The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-27 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE MASTERS.

An adjourned meeting of master tailors was held
the Hanovevisquare Rooms on Saturday afternoon for
the purpose of receiving a report from the committee
which had been appointed at a former meeting to adopt
measures to protect them, as far as possible, against any
injurious consequences of the journeymen's strike. There
was a numerous attendance, including representatives
from the grins of Mesas. Poole and Co: ; Sttiltz, and
Cu. ; Lewis, Sons, and Parker ; Bennett and Co. ;
Smalpege and Co. ; Pulford and Co. • Cutler and Co. ;
Beach and Co. ; Brown and Sons ; BisCkmore and Sons ;
Harrison and Sons; Hill Brothers; Joel Edmonds and
Sons ; Johnstone, J.B. ; If`Callan and Gould ; Haldane
and Co.; Thompson and Sons; Landon and Co.; and
Guthrie. Mr. R. Lewin, president of the Masters' Asso-
tion, occupied the chair, and opened the proceeding, by
requesting
Mr. Tnonis D. LANDON, the hon secretary, to read
the following report : _ .

At the meeting held at these rooms on the tith of April la 4
an explanation of the position of affairs was given by this com-
mittee, and a unanimous resolution was pissed by the meeting,
pledging Itself to support the resistance of the masters to the
time-lug presented by the workmen. A month has claws', and
they can now congratulate the trade generally ou the firmness
with which that resolution has been carried out, and on the mm
gross that has since been made in gradually overcoming the diffi-
culties occaeloned by the strike, enhanced as they have been by
the system of terrorism pursued by the unionists towards those
willing to work. Further elutes for congratulation are that
throughout the country the same determination to resist
the lug has been evinced : that meetings to that end have boost
held, and nisociations having the same objects as our 0.112, and
In connexion therenitti, have been formed In most of the princi-
pal towns of the kingdom ; that the number of members has
steadily incremed, and is now nearly double that announced at
the last meeting : and that but one spirit animates the whole.
The committee firmly believe that the present antagonism has
arisen not from any dissatisfaction on the part of the workmen
themselves, but solely at the Instigation of their leaders, and
against their own wishes ; they therefore feel that for the pro-
legion of those who have remained In their employment,
end for the encouragement of those willing to return, no
course le open to them but to seek to replace, front out-
side the union, those men who have been withdrawn by
Its executive from their work, and *lto hove thereby
occludoned their employers the loss of the best past of a season.
In conclusion, your committee would express their entire confi-
dence In the ultimate defeat of the unwarrantable dementia
wale upon the trade. Fortified by the Malice of their cause
anti the sympathy and support of the public, they feel that the
result cannot be in the smallest degree doubtful,
The meeting was adjourned for a month.

' Within a few minutes after the close of the masters'
meeting, on Saturday, the result,with the resolutions, was
laid before the operatives' central committee, who were
specially sitting to receive the information. The com-
mittee at once telegraphed copies of the resolutions to the
various committees throughout the country, with instruc-
tions to redouble their exertions, and at once call the
various trades together for the purpose of obtaining addi-
tional subscriptions, as it was probable the area of the
strike would have to be enlarged by the men being called
out of all shops belonging to the masters' association in
London, in addition to those already struck. It was also
suggested that the Working Men's Association should at
once convene a delegate meeting of the London trades to
consider the propriety of placing a general levy on the
whole of the trade as the action now taken by the mas-
ters has changed the question from a local to a general
question affecting all trades unionists. It is also pro-
posed to convene an aggregate meeting of the operative
tailors of London, when the question will be placed be-
fore the men, and they will be tested by resolutions as to
whether they did or did not as a body agree to the strike,
and that the committee were only carrying out their orders
and wishes by calling out the men.
On Saturday last all those on strike, both men and
women, were paid the full allowance, as on the previous
week, the highest of the men receiving it, and the jour-
neywomen and girls from He 1A 15s. each. Last evening a
crowded meeting of male and female outworkers, chiefly
belonging to the class technically called "sweaters,"
amongst whom were a great number of foreigners and
Jews, was held in the club room of the Garrick Tavern,
Leman•street, Whiteohapel, Mr. Eccarius in the chair.
The strike and its causes being fully explained to the
meeting, resolutions were adopted pledging the meeting
not to take out work from any of the ahoy. on strike.
Meetings of the outworkers are also called for every even-
ing during the prrirnt week in the different districts in
support of the strike.