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ployere or employed, or the qualifications or period of
service. Ido also further declare.chat I have no purpose
or intention to call in question the rigbt of any man to
follow any honest calling in which he
may desire to en-
gage, or to nilko what arrauge4knt, and wage what
workmen he pleases, upon whatever terms they ohooss
mutually to agree.

" (Signed)
" Dated the day of
(" Signed)
" Witness,
" 5. That no member of this association shall engage
any workmen who have been previously in employment
elsewhere without ascertaining from what establishment
he was discharged, and whether the cause of his leaving
had any reference to any infringement of the objects of
the foregoing resolutions.
" 6. That no member of this association shall, on any
pretext whatever, permit or submit to dictation, inter-
iesence, or direct or indirt et tampering with the MB-
nage,ment of his establishment, or the engagement or
conditions of the service of his workmen ; but that
when,.ver nnv attempts are made to abrogate or com-
promise ti a free operetios of the foregoing provisions,
such men.b r shalt at once apply, if he requires it, for
the advice, award, and easistaece of the executive com-
mittee, who shall be bound to afford to him every as-
sistance and support called for by:: the circumstances
of the particular
"7. That in the event cf a strike or turn-out occur-
ring in the establishment of' any member of this asso-
ciation for reasons, or from causes which shall, in the
opinion
of the executive committee, entitle the employer
so assailed to its countenance and suppert, it is hereby,
and shall continuo to bs, distinctly understood that all
the members of the association shall sustain,
eccording
to. their power and
asFociation abilpy, such member in unholding
the objects of the , it being exprevsly' under-
stLod and declared that no acts shall warrant the inter-
ference of this committee, except such as it is the de-
clared object of the foregoing provisions to prevent.
" 8. That in order, as far as possible lies in the power
of this association, to obviate any inconvenience which
may arise to meritorious workmen for being deprived of
any advantages they may fancy they derive from the
legitimate objects, from which existing trades' unions or
societies have been diverted, this association gives full
power and authority to the executive committee, to sub
mit for its sanction a plan for the establishment, of a
new, sound, and legitimate benefit society."
A long discussion followed upon reading of the
above document, and which ended in a resolution to
embody an answer in an address, of which the follow-
ing are the most important passages :
" We believe that the resolutions of the Employers'
Association express the spirit of the most utter despo-
tism—that in tact, they violate the law which wisely
allows of peaceable combinations among all
_classes—
, thattli9y aentrayane the secoguised_ptint4plei of;-com•
menial liberty—that they biseathictheraiifermintitforile
impose an abhorrent slavery upon all those whose only
property is their labour—that they have a tendency to
crush that liberty of action which is essential to the
welfare cf a people—that they are opposed to the in-
terests of the general public—and that they degrade and
disgrace humanity. These may be thought strong
terms, but they are fully justified by the tyranny which
provokes them, for never yet in the history of a free
people was such a yoke of serfdom attempted to beim-
posed upon its commercial and industrial masses.
" Employers of labour should refuse their assent to
these monstrous propositions, because their own free
action is shackled by them. If they are adopted, the
manufacturers will no longer be able to engage whom
they please. They are by the first resolution prohi-
bited from admitting into their establishments any mem-
ber of any society which takes cognizance of the con-
tracts between employers and employed. By the second
resolution they are prohibited from receiving any de-
putation even from their own workmen, and are com-
pelled to dismiss any one connected with such depu-
tation. By the fourth resolution the terms upon
which alone they shall engage their own workmen are
authoritatively dictated to them by this disgraceful asso-
ciation. By the fifth resolution they are prevented from
employing any man who shall have offended against the
arbitrary will of any former employer. By the sixth
resolution they are bound to abide by the award of the
Employers' Executive, as to any disputes respecting the
internal management of their own establishments; and
by the seventh resolution they will, if they consent to
it, bind themselves to take part in the quarrels of every
other factory, and at their own risk and cost—at the
expense of the cessation of their own business--to up-
hold any individual acts of oppression which the Execu-
tive Committee may think fit to sanction.
" We ask you, employers of England, whether you
will consent to abdicate your own right of free action—
to endanger your position—to subject yourselves to con-
tinual embroilments—to risk your business—to alienate
your workmen, in order to serve the selfish ends of a
few unworthy members of your own body, led on by an
unprincipled mercenary hireling? We entreat you to
pause—to think well, both for your own sakes and for the
sake of others, before you take so rash, unwise, unjust
end precipitate a step. . • • • •
"To the general public we appear for countenance,
support, and help. We trust that there is enough of
good feeling to put down oppression in its foulest form,
wherever it shows its head. We think that in the
sturdy English character there is that love of fair play
which will not countenance an organization riding
rotieh-sl-lod over isolated individuals forbidden to unite.
Thousands of Vie leading class, in consequence-of the
power of large accumulated capitals, are passing day by
day into she ranks of these who live by labour und wages.
Thousands more, struggling in the vortex of competition,
sec only the same lice in store for their children. Our
cause is theirs, their interests and our own are identical.
Ev,n now, cut of the earnings of labour, the mein por-
tion of the retail trade of ne c ?wary is supported. The
degradation of the skillets labourer involves the loss, if
not the ruin, of the tie:des/nen. . • • •
"For ourselves, our own minds ate made up. So long
as we have hearts to feel, brains to think, tongues to
speak, we will cry afoul against this threatenee infrac-
tion of all duty alike to God and man. So long as any
legal means of resistance are left to us we will struggle
against the treachery, the falsehood, the despotism of the
Employers' Asseceitiot; and if itiose, means at last
should fail us, although that is a result beyond proba-
bility, seemly within the oouuas of possibility, we, and
thousands at cur back, tattier than yield an unconditional
submission, will be prepared to carry with us to other
lands that skill and industry which we are not allowed
freely to exercise upon our nativ
from the arrogant, heartless . tyrants anndowthsuese
seek to
hrawr • wills the rule
lord it over us—to make their arbitrary
soil,
l thatl wealth which
of our lives—the means of employing
well-being of their
e more than the lives or
they value
fellow-men.
By order of the Council,
Jess MUST°, President.
a that. ALLAN, Secretary.
Alto-street, Whitechapel, Jan. 29:
"London, 23, Little

