Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-01 00:00:00

establishments in which they are emplOyed.
it as a doctrine that evury taan.ought to 1
and -4-eo, to sell his labo

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what price

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to act according to those principles, an appeal setting
forth their opinions has. been embodied, praying that
the masters who were in self-defenco.compelled to close
their shops may re-open them to the thousands of non-
society. men who are unemployed. A committee, of
which Mr. Joseph Dryden Pomeroy is chairman, and
Mr. Christopher Mills secretary, sit- daily at .No. 4,
Little Warner-street, Clerkenwell, to enrol names and
eve. ti

..E,LiaLures to ae‘appeal. The committee com-
plain that their bills are either defaced or pulled down
as soon as posted by the society men. The following
has been extensively circulated Fellow workmen of
the building trade, all who, wish to be entirely masters
of your own labour; attend at No. 4, Little Warner-
street, Clerkenwell, and enrol your names, declaring
yourselves to • -- .rmeal

ireemen, and send an appeal to the
masters to open their shops, at once.,'' Signed by
" Joseph Dryden Pomeroy, chairman ; Christopher
Mills, secretary."

, . THE DOCUMENT Qt Esmox„—T he following letter from
a master builder; who signs himself "a Non-Unionist,"
appears in the Times :,---"I• am a master in a trade in
which the • Society' (aatheTrade Union is called) exer-
cises a powerful- and, as I conscientiously believe, a most-
pernicious influence. Entering on my business sixteen:
years ago, I resolved to stand free from the ' Society' and
its thraldom. lat once set them and their rules at de-
fiance, and, although frequently subjected to no little
annoyance and. interference from them, I held my
way. I can scarcely wonder at the masters combi;aing
in self-defence, but is there any need for insisting on
a ' document,' or written ' declaration ?' I ask from my
hands nothing of the kind. My plan is simply to- in-
quire of any man applying to me for employment, if he
belong to ' the Society ;' and, if the answer- be• in the
affirmative, I decline to enter into any engagement with
him, on the plain and palpable ground that the• rules of
my establishment, based on mutually free contracts
jbe-
tween master and man, are incompatible withtliase of his
"Society.' In this I
can see no in ustice', nl}' slavery,'
no interference with the ' rights' of workmen
—nothing,
in short, to merit any of the hard words with which
Mr, Secretary Potter assails the ' document,' If at any
time I want extra hands I avail myself of the business
columns of the Times, in which I give distinct notice
that mine is a ' non-society ' honse. This brings me
, affairs WOUX
applications in plenty from the right men. If employers
would follow the simple plan of declining to empb/
men, against
~‘en"',,,-,.fliz,
'society men '
Practicidly, the effect of mud-plan is the same as tbot of
demaneing the ' docunskat.;:. without, however,, miming
soon right theinsetves.
I while it sc9n
,to„tlic•
counter to the feeli4,..often so strong amonkanedikcated
'document' agPlxcls, to, the master no, nictrg, security
against deeelion,tlink the bare word off ttin• workman,
into written purges.. The
desiP/449•en#4,1111n."
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