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Mr. A. J. Otway and his Constituents.

On Saturday evening Mr. Arthur J. Otway, the
member for Chatham, addressed a crowded meet-
ing of his constituents in that borough, on Reform
and the other leading topics of the day. The chair
was taken by Mr. J. Baird, who briefly opened the
proceedings by alluding to the services rendered by
Mr. Otway since he had been returned as the repre-
sentative of that borough.

Mr. OTWAY, who met with a very warm and
cordial reception, said, since last he had the honour,
of addressing the electors of Chatham, the Tory
Administration had undertaken to deal with the
all-engrossing question of Reform, after defeating
the former Ministry because they had attempted to
settle that question, and had brought in a bill which
from its crude state and the unsatisfactory nature
of its leading provisions would still longer postpone
the final settlement of this great question. The
course pursued on this question by the Conserva-
tive party, in first. opposing the moderate and emi-
nently satisfactory bill of the late Government, and
then attempting to legislate on this question in the
manner they had, was most dishonest, the result
being that that party had done more to bring Par-
liament into contempt than anybody of men since
the corrupt days of Walpole and Pelham. That
party bad succeeded in ejecting Mr. Gladstone from
power, and bad brought in a measure which, if the
Liberals did their duty, as he hoped they would,
could be made to go very much further than any-
thing proposed by the late Ministry. In its present
state the bill of the Tory Government would have
an inappreciable effect in enlarging the borough con-
stituencies, and, while it unsettled everything, would,
so far from settling the Reform question, cause a
renewal of the agitation to a greater extent than be-
fore. The amendments on the bill proposed by Mr.
Gladstone had been defeated by a majority of those
who had deserted from the Liberal ranks, and what-
ever their motives might have been for that course
certainly their logic, when they were properly called
to account by their constituents, was most defective.
He observed that his excellent friend, Mr. Bass,
grounded his reasons for supporting the bill on the
circumstance that the bill was so thoroughly bad he
thought it better to vote for it in the hope of mak-
ing it better. The time for the question of rating,
composition rates, and other matters of that kind
was now gone by, and the best course for the Liberal
party to adopt was to show their loyalty to the con-
stitution and propose household suffrage, pure and
simple. He believed that such a measure would
settle this question for some time to come, and surely
there was nothing iu the conduct or proceedings of
the working_ classes to make them at all distrustful
of them. The Coa§eryatiye party treated the ad-.

mission of the working classes to the franchise as
if they were fighting with an enemy, and they
therefore were desirous of adopting a system of
weights and checks to neutralise his power, forget-
ting that on the very first opportunity the working
classes would sweep away a'4 the barriers by which
it was attempted to confine them. The present bill
he held to be of so unsatisfactory a character in all
its leading provisions that it was altogether hope-
less for them to attempt to amend it, and therefore
he thought it far better to reject it on the third read-
ing, and to defer the question till another session,
rather than pass a measure which was universally
looked upon as eminently uns itisfactory. He was
not of those who were desirous of seeing any bill
passed so that they dealt with the question of Re-
form, because he maintained that a great constitu-
tional change of this Character ought to be effected
by the friends of Reform, and not by those who
had always shown and declared themselves to be its
determined and uncompromising opponents. At the
present moment the Tories brought forward their
measure under duress, as they saw that the people
would have it. Mr. Otway then alluded to the in-
equalities in the present measure, and the unsatis-
factory nature of its principal clauses, the Act in one
town giving almost universal suffrage, as in Shef-
field, where it would give votes to 20,000, while in
Birmingham it would exclbde 36,000, It also
created an invidious classification between the rioher-
and poorer voters, inasmuch as the £lO voter was
placed on a different footing from the voter below
thet amount. There was also a fatal defect in the
bill, as it provided for no lodger franchise, which, as
Mr. Disraeli took his stand on personal rating, could
not be adopted. Mr. Otway, after alluding to other
points of the proposed measure, spoke of the parti-
ally successful efforts which he had made in Parlia-
ment to obtain the abolition of the lash in the army,
and stated his determination not to relax his efforts
until that punishment was entirely got rid of. The
hon. gentleman also entered into some remarks
respecting the present complications on the Conti-
nent, and while be expressed the hope that England
would maintain a strict neutrality, he could not
conceal the conviction that the result of hostilities
between France and Prussia would terminate in
Belgium being annexed by the former, and the
kingdom of Holland by Prussia—a result which
England could not look upon with complacency.
Mr. Otway also alluded to the Alabama claims,
which he trusted England, as she was clearly in the
wrong, would at once settle. The hon. gentleman,
after speaking for an hour and a half, resumed his
seat amid great applause, and at the termination of
his speech a resolution expressing the approval of
the meeting of the views expressed by him on the
question of Reform, and acknowledging his services
to the cause of humanity by his endeavours to ob-
tain the abolition of the lash in the army, was una-
nimously agreed to.
Three cheers each for Mr. Otway, Mr. Gladstone,
and Mr. Bright having been given, the vast audience
dispersed.

