Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-30 00:00:00

.ttended • with

It
_on by
the employe's at the• various metropolitan gas-works, took
place on Saturday last at the works of the Chartered Gas
Company, when a sudden demand was made by the men for

per week on their

ages, and a reduction

in the time of their labour from twelve to ten lours per day,
At first the demand 'was refused, and as the men began to
turn out assistance was procured by the loan of men
from the works of other companies ; but, ultimately the
authorities of the Chartered Company were induced, in the
emergency, to accede to the demands uf the men. This
success, it is-believed, emboldened the employe's of the Impe-
rial Company, whose district comprises nearly the entire
northern side of the metropolis, as on Wednesday afternoon,
being the directors' meeting-day, they sent in a demand to
have their wages raised from 30s. per week, at present paid
to stokers. and retort-house men; to 38s. per week ; and even
the coal barrow-wheelers demanded a rise from 21s. to 275.
per;week, together with a reduction of labour per day from
twelve to ten hours.. It -would appear that the managers of
therlmperial Oompany had had some intimation of what was
going 'to take place,_ and they had telegraphed to Yorkshire
and other places, and some 300 workmen had already. arrived.
On the demand being made, .it was met with a firm and
determined negative, and all men , who expressed them
dissatisfied were told that they could .at once leave
may were infornied that those who did so

would never .be permitted to conic on the .premises of =the
company again. Some 150 meal belonging to' the.:St.
Pancras works at Maiden-lane then turned out, but
expressed. their willingness to finish that day's work. A
number also struck at the company's works at Ilaggm,,
stone. ' A previous communication . had been made .to
the Seccetary.of State and the commissioner of poliee
(Sir 'B.. Mayne) on the .subject, and detachments. ,of
police were in readiness, at the' various works, to
. prevent any interference on the part
,of the turn-outs with
those willing to remain or engaged to take theirplaces, and
hence no disturbance Occurred Another deinand of the men
was that they should have a day's holiday also once a month,,
which is presumed .to have arisen from the .circumstance
that the company :recently gave thorn a holiday, with con-
veyance and a. dinner and tea, at Epping Forest. The
company also treat them most kindly, and subsaibe £250
a year to their Aid( fund. It must .be borne in mind that
these men are net mechanics ; and that although the labour
is severe it is not incessant, but intermittent. and they re-
ceive,:3&fs
men
ea eps;:intantdhetha
littllte
around
would r in addition to their
wages,
mp en allowance of 'beer per
day each
haveeac hmhanna.
it.,
theirdecl
demands were acceded to fti,
, e probability is that the public
tnli6't
might suffer, from the n
in the price of gas. Duringece"ity which would ensue of .a, rise
to their employment without any Thursday, the new men 'went
will only be an injury to the frmyillint.eoslestatical, and the resul
thus'foolishly thrown themselves of the men who bav
out of emplo•

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CURIOUS CASE.—The Tynemouth magistrates laid down
an important rule on Monday. A carrier in North Shields
entered into a.public-house, and meeting a member of the
same trade as himself, demanded, before a public company,
£lO that he was owing hini. Instead of giving him the
121oney, the carrier gave him a black eye. The bench,
,airftg, to the ruling of the judges, maintained that the
'watt Justified is whftt be had done, as no pne had
a light,to get into a Rublio. cOmnany and demand A debt.
TheY thlitt*, dionissod