The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-14 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDiaIt oVE

snowing his *de mid gime Children to be.
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1 Presided, seconded by Mr. J. Millward, Schools come chargeable tO the Utlien. Toe ease was rroved
Inc merriagee a,c old!, made by the Eetalullehed Strike-% sur ire generally coneidered he the
Chord', hat there am all mierte of irregehm mar. I Treesnrer, acm dial vote of thenks wee passed ad Mr. Beeratt ~,iti he did not wlah to presa the ea.,e if
moneved etagere as hiving their origin in..
Is !es. "If ale gentlemen," e lye Sir Ronndell „„ A t "1,4: Ito the Rev. J. Drummond, for his very estcellent letendent would provide for kb family. enll rloiy costa.
. ‘ ''' e the w`."k"er'' N° "nib" ; and appropriate services that afternoon. Mr. Defendant agreed to take ehsrge of hie family arid pay
Pamer, "were to meet. a youing lady, and they three were insteneee in which the men might ' preminona replied. on the motion of the costa, It;hulda 7 f1,i,111,,.:E1 nii.m,:ul.7
wtoiltr,,v
,Tl:ertsraPis,;
wrete down II inotnei promiae, and the lutiebend Inetly he blemed for their proceedinge; hnt, as Chairtnin, thanke were voted to the organist
-s-uje'ru7t"hiy rinitTer7Ellerilacnibrook. Mr. Barrett said
thole the ruiner end put it hack *grin into his a rule, ),f, tepid thet the men had generelly been
tb it would be held to be a valid mend• reftennable in their Amend!. The ennees of end choir for the intelligent and satisfaetory way that' defeadant mother 'IAA unable to work, and she was
in which they conducted the pselmndy that day having relief from the Union. The Bench made an order
age, even though there were no witnesees. If strikee miebt he divided ender the two heeds of an • defendant to pay le per week, and costs.
tyo parties met, and one said to the other, ' I eemete lane near. 14e should be inclined in that
, acknowledged compliment. The remainder
the
d throughout the past year. Mr. B. Williams for the
eSBAVLT ClfM —Abraham Cook, wood turner, !MS
take yea to be my wife- or litteliand'—and the : uFeenes'on to ge to tl o root of the metter, elm charged by Edward Cund, coach builder. with assaulting
other enneented, the twain were nein awl wife, ' ' 1 ' 1 '
I'll thorn where these mows began to manifest Of the evening was devoted to music. bee on the 6th inst. Mr. Perry appear,d Sot complaim
even though they told en one, and might go themselves. It wee the nnininn held by a brae e.,,nei.7.1e, was called, and said that be met the defendant
aft,rwavuls and each niarry some one else. nomher of eminent end intelligent men that the CHILDREN'S TREAT,—On Monday the school butchers shop. some dispute arose about
i Wanes: then went down the town. On
There tire A Omit many miner anomalies in the nrinciriel. thengh remote. eAII9O of strikes was children had their annual treat. In consequence
of the unsettled state of the weather the use of twee3.di tuHruilYeag.
returning about half an hour ufterwante he not the de-
-1 various parts of the sante kingdom, end we are ti, he }mind in the fart that a greet prnpnrtion a suitable field near the town was sought. and, tcrefeet, eh° struck him without
alleged
nroj.,tcation.i.ln
IMA Mat! that the most Conservative a con• of the lend in our ernintry woe absorbed by stew through the kindness of Messrs. Shuttialinidfitolde aannst*e'arlletod the charge,
a,
servetives would desire to perpetnete these die- imlividnela ; end when n few individuals took Maurice, woe readily obtained. To t .
is ai env complaining ',boot work he had done for him, and
crepancies. All admit that at least some of the ne,,,esion of the land there moat he a large situated on Gig Mill Lane, the children mare 1 ~
struck t..
k I complainant. Fined :ni arid costa.
most glaring incousisteueles of our ninny taws number who were deprived of their natural in procession, accompanied bytheir teachers and 1" -
on one subject should be removed, and the only store in it. There wore in the United Kinadom bearing banners, through the principal streets. 1
question OVerlIP to lie whether entire nniforriiitY something like aeventv.eigb millions of acres A long
efternoon was devoted to amusements of
throtiehout the kinednin shoule lie effected, or nf lend: end the popnlation was enmethine like various kinds, such as running machete iuMPI
whether the lairs in eech part of the kingdom thirty millions, so that there were more than 2 ing, football, swings, seesaws.
