The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLiUENCE.

MANSION- H O USE.
.INlut Lawler, a journeyman boot and shoemaker, was
brought before the LORD MAYOR, chart;' d by Mr. Sully, of
No. 49, Fenchurch-street, master, under the following cir-
cumstances. Sever-,1 of the journeymen were in attendance.
Mr. Sully state:l that the master boot and shoemakers were
greatly annoyed and injured by the union of the journeymen,
of which, he presumed, the defendant was a member. The
defendant took out work on Saturday night, and was to have
brought it in on Tuesday morning finished ; instead of which
he did net appear until Thursday morning, when he brought
it untouched. The masters were determined not to allow
themselves to be governed by the union, and resisted all the
schemes of the unioniqr, who felt indignant at such a determi-
nation. At the same time the masters did not refuse to em-
ploy the members cf the union, but as the men who worked
for them were subject to dreadful attacks from the unionists,
and some had been almost killed within the last week by fel-
lows who watched and beat them dreadfully, they were re-
solved to do all in their power to protect the individuals who
performer their eneagements.
The LORD MAYOR—What excuse did the defendant give
for not working ? Mr. Sully—Merely that he could not work,
as he was going out of town.
The defendant declared that he was engaged in no scheme,
and was no society or union man, a fact which Mr. Sully's
foreman knew. He was most desirous to work for Mr. Sully.
who bad given hint work in the previous week, and treated
him in the most handsome manner, but he had been so ex-
tremely ill on Sunday and Mo•tday as to be obliged to keep
h:s led, a-id was afterearos so weak that he thought it best to
take hem.• the stuff, that aeotlwr petson might work it. Mr.
Sully, however, thought that he had been intimidated by the
union, and would li-tea to nothing.
Mr. Sully—He admitted to use that he was intimidated by
the union, for he said they would not let him alone.
Defendant—l informed him that while• I was in bed on
Sunday and Monday the union called upon me. My L d.
this a conspiracy of the masters against the society men, but I
am not a society man.
Edward Shannon, of 31, Castle-street, Long-acre, stated
that the deft nd,nt lodged in the same room, and had been
confined to his bed on Sunday and Monday.
Mr *Laren, of Cornbill. said that as one of his men was
going on Monday and Tuesday to the west end of the town,
some of the unionists met and asked him whether he belonged
to the Union ; he replied that be did not, and was not so in-
clined. They then pressed him to drink, but he refused, and
they attacked and beat him dreadfully, and he was obliged to
keep his be&
The LORD MAYOR—And why not have the assistance of the
police? This is most horrible than men should be half-mur-
dered for working honestly.
Mr. Nl.Laren—Ev, rything is so regularly arrangod by the
union that they cat' make the attack without the chance of
bring interfered with. Our object in applying to your Lord-
ship is to have the assistance of the police to protect our men
against such desperate outrages.
The LORD MAYOR—You shall have it by all mean!. The
men well know, I dare say, what is meant by asking them to a
public-house. They are too fond of going there.
Mr. M.Lsren—No doubt of it.

Mr. Medwin, of 23, Gracechurch-street, said that the
masters had been led to organise themselves, not for combina-
tion but for the protection of the men they employed against
the violence of the, uni.:n, for although they sustained injury
themselves, their met, sust•eiued much more. He then read a
paper, which stated that the Committee of the master boot
and shoe makes society feat that they could not advance its
interests better than by laying. hete•re its members their rul,•s
and extracts from a report rti4de to them and adopted, in il-
lustration of those rules, and the principles upon which they
were based.

Mr. 1-13bler, as there w-re many journeymen who no doubt
felt an interest in the question in the justice-room, read th,
6th of George IV., cap 129, nhich punished with three
month,' imprisonment any person guilty of attempting to in-
timidate a journeymin from performing his work, &c.
The defendant most solemnly repeated that illness alone
pvvent,cl him from performing his ei,gagement, and assured
the' Lord Mayor that if Mr. Sully would again employ him
he would at once proceed to business.
The LORD MAYOR (to the cl-Tumant)—lf Mr. Sully returns
the stuff to you, when will you bring home the work finished ?
Defendant—On Saturday most as-uredly.
Mr. Sully then agreed to the suggestion of the Lord Mayor.