Show j Labor L or Day in Ireland More Than Years Ye rs Ago The Story of Its Pall Fan Decline and Death By John Maguire In the days da s of or the eighteenth t century before the corrupt Irish parlia parila parliament ment sold Hola Ireland body and soul to the theA S j A 10 power of England by the act rus f w f Union Dublin was one of ot tho great greatA reat J A est manufacturing Its size and pop population ula Uon considered in the old world Trades unions existed tl and prospered rod un Ull tl hostile legislation by an alien alton parlia parliament parliament ment mont killed off oct many of the Irish indus lucius industries industries tries and tho that were able to with withstand withStand stand the parliamentary ry iniquity in time succumbed to the influence of or the po political and other grafters who forced themselves LoC t the cho front of the tim trades Councils in capacities cat similar to the tile up walking w delegate OI ga O or o business A 6 manager maniger a In Irelands prosperous era om Labor day was so 0 eagerly jo r ea forward to and una such elaborate preparations pr were demand demanded ed d for Its It celebration e that it Is claimed the tho grandeur of Q Iho procession outside of or Rome wad WM wn a r lL ld by no other country Tho rho trades trade council of Dublin at that time Urn wu was composed d of corporations or guild each independent of oC the tile other and enl a by a 8 common council you ou will here observe that the present d day iy Trades and Labor Council Is no new W institution and every everyone one of or those tholo corporations prepared for tor the celebration of or Labor day da as a for tor a 8 jubilee a day of Industrial in industrial joy and gladness Small funds only were collected and each cach individual gladly bore his hili extra charges the masters and journeymen journe be being beIng ing lug desirous des rous of surpassing one another and conceiving that the gayer they ap appeared paired p ared on that great ireat day the more con COll consideration would they be entitled to throughout the tho entire year Jear Of course such as could afford it spared no ex ox expense pense they hired or borrowed the tho finest horses and trappings that could be pro procured procured cured The Tho masters rode the tho Journeymen walked and were succeeded by the apprentices ap apprentices prentices J 1 Every Eer corporation had an immense car carriage fr with Ith a great platform and high f r canopy cuno y 7 the tho whole radiant with gilding i 1 v I ribbons and draperies dr porle and drawn b oy six sixT T VH or Oi eight horses equally docked and capar caparisoned their colors and flags tinge flying In aU at directions On those these platforms which were fitted up as workshops were the implements of or the tha respective trades and exp expert rt hands worn actually at work dur during during ing lug the entire perambulation which gen gon generally orally lasted eight or nine nino hours it The Tho procession slon says Sir Jonah Barrington took two hours to puss pass The Tho Th narrow weavers rs wove ribbons which they threw to the tho spectators the others Into the air small patterns of the rubric fabric they tho worked upon the tho printers were employed ed In striking off ocr Innumerable Innumerable able ablo handbills with songs son s and odes to the lord mayor mn or Now let the tho display of the tho modern blacksmith palo pale Its ineffectual fire before that of or those tho ancient Irish crafts craftsmen craftsmen craftsmen men Listen to Sir Jonah BarrIngton But tho the smiths part of the spectacle was the most gaudy Jaudy They Th had their forge In Jn full work and wore attended by a very ery high phaeton adorned In every ever way th the they y rc uld think of the horses covered with 4 flowers and colored streamers In this phaeton sat the tho most beautiful girl they could possibly procure In the tho character of ofa ofa ofa a wife to their patron Vulcan It is un unnecessary unnecessary necessary to describe her bel dress Suffice it to say u It approached that of or n t l Venus ni n near as a decency would permit a blue scarf art covered coer with sliver silver doves was used at hw her hf r discretion and four foUl or five lve little l 1 cupids as all pages aiming with bowl and arrows at the ladi ladie s in the windows played l at R t her feet On one side rode on the thC largest horse that could be provided a IL huge hugo follow representing cnn Rn dressed drued from head to foot In coal black armor and flourishing an nn immense smiths sledgehammer On the other side pranced his lila rival Mars on u It tawdry ca caparisoned charger In shining armor with an nn immensity of ot feathers and horsehair and brandishing a sword six or night eight feet long Venus meantime seemed Beem d to pat pa much mu h more mars attention to her gal gallant gallant gallant lant than to her husband Behind Belt the tho phaeton rode Arus Ar us with witha a n ai i Immense t e peacocks tall while numer numerous ous nus us other gods KO s and anI anI goddesses saints dev dov devils O OlIs its ils satyrs satyr etc were distributed in the procession Tho The skinners and tanners seemed to un undergo dergo no slight penance n a considerable number of these being dressed up nose done in sheep and goatskins of different nt colors olor