The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-01 00:00:00

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.

This morning, in the shops, yards, and works of
the majority of the large master builders and con-
tractors in the metropolis, the system of paying and
engaging their workmen by the hour, as agreed
upon at the meeting of the Masters' Association, at
Radley's Hotel, on Monday last, was put into
operation. In the works of those employers unin-
fluenced by, or not belonging to, the association, as
well as in those who have accepted the terms of
compromise offered by the men, no alteration from
the present mode of payment will take place.
The delegates of the various trades were invited
to meet several legal gentlemen at the chambers of
Mr. T. Hughes (Tom -Brown), in Lincoln's-inn-
fields, on Thursday last, who, having heard the
statements and explanations of the men, informed
them the terms of their compromise seemed fair
and equitable. The results of this conference will
be shortly placed before the public.
The masons held a meeting on Saturday, and
having received a report from their committee of
the proceedings of the past week, a resolution was
adopted pledging the men to continue their opposi-
tion to the hour system, and their determination
not to return to work for those employers who re-
fused the terms of the compromise.
The bricklayers, in accordance with the recommen-
dation of their society, on Saturday held meetings at
all the jobs of those employers who had announced
their intention of enforcing the hour system, and
having formally entered their protest against the
system, it was forwarded to the employers, with an
intimation that they should not resume work until
the terms of the compromise were accepted. As
two out of the five branches composing the building
trades
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branches,
would struck, a conference of the whole
has been held, and it has been decided that it would
be unnecessary for the present to call out the other
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terers, and painters. These trades have therefore
met in their shops, and signified to their employers
that they accept the hour system provisionally, or
under protest, until the question is settled with the
masons and bricklayers. in the meantime, a gene-
ral levy will be made by the trades remaining at
work, towards the support of the two trades on
strike.

A meeting of carpenters employed by Mr. Myers,
of Lambeth, was held on Friday evening, at the
Sun, Mason-street, Westminster-road, after the in-
terview held with Mr. Myers, at the shop in the
earlier part of the evening, when the resolution to
accept the hour system under protest was confirmed,
presented to them by Mr. Myers to "drink
theysu
success to the hour system" was voted to the masons'
strike fund, and a weekly levy oils. per head was
also agreed upon, to be paid over to the same fund.
Fully one-half of the men attending this meeting
were what are called non-society men.

CLERICAL PREFERMENT.—The Bishop of London
has appointed the Rev. W. H. Fremantle, M.A., formerly
of Balliol College, Oxford, now Fellow of All Souls and
Vicar of Lewknor, Oxford, to be his Lordship's domestic
chaplain, in the room of the Rey, Frederick Gell, D,D„
Lord Bishop of N4drae,