The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-31 00:00:00

SELF-i!STORER,

IT will be news to many that during the
short life of Mr. Gladstone's Third Admin-
istration, notwithstanding the all-absorbing
character of the Irish Question, a highly
important reform affecting that vital poiat
to the nation, the labour interest, has not
only received legislative sanction, but now
stands in full working order. We refer to
the Labour Bureau, promised a few months
back by Mr. Mundella in his capacity as
President of the Board of Trade. Acting in
concert with the permanent officials, Mr.
Mandella arranged an extensive plan for the
collection and diffusion of valuable informa-
tion of every description respecting labour,
home, colonial, and foreign; and the bureau
now established cannot but prove an ines-
timable boon to our toilers, who have hither-
to been much at the mercy of those whose
interest it was to withhold reliable informa-
tion, or to wilfully mislead enquirers. Con-
currently with the opening of the Labour
Bureau, the Board of Trade is initiating the
periodical publication of the most recent of-
ficial intelligence concerning all manner of
subjects of interest to the trading and in-
dustrial classes of the kingdom. Any use-
ful particulars which reach the Board re-
specting railway, shipping, and general
affairs, will thus be given promptly to the
community. Notification will be made
similarly of all actual or projected changes
in Customs tariffs and regulations, anti the
Department indeed seems to be striving its
best to foster commerce and look after the
weal of those engaged therein, whether as
capitalists and merchantmen, or in tiw
humbler role of the labourer. This is as it
should be, and we trust that, however other
branches of the Government are affected by
I uty be as Well to mentiin that ...I action:of the chancres of the Ministry, deter the Board
" Aelf-rtestoret" is gentle, but exceedingly effective. The
mild, but beneficial, current generated by its use, brave Trade may be found henceforth workin;s
srsteus, and by its be, ign influence gradually bui'ds with unimpaired vigour and impartial zeal,
up Lie frame until the mind begins to get. brigh•er the
whether Liberal or Conservative statesmen
natural functions becomes stronger, the elastic sp'rits
a youth once more apparent, and so the progres to. are at the head of affairs. We are a nation
wards recovery steadily goes en tu.til the pittent is once of shopkeepers, so say the French, and they
more young. In eases of weakness, arising from any -1
are right. Let us not disagree respectin2
the before-mentioned causes, these Belts are at once the -sr.
snost certain remedy ever invented or discovered. 'teal our shopkeeping, then, or We shall thereb.
are entirely self-acting, and CO ACIDS being required, cue strike at ourselves. There are, it is tr
b- worn at any time without any wet
;:the wide ting proc.ss or i•.- -
ecnvenience to +he patient, the salt containrcidifferences between Radical and
it eusible perspiration being sufficient to keep ,it in re- respecting Free Trade, bat those puliticel
divergencies need not be allowed to interfere
at all with the functions of the Boa:11 ._3l
' Trade as a gigantic national comm e rcial
protection office and as a bureau of labour
information. Like the Post, Office its work
should be done with -nnaffecterl'effittleny
without regard to the political thinkii gof
its administrative head. The Trades Un;()),
Congress, at its coming sitting in Hull, will
have reason to congratulate itself npen
appointment of a competent and represea• a
tive working man to an importaut po..t iii
connection with the new Labour Bureau
The confidence of the toiling classes will is
engendered by the selection of such a rain
as Mr. John Burnett to act as Labour (.3,r-
-respondeist of the Bnrean. He is a very
able and astute man, possessed of a .e
practical acquaintance with every l ti. )11
topic Many years ago Mr. Burnett w• s
associated with Mr. Mundella in arbit, atien
work between capital and labour in tl.oee.
great conflicts which threatened to
the very foundations of trade. Mr lan-
della originated, as a private manuf tact trot,
the Boards of Conciliation which ultimately
reduced strikes to a minimum, and r
Burnett, from the labour side, was elw yt-
in sympathy with him. When nine hoe s'
movement was the burning labour quest i
Mr. Mundella saw much of Mr. Burtic-‘ti
also, and doubtless 'gained a knowled:ns of
the man which led to his selection to act in
the onerous and honourable permanent, of-
ficial position to which he has been pref, ri.t.d.
Certainly no more fitting person could
been found than Mr. Barnett, self-et-Inc:l6.d
as he is.- His admirable mimegement of the
secretarial work of that great trade Enion,
the Amalgamated Engineers, shows Mr.
Burnett to have an administrative gift, as
well as a peculiarly large and far from
narrow labour knowledge. His special ex-
perience is enormous, for the Engineer's
Union goes all over the world, and his
literary culture is, for one of his antececlentg,
sound and remarkable. The style he cvilices
in the production of bulky reports shows
Mr. Burnett to be a capable penman as well
as a statistician who can handle figures with
an able grasp. Then that master-arithmata-
cian of all Englishmen, Mr. Giffen, as Sac-
rotary to the Commercial Department if the
Board of Trade, ie
. will be the resetsible
head of the Labour Bureau' and ditor of
its annual volume. Mr. Gillen will he a
' guarantee to the mercantile word of the
scientific accuracy of the Bureau's calcll4-I,_
tions and conclusions, while Mr. Burnett's
presence in the office will prevent the sus-
picion among working men that Govern-
ment, through its new department, is seek-
ing to pry into the secrets of their trade as-
seciationslor purposes other than for the
general good of trade and the labour inter-
est. Circulars are being sent out to manu-
facturers, Chambers of Commerce, and else-
where, inviting statistics respecting and re-
ports on sections of industry. Information
concerning rates of wages, hours of labour,
profit-sharing, lock-outs, trade's unions. CO-
operative societies, the condition of work-
people, sliding scales, building societies, and
what-not, is sought front authoritati, ) per-
sons. This will be tabulated, edited, and
published in due course, in order that legis-
lation and better arrangements may accrue
in all necessary cases. Thus it will come
under consideration why an hour's labour
in a branch of the building trade has a
market value in Lancashire and Yorkshire
of ninepence, while in London it is worth
a shilling, though it would fetch only six-
pence in Southampton or Exeter. Many
other anomalies and abuses will be set right
by a comparison of the statistics of home
labour, and much that is injurious purged
for benefit, trade, and kindred societies., by
letting in thetlight as the Labour Bureau
promises to do. All this at home, and then
the Bureau intends to do its best by tabling
COloniaa and foreign statistics to safeguard
the intending emigrant labourer from being
deceived to his undoing by false prospectuses
and over-coloured advertisements. Every
success to the new department, which cer-
tainly has a wide field before it.

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tnis. the most seepti,ti will believe that it really
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I cases of Go l.ieumai am, Pgral,l &c,
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regimen, diet, itc. A.ddr?ei—W. WRIGIIT, Eiq„
Secretary, Volta a ,u3e., 175, Warduar•street, Oxford-
street, London, W.

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