The Tho representatives of the tho butch butchers frs ers wore were enveloped in hides with long towering horns horn and rode along brandish brandishing i ing knives and cleavers cleaver a n formidable ablo I looking corporation The Tha druggists made i up and distributed pills and boluses on their platform which was furnished with pestles and mortars so contrived as to sound In the grinding like bells and pounding out some popular air 1111 Each trade had Its band and colors perfect order was as maintained and so 80 sor 1 r roud was tho the Dublin mob of ot the guilds that on these peculiar r occasions 00 lIon they managed to behave with great Ireat decorum and propriety I But flut of ot all alt the tho trades In the procession the tailors were certainly the favorites The master tailors usually borrowed the tho beat bost horses from their customers and as they were not accustomed to horseback the scene was highly ludicrous A tailor on a spirited horse has haa always been a cu curiosity curiosity curiosity but n a troop of tailors all decked with ribbons and lace and every overy species of finery on horses equally smart presented a spectacle description tion The Tue journeymen men and apprentices walked except that number of or workmen on the platform It is worthy of or notice here since anarchists are aro loudly proclaim proclaiming ing that Christianity and particularly the tho Catholic church is the champion of the rich etc These notorious falsifiers of all history ought to know that the guilds and trades unions had their origin orl ln in the Catholic church which took this means of combating the tho feudalism which pre prevailed prevailed prevailed making the artisans subservient to the titled robbers Here Hero is 16 the evidence oi ol tho the churchs ch protection Each guild was waa under the guardianship of a 11 patron saint Again following the procession the shoemakers made a lL fine fino turmoil and there thero was wats St Crispin with his last St Andrew with his cross St Luke with his gridiron headed their respective guilds and like likewise likewise wise many others The city officers ers with their full robes and paraphernalia were included in the show The guild of merchants being under the I especial patronage of the Holy Hol Trinity I not with all ull their ingenuity find out any emblem except a sham shamrock shamrock shamrock rock of or huge dimensions the three dis die distinct distinct leaves whereof are on one stock This by the way offered St Patrick means of at explaining the Trinity and anc thereby the eby converting the Irish to Christianity Hench the shamrock became the national emblem emblom of Ireland The merchants also had a large ship on wheels drawn and manned by real sailors Such was the tho celebration of Labor day cia In Irelands metropolis In the eighteenth century but soon after aCter Castlereagh and the tho Irish parliamentary traitors carried the act of Union with England trade and commerce slackened aye ayo sickened even unto death and Erin still weeps for that which Is no more It Is not fair fall to say that the act of ot Union brought about by Irish treachery was wholly responsible for the cessation I of the manufacturing and trade Indus Industries Industries tries trl s in Ireland For ten years ears preceding the tha union Ireland was in a most tory tor state slate which culminated in the robel rebel rebellion lion of 1 S For five years cars afterward the country was similarly distracted until with the execution of Irelands immortal patriot Robert Emmett all hope of ot Ire Ireland Ireland land again being a nation seemed to have died in the hearts of the people It was wasat wasat wasat at this period that England so sedulously cultivated religious hate in Ireland All the tho good work accomplished by the United Irishmen was destroyed by orange and Catholic fanatics When either religion or politics make partisan division of any trade or labor organizations It means goodbye to any merits as an Institution It originally possessed In time timo this dissen dissension dissension dissension sion found its way among the artisans of Dublin It had its effect of lessening the efficacy of the trades unions It was no 11 longer a union for mutual advancement and tho the amelioration of conditions per pertaining pertaining taming to their craft but a gathering of or ormen men each distrusting the other and each clique endeavoring to pet get et control of tho the offices which would aid them in making a cats paw of or the union for their own political preferment It was unfortunate nt his nis IUS time ume there mere LUli i I i nt was WitS much intercourse of a political nature between b tween the tho Irish and the Ule French The strange stories of the tho French being heing sent sont to tim the guillotine and how their wealth and estates were seized by the people had taken hold of many enough the tho seed of socialistic anarchy was sown The Tha guilds went in for international soil soli solidarity darity their meeting places were called clubs The master mason the master carpenter or any other craftsman whose Industry and thrift enabled hUn him to rise from a It journeyman to handling handlinE a 11 bust busi business bustness ness of his own was Immediately looked upon as Lee having no sympathy s with organ organized