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London, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

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The half-yearly meeting of this fund was held on Friday;
at the-office, 24, Cecil-street, Strand ; Mr. C. L. Grunehren
in the chair. The report, which was adopted on the motion
of the chairman, seconded by Mr. J. H. Doyle, stated
that the committee regarded the progress of the institution
as highly assuring. In their last report they spoke with
confidence of a large prospective increase in the number
of members. This anticipation has been realised by an
'accession of 30 new members, sheaving in the aggregate an
enrolment of 240, of whom 162 are resident in London,
and the remaining 78 in the country. The grants during
the past year amounted to £lO5, and the cases were of
such a character as to afford conclusive proof of the
utility an•.l value of the institution. The annual
dinner took place at Willis's Rooms on the 6th June,
under the presidency of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, and was in all respects a signal
success. The donations amounted to £l,OlO 10s., £625
of which was received at the close of the half year, and
the balance is in progress of collection. This very mate-
rial increase of the society's funds was obtained at an
actual expenditUre, immediately connected with the
dinner of £lO9 Gs. 6d. The investments, balance at the
bankers', and donations receivable, exclusive of the annual
income from members' subscriptions, amounted to £4,744
on the 30th June. Vacancies in the committee of manage-
ment having been filled up, votes of thanks were passed
to the president, vice-presidents, auditors, secretary, and
chairman, and the proceedings terminated.

TRADES UNIONS AND FREE LAI3OUR.
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The most remarkable events (says the Times) which have
recently occurred in connection with trades unions in
the metropolis have been the secession of a number of
the members of the Tailors' Protective Society from that
body and the formation by the secessionists of an inde-
pendent association, which aims at reconciling the in-
tcrsts of employers and employed. The promoters of
the new society allege that they have retired from the
Protective Association on account of the mal-administra,-
tion of its funds during the strike of last year. At their
first meeting the chairman stated that during part of the
period allucled to, while the operatives were receiving an
insignificant "scale," the executive of the Protective
Society were not only drawing considerable salaries from
the funds, but were also charging considerable sums to the
treasurers for travelling expenses. The chairman on the oc-
casion to which we have referred, also stated that while
the principles of the new society were favourably consi-
dered by a large number of the masters, they had been re-
jected or deprecated by most of the men to whom they
were submitted. The meeting was interrupted by a section
of the Protective Society, who had evidently attended
for the purpose of obstructing the proceedings, and the
chairman was addressed by some of the most prominent
among their number in language so extravagant and scur-
rilous as to afford a significant example of the tyrannical
action of those who inveigh with such vehemence against
the oppression which they urge they are compelled to suffer
at the hands of their employers. One young man who had
supported a resolution recommending the meeting to sup-
port the new organisation was evidently so terrified by the
manifestation of feeling evinced against it that he retracted
all that he said, on the ground that he did not under-
stand the purport of the proposition of which he was
advocating the adoption. The council of the new society
will, we understand, comprise an equal number of masters
and operatives. Though it has been sought to frustrate
its institution by the most strenuous opposition, the
numerous accessions which have been recently made to
its ranks afford hope that success will follow the efforts of
the men who are opposing those who are endeavouring to
secure the monopoly of labour by the most unscrupulous
agencies.

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