THE TAILORS' STRIKE.

GREAT MEETING OF THE MASTERS.
On Saturday afternoon there was a general meet
ing of the master tailors of the metropolis (con
vened by the Master Tailors' Association of the
United Kingdom), held at the Hanover-square
Rooms, for the purpose of determining the steps
necessary to be taken in regard to the present
strike of the journeymen tailors.
The meeting was a densely crowded and excited
one, and the large ball of ' the Hanover-square
Rooms was completely filled, there being upwards
of one thousand persons present, including either
the heads or repre-entatives of most, if not nil, the
principal West-end firms in the tailoring trade.
The CIIATIZIAN, in epeningahe proeeedings, said.'
the vast assembly of the trade showed the im-
portance which was attached to the subject upon
which they were assembled ; important not alone
to themselves as employers, but to those through
whose proceedings they had been brought together.
(Hear, hear.) That meeting proved also that the
master tailors of the metropolis were not indif-
ferent to the call which had been made upon them
to assemble together and discuss the subject of the
strike of the workmen, and to consider if such a
proceeding were justifiable on the part of the
latter. (Hear, hear.) He thought that the mas-
ters would have no difficulty in proving to the public
that day that it was not, and consequently that it
was the duty of the employers to resist it. (Ap-
plause.) If they would refer to what had taken
place last year upon this.subject, they would find
that the masters gave way to their employe's,' and
with respect to the time-log they agreed to give
them what they required, namely, 7d. instead of 6d.
per hour. Now, although last year it was their
own proposal, it was asked by the men on strike
that these sevenpences should be further increased,
and those who made this demand had the assurance
to assert that the increase-of one penny on each six-
pence conceded to them last April was only a
nominal increase. (Laughter, and Oh, oh.) How
this conclusion could be arrived at he (the chairman)
could not imagine, -for what, ho would ask, could
be more actual, and by no means nominal, than the
addition of a copper penny to a silver sixpence, all
other arrangements being left as they were before
—nothing either added to or diminished from ? In
opposition to the calculation of those who said the
additional penny was a nominal increase, he would
contend that it was a clear increase of one-sixth
when the 6d. became 7d. (Hear, hear.) But
what was still further inexplicable in the matter
on the part of the men was, that it was almost
constantly contended in support of the increase
of the number of these sevenpences they were not
asking for an increase of money, but only for a time.
(Oh, oh.) Now in his (the chairman's) opinion, in
this case at least, time is money,' for an hour here
was a synonymous term for 7d. It was just the
same, therefore, whether more hours be asked for
in the making of a coat, or mbre sevenpences for its
making. (Hear, hear.) Sometimes, also, the
speakers at the men's meetings would say that the
increased pay in a coat was only 2s. This was true
as to a footman's coat, or a gentleman's lounging
coat, which was formerly 2-1 hours, or 125., but the
price for gentlemen's superfine cloth coats had been
increased from 16s. to 18s., or from 32 hours to 36
hours, at the 7d. per hour, therefore, the increase
upon the 18s. was 35., making the 18s. coat 21s.
The fact was the manner in which these demands
were made was with the view of mystifying a plain
questiondidnot
libymixing up terms in it in a manner that
the understand, so as to make it ap-
pear that the journeymen tailors were unfairly dealt
by, which everyone present knew was not really the
fact. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BENNETT moved the first resolution :
" Resolved, that in the opinion of this meeting the
time-log of the Amalgamated Society presented by
London operative tailors to their employers is unfair,
and ought to be resisted ; and that the action of the
Master Tailors' Association of the United King-
dom in resisting it is entitled to the full support of the
trade, and this meeting pledges itself to give them
theirapplause.) way in their power." (Loud
p
Bennett proceeded at some length
asusep.p)orti Mr.n every
to denounce the statements put forth at some of the
men's meetings, that the masters had reduced the
rate of wages, or had any desire to do so. The rate
of payment, whether by the hour or by the garment,
was what they had themselves fixed by the log of
last year. On the other hand, it was the workmen
who were attempting to coerce the. masters into
giving them increased and unfair wages. If the
trade generally would support the association in re-
sistance he bad but little doubt this strike, which
could only result in injury to the men themselves
land their families,would speedily terminate. (Hear,
hear.)
-Mr. WADE seconded • the resolution, and it was

