Show lri pa i EDITOR in reading your headed ol 01 luthir which appealed in rf listii lit an ideis beruf me perhaps word from lias lad lunic lliam at ira of tradis union laici in alln old and lii twice tilled the office ot codr ot llie largest li lie found in bo at aliu pie seul juu cluie you sir you will no dolbi auert what I 1 to tay in your valuably and rapidly jiing buier ou on other t lucli iii would ia tl inet you inay throw it into ofir in lout plethoric watte bi baket ket T like twenty years the arera of england waa fr ahr b and at luicir vary fouin lalion boldly us clial lucli wf re wholly aili alie ical anil aliat alif price of labier like eat ry othar c ny timid ly llie laws 1 aliat hi union be it ever sr lul auld i force au adva iCi or prevent i reduction in tin rate of age anuw I 1 kusa little or nl know froin riDic us a by iber that traded lad botic and wera doiny exactly what the db dared on the authority of political that it waa sible fr lucli to ac celiah ci liah in england and I 1 opine llie same ilia c anid of aim ricans are nut much by ahir act nii latr the oo 00 eci may say the working ily aware of the laci eliat alts tan iu aud ia to ol 01 importance a hetler candi jiin f 1 lor ahin they nad hopu tib r without I 1 betar ill s citrate ins than by giving a few which have come under my own observation and there kif nifgi at intent living in chii who can remember the ancas to which I 1 shall nil anil verify all that I 1 shall say ata atio hing like four years age the irinca ot haid jio union though at to or three colli erie i and unions ased towards alio end of 1862 alio travo to io ot reducing j w gm tind at the same linic eni forc inthe to n yearly bond i that the men must bind by a written agreement to work for one year at the j deduced educed rate red now the latter system was vry to the workmen anil con a meeting was convened on christmas day at which thousands of attended and it was resolved to it general union and to the reduction in wages and they early bond the result was that neither the yearly annd nor the reduction of wadei was ayaia heard of thir wa the birst victory of the newly founded union one of the firt acts of tb of the new lilii wa to get a return of the wages paid to the hewers at the valiona collieries colli eries and the return allowed that the amounts considerably ranging from stu to p r day but the re tuond d cuccu ivo y that in ever casc the rates paid were tho where the minera had been united mr burdair Burd fir tho able secretary ol 01 thy S biety of amalgamated en ginders gi bogue few years agn gaye instances of this kind ono of was very striking he slated that the engineers laud hid about 81 more per week than tho aun of newcastle had al hough the work performed liia in both towns and app aregi leaion for difference waa thas iu id i d a strong union while the men ot newcastle had or at beat an imperfect organization after tho lapo ot five or six years on comparing one place with another it was found alint not one of the collieries colli eries il the juniou hail any reduction iu tho ecale of while nearly everyone had at one or another obtained an ad vinca in the price for their bahor I 1 mui economist of trade to deal with olifee facia if they think proper simply stating that oue ounce of practice is worth mure than n carlund ad of theory apart from wages it is now generally admitted in england that have dune gad in other it may how ever doubted whether out have adequate notion of the large amounts anid by the trades unions to their lu emberd iu times of bad trade As an instance I 1 may esafe that in 1879 the amalgamated engineers Engin eera union paid out over in al the distress among their flow workmen and the alivera unions of durham and northum berland euid puid iu tho terrible ironi 1876 to 1880 rosire than a voluntary ou i hi part of tho members there bc ing rule on the cooka with ru gard to euch haymi ni il haa been said with un ii itis ko ini fuke was ver nude chati ut more 1 cpr amt cotal wax t alio ani aorl ieli alin an in arf in hiiri ni iri binl llin lucanic nil tin in ifil ff birtye ly of iii anil or arb ian lian aliis efker i er alian I 1 abtil it munir inist inis t brin it tit aim I 1 think I 1 liucc brwn thai raila have nh il ix in working nu n iu eng they luigu mi fd wua and alm houra f cahot and I 1 n ert cheb siti sitio 9 aul lucca irn liaf 1 l i T kiil anks lut tedi if anny r aca ly 1 stu S t alic friction fric tinn that limtt viM tt u exit exl lit in ai hy itina Liu |