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FRIDA Y. MARCH 30.1894. -
FRIDA Y. MARCH 30.1894. SIR JOHN GORST AT CARDIFF. A preacher of the former generation who was not distinguished for intelligence or for profundity of thought, was called to book by some of his hearers for drenching them with alternate doses of the extremest Cal- vinism, and the rankest Arminianism, flavoured and mollified occasionally with the acid of an advanced Unitarianism. The good man defended himself with some de- gree of success by the very pertinent plea that all the doctrines were in the Book," meaning thereby in the Bible. The thought of that dead preacher wasrevived within us last night when listening to Sir JOHN GORST'S speech in the Cardiff Park-hall; and yet Sir J OH GORST had little or nothing in common with the man whose memory his speech rekindled within as. For the member for Cambridge University is a politician and a statesman of varied and up-to-date knowledge, an ad- vanced thinker, a dexterous debater, a skilful special pleader, a most able administrator, and is, we believe, im- bued with wide and true sympathy for the people generally, and for the indus- trial classes more especially. But his last night's speech, taken as a whole, was a singular compound of advanced Liberalism and Unprogressive Toryism. It is an abso lute impossibility to eliminate the principle of politics from Labour questions, although the thing might not, be mentioned by name. The speech was a clever speech, un. questionably most skilfully constructed with the view of evading or skimming lightly over the parts marked 11 el "dangerous" in the political Tory chart. But inwoven throughout the very warp and woof of the speech were irreconcileable antagonisms which not even the subtlest casuistry could by any possibility harmonise. An irresponsible Autocrat may borrow the language of Democracy in issuing an Ukase to his subjects, but he conld never reconcile the rights of the people with his own irresponsible absolutism. And there lay the strangeness and the antagonism of Sir JOHN GORST'S position last night. Ha failed, indeed he never tried, to reconcile himself with himself. He failed to reconcile his creed as a Tory politician with his advocacy of the rights of the people —for the Labour problem is but one factor of the more extended, and becoming gradually a cute Social problem. It was said by a celebrated Bishop in the last century that some men are better that their creed, and some men are worse than their creed. Though penned in a very thought- ful and famous Book, it is, nevertheless, a very elementary truth and everyone of us has, more or less, recurring daily proofs that it is a truth. If Sir JOHN GORST be a political Liberal, as some parts of his speech would have induced us to believe, then in other portions of his speech he was worse than his creed but if he really be, what ho professes to be, a political Tory, then throughout the greater part of his speech he was better than his creed. It is impossible for any true critic to separate the speaker from his speech. When we know what is said we want to know who said it. The cleric, who desired his hearers to do what he told them and not what he did, had no true knowledge of the influence of personality upon the propagation of opinion. The platform teacher who holds a political faith inimical to, and preventive of, the true expansion and legitimate outcome of the prosperity of the labour classes, and of the progress of the people as a whole, is out of place, from a true ethical standpoint, when he offers to help the labouring classes to remove the surface and visible evils which are produced by the predisposing causes which he refuses to touch. Sir JOHN GORST, in his last night's speech, said that he wished to dissociate the Labour question, as it is called, from the battle of political party. It would be a most desirable thing to do, if it could be done but can it ? Sir JOHN himself practically admitted that it could not be done, by his contention, that the interference of Parliament was necessary to secure for four-fifths of the male workers of the kingdom, and for con- siderably more than four-fifths of the female workers their three-fold want- higher wages, shorter hours, and the amicable settlement of disputes. If we ask Sir JOBN GOBBT whv the inter- ference of Parliament is necessary for the four-fifths more than for the one-fifth, his reply is that the four-fifths are not skilled labourers, and consequently cannot effec- tually organise against the all-potent masterfulness of the employers, and so need Parliament to come to their rescue. We have the highest respect for Sir JOHN GORST, and desire to treat him with all true respect. He will pardon us, therefore, when we say that his answer, which he considered an "all-sumcient answer," is only an answer for the purposes of the moment. It only throws the question a step farther back. We acknowledge that under the pre- sent conditions of the Labour problem Sir JOHN GORST'S answer satisfies the question as it stands. But are the present conditions of the Labour problem satisfactory ? Is this the best of all possible worlds for the worker, and are Boards of Conciliation to settle disputes and to regulate wages, and to shorten hours of labour, the only remedy he needs, whilst his social and political position are still left unchanged ? Sir JOHN wishes to protect workers from the exactions, unin- tentional or designed, of the employers. This is the principle, he says, for which he contends. It is a very noble contention, and we contend for the principle, too, but we would reach the goal by a different road from that which Sir JOHN GORST invites the workers to travel. His is a temporary expedient ours would be a per- manent cure. He would benevolently help to heal existing trade evils we would remove the causes of these evils so that they could not henceforth occur. Suppose the unskilled labourers possessed a reserve fund of hoarded wages, either in the Bank or in securities, would not that as effectually enable them to resist the exactions of employers, and to insist upou better labour conditions as if they were skilled labourers ? Why have they not that reserved fund 1 Are there causes in the economic or political condition of things which tend and contribute to produce the vacuum ? If so, remove the causes. Sir JOHN wished to deal with the principle of the question; so do we. Details, which are but the application of principles, can be considered again. Sir JOHN dealt too much in details last night to the neglect of prin- ciples. It was an able and a clever speech, but it was unsatisfying and illusive, and left the question pretty much where it was. Social mischiefs and evils are, in a multi- plicity of cases, the outcome of political causes. Most of the social evils which Sir J Omi GORST professes the greatest anxiety to remove—and