also supported in a few observations by Mr. Landon
and Mr. Bowater.
Mr. BLACKMORE had no doubt but that the result
of that meeting would be watched with most intense
interest by men not only of their own, but of all
professions and trades. Such being the case, it be-
csmes their duty as employers to be firmly united
and determined. (Hear, hear.) Trades' unions
were on their trial, and public attention was at
that time more than ever directed to them in con-
sequence of the disgraceful disclosures recently
made before the commission appointed to inquire
into their actions. (Hear.) These combinations of
workmen were paralysing the industry of the coun-
try, and driving capital from its legitimate and
proper channels--(loud cries of " Hear")—and it
became their duty as employers, both for the sake
of the imp/oyes as well as themselves, to put forth all
their power to check their progress. (Hear, hear.)
One means of check which they had at command
was to resist.those monstrous extortions which their
paid agitators, and not the unfortunate men them-
selves, were endeavouring to draw from the em-
ployer's pocl;ets. (Hear, hear.) When once the
working man, whether a tailor or anything else, got
caught in the union net, he was no longer a free
agent. (Hear.) They must obey the orders of its
executive, contrary to their own judgment and in-
terest, to the ruin of themselves, their wives, and
iunooent tbildren. (Hear, heir.) Id taking the
step which they were about to take, notwithstand-
ing the organs of the agitators were constantly call-
, ing them " oppressors" and " degradors," he:con-
iinded that the employers were the real friends of
the working men. (Cheers.) That had been proved
by the charities they supported ; but it was neces-
sary that they should all unite, and further prove
themselves the true friends of the workmen by their
firmness in resisting this most unfair attempt at
extortion, and which would be the readiest means
of crushing this most unfair and unjust strike.
(Applause.)
Mr. SMALLPAGE said the men who had organised
this strike had begun at the wrong end of the stick,
as they generally did, for they had struck against
the best houses, where they got the best wages,
and where, according to their own admissions, they
earned scarcely ever less than from 38s. to 40s. per
week, and sometimes a great deal more. (Hear,
hear.) If they had commenced with the slop.
tailors, and helped to put a stop to the rascalities
of those who paid poor creatures at the rate of one
or two shillings a-day, then there would be some
reason in their movement, and the better class of
tradesmen would help them. (Loud cries of " hear,
hear.") They desired, they said, to help the poor
women who were made the victims of these people,
but they could not complain of the way women
were treated in the better class houses, for they were
paid at the same rate as the men. (Hear, hear.)
His firm had determined to close their establish-
ment for a year if necessary rather than submit to
this unjust demand, and if the masters were all pre-
p Ired to adopt a similar course they would soon
bring these men to their senses. (Loud applause.)
Mr. LAWRENCE, Mr. BROWN, and several others
said their firms were quite prepared to adopt the
course suggested, an announcement which was
loudly cheered.
A gentleman in the body of the meeting wished
it to be distinctly understood by the public that
there was no desire whatever on the part of the

masters to reduce the wages per hour, but they
were determined to resist the demand of an increase
now made by the men of 8d and 9d. per hour.
(Hear.)
The CHAIRMNN sail that was the real truth, and
if there were any reasonable points to be discussed
the masters were prep•ired to meet the men. As a
proof of this he held in his hand a proposal for refer-
ring a subject which might be in dispute to arbitra-
_tion. It was ,to, the following effect :—" Both parties
have agreed to refer any disputed point to an Indif-
ferent person, whose decision shall be final, and
abided by by both parties, such person to be chosen
before the beginning of the conference under the
signature of both committees." (Hear.)
The resolution was then put from the chair, and
carried unanimously, amidst loud cheering.
The CHAIRMAN said a question had been put to
him as to what was the position of the association.
He begged to state that up to that moment the
members of the association numbered 181 employers,
and they had a guarantee fund to sustain their
objects of £5,587. (Loud applause.)
Some further discussion ensued, in the course of
which it was stated that last year the increase of
wages amounted to 16 per cent., and that if the pre-
sent demands were acceded to it would make alto-
gether an increase of 35 per cent. since March, 1E66.
A vote of thanks was given to the committee of
the association for taking the initiative in the matter,
and a similar compliment being paid to the chair-
man, the meeting, which was a most excited one,
closed.,