The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-11 00:00:00

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This morning the Central Association of Muter
Builders Waned the following address to their work-
men:

Priem" tied fallow-citiviou—Next arnica perlisment
will Umpired practically to confide to your order, as a ma-
jority of the ocetamplated constituency, the treat sad power
of marine lath for the government net only of yourselves
bet of the met of the oommunky. Would it not 'be pendent
to temerahee Mat the detarnaboarion of the htlfhltien,‘6ll be
gilded by the opinion they will form of your itztem to err
cute the any and of the /ably to their own rights and in-
terests of placing ouch powers in your hands! The eye. of
the whole country WO anztotuly directed to your conduct.
Nothing more timid than capital, nothing more 1111111111iVO
than eassblidad authority. Alarm UM-enfranchised dames
by eneesecmable demands or popular exceme., and to what
ded.ion will *key cam? If the kgialation of waded unions
ia to be transferrel front the coma room of the conference
to the Home of Commons, when wiU be our liberties P Your
interests sad mars are reciprocal. Out of the rune fond, by the
mono writ', inlet oar common [twin. "Of the head and
[ the bends neither out my a the Mary 'I hare no need
of thee[ " We heertily eekeewledge ear ebilgetlons to your
eldlieektinamery. To ear espial yes are indebted for tidy
prodtehle appliestion. With Mama sopa for your many
valuable quatfee, we would, dimakelng ell heat and temper
from our councila, invite sou, Is a perhody, friendly, but mho
in a very plain and downright way, to cemalder the tun:Mural
spirit of opposition which at present estranges us from one
mother. Its origin fa a:planted by the following notioe :
" mum noose Novena/cr.

Th. master Widen haying refused to concede the nitro
hours as a dare work, theConaranos of the United Building
Trades have bees directed by the members of the movement
to call upon sizes to arse work, having done so, they now
appeal to you Meld them lasapperting the man now on 'bike
at Mesas. Trollops and Boos% It is earnestly hoped that no
man will go in to BUIPPIaUt them till they have gained their
objet._

" N.B.—Any Ann striking fur the above object without the
sanction of the conference will not be supported."
Observe the successive steps of this promo,. The "mem-
bers of the movement" are an incorporation of delegates
from all trades throughout the country; that combination
teas., a command to another &Misted society celled the
" Conferanos of the United Building Trades." That con-
ference, ea maenads, by an extraneous combhatke,
orders 600 men in one Arm to owe work; and, in implicit
obedience to the menders of this noted extraneous inoarpo-
ratios, the third body, the hands I. Messrs. Trollop's
works, have all to leave their employment to a man, The
conference Is not contented with this endeavour to ruin re-
spectable employers for no offence bat that of protecting
their right to carry on their bminess according to their
sense of their own interests. With one hind it orders away
all their men—with the other ft threatens ell who dare to
supply their places. Tn. Hops men may strike for nine
hours, but all others are prohibited from wriking for the very
mans grievance, " will not be supported with the sanction of
the eschresee."

It is Mill amerled, we observe, that we exact your signa-
ture to a militia lisolaretion. We have only required a
verbal mist to a trade agreement, that If we admit you lots
our work. you will not nom our madams by glottis'
against us to Warfare with our arrangemesta with our own
workmen. That simple stipulation to protect the liberty of
employed sad employers is called dictation to which nobody
but a AWte would eabesit. Pray do the " :comber. of the
moves:ma" not notate P If we are tyraats, what are the
conhemoe f If as sperms& to revert other men's freedom
be worthy ouly of a Mare, what acme do you give to the
serfs and thralls who sang down their tools at the command
of an extraoseos oorebusstiou, who again submit to be the
ware matures of another coargirsoy called the "members
of the movement P" You are ail; we prawn Mistime with
the document we here transcribe :
"M. 8.0. B.