which we believe he is sincerely desirous to remove—can be traced indirectly, and the majority of them directly, to political causes, which Sir JOHN Gor.8T does not attempt to remove, but which he actively or tacitly upholds. The source of the blotches and boils on the human body lies much deeper than the skin. And whilst not neglecting to remove the skin eruptions, it is necessary to go deeper and remove the cause before a perfect cure can be effected. But Sir JOHN GORST as a Tory politician will not go deeper. He will not help us to remove the cause. Let us sweep away the political and legis- lative hindrances and obstructions to the progress and elevation of the people, and then let the people work out their own social and trade salvation for themselves. They can do it vastly better, if they were unfettered and freed, than Sir JOHN GORST, and their other sympathisers who belong to the classes," as the Chairman called them, can do it for them. They do not want grandmotherly legislation. If the Legislature will only destroy the hindrances which now impede the progress of theworking classes and the people generally to prosperity and to a higher "plane of social well-being, that is all they demand. They can breast the hill for themselves, however difficult the ascent, if their hands and feet were untied. They only want the help which will enable them to do without help the help to remove the impediments which now retard their social uprising; and then their "Self Help," the best of all help, will make them true men, and will soon uplift them to a better and more prosperous social life. Herein lies the difference between the essential principles of Liberalism and Toryism. Liberalism says destroy the causes which produce all these social evils and Toryism says remove or alleviate the evils, that is the most pressing necessity the causes are recondite and remote, and the people do not see them, and do not trouble their heads about them. And the people are deluded and hoodwinked, and are deceived to their own injury by those who profess to cure them by dealing with consequences. Alleviation, however, is no cure if the cause of the mischief remains, and whilst the few are permitted by law, and in some cases are empowered by law, to work the machinery of society for their own selfish advantage. What is most im- periously needed is legislation not to help the working classes and the people out of existing evils—that also is wanted-but legislation which shall cut down root and branch the causes of these evils, We need not tell Sir JOHN GORsTwhat these causes are, and who it is that upholds usages and institutions which work such dire mis- chief and evil to the labouring and dependent classes because Sir JOHN GORST knows the causes as well as we know them. For the benefit of those of his last night's hearers, however, who call them- selves" Conservative working men," with- out truly knowing what they mean thereby, we will quote a sentence from an authority which Sir JOHN GORST will admit is servilely loyal to the Tory cause—the Times newspaper. The Times some time ago said, "The English live under squires, territorial potentates, extensive employers, and local oligarchs, and under this regime they endure an amount of posi- tive tyranny or negative neglect that they would not find surpassed under the most despotic system of the Continent." Let us begin our work of up- lifting the masses by removing the "positive tyranny under which they labour, and we shall then, perhaps, find that the masses can uplift themselves. Will Sir JOHN GORST help in this noble mission ?
CARDIFF'S NEW PARK.
CARDIFF'S NEW PARK. THE PRESENTATION TO THE EARL OF DUMFRIES. A meeting of the Earl of Dumfries Presentation Committee was held at the Town-hall on Thurs- day evening, under the presidency of Mr W. Bradley. There were also present Messrs Jenkins, Roberts, James, Goldie, Pyle, Glyde, and Crouch.—The Chairman stated that the designs of the address which it was intended to present to the Earl of Dumfries on the occasion of the opening of the Roath Park had been com- pleted, and would be laid before them at their next meeting for consideration. He further men- tioned the fact that the names of the subscribers would be printed and presented totheearl in album form.—A resolution was passed inviting the public to attend on Thursday evening next, to which the present meeting was adjourned, and co-operate with the committee in furtherance of the movement, such as obtaining signatures, &o. This was all the business.
FDCRHAFTTMLNERS AND CONCILIATION.
FDCRHAFTTMLNERS AND CONCILIATION. At a meeting of the Durham Mining Federa- tion Board on Wednesday the question of the formation of a conciliation board came up, the miners having decided to leave the matter with the board. The board approved of the proposal, but, the other sections having no power to deal with it, the matter was adjourned that the enginemen, cokemen, and mechanics might con* suit ttpon ib aenarateiv.
I"THE LIVING WAGE." —
I "THE LIVING WAGE." — I' THE MASTERS AND LARGE CONTRACTS. MEN SHOULD STAND TOGETHER. BOTH SIDES OF THE QUES- TION REVIEWED, [BY "MABON."] Notwithstanding the great amount of arrant nonsense and clap-trap that has been talked and written, especially of late, on this question of a "living wage," it undoubtedly is one of those questions that deserves a most careful and thoughtful handling, as being the main outcrop of a problem upon the solution of which depends not only the stability, but the very existence of our entire social fabric in all its complexity. It is far too serious a matter to be safely left to I the worryings of politicians, who wilfully misuse it in the hope of cajoling stray votes at election times; nor to passing, self-constituting authorities who either fail to grasp the real meaning of the phrase, or have nothing to support them in their responsible position, but the knowledge of the fact that from generation to generation people, at some time or other, had allowed themselves to be carried away by misuse of some high-sounding phrases they were invited to adopt. It may be hoped that the spread of education will in pro- cess of time induce people to think more for themselves, to take less on trust, and to scout the imbecile vulgarity of catch "cries." Education, and education only, must be the real benefactor in this respect. It seems to us that time and experience are fertile failures in this matter. The young, as a rule, begin the predominant element, taking the lead, lead the in- dustrial society astray, and the old and experienced look on, hoping all the while that out of all evil some good may come. They stand aside till current events carry them with them and they are bye-and-bye fotind lamenting the results of their imbecility. Before entering on the discussion of the main point of this interesting topic, I may be allowed to deviate for