Pee., u&m, in all of
shonld lie simplified into one law for that eoun• which they were assisted by the teachers and
acre of land for every man woman awl child in
try. The former plan would, in our opinion, be the kingdom. But who had neaseeelon of that friends. In the course of the afternoon en
I decidedly the beat, and there -meld he ne reueon• land, which Win the natural birthright of every evening the children were suppliedabund.antly
able objection urged to it. The rum el commis- individnel ? The Yrent bilk of it was actually with cake, tarts, buns, and new milk. _ Teachersschool
'ainnere %rho hove reported on our marriage laws, absorbed he something like 150 persons: and in friends and had tea. There were 21. e s'l.
I recommend that all the ministers of all religione, children on the field, and nearly ifoo friends. In-
feet, the whole wan parcelled out in 0,000 lots.
and of every church 911011111 he recegnised by In tell the lend Writt owned ha' 150,000 persona; chiding the Rev. J. Drummond, Manclauesnter ;
i law ea competent witnesses of marriage, and lity. A. W. Worthington, Mansfield ; an
Hill
to snlenu
but the tendeney of the present state of things
that the *inn regietrar eliould alio he competent
niee marriage ; iii all canoe regulations
for reporting end registering the marriages; being wee to canoe the land of the nonntry to be ap-
proprietor] by fewer and fewer individuals, and
they saw hOW greatly the niumber had been re-1 as
Geo. Knight, formerly minister of Hanbury 1
Chapel, Stoutbridge.
...INISTERS' MEF.TING.—The usual meeting of
compuleney• The Home Seeretary pointe 'Mt thieed since the begunninq of the century. Now. Ministers was held at the Presbyterian Chapel,
I that there aril two methods of aoloruolaing intim ,
, hi. contended that the level was the people's 'on Tuesday last. The Rev. H. McKean, of Old'
rive—making it a civil act, icavleg the religt- 1 right ; that having been beneght into existence, bury, conducted tho introductory devotional ser-
ene ceremony optional, or making the religious
, it was the design of the great Creator that they vices. and the Rev. J. Drummond preached,
.reveniorry the original proceeding. with °output, 1 alhonlil have the land to live noon and enjoy the taking as his text Dent. viii. 8 (letter part), and
Rory refestration. Of the two we prefer the lives He haul bestowed. Land only became Vid• as his subject 0 Communion of Woraluip." The
former, bowls° this would secure greeter elm- indite after lehonr had horn bestowed upon It; semen was characterised by its eetholicity of
plieity and uniformite, which we maintain are but they found thnt thoen who had appropriated spirit, breadth of view, and force of argument ;
easentiel, while the right,: of conscience would the land haul fixed a oertalu wile° as the price it was eminently earnest and eloquent. The
ev left free ; but there might Vie difileultiee in of thoae who laboured noon it, and the proper- liminess meeting was held at the Vestry at the
. cerrvieg title ont in scattered and thinly porn. tion of the profit deriyalule from the labour whioh ahem of the Service; the Rev. D. Maginnie in
i tatted ullettileta, wherein; a minister of Route deno. ae
ndered the lend of valuta was reduced to an the chair, Iu addition to the Ministers already
initiation or other seems elelee's within retch
whet a fuarri ig u is in q teetioe. Tiet time smell a point as poesible. It would he nothing named, the following were also present I Revile.
bet fair, he contended. if (melt party shared alike S. Recite, H, W. Creeekey, E. Myers, Birroingi
wield be OO dlittollitY ilj haYing the bin SO in the Prodene I and It was a crying MI that ham ; J, Gordon, EYeehana ; J. liirke, Kings-
' framed, that either it civil or a religione eere. whim, nro
eection was Heine lnetudonsly and &eh wood' M, Cibeon, Dudley ; H. Keehue, Come-
remay shoold be porforinoil ender certein con4i* onniaating wealth, the ether aheald he reduced ley ; C, F. Bias, Wolverhampton ; A. NV. Wor•
% thus, those et the civil contraut beteg always
e to state of thisn
'e in
'nest liteutteble poverty. The tluington. Mansfield; K. Bache, Moreton Hemp-
mulforte, throligit the whele kingdom. Certeta a
VeVella d a evivahle from time the land in the United I stead ; P. Hlgginsfon, Liverpool ; mid G. Knight,
it is th it the pileteat pantilet of laws Occasion- Kingdom wag shoot 110 millions sterling; but Stourtnedge. The meeting adopted reeolutions
1 ery ineelidates whet wore seppeeed to Le !mild only a very small proportion of that accrued to expreasive of deep regret on ecoount of the
; inarriagne, that it feellitatea elandeetine amid' the teen whose htbetir onalded it to be oolleeted. death of the Rev. IL B. Aapland, of respect for
I Agee. thet it " tevutere the art of the sedacer," tie did not wish to lay any blame on any inclivi• the memory and character of the aged Rev. W.
as no, 7';.olea pots it, and Diet perpetuates odious
d
• uel for tide unhappy state of things ;he was Meleean, mid of eatisfection at the peeelng of
dietineti MR Of WA 111111 'tuition .11ty. It is Paaa emelomning a evstem, Titers e were good and the measure Itr the disestabliehmetut awl dieen•
differenees of Jew o. those we have referred to, lionourall . men wenn." the landowners sot there dowinent of the Irish Proteetent lepleeival
I Butt keep tip Cowie local an I lettienal antip aides wore good mei 110'1.1%1,41%10 men among the work. Church. In the afternoon the )14116V:re dined
I whielt it is desirable to remove or a %hen itiwit.
ing elaeeee. Me. PiliVACsa Went on to contend a Mrs. Scott's.
