Voices on Labour Self Rule and Land Reform in Wiltshire
A preacher exhorts agricultural workers to seek social ascent through self help, warns of strikes, and urges landlords to remove hindrances like land laws. He envisions union, independence, and female uplift as keys to national prosperity amid rural unrest across Dorset and Notts areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilton
Pembroke
Earl of Pembroke
Wiltshire
England
Dorchester
Smith
Amalgamated Engineers of London
Dorset
Newark
Notts
Robinson
Josephine Butler
George Potter
Beesley
Mitchell
P. A. Taylor
M.P
Miall
Uts
Ames Fraser
Manchester
Suffolk
Essex
Sussex
Gloucester
Qote
Social Science Congress
Plymouth
A Speech on Dignity and Union For Labourers
The speaker urged self respect for the poor and their daughters and condemned poverty as a hindrance to virtue. He warned of exploitation by wealth and called for immediate steps to improve agricultural and unskilled laborers, endorsing unionism and opposing restrictive laws.
Licensing Act debates and changes across London and regions
Clerkenwell magistrate dismissed summonses against two Highgate hill publicans and customers as travellers. Martin Owen punished for drunk and disorderly behavior in Ossulston street. Sheffield licensing protests refused. Bath set hours six to eleven weekdays and noon to two thirty early close. Liverpool mills gauge worker opinion on extended hours. Birmingham audit shows resistance to extension at Hind and Son lamp works. Oxford closes at eleven weekdays ten Sundays amid riots. Metropolitan Police grants late licenses near Strand theatres for theatergoers and audiences, with possible regional spread to other venues.
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Clerkenwell
Highgate Hill
London
Martin Owen
Bath
Liverpool
Birmingham
Messrs
Hind and Son
Oxford
Colonel Henderson
Metropolitan Police
Strand
London School Board Reassembles After Vacation
The London School Board met with Lord Lawrence presiding. proceedings were routine. Greenwich District Board of Works resolved not to pay a £1,526 precept from the London Echo Board in protest of alleged excess. Westminster and Worship Street magistrates heard several school board prosecutions but none enforced, adjournments common as parents were notified.
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London ScHool Board
Lord Lawrence
Greenwich District Board of Works
London Echo Board
Westminster and
Worship-street