a moment to ask the assistance of two most essential remedial elements to help stayiug the results of the destructive policy of current activity on the one hand, and of the current inactivity on the other, both of which are to a greater or lesser degree tesponsible for that which will otherwise sooner or later happen. The first of these requirements is A BETTER UNDERSTANDING and co-operation between colliery owner and colliery owner in making their various sales and contracts. In the last phase of this matter we find that not only the price of certain contracts are dwindled down by the hawking of such con- tracts from office to office, but from the want of the most rudimentary elements cf combination and co-action. When one of the very large Atlantic Liner contracts is divided between several large firms in the town of Car- diff, those portions of the same contract are made at prices that vary from 4d to 6d a ton. This is what may be to our crude ideas of making such contracts simply incomprehensible. A com- munity of icicles could not be guilty of such in- conceivable incoherency At the various recent delegate nieatings the workmen and representatives, and rightly so, have been pressed to wait upon the associated employers to urge upon them the necessity, in the interest of both parties, of doing all that they possibly can to promote that good and general understanding that they consider essential to prevent the unwarranted underselling that is continually going 011, and AGAIN GRADUALLY GAINING GROUND. Recent events disclose the fact that some of the large contracts that have been on sale have been divided between associated and some non- associated colliery owners. Supposing that ultimately we may succeed in uniting and knitt- ing together the associated owners to such a degree that would compel them to abolish vall kinds of under-selling, for there may probably be more than one way of carrying on this under- selling business, who is to so bind the non- associated employers ? Who or what is to pre- vent them still carrying on the deplorable game if they so choose ? Not that we for a moment think that they are less anxious to see some prac- tical plan being formed, or that they would be less zealous in carrying otib such an agreement. No; we raise the question go thit it may be thought of, and that an effort should be made to arrive at such an understanding, or what would serve the purpose better, an agree- ment that would cover the whole ground. Let the non-associated as well as the associated think seriously of the matter, and see if it is not possible to arrive at this necessary agreement to prevent the present unnecessary weakening and dwindling down of the price of coal. During the strike of last year both sections of employers managed to arrive at a marvellous cohesion in purpose and action. What is to prevent them arriving at and accom- plishing the sam" thing with regard to this most necessai-y step in their own interest as well as that of their workmen ? For the sake of all that is reasonable and good, pray let this be done. The second of our requirements is that the best among our workmen, those who, while possessing intelligence, skill, and individual thrift, cared so little for the general welfare of their order, and stood aloof from its trade movements, should interest themselves a little more in THE GENERAL AND LOCAL CLAIMS Of THEIR CLASS. For some time, and up till very recently, very few of these men attended our colliery meetings, and in the absence of the old and experienced the young and mexperienced got their way. And, not because they were inferior men so much as their being young and inexperienced, and without the intelligent experience of older men to leaven and guide them they have often- times led their followers astray. Labour has cause to regret and blame this kind of desertion on the part of so many of our best men latterly. In fact it was the indifference to what was going on, and this desertion on the part of too many of the best and most able of our workmen that made THE STRIKE OP AUGUST LAST possible. When some among the men fight for their own hand, the weaker men of the class are left an easier prey to the greed that is displayed by some employers, and in the end these Weaker links are the real measure of the- strength of the labour chain in any locality er district. No devotion to any other good cause can justify a working man who neglects to do his part to IMPROVE THE INDUSTRIAL POSITION OF HIS FELLOWS. If all who seek to escape from their responsi- bilities to their class, and to the men at the same works as themselves, would help, development from within would increase, and working men would be able to materially improve their present position. It is the loyalty to the general interest of their order of the most intelligent of English Trades Unionists that principally gives the otherwise dumb multitude a voice of their own against wrongs endured; and that, on the one hand, enables them to effectively claim rights that belong to them, or, on the other hand, pre- vent them destroying their best and dearest interests and the necessary amount of such like attention and devotion must be given to trade matters by the good and intelligent among our workpeople if future justice and peace is to be preserved in this district.
.RULES OF THE ROAD AT SEA,
RULES OF THE ROAD AT SEA, The following letter has been sent to the Board of Trade by the Merchant Service Guild :— The Secretary, Marine Department, Board of Trade. Sir,—I have to acknowledge receipt of your circular letter together with a copy of the pro- posed new rules of the road. The rules have been carefully considered by the guild, and I am direoted to state that they regret they have not had an opportunity of offeriug practical sugges- tions to the Board of Trade on the subject. They cannot but regard the addition of the words and speed" to article 22, and the consequent omission of article 18 of the present rules as a fatal mistake, which .musl1 inevitably lead to disaster. Had this excellent rule, (18) been rigorously enforced and carried out, collisions, as far as steamships are con- cerned, would be almost impossible further, the guild think that the complex fog signals as proposed will in no way conduce to safety, but the reverse, and they trust that the Board of Trade may be pleased to take further time for reo considering this important matter.—I am, sir, your obedient servant, JOHN G. MOOKE, Secretary. The rules referred to read as follows :— Article 18.—Every steamship when approaching another ship, so as to avoid risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or stop aud reverse if neces- sary. (This rul( is omitted from the how rules.) Article 22.—Whereby the above rules one of two ships is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course. (The words and speed have been added to this rule.)