I In sit earl Us cud salieue 'tot It ur as warrior, ; th it this; naeound state of matters with regard
l we ought at all events to be whet we prelese to % 0 the land, reacted on the working claws
be, a uuited kingdom. thratiglinnt the enuntry. mat teurled to produce 1
a condition of things which gave ride to much of I
tilt` hal feelieg prevalent between labour and u
capital. After noticing extreme competition and I
other eauses, which, speak of the conaeqeences 1
of strikes. He might tell them something of
he t money loss calisJd by strikes ; lint he did .
not require to tell them of the suffering, privation, .
wretchedness, end mental torture endured in
consequence of strikes. They had so much ex-
perience of these that they knew pretty well
itheolt them withont any description front him.
With regard to the money loss, it was enormous.
The epeakee then (numerated a number of large
strikes the carrying on of which hod cost up-
wards of £OOOOOll, and in that district iilone he
believed he was under the mark when lie said.
that iii his recollection the sum of e-10,000 had
been thrown away in strikes. The cure for that
sort of thing was to be found in co-operetion.
They had established a co-operative store in the
Lye, and they had begun the manufacture of
nails on that principle. They haul already em-
barked a capital of but veers VAN) end en(ei in
it, end they fumnd the thing worked well. They
haul ecenetimes been told that they were not able
to manage such affairs, but he was in a positioe
to etete that they could manage business mat•
tore. They had proved it in the Lye that they
could go into the market and buy and Bell profit- I
ably for themselvea. Now, when a master em-
ployed a no tuber of workmen he naturally looked
for some profit out of their Inhour. There was
no reason why the workman should not have all
the profit if he chose to go about it in aright way.
Let them adopt the co-operative scheme and
they would have both their own wages and the
toasters' profit divided among them. They would
thus he gore to have their 20a in the pound, and
all would havers doable interest in the work when
they knew they were working for themselves.
It was not necessary that they should subscribe
large snins, because the sturdiest contributions
might be put in. If they would all have identi•
cal interests, and these lamentable trade dis-
mites would cease to crop up every few months.
In course of time he had no doubt they would
be able to apply the co.operative principle to the
cultivation of the land, and he had faith that in
it would be fumed tho solution of many of the
most difficult problems now ocoupying public at-
tendon.
The meeting was also addreesed by S. Perks,
J. Regime. and A. leill, at considerable length,
whiell went to chow the canoes of strikes, and
the edvautagee to ti derived front en operating
together. By so tieing, their ietcrtils were
identical.
Vatee of thanka to the Cheirmen eloaed the
proeeedinge,

On Wednesday evening last, a meeting of nail.
makers was hel,i on an open 14110 Ce of ground
elms to Ulu National Schools, Lye. There were
about WO persons present.
Mr. Elijah Pearson was in the chair, and after
speaking at some length as to the nature of the
strike, called on Mr. John Pardoe, who after
, having delivered a lengthy address, as to the
naturc of the `Stain:meters' Society, in the Lye,
read the following rules, which were drawn up
by himself, and which were adopted :-
1. That this society shall be called the Lye Waste Nail
Forgers' Friendly Society. It shall consist of ,i eom-
mittee chosen by the society, together with a chairman.
2. It shall have for its object the well-being of all its
members, who shall contribute their proper share to the
funds.
3. That it shall hold its monthly or gnarterly meetings,
or otherwise, as the committee shall deem proper.
4. That the committee shall have the power to appoint
such person or persons to collect the contributions from
the members, as shall be needed to carry on the business
of the society. ,
5. That the society mall appoint is secretary, who shall
keep proper accounts of all the cemtributions paid by
the members ; sod that he be paid for 'lli services.
6. That lite Secretary shall ,pi erterly or half-yearly
make out a balance•sheet to shoe/ the contributions of
the members, and how disposed of.
7. That a committee of management shall appoint
such members to wait upon the masters when any evil in
the trade is calculated to injure the society,
S. 'rhat the society shall consist of male and female
members.
O. That the male members plw one penny per week,
as their share towards carrying on the business of the