Show harg haeg times hanm hanx monocracy may slay 7 18 president D AY nells wells dear F father ather I 1 was called for by a brother to go to meeting last evening while walking along lie he was telling mo or of his unfavorable prospects re regarding t alding arding emigration last y year ear ho ilo sent two sons ons uno une one uno is old enough to help some and is doin doln doing all lie he can tile tiie other is a little boy boy and exhausted his saved earnings besides borrowings little ho he sold out house and home to raise ralso tho the cash and tool took lodging for himself and wife and child effect expecting if trade continued good all to gawith go with the first or second ship this year trade be began bean 0 an to walio waric and as winter camo cani c on continued to go down butil instead of earning two pounds and arid sometimes fifty shillings per week lie he would only manage to earn twenty civo on full time but with commoner goods hosiery ware now S spring pring 13 ia comi corni ing arid alid he ilys lias ilas not worked a full week since nc new w years day and prospects grow worse the state of trade is at present in that class of i goods paralyzed I 1 do not know whether the market is overstocked over stocked or whether americans on whom many mads firms depend for orders order are retrenching the man so awkwardly situated has not the slightest prospect of getting clear and away for another year or so just owing to this unexpected calamity in rel rei relating atilia this oue one cae cafe which happened to come before me last lart night I 1 reiterate reit relt erato hundreds and even amongst our own people I 1 know of many who have not earned a full weeks wages while I 1 have been in I 1 n nottingham and for a long time before the boot and shoe trade is one or of considerable extent in i and there aro arm men who have been going into debt all winter for bread alone many who usually come to our annual conferences were detained and arld could not raise the cash for fares to corno como twenty five miles and at reduced rates it would olly oily only cost two shillings here and back again some soine so situated walked the distance throughout the eastern counties viz essex suffolk norfolk and lincoln tile tho chief agricultural district and the poorest paid in erl etl england 1 a great lock out has bee been l under way ivay for several weeks the laborers laborer 8 a are aro r 0 bound in a ceu leu union n lo 10 ri I 1 and demanded a minimum rate of fifteen shillings per week being a rise of one and in in some cases of two shillings the tile independent farmers did as they felt in regard to submitting some made the advance but they mostly all refused and locked the men out then began the struggle the farmer leagued to together ether and are determined not to give way for they consider that in doing so it will follow that the laborers union will bo be acknowledged and successive strikes will result in successive advances in the agrico agricultural business the same as has been in the coal iron manufacturing baking tailoring and all the other union attempts the men are supported by the union funds runas but scantily however Howe wowe veil they are marln makin making ga a bold struggle scrugg ae for if they succumb now DOW 11 all ali expectations of bettering their condition seems to bo be at an end any way until something better than trades unions is devised to mini minister stol to tile tiie rights and necessities of the tho poorer classes I 1 have been all the time try trying y i 9 to get the saints in iii union districts distl 1 c t s to fare as others do without meddling with unions or strikes and to te for the short time they are here by strict attention to their labors taking tho the wages which are always advanced a little that masters are willing to give and devoting the surplus to their emigration instead of tho the union besides in england even with the laborers red tape is found it is astonishing how much money is spent at every meeting of the merr meun to discuss their griesan grievances ces they assemble select a chairman and order the beer leer after the usual loyal toasts are given iven the event of the evening is is runk drunk to and business proceeds proceed speeches are made and each is supplemented ted with a glass ot of ale the meeting closes and many are so fresh as the nutting Notting nottingham liam people say that they tiley have forgotten every thing that has transpired at the late elections election sa a very curious though con conservatively vely popular poster was exposed in every town where there is was wag as opposition it was vas headed AND bible lible under the late liberal government the hours for closing dram shops were defined allowing on week days till 11 pm and sundays till ten being also aiso closed during the hours of religious worship and also the disestablish dis establish ment of tb the c church was wa talked stalked of conservative candidates were eloquent in promising extended hours houts to the saloons and of course the backbone back bone of conservatism is the established church one of the first bills in the present parliament was waa an act to extend the hours for selling seung liquor and beer protests are now being gotten up by the clergy and temperance associations auda anda and aud a struggle ia 3 imminent in the houses of parliament bros lyman and geo F gibbs came into the meeting last night rather unexpectedly from liverpool where bro L went from the manchester conference last sunday I 1 was particularly surprised to see george for fon ho he was to have gone home with the first company bro smith however thinks he will run it little short of help for the third company when the miles daues will go therefore george will remain till juno june U 4 bro smith and he will go to denmark soon after me london C conference irth enst the district meeting attempted at douglas isle of man mad was broken brohen up tip and the elders were mobbed bros graham quayle burrows and leigh were the offen |