divine service at Rat left that place to return to his house at His road lay over the with which ho was per owing to the terrible which took place as he ascended the the gentleman lost his Repeatedly tumbling into snow drifts and gallantly fighting his way out and and in compelled to wander during the efforts till and ten the the bl He was carefully and carri he was put may be thai ka had not tasted Onthe night all the toow on the and bis body track Carr hid v Dually lost his he was continued his he reached where It ia 4d near GOVERNMENT AND THE At a meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on it was stated that the Chamber had forwarded to the Chancellor of the Exchequer a lengthy of the grounds of complaint against the various railway whose charges to and from Liverpool are greatly in excess of those to and from other ports and large The Chamber pointed out that the subject was of national as Liverpool was merely a port of the imports being for the most part distributed mainly by railways over the whole The following is tho Chancellors reply to the Chamber s Chancellor of the Exchequer desires mo to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th on the subject of the excessive rates levied by the railway companies on tho traffic to and from the port of and I am to stato in reply that tho Chamber of Commerce is doubtless aware that the Treasury has no power of interference but Gladstone can give the council thy assurance that her Government are very sensible of tb national importance of tho question to which this CHARLES The President of the Chamber reported that a committee of the Chamber had a satisfactory interview with tho Parliamentary of Town and that they had secured their cordial support any measures for obtaining an equable scale of railway It wat also intimated that opposition would be through to the proposed now of the London aid Railway unless the company produced tho return ot rates and charges for goods which had been ordered by tho House of COMMITTAL OP A FORESTERS At the Southwark on secretary to Court Trafalgars of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly appeared for final charged with misappropriating to his own funds of tho society amounting to It appeared from the evidence of one of the trustees of the that in the early part of last their and all the funds passed through his In on account of some was and as some difficulty took place in tho books from he was summoned before tho court to recover and an order was made against tte still refused to give them and at last one of tho in recovering On examining the the new and the trustees discovered that tho prisoner had from the trustees of the London United to pay funeral moneys of deceased members which he hod not accounted which he had received from tho same persons to pay a printers which he had never The members of the court not wishing to prosecute tho prisoner on the first applied to the prisoner for tt but he treated them with and they were com to take tho present On the first examination ho turned round and struck Banks as he was leaving the for which ho was fined and while leaving the dock he made use of threatening language towards for which he waa ordered to On the next examination ho expressed his regret for his and told his worship that he was willing to pay tho money if a little timo was given Tho trustees of tho court acceded to his and Woolrych adjourned the case for a telling the prisoner if he was not then prepared to pay the with he should commit hun to Evidence having been given that the prisoner received the moneys from the treasurer to the London United and that he had not accounted for the asked the prisoner if he was prepared to pay the money P The prisoner replied that he was sorry to say that he was He had tried everywhere to get the but he had been dis promised to pay tho society as scion as ho could get the said that he could not give him any further He must pay the sum of or go to prison for The not being prepared with the waa to THE TODMORDEN WIFE Thomas living at was committed foe trial on Monday by tho coroner and the having wilfully murdered his Mary Ann aged 32 The parties had been married about a and lived together in a very comfortable The has behaved in rather a strange manner of and on afternoon he out his wife s throat with a Tho wound wna of such a desperate character that she died iu a quarter of an hour Ho was ap within five minutes after ho had committed tho and said to the I intended it last with a but an angel came and took Tho prisoner had also written the following which waa forcibly taken out of his mouth as he was attempting to swallow it Thomas Midgley and Mary Ann this is my last day in this and before I leave it I will warn tho world of the folley of Tho Almighty has layed his hand upon here and myself because of my ain and Ho has been just and kind to me m allowing me to follow two words which are and appear to have been crossed out as soon as Two good Then my sins are more numerous than the of iny head and the of my own folley has made me craey but thow has been just But I have been a wicked sinner and there ia nothing too look for in this world but misery and The Almighty has laid a curse upon me and there is my hope either in this world or ia the next but my wife is to bo an angle of light and I am to stand the hard roth of god In the My reason bat left me and J fancy that I have been ronged untill now I feel that now my lifo is ended as a broken reed to be burned in the fire that nover But my sentence has been past and god been just therefore tho In could blood yes innocent Blood the record of god is true there is noh one letter that f jio not I have my chance and I will leave a record to the future of guilt euch as no man ever saw before in world of light and religion Britons eons ought never to be I had tho chanco cf washing in tha pool of siloma But being But I held earth