organIzed labor and for the first time the Irish shopkeeper or master mechanic found himself elf by being classed aJ one of or the The ordinary working people wore were dubbed as ns th proletariat the capitalist was declared the enemy of at all and to feed foed the flame of socialism for noth nothing nothIng ing ini moro more nor less under tho the cry of lib liberty erty equality and fraternity the good old patron saint of the guilds were de In the temple of labor and the Holy Hoh Trinity metaphorically kicked out of ot doors J During the reign of the tho first empire throughout the peninsular and general European EuropE nn wars warn business revolved among the manufacturers and trades trad s of Ireland that Is those that survived the trying tr ordeals ord als they the subjected to for tar among amon other calamities strikes sympathetic an and otherwise became of too frequent occur occurrence occurrence rence How accustomed the people became to such a condition of things it is related that In a biblical play being given glen about this time at the tho Crow Street theater ac according according cording to the Dublin University Maga Magazine Magazine Magazine this whimsical scriptural drama zine being an exhibition of Noah as a ship shipbuilder shipbuilder shipbuilder He HeIs HeIs HeIs builder preparatory to the deluge Is assisted by large gangs of angels work workIng workIng his journeymen whose great Ing lug as solicitude Is to keep their wings clear out of or the way of at their hatchets etc At length the whole of these angels strike till the and turn out for higher wages arrival of or a body of soldiers bring them threatened to tobe tobe toh to order by whom they are aro be h sent back to heaven if they the do not One une would scarcely scar elY believe behave e he ho was vas reading of an irreligious travesty of or a n hundred years ears ago so pertinent Is its significance to the present UP to about 1830 Dublin held its time and in competition with Ith Manchester own the in its principal industry London manufacture of ot textile this In m spite of hostile legislation to Irish com corn commerce English a merck merce by an was enemy to Irelands Prosperity greater now felt the manufacture of textile fabrics the finer finor woolen goods but more especially for its manufacture of silks aUks aUksI velvets and the famous 1 I ribbons to poplins which gave employment Irish this trade I thousands fast tast but surely was ebbing away way a from Ireland A confederation International organization was and tion The the various trades effected et among I pernicious socialistic agitators mostly From some Borne outside place undertook the from dif differences dIfferences differenCes direction of affairs and while hitherto within of any an kind were settled respective trades who certainly knew the t e thor thoroughly thorough thoroughly how to handle that which they ough understood both by employers and and generally brought forth re results satisfactory now was deputed de deputed whose to paid agents or delegates tenure tenure of office and graft continued ac according according according to their abuse of the tho capitalist cording the constant iteration of how the and worker was robbed by the th ogre who wage him for tor his labor and who took SS paid the risks of losing that very capital nIl ll through the many f and vicissitudes vicissitudes vicissitudes to which trade Is subject to in every tudes thorn them well That they had among nd i land and of dissension who earned not sowers Ev paId by b the sweat of their brow but the tho froth troth successful their jaw who were as nf ot in implanting the virus of hale hate and discontent discontent then in the minds of ot the toilers Isalas is 15 isalas alas for Ireland but too true truc oJ oJA 3 royal commission was organized in A to inquire into the decline of Irish 1844 manufactures Listen to the tho following SS tho the Hibernian Journal it reads r ads like lIka from i dispatch from some cen cene center center ter a e press to the daily dally papers of the tho present day dar darThe The following Is the handloom weavers take notice the handloom weavers commission in 1840 And it is IB B the tho com corn commissioners commissioners missioners tell us generally applicable K the Sate state of the silk manufacture in throughout the whole of Ireland Alder Alderman Alderman SS Abbott for many years ears one of tho man extensive silk manufacturers and most m roo T in Dublin states I 1 am ac nc mercers with the th state of the silk trade trude for the east ast fifty years When I remember remember remember it first It was and gave ber employment to a large number of or indi individuals consisting of ot silk winders weavers wea ers and dyers even een as aR far back as I can TC re remember e member dressers Considerable fluctuations took place in the trade but were merely tem tern occasioned by the wear of or mus mua muslins musline line lins and other fabrics Up PP to 1829 I was engaged In the wholesale silk sill trade trad om In a large number of or looms im ported my own and had It manufactured here I left the trade In conse const consequence consequence quence Quenco of the combinations among the th I workmen I 1 called my weavers together and they agreed arced to make a considerable I I reduction In the |