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NRE2 ITLEWDA Y WITH.
caol EuNiN
.iCIOENs
meeting
MEETING
Til EE OF Fs
numerously-attendedTi i 'E
with the Eoafsteenrn
oarkmen connected
Counties Railway works, took place ginLeearstini;ighwt
at the Coach and
nrsturieem bdplutco eontosegueonwardst upon an intimation
the course advisa-
ble
,tne.t, Groocb, superinten-
dent •
dent of the locomotive depar
that any workman
thrown
given on the previous day by Mrn
Horses Inn, Stratford, to n,icir
ho
In to
i out of g b
het
ner"
the support of the men
pursue
r
dischargEd from the c by the strike, should be
was taken by an eng ir. company's service. The chair
eer.
na
A formal statement having been made by the men
to whom Mr. up n
°eh had expressed his intention,
several workmen
the indignation which vent' in strong language, to
to be an ich they felt at what they con-
ceived
with t uncalled for and unwarrantable inter-
ferencethe
money
for he expenditure at their own choice, of
which they worked so hard.
Mr. Davis read
a circular issued by the Employ-
ers' Association,
to the containing eight propositions rela-
tingterms
future.
nwlich men were recommended
to be employed in
Mr. W. ALLAN who, with Mr. Davis and Mr.
Morrison, attended as a deputation from the executive
council of the Amalgamated Society, strongly con-
demned the circular above referred to. Mr. R.
Owen had brought his " five facts" before the atten-
tion of the world, and Mr. O'Connor his " six points
of the People's Charter," but now the Masters' As-
sociation came forward with their eight abominations.
—(Hear, hear.) The masters were condemning and
seeking to put down all associations upon the part of
the men, whilst they were in the very act of forming
an association amongst themselves on the most ob-
noxious principle.—(Cheers.) He recommended to
the workmen firmness and union, not to be intimi-
dated by the threats of Mr. Goocb, but to do their
duty, by out.,Gribios ao hitherto to th _ e support of
their fellow-workmen.—(Hear, hear.) The men on
the railways had done their nobly work
throughout
the country; and, as ene instance, he• would mention
that the Crewe men had last week forwarded 501.
towards the support of the movement, and be hoped
the men of Stratford would imitate their example.
Mr. D. Moanisort addressed the meeting at some
length, bearing testimony to the support afforded to
the movement by the trade societies of London gene-
rally; after which the following resolution was una-
nimously adopted :___.
" This meeting, being of opinion that they have a right
to expend their wages in such manner as they think
proper, do hereby pledge themselves to support the
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, &c., to the fullest
extent iii their power, and will in the meantine cheer_
fully subscribe one day 's wages per week."

aa cijourned.inquest was held by Mr. Bedford,
THE DEATHS ON BOARD THE HAMILLA,
oMfitchell,
—Yesterday _ MITCHELL.
Henry Wade,
at the Marquis of tirestmirster, B 1
e•Arave-roaa • l•
ftattescrttwt,.4intghethell:ltneautiha , Pimlico, as
Captain
toogetdhe2sci,rocnnemos
Holmes, of Glasgow, trading from Hartle
This is the thinsd man that has died s pool to Hong-Kong.
ship in the S. Ratherme Docks ;
and. since the arrival of the
of debility, lying on s. mie old straw in he was in such a state
filth, that hp was obliged to be carried his berth in a mass of
his brother-in-law's house in ,G.ii to a cab and taken to
bridge-road, where he was att"n 1 Inghmstreet, Vauxhall-
ton-terrace. He was then in' ded. by Mr. Mackin, of AN'il.
in his bed, and so reduced thata dying state, unable to move
He died on Wednesday week
he was a complete skeleton.
diarrhoea, the result f
rum exhaustion caused by
of want of
were examined, but the proper food. Several witnesses
the facts already known evidence did not add materially to
again adjourned for further and
eventually the inquest was
r inquiries.
TUE AMAZON.
°°1,1,, JAN. 28.—A boat belong-
ing to the Amazon Was washed on shore W. of Muddefor
yesterday. The footboard
uppears to have been ripped up
four half-boots were found in her. From the marks on th e
Beats
it appears that
thirteen persons had been in hitr.