The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-07-30 00:00:00

GREAT MISTING OF AGRICULTURAL
LABOURERS AT STICILLAND.
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On Iloaday erasing, 22nd, • rneetingskied ever
by Kr. J. W. Barnett. was held ha this Fatly
500 poems. were present. The Chairman that ULU
was a red letter day in the history of Dorset, for to-day
adistriet kabob of the National Union had been farmed
for Dorset. The bran& bad at pretest upwards at
2,000 members. and would 'narrate. Ifs said he
baileyed that God was with them. and to Him all the
praise was due. . . . .

• Mr. flaws, ono of the Wartriakaire deltittes, asked
If the Union is a good right and howdah] tklag I Then
keep on to the end. Ferber.; it will not benefit as
much, but let us keep on titat It may do good to oar
ohildren. Re said by tinning they *odd get better
wtgea, better cottage, better food, and better *dues-
tion ; they could live a comfortable life, sad hope for •
oeinfortoble_life In tits world to awn&

ALFA= Manny, the first man who Amok for a dee
In wages in Dorset, gave an amount of the origin and
progress of the agitation. He said that formerly poor
men were paid La. 64. • day, whiett dlove them to be
rogues, for it was not *sough to keep them, and than
they paid, poUcemse 18a. or 2011. sweat to Mkt them.
When he attended the meeting of delegates in Wu,
wiaktitirs, hews. ashamed bemuse the wages of Demist
labourers were lower than my other.
Mr. Swam of Whitsehnrch, next spoke.
C. Oox, Esq., • megistrat• of the county of Derby,
nail that be wee one of the first persons who outlasted
sabecriptions for the Usk.; be was also (me of the
miusalting mearalttee of the Union. This eemetittee
advises the execrative irommittee as to the best mane
,of setting what they want. There is great dleconteat
In Eagland, because of the great inequality la the dis-
tribution of money. ilaglaad was in a most prosperous
state; it was never so doh as now, and yet oar poor
were never or poor. Why? Sines MO wages had
risen 50 re mot, but MI the nsomearies of lit. had
risen 150 per ant 11 the labourers' wages are raised it
will be good not only for them, but for the middle
Masses, and the upper Mao, for it is proved that
when wages rise, poor-rater go dew*. The rim Is
wages would save al from revolutions snob as devastate
oontlnentil mutants. He Gould never noilerstand
why there should be snob a diversity in the amount ef
wage, is differeet parts of the «mossy. Is
labourers had 18a. per week in_ ,fartne • In Hatitriltidro:
124. ; and yet the farmers of Dertirkhe only bad small
farms He believed the movement was oely as the
threshold, that it woald mowed became it Woo attiredlnto into by God', men, and in • Gladly way, and would
therefore be permanent. Tim upper dames the trades. '
men, artisans, labourers in trona, and the Prue were
all,. their side, and would matinee to be or as long as
they went on In a lawful manner. flonseste said it
amms
would el spinet slam mi ; but be t legisla-
tors had been doing this for 200 years. Laws were
made, but not to benefit the poor. He said the best
Manse of the Education Act was struck oil, via., the
enmpolsory oilmen Then In the Imboarers' and
Artisans' Dwelling Am, the landlords In the Hesse
Itmited Its asthma to towns of 10,000 people; thus set-
ting out villages where It was most needed. Dr.
Aldridge, of -Dorchester, in • paper to the Femme
Club there, mid that the cottages of some of th beet
landlords *odd not be 'pullet for Woes, la andel".
If farmers will raim the wages, they will get more and
better werk deo*, and lees poor-rates to pay. He then
"sp. .e tie sumpinyment of shlldree In &irritably*.
Kr. Fads% late M.P., employed 84 boys, but he would
bare none till they amid read and write, sad thee seat
them to school alternate der It made better bop,
and when they Few up %tut hole were Mu bast
labourers. He Mjeete to emlgralioe, bemuse the as.
, who are rim% away will be wanted hera, ba fast are
, minted now. Migrate net emigrate. The moron why
I fee intelligent pays stlek to farm werk was bemuse
they could get bettor wages elsewhere. • member of
,llt, its's' Agricultural Soisty mid that by reanom
labour oiamthlrd more redoes meld be obtained. He
also *demisted breaking up waste monad am% woods to
cultivate them.
Mr. imps mom, the Apostle of the Doles sold, he
had long alma the &bower plea dowa la the male ;
but now tite Mae was come whet they would rise.
Unless the fanners rose the ware now, mas hem
geoersilien woald have no labourer.. DURIMI ON !Math
01 A on' 11,376 110kraglil left our diem KU
17,429, and Is Jane Mum large metals mailed whk
emigrate to Van Dieman's Load. lie., maid% bale
aad sinew go like this, hew sea Maglead keep up bar
enpreromy f How MUD Gerillig 10 aikt SO well is
the late war Hawes NW had bearthe mid house to
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user gsme of have so loon Aside
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who. had as week visors wore lbw to go ! To
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