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RADICALISM IN THE TORY CAMP…
RADICALISM IN THE TORY CAMP SIR JOHN GORST, M.P., AT CARDIFF. MEETING OF "CONSERVATIVE WORKING MEN." FROM THE CLASSES TO THE MASSES." FROM THE WOLF TO THE LAMB. THE VOICE OF JACOB, BUT THE HANDS OF ESAU. UPHOLDING THE RADICAL PLATFORM. HE CAME TO CURSE; RE- MAINED TO BLESS. CHEERS FOR ROSEBERY, HARCOURT AND GLADSTONE. MALAPROPOS MR MACLEAN. Sir John Gorst, M.P., addressed a large meeting in th", Park-hall, Cardiff, on Thurs. I SIR J. GORST, M.P. day night, on labour problems. His visit was under the auspices of the Cardiff Conserva- tive Working Men's Club, which organisa- tion had the carrying out of all arrange- ments. The doors of the hall were thrown open an hour before the commencement of the proceedings a period which was be- guiled by the cus- tomary programme of vocal and instrumental rousic. The meeting was presided over by Councillor Robert Hughes, the chairman of the Conservative Working Men's Club, and he had upon his right Sir John Gorst. There were also on the platform, supporting the chairman, the Misses Hill (Rookwood, Llandaff), Mr J. M. Maclean, Col. Woods, Kev. Father Jones, Mr Dornford, Mr Stevens, Mr J. B. Ferrier, Councillors J. H. Cory, Beynon Harris, B. White, and W. Evans, Mr Geo. David, Mr T. H. Plain, Dr. Treharne, Dr. C. T. Yachell, Mr John Andrews, Mr W. R. Parker, Captain Ensor, Captain Bruce Vaughan, and Messrs Salmond, W. Bradley, Isidore Leon, P. Mc Vane, L. Samuel, H. Radcliffe, &c. The CHAIRMAN said that, looking at the large meeting, it seemed to him that the time had now arrived when working men were sufficiently in- telligent to know that their best and truest friends were tbé Conservative party. (Hear, hear.) That night they were honoured by the presence of one of the brightest ornaments of the party, Sir John Gorst—(cheers) -who brought a message from the classes to the masses of Cardiff. It was unnecessary that he should tell the audience that Sir John Gorst was the friend of the working classes; the fact that a Royal Commission was appointed at his instance by the late Government to inquire into the con- ditions of labour was sufficient. (Applause.) He would say no more, but introduce Sir John to the meeting. Sir JOHN GORS", who was received with con. tinued applause, then addressed the meeting. He said he had the greatest pleasure in accepting the invitation cf the Conservative Working Men's Association, and though ho supposed neither those who invited him nor he himself desired to conceal the political party to which he belonged, he was quite sure that he should be both meeting their wishes and the wishes of even their political opponents if he endeavoured to deal with the question he pro- posed touching upon in no narrow partisan spirit. (Cheers.) He supposed there were three things which the worker who was engaged in the indus- tries of this country was desirous of attaining. First, he wished to get higher wages secondly, to shorten his hours; and thirdly, to obtain justice in all disputes between him and his master. (Cheera.) In roiny trades there was foreign competition. He did not mean to say that this was not sometimes exaggerated into a bugbear, but still it existed, and in face of this an undue rise of wages or undue shorten- ing of hours might make it impossible to compete successfully with the industries of nations abroad. This might be the result if the workers in their strength pressed the question of wages and hours of employment too far. (Hear, hear.) Besides, even in the case of industries which had no foreign competitor industries like the trans- port of goods, like railways and tramways—the wages of the worker had to bs paid out of that which the public paid for the services Irendered them and if the demand for wages were pushed too far, it might be that the cost of those services to the public would be so great that the industry would not flourish, and the people who were em- ployed might become worse off, and ultimately get less remuneration for their services than if they were content with lower wages. What he wanted them to grasp was this idea-that there was a limit, that it was not the interest of the worker, even if he could, to PUSH HIS ADVANTAGE TOO FAR, and that be might—if he was not restrained by knowledge and prudence-so far push his advan- tage as actually, in the end, to injure himself by grasping at too much. (Hear, hear.) Then with regard to the question of hours, he did not know anything which had been more to the credit of the workers than the general demand which they had made for more leisure; because the motive which had prompted that demand had been generally a desire to use the leisure so obtained for their own self-improvement. (Hear, hear.) Of late years the hours of labour in many industries had been materially shortened, and he was glad to say that experiments made in that direotion had almost invariably been successful. (Hear, hear.) He had seen in the newspapers that day that at the Salford Ironworks, where 1,200 men were employed, the experiment to work 48 HOURS PER WEEK INSTEAD OF 53 had proved so successful that the firm bad decided to continue it—(applause)—for as much and as good work had been turned out under the shorter as under the longer hours. He attributed this latter circumstance very largely to the fact that in the new arrangement the men had break- fast before starting work. The men went to work refreshed by breakfast; and it had been proved that by the system they could do as much work as before, though previously they worked longer hours. The employers had lost nothing by the change, though this industry was one which was severely competed with in Belgium, Franoe, and Germany. (Hear, hear.) He could not help digressing for one moment to refer to the most extraordinary instance of the efficiency of shortened hours m the case of the chemical trade. This was a highly dangerous and deleterious employment, and, as the men were engaged 12 hours at a stretch, their health suffered very much. Owing to an inquiry which was made by an inspector of the Home Office one of the largest firms in Lancashire carrying on this industry determined on their own account to shorten the hours of the men they employed from 12 to eight hours per day. They tried this ex- periment for some months, and they discovered that the men IN EIGHT HOURS ACTUALLY DID AS MUCH WORK as they had previously done in twelve. This was a remarkable example of what could be done. This experiment had been so successful that Government itself bad in the ordnance factory, the dockyards, small arms factories, and other Government workshops, adopted this system of 48 hours a week. (Applause.) He had always maintained that Government should set the example, but it was at least satisfactory that the Government could follow a good lead when the experiment had been successfully tried by private employers. With regard to the desire of the workers for justice in their disputes with their employers, he regretted that there was in our own country no tribunal to which a worker could resort in such a case except the magistrates or the county-court. The j us-ices were not expert in these instances, which often required technical knowledge, and the county-court was slow, dila- tory and expensive. (Hear, hear.) He saw no reason why they should not imitate those friendly industrial tribunals which existed on the Continent, and have differences between em- ployers and employed referred to some domestic tribunal. What could Parliament do to meet these wants ? There were many people who said that the best thing was for Parliament and the Government to leave people to manage their own affairs in this respect. That was the doctrine which he was brought up in. (Hear, bear.) People pointed to Trades Unions and to associa- tions of employers, and to combinations of both employed and employers, a-3 the proper means by which all the wants of the workers could be attained. There was no doubt that in the case of the more highly organised industries of the country, where practically the whole ot the workers belonged to a well-framed and well- regulated Trades Union, affairs were carried on to THR MUTUAL SATISFACTION OF BOTH EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED without striker., lock-outs, or ill-feeling between one party and the other. The Cleveland iron workers were im instance. There a Joint com. mittee existed which regulated wages and hours of labour. Sometimes wages had been regulated by a sliding-scale under the supervision of the joint committee, but whenever a question had arisen between employers and workmen, this committee had settled the matter for at least 