Trades' Societies and StrikesParker and Son, 1860 - 651 pages |
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advance of wages allowed Amalgamated Society amongst amount apprenticeship arbitration artisans Association attempt balance-sheets Blackburn branch Builders Burnley carpenters cause cent chain makers colliery combination committee consequence Council declared delegates demand deputation dispute district ditto Dublin earnings effect employers and employed employment engaged established executive expenses factory File Grinders funds give Glasgow grinders hands hours of labour journeymen Lancashire Liverpool lock-out London machine machinery Manchester manufacturers masters meeting ment Messrs mills miners months non-unionists North Shields notice number of apprentices object obtain Octavo operatives opinion overtime Padiham paid parties payment persons piecework present Preston printers question rate of wages received refused regulations resolution rules Scotland secretary Sheffield ship shipwrights South Yorkshire spinners statement Stockport Stourbridge strike tion town trade societies Trade Unions Union unionists United Kingdom violence weavers week weekly West Yorkshire workmen
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Page 236 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 349 - ... if any person shall, by violence to the person or property of another, or by threats or intimidation, or by molesting, or in any way obstructing another, force, or endeavour to force...
Page 70 - ... work in any manufacture, trade, or business, or who shall enter into any agreement, verbal or written, among themselves...
Page 164 - It is not the absolute amount of accumulation or of production, that is of importance to the...
Page 350 - ... time for which he or they will work, in any manufacture, trade, or business ; and that persons so meeting for the purposes aforesaid, or entering into any such agreement as aforesaid, shall not be liable to any prosecution or penalty for so doing ; any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 163 - These funds are of two kinds; first, the revenue which is over and above what is necessary for the maintenance; and, secondly, the stock which is over and above what is necessary for the employment of their masters.
Page 297 - An Act to repeal the Laws relative to the Combination of Workmen, and for other Purposes therein mentioned...
Page 347 - that journeymen, workmen, or other persons who shall enter into any combination to obtain an advance, or to fix the rate of wages, or to lessen or alter the hours or duration of the time of working, or to decrease the quantity of work, or to induce another to depart from his service before the end of the time or term for which he is hired, or...
Page 347 - ... or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or the management thereof...