The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

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TIIE SHIPIV.RIGHTS' STRIKE.

The Jersey shipwrights and others who have been
engaged by Messrs Young, Son, and Magnay, as substi-
tutes for the London Uaion men on strike, resumed
their work yesterday, in Limehouse Dock, and were not
interrupted or ill-used ; but owing to the threats of the
union men, their savage and outrageous conduct to the
men from the outports on Saturday, and the general
hostile attitude of the union shipwrights, 100 police-Con-
stables, under the control of Mr. Howie, Superintendent
of the K division, were stationed in and about Messrs.
Young's premises the whole of the day, and a large re-
serve of the Thames po ice in Wapping, the M division
in Southwark, the H division in Whitechapel, and the
G division in Finsbury, were assembled at the respec-
tive station-houses the whole of Monday and yesterday,
and will be mustered again to day.
Sir Richard Mayne and Captain Harrison (assistant
commissioner of police) visited Limehouse on Monday,
and the most perfect arrangements have been made for
the preservation of the public peace, and to secure the
freedom of labour, and the free exercise of the will of
those who think proper to accept the terms offered by
Messrs. Young, eon, and Magnay. Some of the new
hands from Southampton, who were cruelly mat-treat.
ed by the London men on Saturday, being afraid of a
repetition of this outrage, did not came to work on
Monday ; but having ascertained that they would
be effectually protected by the police and by
their new masters, resumed their work yesterday
morning. In the course of the day a -notice, arm
ponied-onetheegaten of -Messra.--Young;"Siti,
nay's premises, requesting all the workmen on strike
who had left their tools in the yard when the turn-out
took place to fetch them away. This looks as the firm
were determined not to employ the old hands again ;
indeed, the places of a great many of them have been
filled up by the Jersey hands, 50 in number, and by
shipwrights from the outports. Four of the men who
were attacked and beaten in so cowardly a manner by
the London union shipwrights on Saturday were under
medical treatment until yesterday, when two of them
resumed their labours. The others are reported to be
going on favourably. Mr. George Frederick Young,
the principal of the firm, ever a good friend to the work
ing classes, and Mr. Charles Magnay, the junior partner,
were threatened and grossly insulted. Mr. Sidney
Young, in protecting his father, was ill-used ; but it was
reported that he had ample satisfaction, and being in
possession of both pluck and science, knockedl down six
or seven of the ruffians who were ill-using the new hands
in succession. The violence of the union men has done
much injury to their cause, and there is no prospect of
an arrangement of the unhappy dispute between ,the
employers and those lately employed. A private
meeting of the Shipwrights' Union was held at the
E•liaburgh Castle Tavern, Limehouse, on Monday
night. It is not known • what was the determination
of the meeting. There is no lack of funds on the
part of the Shipwrights' Union. The men on strike
had been allowed 255, a week ever since they left Messrs.
Young, Son, and Magnay's employ, and it has been given
out by the union men that there is 17,0001. in hand.
Messrs. Young, Son, and Magnay proposed to abolish
the lunch time from eleven to half-past, and the refresh-
ment half hour from four until half-past, and to permit
the men to have an hour for breakfast and an hour to
dinner, arid to leave work half an hour earlier in the
evening and ono hour and a half earlier on Saturday.
By this arrangement there would have been only two
interruptions to business per day instead of four, and
the actual working hours would have been the same as
on the old system, except on Saturday, when they would
have besn one hour less. Tee London ship wrights,
however, consider the proposed change as an invasion
of their "rights and privileges," and will not agree to
The rallying cry of the union men is, " We won't
give up our 'levener and tourer," meaning the halthour
in the morninc, and the half-hour in the afternoon, and
nobody would have found fault with them for this deter-
mination, althonotek they had deprived themselves of em-
ployment, if they hail not, by bribery, gross violerce,
and intimidation, attempted to prevent others, willing to
comply with Messrs. Young, Son, and Magnay's regu-
lations, from entering into agreements with them. No
such privileges have hitherto been accorded to the ship-
wrights in the outports. The " 'levener " and the
"fourer " are peculiar to the port of London.