20 years past without any strike or lock-out or dis- organisation of trade. (Applause.) So that in an industry of that kind there really was very little left to be desired. By this joint action the two parties to the industry, the capitalist and the labourer, assented to A VERY SATISFACTORY ARRANGEMENT, and not only did they regulate their own affairs, bub such was the confidence generated amongst people engaged in similar industries elsewhere that peace prevailed in many places, because employers and employed agree that they will be bound by the regulations of the Cleveland district. (Cheers.) There were many other industries in the United Kingdom in which practically the same state of things prevailed. He would instance the example of the textile industry both m Lancashire and Yorkshire, where matters were regulated by joint com- mittees, and disputes very seldom occurred. In the first place let them look at the facts. At the present moment there was no power or hindrance whatever to the formation of a Trades Uunion in any trade. (Hear, hear.) Every law which in any way interfered with the perfect liberty of men to combine in their trade interests bad been swept away. THE CONDITION OF THE TRADES UNIONS And not only that, but the praise which had been bestowed upon organisation was one of the most striking instances of the power of Englishmen for self-government. But what were the facts? It was not very easy to make out exactly the number of Trades Unionists in the country, but as far as could be ascertained from statistics there was no doubt that it would be no great exaggeration to say that one man in five workers was a Trades Unionist, and in the case of THH LABOUR OF WOMEN, which was a very important branch of the labour of this country, the organisation was nothing like one in five. So they would see that a great deal more than four-fifths of the whole of the workers in this country were unorganised and belonged to no Trades Union whatever. Agricultural labourers were the biggest class of labourers m the country, and yet every effort to create any kind of Union among them had been wholly abortive. There had been many other classes of labourers in which similar efforts had not succeeded. The more highly-skilled a trade was the easier it was to form a Trades Union in it. The reason was obvious, for no Trades Union had very much voice in the settlement of a trade dispute unless it possessed the power of makiug, in the last resort, an effective strike, and the power to do this depended entirely upon preventing outside labour coming in to take the places of the strikers. In unskilled trades it was impossible to do this, and, therefore, nearly all the strikes in unskilled trades of late years had been failures. It had been proved in the South London gas strike that men from the country with a little training could take the place of the stokers. (A voice Never.) He was speaking of a matter of history. The places of the strikers in question were taken by persons brought in from outside, and for that reason the strike failed. He adduced in support of hia argument that THE POWER TO STRIKE in unskilled trades effective was much lesa than in highly skilled trades. (Hear, heM.) That -accounted for the general failure of the Trades Union principle in unskilled industries, and the reason why four-fifths of the workers were not members of a Trades Unions at all. That he thought was a suffi- cient answer to people who said, "Why don't you let the workers alone, and let them seek to extend the benefits of Trades Unions to every worker in the country, and thereby enable him to hold his own in trade conflicts without the assistance of the law ?" The auswer was, because in unskilled trades we could not have effective Trades Unions, and because we required some protection to those classes of workers who could not obtain the protection which Trades Unions afforded. (Applause.) It was with that object in view-to do for the masses of unskilled workers, who had not the power to combine, and who could not form strong Trades Unions which might negotiate with the employers—it was for that purpose that the inter- ference of the law was sought for by many persons who were great friends of the workers, and who desired to give by law to unskilled workers exactly the same protection and the same kind of power of settling their disputes by reason, and not by violence, which th" Trades Unions secured for the more skilled workers. (Hear, hear.) The way in which it was proposed to do this was by the establishment throughout the country of BOARDS OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION, which should do for the unskilled trades exactly that which the joint committees did in the highly skilled trade.?. (Applause.) And it was for that reason that a Bill was now being introduced into the House of Commons with that object. He did not know the contents of it, but it had been proposed that there should be established in every part of the country boards consisting of equal numbers of the employers and the employed, which should be charged by the law with the duty of mediating in all disputes which arose within their district. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) In the case of an industrial dispute the board would bring the parties together, so that each side could hear what t other had to say, and reason out their differences. Experience had proved that a great number of the smaller strikes occurred through misapprehension, obstinacy ill-temper, want of a little conciliation and want of a little reason and common sense. (Hear, hear.) Now, if there were a public body imwhose impartiality both parties had confidence, no doubt in a great many cases the parties would come to a mutual arrangement between them- selves. (Cheers.) That was what happened through the joint board in the Cleveland iron trade. But suppose the board did not bring the parties together and effect a settlement, it could suggest to bpth sides what was the proper solu- tion of the difficulty, and probably in a great number of cases they would accept the solution suggested. (Hear, hear.) And in the last resort, when ^neither side would agree to any common solution of the difficulty, those boards of conciliation could publish to the public an account of the cause an d origin of this labour dispute they could point out whatever solution ought to be accepted, and h. had the very strong suspicion that THE FORCE OF PUBLIC OPINION would very soon bring the recalcitrant party to agree. Would not this be more sensible, and be a greater credit to our 19th century civilisation than settling their disputes by the crude, bar- barous methods of strikes or lock-outs? Strikos did not prove which party was right, but only which could hold out the longest. (Hear. hear.) It would be a worthy object for the Legislature of the country to address itself to. Any branch of the labour question deserved serious considera- tion. It was not enough for the worker that he had favourable and satisfactory conditions of employment. He could not be considered in a satisfactory position unless he was guarded against those calamities which might befal every- one, of accident, sickness, and old age. (Hear, hear.) Trades' Unions provided against sickness, and those who did not belong to those organisa- tions should belong to one of the fiiendly societies established for the object. Hereafter it might be THE DUTY OF THE LEGISLATURE; to inquire into the case of those who recklessly abstained from insuring themselves in any such society, but it did not press as urgently for the attention of the Legislature as some other ques- tions. There had been a great deal of discussion recently as to indemnity against accidents in employment, but he could not help saying that although the measure of the last Session was a step in the right direction it was wholly insufficient and inadequate, because it only insured him against accidents as to which negli- gence could be proved, leaving him uninsured in regard to at least three-fourths of the accidents that take place. The Home Secretary said that the object of the measure was to insure safety in the various trades, but the measure did not in the least carry it out. The measure took no steps to make the industries themselves safe, but only dealt with accidents. The only effect ot tbe BIll of last Session was to make the employer liable for the negligence of servants over whomfhe had no control— A VERY PROPER EXTENSION OF HIS LIABILITY, but not one which was likely to cause him to be more careful in the conduct of his business. If we made an employer liable to his workers for all the accidents which happened in their employ- ment, he