The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-26 00:00:00

, COMBINATIONS IN SCOTLAND.

[From the Glasgow Chronicle of Senility.]
During the week the new hands employed at Clyde iron-works
have been progressively itbproving; and for the last two days their
overage out-put has been rather more than a cart ofeoals each a-day,
exclusive of more than double that quantity put out by the regular
colliers. The consumption of the iron-wotks, above 100 tons of
coals a day, is expected to be fully sustained by the end of next
welt. Never were there more willing labourers than those at pre.
sent employed in the pits; and they have turned out so well, even
with all the disadvantages of a first commencement, that it bas
been found necessary to change very few of them. At the comm.
sion of this day Mr. Dunlop will have given 15s. each, for a
week's labour, to about 300 necessitous and grateful men : and
while the consolation to his own feelings of supplying with bread
so many of his starving fellow-creatures, and those dependent on
them, can never be effaced, his benevolent character will rank high
In the estimation of the friends of humanity. Some of the poor
men, who had been in a famishing state before they were employed,
and who had gone down the pits in the morning fasting, fainted
from the want of food, and were Mailed to be brought up to the
air, where they were soon supplied with necessaries, on their wants
being known. Since they have got regular sustenance they have
become vigorous, and quite renovated in their appearance. On
Monday a number more of new hands are to be engaged- the'
implements for working the coal being ready for them. Thus
will between 400 and 500 men find constant employment et good
wages--a number not far short of what the city is employing
of suffering weavers, and at not a third of the wages. The new
colliers receive. every afternoon, fit. id. each, till they are taught,
when in a short time they will make double that sum at piece-
work. Henceforth there is to be none of that restriction in the
•out-put of coals in the pits, which was so long kept up by the
colliers' combination—every man is is be allowed to put out as
large a quantity as he pleases, and to work regularly every day.
This will he a most beneficial prospect for the industrious workMitn.
Duch of the new hands as have not yet been accommodated at the
works, anti go into idlasgow at night, have during this week been
frequently assailed with mud and stones, by combined colliers,
stationed at the roes! leading to %1 estthorn. Several of them have
been struck, though not seriously, and called opprobrious names.
Measures are in operation for apprehending those guilty of these
acts of intimidation. A guard now regularly accompanies the new
workmen to town, to protect them from insult. On Thursday even-
ing, while twenty of the guard and two special constables were
accompanying the new workmen to town, they were assailed in she
neighbourhood of Parkhead, the focus of the combination, with
shouts of" Dunlop's guard"—" The colliers' feneibles," he. The
guard, who bad faced enemies worth contending with in various
parts of the globe, treated such an example of disappointed malig-
nity with the silent contempt it deserved ; and for the mere pur.
pose of trying their metal, wheeled about as if to charge, when the
riltroons fled in every direction. The guard turns out early on
Monday morning, to protect the new workmen coming from town.
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The new workers are all animated with the best spirit—not one of
them will flinch from their new employment; and if they are
further molested, are determined to act in self-defence, in such a
mode as will probably be attended with serious consequences to
heir assailants.