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SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT TUE ITCHEN FERRY, SOUTH-
AMPTON.- -On Saturday evening, as the son of Mr.
Gore, of Hamble Cliff, Southampton, was driving home
in his dog-cart, accompanied by a groom, the horse, in
passing the railway, took fright at the ncise of an engine
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progress justify the character which has been as-
cribed to them, as an industrial revolution. There
is hardly a class or employment which has not
" struck," and which has not more or less obtained
its demands. Colliers, miners, smelters, shipwrights,
carpenters, masons, bricklayers, painters, down at
last to slopmakers and seamstresses, have caught
the soft infection and struck for an advance of
wages. The builders complain that the demands
already conceded have increased the expense of
house-building 11 per cent., and say that if the
further demands now made are granted it will raise
the cost so much more. We are paying nearly half
as much again for our seaborne coal as we were in
the summer, and the railways will not be far be-
hind ; nay, they have very little choice, for all the
railway labourers are striking. A strike, too, is
only a sign of a good deal which is passing unob-
served, for it is a matter of prudence to anti.
cipate a strike if possible, and so dispense with
its delays and other disagreeables. Even police-
men talk of striking ; and, as we had lately
four days without cabs, we are threatened
with three days without protection, and three days
without letters. We presume we shall then be a
week without bakers' bread, another without milk,
another with fresh meat. Some are too powerful
to find a strike necessary, and others are already
too much on the free trade system. There will
not, therefore, be a strike of the omnibuses, the
clergy, the costermongers, or any other ordinary
trades. Our roads may not be watered, or our
,amps lighted, through the sudden recusancy of
die Aquarius who sprinkles our pavement, or the
Vesperus who lights up our evening star ; but our
miserably ill-paid pastors evidently recoil from the
twful experiment of closing our churches for a
Sunday. The omnibuses and the river steamers
aise or lower their fares at discretion, and want no
strike. They get what they want without it.
There are classes, too, that, in the nature of things,
cannot strike. Agricultural labourers have great
tifficulty in striking, and in most parishes, parti-
ailarly in the south of England, there are certain
..unpleasant recollections of the agrarian emeutes
wenty years since. In such cases wages will find
heir level ultimately without strikes, and much
Oetter it is that they should, though it is not at all
)ur place to dictate to any body of men come to
ears of discretion, and possessed of strength
tnd skill, whether they shall strike or not, or in
vhat manner they shall then prosecute their just
lemands, so long as they confine themselves to
honeht, open, and peaceful methods. A man
las just as much right to ask ss. 6d. a day for his
labour, or, what comes to the same thing, to ask
is. for a shorter day's labour than before, as an-
,ther man has to ask to-day 2s. 6d. for a bushel of
apples, which yesterday could be got for 25., or to ask
.;s. for a bushel of inferior quality. Again, as it is
obvious that no one can get what he thinks justice if
to is not properly backed up by the others in the
same case, so no just and reasonable person can
leny the right of a whole trade, or a whole class,
lombining quietly to present their demand or their
bill of grievances, and to stand by it.
We have been invited, not to say besought, to
interfere on both sides, or rather on all sides ; but
it evidently is no place of ours to fix the price of
any article, or the particular manner of obtaining it.
From the time that we read of labourers standing
idle in the market-place, and very much earlier,
labour of all kinds has been a marketable commo-
lity. If ironmasters or millowners can dine toge-
ther, and settle over their wine the price of "pigs"
,)r the wages of a cotton spinner for the next month,
why may not operatives of all classes do the same ?
this, however, seems to be admitted. We have,
then, only to offer some words of caution, and
they are most wanted just now, as it seems to us,
on the side of the aggressive and triumphant party
—the working class. In the first place, let them
beware how they go too far, by asking too much.
No trade can go ou long which is not profitable,
tad, if it is not, the longer it goes on, the worse for
all classes concerned in it. Employers, as it is, are
tlways too much disposed to go on ; rivalry, regard
to appearances, the necessity of keeping up credit,
and all the instincts of trade are in favour of going
on. But when all the employers in a trade have
;one on much too long, there must ensue stagnation
tnd bankruptcy, throwing many thousands of the
employed out of work for nobody can say how long.