would have a most powerful motive not only for abstaining from negligence but for introducing into his manufactory every kind of appliance which would lessen the chance of accident. (Applause.) While he must express his regret that the Employers' Liability Bill of last Session did not become law—(hear, hear, and applause)-his regret was tempered by a feeling that it was only A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIREOTION, and that, perhaps, if this matter was more care. fully considered by the people, the next time an Employers' Liability Bill was brought 10 it would be a more comprehensive measure, which would afford the workers a more complete in. demnity than the last. (Applause.) The ques- tion of PROVISION FOB OLD AGE was very large and difficult one, because to give to every person of about 70 a State pension for life would cost a great deal of money. There had been projects put before the people for inducing persons in the prime of life, when they could afford to do it, to make some provision for their old age. He thought the wages young men received nowadays were sufficient to allow them to do that in their youth. (Oh, oh, and No no.)f A gentleman said No, no," but he thought if most young men. instead of rushing into very early marriage—(hear, hear and cheers)—were to devote their surplus earnings to make provision for old age, it could be done financially. (Cheers.) There was a Royal Commission sitting upon the Poor-law, and as to how the aged were treated by the Poor-law, and he did not think that until that commission had reported the question of I old age pensions was ripe for popular decision. But there was one thing he thought the Govern- ment might do, and which he wondered they had not done long ago, and that was to deal with the I numberless cases in which men who, either in their youth or mature years, made provision for their old age and had I LOST ALL BY THE FAILURE OF SOME SOCIETY to which they had subscribed. (Hear, hear, and r cheers.) And he thought the Government might undertake to prohibit any society accepting sub- scriptions in consideration of an old-age pension unless that society was certified by some com- petent actuary to be in a position to give the benefits which it promised. (Hear, hear.) Before ho sat down he would like to point out the moral he wished them to lay to heart. He did not like to see theae social aueations mad* the battle. I field of political parties. (Hear, hear.) But he was quite sure that they would continue to be such until the workers had so informed themselves upon the question as not to be capable of being carried away by any politician or by any orator. As soon as they had formed sound judgment upon the question in which they were so vitally interested it would be impossible for any gentle- man to take them in by promises which they knew could not bo performed. He had never demeaned himself before a public audience by saying that the party to which ha belonged was the only friend of the working-man. (Hear, hear.) If any man talked to them in that strain he would advise them to set him down as A MERE POLITICAL IMPOSTOR. He believed that both political parties desired the good of the workers of this country—(hear, hear)—therefore they should welcome everybody who would discuss these matters with them. Highly-skilled people very often talked as if the working classes were one uniform body, with the same wants, difficulties, and troubles. Nothing of the kind. The working classes were as diversi- fied as any class in the world, presenting every possible difference of condition, sentiment religion, and politics; and that which would be safe and satisfactory treatment for one section of the working classes would be highly inapplicable to another. There were questions which affected the whole, and questions which affected a part alone, and the latter were often most important, because the misery of one part of the com- munity very often reacted upon the other. (Hear, bear.) What he wanted to impress upon them was that; this question could only be ADVANCED BY CALM AND INTELLIGENT DISCUSSION, in which Tories and Radicals, Churchmen and Dissenters, people of every possible opinion, could take part with advantage, because it was only by the general study of these difficulties by every class in the country, and by the gradual dis- semination of true and sound opinion on these social questions among all ranks of society that they would arrive at a satisfactory solution. (Applause.) If he had induced them to consider these questions for themselves, he should feel that his visit to Cardiff had not been thrown away. (Applause.) Mr MAOLEAN proposed a vote of thanks to Sir John Gorst. With the general conclusions of Sir John's speech he was, he said, in hearty agreement. It would be a very good thing if we could form some tribunal strong enough to pre- vent, at the very beginning, strikes which did so much harm to the country. But he did not follow Sir John Gorst when he argued that where powerful Trade Unions existed in any industry the interference of outsiders or of the State was not wanted. The two principal strikes of the last two years were in the English textile and coal trades, which possessed exceptionally strong Trade Unions, and the great difficulty had been (and it was one he would like to see the Government try to solve) that in those two instances mediation was per- emptorily refused by both parties until their funds were nearly exhausted. But he did not think there was any reason why a politician, to which- ever party he belonged, should object to State interference for the benefit of the working men. He fully accepted that principle, although he would place it within very well-defined limits. The Conservatives had been sanctioning State interference for the last 40 or 50 years, A great deal had been said lately about the wonderful change that had taken place in the administration of the country since the present Government came into power. Lord Rosebery (loud cheers) took credit to himself the other day. (Cheers.) Well, he was very glad to notice that several of Lord Rosebery's friends were there. (Renewed cheering.) Lord Rosebery took credit to himself the other day for what the Liberal Government had done in the way of limiting the hours of labour in the dockyards but his lordship might have had the fairness to admit that the Conservative party never interfered in any way with that administrative change. It was not a new departure, but simply the oarrying out improvements that had been going on for a number of years. Adverting to Sir John Gorst's ref. rence to the Salford experiment, Mr Maclean took opportunity to point out that the conclusion come to by Mr Mather, owner of the works, was just the opposite to that arrived at by Sir John, for at the end of his report he said, I hope this will show that beneficial changes may be made by mutual arrangement instead of by rigid legal enactment." During the course of his speech, Mr Maclean had occasion to refer to Mr Gladstone, and Sir Wm. Harcourt, and at the mention of these names sympathetic applause was heard at different parts of the hall. Mr G. PADFIELD seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Replying to a question, Sir JOHN GORST described the circumstances attending the amendment of the Employers' Liability Bill by the House of Lords, and said he did not think the amendment was one which justified the abandon- ment of the Bill. Mr RICHARDS (secretary to the Cardiff Trades' Council) asked Sir John if he thought workmen generally were in such a position that they should be satisfied with what they now obtained. Councillor JOHN JENKINS asked if Sir John Gorst was in favour of the eight hours day being legally enacted. ir JOHN GORST hoped he had tiot conveyed the idea that men ought to be satisfied with the wages they now received. There were many industries in which the wages were too low, and in which it would be to the interest of the employers themselves to pay higher wages. Especially was that the case with agricultural labourers. There were some districts in which the wages were so low that the agricul- tural labourer could not do his work properly They could not get a good day's work out of an ill-fed man. (Hear, hear.) As to the other question, he was nob in favour of nassintr » mi.versal Eight Hours' Bill. He voted for the Miners Eight Hours Bill, however, and should do so again. (Applause.) He returned thanks for the attention with which his remarks had been received. On the motion of Dr. TREHARNE, seconded by Councillor WHITE, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, with whose acknowledgment and the National Anthem the meeting closed.
