The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-04 00:00:00

COMPLAINTS BY AN APPRF.NTICE.

At the Bwouch Police Court on Tuesday, before B.
Hopkins, Fag. (Chairman), J. Dandle, Seq., and T. Abbott.
Kik. W. J. Martin, master cabinet-maker, answered to •
charge made seain.t him by his apprentice, John Stokes,
of nealectiog to teach him the trade, according to the
orneisions of his indenture (under loo's charity), and the
lad now asked that the said indenture aharld be can.
cett!d....

-167Hanos appeared for Stokes, and briefly stated the
facts a the case. It appeared that the complainant who
Is about 16y..:. of age bad been in tbe employ of Kr.
Martin, cabinet-maker, for about four year,; but during a
portion of that time he bad been there not an an apprentice
hut u an ordinary employ,. In May lad year be wee
apprenticed to him, under Mica's charity, and tbgar tg
time
now to complain that during some me put Mr.
who was legally bound tO use every possible mune to teach
the lad the trade, had habitually neglected him, and bad
broken the covenant entered into between them. The
lad was always ready and willing to do UN work when it
wee given him, but for weeks together he bad not seen hie
master, and as a rule be did not put in an appearance till
the middle of the day. AUtbiatietbeboyha4toatand
with his hands in his packets, with nothing to do. He,
therefore, asked the Bench to anneal his indenture, and
free the lad from the useless trammels of thia indenture.
John Stokes said in May lest be was
_apprenticed to
Yr. Martin, under Mica's charity' but he had heists his
employ and had received pay from him Eerie.. Mae Ware
that. For some time pest Kr. Mania bed base no tames
to teach him his trade. He had on emeadres asked
him to give him work to do. but it had not bees supplied.
Mr. Martin was not seen in the shop for eemetieses weeks
together, and during all that time he bad te Mend idle„
with nothing to do and no one to teach him. Tbe ether
workmen, Guy, Mlle, and Penney, were eranetham there
and sometimes not. Mr. Mara* generally put in as
appearance about 12 o'clock. Oneeplainant could not
make a common chest of drawers, am be had never lean
one made. He had learnt "next door to nothing." He
asked to be released from the indenture. He had shun
been reedy and willing to obey his master's commands
when given any, and ILL Martin had never complained of
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Mr. Arden: This cue hae been brought before the
Ditho's Charity Trustees, and they had ordered the
present proceeding to be instituted.
Stokes (continuing) said he had made four chests of
drawers, two tables, three clothes bonen one clothes box,
and 18 small ones daring the (our years he had been with
him. The man Gay sometimes showed him • little, bet
the men were very often out. Thle neglect had bent
since November, rime then he had learnt nothing.
In reply to Mr. Hanne, defendant maid Mr. Martin had
given way to habits of intemperance, and he had more
than once seen him drunk. Al! this had taken plain
since last November. Since then he had taken no
trouble to teach him Me tired. He had reposedly Joked
him for work, and he bed told him to lake a books% of
paint and go and paint snow place. He had refused to
do IL
Mr. Martin said be had three men In constant emPloe-
ment—one had worked for him twelve years, one eleven,
and the other nine. Two were apprenticed under Mieco's
Charity, and one of them be was not ashamed to chal-
lenge against any man in Weymouth for work. If he bad
no work it wee quite certain he should not keep three
men on constantly.
Mr. Luttdie remarked if the boy was left ter • fort-
night with nothing to do, be wee getting into idie habits,
and there would he no pordbllity of his ever becoming •
tradesman.
Mr. Martin denied that he was left for • fortnight with
nothing to do. He did not make any complaint until
after he had given him • good character before the
trustees. He denied the statement that he had been
drunk in tbe shop.
Mr. Hance: He did not gay you were drank in the
shop
Mr. Martin: Well, anyone is liable to take • glees too
much at night times at ter work.
Mr. Mann.: You were • candidate for municipal
honour. last November, were you not?
Mr. Martin: I belle..! wee.
Mr. Hanne : Then you are the seventh member for the
Weymouth Ward without • seat?
Mr. Martin: Yoe, without a seat. (Laughter.)
Mr. Mann.: it true that Ante then -you have been
instantly intoxicated and neglecting Your businees I
Mr. : It ix not true.
Ye Henn*: Are not the men in your employ more at
Job out of &ore than in the shop?
Mr. Martin: No.
Kr. Mann.: Have you endeavoured to teach this bee
his I
Mr. Martin: Yea It is his place to ask me when be
dose not lthow anything. I have instructed Gay to teeth
him, and he hag done ea lii. untrue that I have been
absent from the workshop • whole week at • time since
November. except on one occasion when I wee HI. end I
waa then weaned ta my bed for three dam
After further questions. the Bench decided to canthl
the lad's indentuns, and ordered Mr. Martin to pay the
costs of the Court.

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Mr. Wylie is driven from pillar to post I This is
the latest intelligenos vouchsafed to as by U. Tory
organ. Was ever such 1101311011141 penned as this There
Is one thing quite certain ; Mr. Edwards will not beet
all flattered by the appellation of either a "pillar" or
• 'post," for we have it on undoubted authority that
our esteemed (and more so now) Liberal member is the
Let pillar, or whatever the other side pies., to call
him, to which Mr. Wylie was invg.d not driven.
Before Mr. Wylie returned to to he was invited to
the Burden, and there Mr. Edwards frankly and
freely expressed his regret at the division in the teaks
of his party, and hoped that at the next contest they
would be able to work shoulder to shoulder in the
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question of who shall be first addle" after a, as has
been so ankle* prophaied by the 8. 1. As for Mr.
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