_
"March 1, 1869.
" Worthy brother,—At the general meeting held on Toes-
day, February 22, it was determined, by • large majority,
that after the 17th instant to member of this society be
allowed to work any overtime unless ha be paid demand a
half up to 9 o'clock, and double time after that hour fur all
tines so worked by him, under • peoaliy of 21. for each
and every aeon Yonre, Ia nutty,
, TO)//l, Secretary."
The initials you are aware mesa, Member of the Society of
Operative Bricklayers. No "worthy brother" dares to work
elms as he le "allowed." A freemason fraternity binds
hiss by • "decease." For every Jade/moo in the luxury
of sell- t be is to forfeit 40e. to "his in unity, H.
Turd, ." Which is the slave, the Englishmen
who variedly agree, to teepee the rights of othere, or the
men who yields op his own to each • tyranny as that ?
You know—can you deny it P—that the members of these 1
trades unions dictate both to yen and to us the conditions of
employment—that they threaten our foreseen into becoming
cuemiere and then oompel them to eosin all who do not
—that thiy refuse to work with men who do not belong to
their combination; end, where they can, enforce tbe•r !
chsrge from the works at which they are engaged. You
know that " non-society men" Si. subject to every opmdee
of annoyance to tinsNy: them into membership—the
their tools are displsord, their work disarranged or Wined,
their clothes hidden away—the, where they cannot be de-
tained, they are "sent to Coventry," pointed at
in the street—insulted in the coffeesehop--that if
• bed workman is &charged the master meet
take him on again. You know that if • fore-
men obey. the inounetione of his employer, in contravention
of the rules of the Union, he is tried next club night and
tined, that every member Is bound by "document" to en.
force them in every shop—that even the very number of
bricks to be put In a hod Is restricted—that a bricklayer is
never to lay down his trowel to lift anything requiring both
hands, or work beside his master. Yon are denied the use of
the gilts of nature with which Providence itself his endowed
you. 'rile skilful workmate whose dexterity would enable
him to lay two bricks in the same time which the incompe-
tent mechanic would take to lay one, is prohibited from the
exertion of hie skill, and society is robbed of the advantage
of his troublesome superiority that he may be confined to the
level of avenge mediocrity—while, to diecotuage that
ductless's% which is the very source of civilisation,
work is strictly prohibited. Worse, and above all, you sre
perfectly aware that " picquela" in the nightly pay of the
council of there Unions, are hired se regular uppoons
their fellow-workmen—to eavesdrop upon their
to dog their steps—to threaten, intimidate, and report
to a central aocrat inquisition who dad out their vett-

Pa
opts aessonforioing masters sad recusant men.
Prom them us-English practise come those magi con-
ga dielosed at the criminal Stale at Men-
: ester. Shivw, Sheffield, and other pleas, to
mutilate es troy, sometimes even for Dire, those
who do not impliaidy obey the Inquisitors' airmails, who
plot their mischiefs in security—until well-disposed work-
own, quailing under the terror of their frown, take shelter
from their threats by falling into the coaspfracy. Where
menace. es Mug avarice is appealed to. The secret
council have poseemirs of the money of the members. Where
the society is as registered no motion will lie foe ite reco-
very, ant every disobedient oantributor sakes forfeiture of
Dia deposit..

Organisation and machinery so complete, members so
vigilant, principles so captivating to visionary, inefficient
and talkative workmen, whose Me object to to get the
greatest amount of toy for the smallest (menthe and worst
qtudily of work, must either be pot down, or they will pot
down you and as. Thu threaten to draw within their
toils the whole working Moses by that organbation of
labour" which alas to appropriate every vacancy In ear
, work. to themeelver—to exclude from the common oriel-
legea of industry all who are not " legal" members of the
craft, sad to Intimidate all who indulge in the luxury of
' individual judgment. They declare a war of clams, and
threaten to surprise cad overwhelm all who are neutral
or stand upon their indspoodance. A great question
of public liberty is Involved in the unoontrolled
right of every muter to mutton for the services
of any &Wall subject he plum a great prin-
ciple of medal morality is pained Is the prohibition of any
member of the body politic from earning his livelihood by the
pursuit of any booms calling; a solemn controveray of state
policy arises to the consideration of whether every domelike-
ties of lobour is to be permitted to hedge Wolf rousd with a
wen of separation, which shell vest is the laitiated the auto-
du monopoly of employment. It is Idle to cell the peewit
strike temporary—to be met poly by a temporary Mows. !
A strike, or the threat of It is always Impending—le In every
shop. Nesters tskim to detail—tins discipline of establish-
insets undermined by secret negotiations with workmen—
ordme withdraw" enforced by the suborned treachery of
men to masters, end subseriptions to a subsistence fund
end
nay form the mechanism of a strike upon the most refined
subtle minim
We Malt w sedsly pat It to year candour and strong
comma man Is er. say an me rpm tees
than Net to which we have her Meas. Nos soolOy nmit,
It is netorions, by threat, peremiden, or semi gYwPaihr
with the nalooista, impute witte6ursl fends, subscribe toe
ylegnent, pay their quote to wellies. It Is tamely bowler
to am* the Potgems of these prudes mime by cutting
4 the etellifeee whisk promote them—by esseters preventing
their own capital from being applied to their own defeat—
end by a alivweel ooesetion of were sod of labour. When