THE COLLISION IN THE BRISTOL…
THE COLLISION IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. OPENING OF THE CORONER'S INQUIRY. Sidney Wilkinson, second mate of the Yesso, stated at the inquest on Thursday, on the body of Captain Sfcraoban, found oil Wafcermouth Castle, Ilfracombe, that the captain was on the bridge at the time of the collision. The pilot left at Barry. The captain was in charge of the watch. The crew numbered 25. All lights were burning. Witness would not give evidence as to speed. The sea was smooth. Just before 3.30 they collided with a schooner which was on the starboard tack. No sails were set on board the steamer. She was steering a course set by the captain. He did not know the name of schooner they collided with. When wit. ness saw the captain he was try- ing to get the starboard boat out. The steamer Yesso went down about five minutes after the collision. He did not see the captain go down. All those who were trying to clear the boat WENT DOWN WITH THE STEAMER. Bull Point Lighthouse light could be seen. He never saw the captain alive again. It was a mixed crew on board the Yesso. He saw the captain with a lifebelt on. He did not see him put it on. The crew could have access to the lifebelts, and some of them put them on. The crew were sober. Witness went down with the Yesso, but was saved by the schooner. The steamer sailed from Newport the previous night. He did not see the captain again after the steamer went down until he viewed the body in the mortuary The captain was on the mi tho t,m.e the accident oc- VUVI!T t I 9APTA'" continued on the bridge from the time the pilot left at Barry. The port boat was the first got out with some of creW. A boat was put out from the schooner to pick up those struggling in the water. No one at the time knew that the captain was missing. Unly seven were on the schooner at first, the rest being in the boat and the water. They hardly knew what they were about, most of them being unconscious. NO MUSTER OF THE CXEW WAS CALLED. Most of the crew were helpless. The tugboat Royal Briton picked up others in a boat. He did not know the time the tugboat came up. ihey then found there were but 23 hands. It was not until the crew were on the tugboat that they missed the captain. He should think the crew were struggling in the water three parts of an hour, most of them floating en wreckage. Witness was floating on a hatch. The schooner's boat picked up seven or eight men. The crew of the port boat would not go on board the schooner as the captain said she was sinking. He was not aware that any special efforts were made to look for the captain. He might have been caught in athe rigging and taken down with the steamer. Perhaps he was drowned with the suction of the steamer. The crew of the port boat did not make any effort to pick up those struggling in the water. The third mate, George Taylor, was in command of that boat. The port boat would have held all the crew. HE DID NOT HEAR THE CAPTAIN SHOUTING in the water. All those in the water were call- ing out for help. The crew in the water were scattered about. The port) boat was about 20 yards from the steamer when she went down, Witness deolined to say anything about the schooner's lights. The Coroner said witness was quite within his right in refusing to answer certain questions in view of a Board of Trade inquiry. Samuel Williams, boatman, of Ilfracombe, said at four o'clock on the previous afternoon hit was on board a sailing yaoht in the Bristol Channel. When six miles north of Watermouth Castle he saw a body floating, which he took on board. The man had a life-belt on. The body was brought to Ilfracombe. He gave it to P.C. Blackmore. The body was that of a man unknown. There was wreckage near the body. The inquest was adjourned to April 12th, at fivo o'clock,
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Sir John Rogers, Bart., has been found deftd I' a pond on his estate. Count Tolstoi holds that a man cannot both bel Christian and a patriot. Mr and Mrs Gladstone intend to remain i. Brighton for some days longer. The Press is agitating for more room in tht. Gallery of the House of Commons. Some of the loyal South Africans are atatiat for tho establishment of a Colonial navy. It is intended to celebrate in America this yeti the centennial of Wm. Cullen Bryant's birth- Mr Andrew Carnegie is said to have expend^ £25,000 in relief of the distress in Pittsburg. Two persons who were 'formerly on the List of George IV. are still receiving j3200 a The great question in having a gown made at just now is whether to have a bodice or a coat, & both. By taking laudanum in mistake for cong* mixture an old man has been poisoned nett: Kettering. Birmingham supplied 850 recruits to the Arflrf last year, this being the highest number but tbret on the list. A Chinese opera, founded on the legends and songs of the Celestial Empire, is to be produced in Marseilles. Tho salaries of the London coroners depend upon the number of inquests held, the fee beirtf 30s per inquest. Mr Irving and company will revisit America next year, taking a new play which will first 111. heard in London. The members of the Aged Poor Commission will meet on Tuesday, April 10th, for the col* sideration of their report. The Rev. W. J. Brown, of Bradford, is abont to succeed the Rev. Allen Rees as the pastor of Wesley's Chapel, City-road. The new gowns must all present one indis* pensable feature. They must be finished at tbf waist with a band of black satin. The latest testimony to the character of King M'wanga of Uganda is that he is never drtualf now, and he never used to be sober." Wednesday was the 40th anniversary of th< declaration of war by Great Britain and France against Russia on March 28th, 1854. A Norwegian correspondent states that Herr Ibsen is at present writing a new play, which will be published, as usual, at Christmas. After a year's trial of the 48 hours' week at tbe Salford Ironworks, the firm have decided to cottf tinue the 48 hours' week permanently. Lord Wolseley's long-expected work on the great Duke of Marlborough will be published b, Messrs Bentley and Sons on April 16th. A conscience-strickeu man has sent :B135 i" Bank of England notes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on account of income-tax." Mr Chamberlain says that the Unionist meet- ing he recently addressed in Edinburgh