The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-18 00:00:00

THE LOCK-OUT IN THE IRON TRADE.

(moo 000 WOL'.
The look-oat is now being loudly noapieleed of by the
merchsata sad factors, es Meo the comumera of iron.
Merchants are sow unable to accept some orders that have
bees sand le dens for seeds that require • large quantity
of foes is their sesaaboture, er which are composed mainly
of that materld. the met of lacer se mowed with the price
of the fah& Wes beipilleest. Oren of specifications for
heavy quantities of sal milt d oestais side. MIMS be in-
cepted, because the iron required for the specified aims
canon be obtained. At the same time manafacturos
of cut nails are demanding 10a • ton extra far mid
of the sorts that they WO now seeding out on row orders.
To supply the osomithe of their customers for
hoc merchants wen an Thursday ring, set to
to meet the South Staffordshire mann, ao 'Waage is that
tom at their usual weekly satiation for baioer, bat to
Shropehire and elsewhere. Is • abort time manufacturers
of been hardware geode will be placed in a very eeriest
pealtion for want of iron. Great inessnalence will be felt
by their outman, and main artless' will be put upon
partial amploymest. 094110111, mil buyers have mill
now pooh-poohed the losk-ein, Manse of their belief that
it would prove most brief in its ezieteses, but sow that they
' see the extent of the support that the men are likely to
receive, they speak of the movement with the utmost
grevity. The bast honest in South Wales Me able to sifted
very little aid, on account of the numerous orders that they
have upon their hooka. They did set dean ova Thursday
to inept orders, but they could sot, they telegraphed to
South Staffordelaire, preemies to deliver within two months.
From the mentien et a period so Menet it is Inhered that
the &Mk Wells melees de sett asset I. ban toeless
their works ; bat it is thought that st the timed the quota-
lion being made they were unaware of the dechina to which
the Masten had OWN the day before is Glasgow.
That
decision and its probable oeswiquesea, oesebieed with the
distioniaillos expreseel by the taxies societies is Lando%
will, it trbelleved, made, comidertble Mona apes the
entrees d the neaten is Wale, sad Shropshire.
Reid's'''. of the distress mid ism Maas out of the Pro.
sect deplorable state of things are ahead SIONIFOSII and
most palatal throughout South setwith-
stand/Mg that it is I. fast that manses the emissins who
are 'Milled to relief somparative ischffersees le displayed.
Yesterday the applications for Will at the weekly meeting
of the gnerdisne if the Poordaw train of Welverbitrapion
were twist es sameens as umnaL Welverhamptes oaks
sesbnces set ally that town proper, but also Snake,
W Meehan, mAiredulleld where the isheld-
taste are dependsat Mindy upon the ken and coal trade
foe their support. Out al the 100 applications that the
Wresolved so fewer Mae were from able
a i
mea who had hew *rows eat cd work
by the lock-out. A few were paddlers, elms were pod-
th en' or essistsate. others were labourers at
the finished iron werka, and others, spin, werecolliers who
worked is pits that were stopped by theing of the
Galahad ironworks. Yost et the cans were these is which
the applicants had, before the lookout easnineesed, bees '
workiog only abort time for went al cedes; hot were
annihilate compelled to malatein line fainiliss, some of
them having six children. In seine of the cams the wine if
the applicants wen Invalided, sod • few wets about to Is-
' ansithedeseeelis embolism! theepplimsts. Oednbe efthme
latter said timt they had begun to submit* to the mina.
bat, through bin short cl work, had bees unable to SM•
tune their parents, and wen sow, thunders diendlliell
to assistance from the funds. The tales of dieter' whisk
wens of them told revealed as amount of suffering which
was something sharking. One was, • puddler, bad bees
Meng only half-wark since Obrielleses ; be had eix child-
ren, said wanted a aredirel note whereby to secure the
messes of the parish earn= with Mt wife, whom he
expected to he seined that night. Bow worthy •• kelp-
mete the poor fellow bad me Mows is hie plentifully
=and eopisally-dareed clothes. Be had act, he said,
food that day (it was then pest ems). and with Wars
rolling dews his Meeks he heeenS43latie help for Me
family, "to cony them over till ." Further, the
wan seemed almost as much about others,al
himself. Appmliag to the relleal% ofirfe. L 1,31664,6
tedAmetitt or ho Mainlint, he mid that his next-door
neigh boar and his family were in even • worse coalition
than his own. This applicant sad all the other 62 were
told that no relief could be extended to them personally
until they bad awned it by labour. They roust "so
into the atousyard." This meant that they mast
break Rowley rag doms, to be afterwards sell
by the giantism to the roadnekers. At this work
the rate of remuneration adopted by the guardians fs
Wolverhampton is as follows s—Single men and married
mss, ; with am and. ls. 2d. ; men with two or
three children, L. 4d. ; and men with mare thea tins
*hiking. ls. 6d. per toe; the seperintendest of the labour Is
the Moos-yard to exercise discretion in favour of the nes
in an in which workmen were inexperinced is the
breaking of Moose, and therefore unable to q
themselves for more than the most mope
Others there were amorist the applicants who althorn':
they had not themselves been prevented from working.
for they were incapable, yet were dependent for their sup-
port upon those who were looked-out, but did not them-
selves appl for relief. The caseswould have bees more
111101110116 if; the rainier odious had not adhered atriekly to
the rule is moppet of all applications. sad ref used to " book "
any cases later than the specified hour on the previous day.
Late on the previous night numerous appboatioes were
made to them, but they could not be eatestained for that
week. Daring the enemies week they expected the num-
ber of able-bodied applicants to largely increase.