The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-13 00:00:00

WHOLESALE & RETAIL NEWS AGENT

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DAILY PORT "AND "GAZETTE," t'd rkE Dos

NOTICE.

INNKEEPERS', GROCERS', AND OTHER
BUSINESSES,

Akx SPZEDILY & EFFICTIVELY TIANSIPPRRI•D
BY S. INSULL,
AUCTIONEER AND VALUER,
HIGH • , BRIZRLZT HILL.

No Charge mad. unless a Sale is affected.

"VOR Cheap PRINTING, BOOKBINDING
.12 and PICTURE FRAMING. go to
T. HOMER,
FIVE WAYS, CRADLEY HEATH.

WANTED, a BOY, for a Solicitor's Office.
Mut write a good band—Apply, Obserrer
Mee, fitoarbridge•

WANTED, a Strong, Active Young MAN,
as OSTLK R. Good Character indispensable—
/4ply, Observer Office.

WANTED, to the BOOT and SUM:
TRADE, a Steady MAN for Stitch Work, at
gdward Kindon's, Wollaston, near Stoorbrulge.

WANTED, One Set of ANVIL MAKERS,
on. ki.t of HAMMEN itAllfiltS, and The Sets
of VICE MAKERS. None but First.elass Workmen
need apply.—Apply, George Wooldridge and Son, Lye
Works, Stourbridge.

WIRE-BRICK AND CRUCIBLE MANUFACTORY.

£lO,OOO.
WANTED, as PAIiTNER, a Good MAN of
RUSIN ESS, welt acquitnted %lib the Trade, to
loin in the Establabineht of Works on a Freehold of 14
Acres, containing • Deposit 50 fcet in depth, of the best
Granule FIRE-CI-AY in England —Fob particulars on
application to" black Diamond,- 21, Markham Square,
London. S.W.

WANTED. Active AGENTS, in every Town
and Village iu Worcestershire to represent the
Industrial Brandi of a well.establisbed Assurance
Associ:ethos sap I. o..Vettilaitist Security. Liberal 'terms
and a used Cointiiiisiou.—apply. W. Rogeis Pecu,
liwg'• klssain, Lunt] ughuru.

AGENTS WANTED—(Ladies in or out of
buaineva pry-faired), in evi.ry loan awl village in
Bleat Britain and the Channel ; to Illtf,tillee
Foreign article. in great demand amongst the Litaltu.
Broths certain £2 to 13 per seek. Samples Cent to
Lathes twat tree.—Adureas. tie. K 12110,16, Cualharbour
Lane, Brixton, London, S.W.

A Manufacturer of a MANURE, established
eighteen years. wishes to appoint a few respectable
Agents. Good Coll.llliYibloll. Apply by letter atitire,sed
Manure Agency," No. 17, iiesonshira-mpare, London,

creatures, with large families," had been warned .
and advised against emigrating previous to
their departure. This just bears out the pre-
vailing and perfectly accurate opinion that addi-
tional clerks are not wanted in this new country.
There are quite enough clerks there already,
and the fart of our having too many does not
idler the other fact in the least. In fact, what
we may call the clerk market is overstocked all
the world over, and hence the fact that clerks on
the average obtain lower pay than mechanics
and artisans. Mr. Dixon also states that in
three towns in Canada some 400 shoemakers
could find employment at from eight to twelve
dollars a week ; that for tailors the Canadian
masters had to go to the United States; that a
Canadian contractor paid England a visit last
February to engage 300 stonemasons at 10e a
, day ; and that in January a sufficient number of
labourers oxeluenl could not be obtained in
Canada, even at a dollar and a quarter or a dol-
lar and a half n day. Such facts as thee° go to
prove that the want of employment at home,
which causes so much poverty, and even pau-
perism, might be largely met by emigration to
Canada; and it is very desirable, therefore, that
those benevolent persons who are striving to
decrease pauperism, and those anions the work-
ing classes who cannot find employment ahould
direct their attention to the comparatively unoc-
cupied fields of employment in Canada. There
is no danger of their being any unreasonable
drain of our working classes from the old world
to the new.

But migration as well as emigration deserves
consideration. The fluctuation of the labour
markets does not alone affect our own country
with regard to other countries, but it affects one
part of our native land as compared to another.
An immense variety of circumstances exert in-
fluence on our several employments. Sometimes
a whele trade, so to speak, becomes slack or ac-
tive as the case may be; at other times one par.
ticular trade is slack in one part of the country
and busy in another. This, indeed, is fre4uelltly
the case. As a natural consequence, the wen in
that trade, to some small extent, go where their
trade is brisk; but this is done, after all, to a
very small extent, compared to what might be
the case where there were full information on
the subject, and some means of cheaply convey-
ing workmen from one part of the country to
another. The railways and steamers do much
in this direction, but they do not meet the re-
quirements of mechanics, Jtc., out of work, nor
can we reasonably expect that they can do so.
Something like organised migration, on the sys-
tem of mutual help is required; and it might
be worth the while of the trade union societies
to consider whether some part of their funds
might not thus worthily be applied. It might
do the working classes more good than strikes
do them. What is required in the first instance
is a system of chronicling the state of the labour
markets throughout the country, and keeping
the workmen in the various trades well informed
as to the condition of their several branches of
industry in all parts of the Kingdom; and then
applying some system of migration with com-
mon funds, so that our labour markets might be
more equalised than they are at present. Many
a mechanic with his family has emigrated to
Canada, who might have found work at home,
though in some distant part of his own country
perhaps ; whereas, on the other hand, many a
workman has ;uselessly sought employment in
various parts of his own country and has had to
emigrate at last. Our working population, in a
word, require to be made better acquainted than
they now are with the state of their several
trades throughout the United Kingdom.