Wages are a most important element in all trades
—more important, perhaps, than the working-man
is apt to imagine, as he seldom takes the trouble to
sum up all the wages paid by an employer—say
weekly, at a mill, or in the building of a ship or a
house. It should be considered, too, that often
the first to offer better wages are those who are the
least capable of paying them long, and who will
be the first to give in at a general stagnation ;
so that new employers who lead the way in a
rise of wages, and give the signal for a strike, may
possibly take the lead at a reduction, not to say
an entire cessation of employment. But there
are more important cautions to be offered. We
wish we could believe working people were always
fair to their employers, and, what is quite as im-
portant, always fair to one another. Intimida-
tion, in any form whatever, is not fair, and so
long as a working man can say that he would go
on working at the present rates if he dared to do
so, but dares not, there is intimidation. In the
present state of the labour market, with so many
opportunities offering themselves on all sides, far
and near, there can be no reason why one man, or
why 20 men, should not quietly withdraw, or stand
out for better wages, without the least attempt to
interfere with others content to go on at the old
rates. Combination of a coercive kind cannot be
necessary when the market is so much one way.
When a strike lasts long, it may be little more than
a holiday for those who start with money in their
pockets, or who have light families ; but it is cruel
work for men with heavy families and light purses.
Wives and children are half-starved, school is given
up, domestic comfort disappears, and, perhaps, the
happiness of a young family is blighted for ever by
the horrors of a long strike with inadequate provision
for it. But the effect of intimidation is not confined to
the weaker class of the employed. It reaches all the
rest. Capital is the most sensitive of all things, and
skrinks from intimidation as from a plague. Who
will sink his 20,0001.,—who will lend his money to
another man doing so,—who will plant his inflam-
mable buildings, his delicate machinery, which
spoils even with idleness,—who will fix his fortunes,
and strike downward the great tap root of his
family, in a place where men are plotting, threat-
ening, scowling, and using words and signs of un-
intelligible, yet fearful import ? There are chemi-
cal experiments of such a surpassingly delicate
nature that they are arrested and spoilt if the door
does but open, if the sun does but cast a single
beam on the vase. Not less delicate are the great
experiments of industry, and new investments of
capital, and credit. The poet's figure of the hind,
that starts at the rustling of a lizard in the bush,
expresses but feebly the slightness of the incident
that may shake the confidence of a iarge employer,
or destroy his credit. Therefore capitalists and
manufacturers shun places given to strikes.
Hence the comparative desertion of many places
that oncepromised to be great and wealthy. Peo-
ple ask why they don't increase, and why the
population are poor. The answer is, their frequent
strikes.
What we have said is on the general impolicy
of strikes when their object can be obtained by
a good understanding with employers. But,
supposing that men will strike, seeing no other
way to procure proper attention to their claims,
then we beg to suggest a few considerations, of
which they ought, and eventually will, feel the
importance. We presume that men who strike
en masse, and affect a high tone with their
employers, will find it a great degradation to come
on the parish at any future period of their lives,
and will strain their utmost not to do so. We
presume that, should they be getting wages to their
mind, they will secure their wives and children
from ever coming to the parish. Nothing can
be more ridiculous than a battle of wages
with parochial relief in reserve. We presume,
too, that there will be so much honour among
those who strike, especially among the foremost,
that they will not desert their comrades, particu-
larly those they have misled We happen to
know a case, which we believe to be by no
means singular, strongly illustrating the notions
of honour apt to prevail in these quarters. A
young, but very clever and accomplished carver in
wood, by the recommedation of a friend, procured
employment at the works for the new Houses of
Parliament. As soon as he got to the work he
found that, by a rule of the men themselves, he
could not be put to the higher branches till after a
certain period, and accordingly could only be
allowed plain work, far below his powers, and only
a certain quantity of that every day. This was at
a time when the public was crying out loudly
against delay ; and a large proportion of the men
who imposed these arbitrary rules were foreigners.
After a, time they struck for an advance of wages,

and the new hand, who, having a wife to maintain,
would gladly have gone on at existing rates, was
obliged to go out with the rest. By and by
they came to terms with the authorities of Bank-
side ; but so far from insisting on the em-
ployment of the whole of those who had
gone out with them, they sacrificed all the
new hands, being themselves glad enough to
diminish the competition. This, we repeat, is
by no means a singular case ; on the contrary, we
have frequently met with men who complained
bitterly that, after being compelled to strike against
their will, they subsequently found that the origi-
nators and leaders of the strike privately arranged
with the masters for their own return, and left the
others in the lurch. At the conclusion of a strike
it generally happens that a good number of the
working men must be thrown overboard, simply
because their places have been meantime supplied ;
and the foolish ones who go in the+erowd, merely
following the lead, are generally selected for the
victims. Being the quietest, ,they suffer with the
least noise. Some of our great strikes would form
very interesting stories, but by no means creditable
to the principle agents. We just throw this out as
a proper caution to men embarked or embarking
in these perilous adventures. They don't trust
their employers—let them see that their fellow-
workmen are worthy of confidence, and whether
they escape bad management, bad feeling, and bad
principle by going lower in the scale for their
leaders and advisers.