The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

"ESTABLISHED ASSOCIATION,.

" Whilst thus labouring to reconcile divided interests,
we also wished to connect the future with the pre,ent by
a tew z.ew creations. Several important associations
have been founded by r:ur care. and these societies are
now at work in the middle of Paris.
" 'rho Oid btc,rs') Prison of Clichy is transformed
into one vast workshop. The j iurneymen tallt rs, corn-
Lined in one association, are there executing great works
for the State. Ww suLjoin a few detaiis of the organizaw
Lim and condition of the s ciety.
"'The Prinoiple on which the association of tailors
re,ts is fraternity. A moveabl- one, it is always open to
theor workman who presents himself at its portals, asking
work, and accepting the fraternal conditions of the
he use.

" Those conditions are, equal wages for all the asso-
ciates, equal partition of profits, and activity in de-
votion.
" A jury, appointed by election, is entrusted with the
inaintene.nce of order, and, it necessary,
!lions trom soelo7. decrees exelu-
,. Three delegatts., equally el,:ctPd by the association,
represent and administer its affairs conjointly with a
ministerial ci:mintsston.

6. The commission of examination controls the acts of
the administration.

brpossard.
"The governmental commission for
Iwiervk men is repre-
an agent
at work
sented in the association by
" The association is installed, and 'ha;
let,bo.ofo.„tutnbics at
since the commencement of the month of April,
"The Sate has given its orders for 100,000
10t. each, and 100.000 pantaloons at
of the stationary National Guard (the cloth bein,e„use
plied), and for 10,180 tunics at llf. each, and being 112, 1
pan )11 ions at 3f. each, for the moveehle Nation,' Guard
1
" Toes' wie ks cte being executed by about 1,200 asso-
ciates. Be.dtles which, the associations employs a large
number of female breeches makers out of doors.
"Notwithstanding the expenses of installation. and
materials, the association has already a profit to divide
—m Aerate it is true, as all first profits must be, but pre-
senting at once hope and encouragement for the tu-ure.
"The considerable number of workmen who presented
themselves during the first few days, and who were
obliged to take part in labour
insufficient to employ so
many hands, the somewhat disorderly' influx of the.
National Guards, who rushed in crowds to the doors of
the workshops to ask for their clothes, and the inexpe
rience of the management, so natural in the outset, at
first occasioned some confusion. 13ut measures for re-
storing order were taken, and now the associated work-
men—some assembled in the huge hall of the old parker,
the others dispersed in groups throughout the cells, are
t.working with the generous order which is inspired by
he certainty of developing a fruitful idea. What a
noble spectacle in the of struggles of universal
antagonism, t, behold midst.
by bonds oi
t 2 this great assembly of men united
sight to behetlici' closes dep-ndence! What a touching.
real liberty I The
prison becoming the first asylum of
the Charnes El, • P.. barracks of the All& des Veuves, in
founded ori the. s''..e'.3 have. received a second society
'The saddlers are treer principles of fraternal devotion.
cavalry. a working for the equipment of the
..The journeymen spinners, assembled in a third asso-
ciation, have also received large orders from the State.
Nese societies present every day to the
commission with their oxotti.hemselees
aid and approbation. The masters
their statutes, soliciting
side, come. and offer their workshops
of factories, on their
place at its disposal their implements ops to the State, and
actuated by generosity, and others of
labour 's
culat ion of chences. by an intelligent'some
cal-
. Judging from the force of the current
car-
rying away the fragments of the old state; which
is
transfcrusatiun, unless a crisis supervene' of t)ciety, the
snd speete The impulse, in short is
given,
be easy
irresistible. Everything impels, and is impetni 'dand it i,
the principle of asseciation—the saving syst; , towards
will sooner or later be blessed by those wh)
17, wads i
and calumniate it. The syswin of competitior dErzr.).
tagoni.m, that is to say, of hatred and anarchy, anfd an
order and war, abdicates its sovereignty in ie, boom die
the calamities which it has produced. Perhaps
ssotna . o
may be retarded by a few temporary oumpromisei s tali
for our parts we shall not refuse to do our best to s, and
up
.this old edifice which is cracking and crumbling on
all sides. The public may rely upon us, upon wtV,
since the revolu. ion of February, this perilous and °ea'
gra'.ct'ul necessity has only entailed Widnes almost°
superhuman, abuse, calumuies---end calumnies s too, on
the part of the very persons whose security we were
protetiting at the risk of our popularity, sometimes at
she ruck of our lives. But let there be ao mistake. The

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