was ont of the finest meetings he had ever addressed. Purists in Shakespearian archaeology are look- ing forward with some anxiety to the production of Verdi's Falstaff in Paris a few days hence. In Scottish law courts the judge dictates to the official shorthand writer the evidence relevant tC any point of law that he wishes transcribed. According to a critic there was not much learned during the Easter Volunteer manosuvres except how to enjoy summer drinks in March. One of the last, if not the very last, of the wooden walls which bombarded Acre in 1840 —the Benbow—is to disappear from the Navy. List. Buluwayo has now a weekly newspaperf printed in the English language,"and three pnblic- houses. The closing time for the latter places is 8 One of the most curious customs connected with funeral rites is that of the Parsees, wbc invariably bring a small black dog to view corpse. It is computed the Anti-Parnellite members will require £9,000 to keep them at Westminster this Session. Where the money is to come froJJJ is at present unknown. It is said that when Carlyle was introduced to Joachim, he simply remarked "I have no great opinion of musicians; they seem such a vatu. wind-baggy sort of people." A builder, named Honeychurch, was fined 409 and costs on Wednesday in two cases, at South- ampton, for having in his possession pensioner^ certificates as securities for loans. Whilst walking through Spalding Market 011 Tuesday, Miss Hobson, the daughter of A wen known Spalding gentleman, was tossed by øø infuriated cow and seriously shaken. The International Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection uro puUlr~"ng>" pamphlet form an address .barDean of Llandaff on the subject of •♦ Vivisection." This is the correct name of the new Qivii Governor of Madrid :— Don Jose Angel del Barco y Gavoso de los Cobos Pando TeJles Giron Godinez de Paz, Duke of Tanames." The rumour that the Shah of Persia, accøW. panied by the hair presumptive, would visit France and Russia this June is, says a Paris correspondent, entirely without foundation. The Prince of Wales will only spend two d11 in North Wales during the Eisteddfod week, Tb Liverpool Mercury says this announcement hat given great satisfaction to the Eisteddfod guarantors. A war correspondent talking about the Eastet Volunteer operations declares that after the accomplishment of a particular movement the. Surrey Volunteers could "not have had one man alive in five." Mr Thomas Jones, Parade, Carmarthen, has been presented with a gold watch by the members of the Carmarthenshire Rifle Association, foi whom be was the executive officer for a quarter of a. century. An organ for the Jesuits' Church at Shanghai has been built for tho use of the fathers by < Chinese convert. The pipes are of bamboe instead of metal, and its sounds are said to b< exceptionally sweet. At the funeral of Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, si Lowestoft, one of the wreaths bore the following inscription :—In grateful remembrance of Sit Philip Cunliffe-Owen's many kindnesses, frorf Alexandra Princess of Wales." Says Mr Labouchere:—I am not a. Protec- tionist, as the word is commonly understood, but we at present protect the home market against prison-made English goods, and protection in thif shape is obviously wise and just. Mr Stopford Brooke has finished his work ofi Tennyson, and Messrs Isbister are to publish if socn. Tennyson: His Art and Relatfon t< Modern Life is the title, and it is a study of tht Laureate's poetry m relation to his time. Ten thousand roubles were subscribed by th< Russian ladies towards the album which is to b< sent to the Dames de France as a memorial gift in honour of the reception acoorded to thl Muscovite Admiral and his officers in Paris and Toulon. Mr Flinders Petrie has decided to write a series of folk-tales of the Egyptians, and tht first volume will probably appear in July. The tales have come to Mr Petrie's hand from time tc time in connection with his investigations int< Egyptology. It is nothing short of iniquitous that a mat increasing the wealth of the country by the worl of his hands or brain should have to pay ineome- tax at the same rate as the social drone WhOSf money is invested, and who merely sits at hom. and receives his dividends.—Pall Mall Gazette. Mr Munro-Ferguson, who has been re-elected for the Leifch Burghs, is a very brisk young man. He is a large landed proprietor in Scotlandf where he has about 85,000 acres, and married to the daughter of the Marquis d. Dufferin. Mr Munro-Ferguson is intensely business-like." The other day a Russian Princess, whose name appears in the Mattino, on leaving Rome foi Florence, forgot two small valises at the station, On arriving at Civita Vecchia she sent to Romt to make inquiries. The station porters bad gives the Valises in charge of the atationmaster. Thej contained 800,000 francs, which the Pnncess must have been very glad to get back safe. The fact that Mr Robsrfc Forrest has submitted to the Barry Board of Health plans for the erec- tion of an occasional summer residence for Lord Windsor on Barry Island, has given colour to the rumour of his lordship's intention to lay out the eastern part of the island as a pleasure gardens, to which the public may be admitted at holiday times if not throughout the.summer months. James Walters and Mike Mitcitz, two miners at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, probably owe then lives to a pet rat. While they were working their attention was attracted by the rat, which nibbled at their boots and then ran down the gangway. For some time the men watched its antics, and Walters and his helper then went to see why it acted so. Hardly had they left the chamber when a. mass of rock fell from the roof, killing two men. Archdeacon Sinclair: tells a strange story in the Young Man. I remember," he says, that a curate of my grandfather's, who was preaching his first sermon, was so overcome with nervous- ness that he made a calamituous blunder. He was preaching on the Prodigal Son, and when ho came to the words put a ring on his finger,' he was unable to stop, but went on, and bells on his toes, and he shall have music wherever he goes.' He only became aware of his mistake when he saw the members of his family, who were sitting below, all bending their heads towad. their knees, as if they had been lightning."