The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-22 00:00:00

THE WAGES MOVEMENT.

THE STRIKES IN THIS READY-MADE CLOTHING BUST-
NESS.—Very few persons out on strike belonging to the
following trades have returned to work, the employers
refusing to make the required advance, viz., shirt and
other under-clothing makers, tailors, slopworkers, cap
and waistcoat makers, parasol and umbrella coverers,
and women's boot and shoe makers. The employers
have offered to each branch additional pay, which, how-
ever, the turnouts refuse as not being sufficiently remu-
nerative, when considered with respect to the present
high prices of provisions. For instance shirt makers re-
ceive for the most inferior work from lid. to 2d. for
each garment, and working extremely hard they can only
at the utmost earn 6d, per day, whilst for the best they
at most receive ls., the work on which is extremely
minute, and occupies the poor needlewomen fully 21
hours, being a day of twelve hours and three quarters,
which is scarcely better than the slopworker. Although
placards have been extensively posted offering an ad-
vance, few of the strike hands intend to go in until the
full amount of wages applied for is granted.
THE STRIKES OF PLASTERERS, &c.—The plasterers
and others connected with the building trade, who had
struck for an advance of 10 per cent. on their wages,
have returned to work, the masters and contractors
having complied with the demand ; the consequence
that is the works at several new buildings, which had
been stopped, and workmen in other branches discharged,
have been resumed, and are now progressing rapidly.
THE DYERS' STRIKE AT MANCHESTER.—A reward of
201. has been offered for the discovery of a person who
threw a large paving-stone at Mr. Crabtree, a master
dyer, as he was passing along Ancoats-street, on Mon-
day evening. Fortunately, the offender missed his aim,
and Mr. Crabtree escaped without injury. The city
magistrates yesterday felt themselves compelled to make
an example of a respectably dressed woman, who threw
a stone at the son of an operative dyer, and called him
a " knobstick," by committing her to hard labour for
14 days. Although the strike has now lasted 11 weeks,
and the dyers have only received 2,0001. in subscrip-
tions, they declare their intention to persevere.
GLASGOW.—STRIKE OF THE CABMEN.—On Monday
morning the greater number of the Glasgow cabdrivers
and strappers struck work for an advance of wages.
Their weekly wage, at present, averages from 12s. to
135., although it is pretty well understood that they
manage to increase their income by gratuities. They
demand 3s. a week above their present allowance, and
if this were to represent the whole amount of their earn-
ings, no one, we should think, would grudge it to them.
The employers have, for the most part, conceded the
demand in the meantime, but we hear it said that they
will take an early opportunity to free themselves from
a claim, the concession of which has been forced upon
them. Some inconvenience was felt at the railway
stations in the morning from the absence of the cabs,
but the traffic was resumed in the course of the day.—
Scottish Guardian.

JOURNEYMEN CARPENTERS.—A meeting of the above
body of operatives, amounting to at least 150, took
place at the Royal George Inn, Salop-street, on Monday
evening. Mr. G. Whittall was unanimously voted to
the chair. Several speeches were made by the men, ex-
pressive of dissatisfaction at the present low rate of
wages, and a resolution proposed by Mr. Adams, ex-
pressive of their determination to obtain an increase of
sixpence per day, was received with a universal shout,
and carried unanimously. The meeting was then ad-
journed for one week, when it is appointed to meet at
the same place. The operatives were much more orderly
than on any former occasion, and many of them stated
their unwillingness to come to any strike, yet stated their
determination to come to that important step rather
than work at the present rate of remuneration. It is
expected at the next meeting that a delegate, either
from Manchester or Nottingham, will be in attendance
to explain the steps that have been taken for obtaining
an increase of wages in those towns.—Wolverhampton
Herald.