The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-24 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Every avenue leading to Union-hall Police Court
was crowded by a mob of men, women, and boys, As
early as eight o'clock this morning, waiting in full
expectation for the arrival of the prisoners taken intri
custody last night on Kennington-common, for nt,
structing the police in their duty, and creating dis-
turbances.

They were doomed to be disappointed, as all thr,
charges will be investigated before the Magistrates a
Bow-street. Finding that their friends who were iv.;
custody did not make their appearance, they vented
their spleen on the police,_ by hissing and shouting ni
every one that passed. Several men were taken into
custody, and held to bail for their future conduct.

THE ORIGIN OF THE TURN-OUT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

'Sig—We find in your paper of the 19th ult. a let-
tcr,of Messrs. Bayley, of Staleybridge, which letter
you state to have been addressed to one of the local
papers. Now, as this. letter of William Bayley and
Brothers, and other letters of a like description have
gone the round of the public press, and as the inhabi-
tants of Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge know
the.real facts of the case, so they know this letter of
Messrs. Bayley to be a base fabrication as to tfireal
truth of the matter, and written expressly for th&pur-
pose of misleading the public.
'William Bayley and Brothers state in their letter
that they only offered- a reduction of one halfpene •
per piece, which. was only one half the reductii;;!
which had been made by others, and this reduction,
the: state, they offered, because they found they were
paying L,,,,he! wages - than others for similar descrip-
tions a croth. :Now any candid reader may see that
William Bayley an4-..l3,:Athrwirpthers are disguising the
ese they. would have
"- real truth. of the case e+
given the exact price they pain :lel: piece for different
kinds of cloth, and the price other in asters paid per
-piece for similar kinds of cloth, as we did in the Man-
ehe.ster and Salford Advertiser of the instant.
We will here give a specimen of prices paid by three
different masters, before the present reduction was of.
fered by Bayley's firm, by which your readers may
form their own opinion :—Paid by Messrs. Mellor, 72
reed,- 27 inches, 29 yards, 76 picks, l I+l per piece ;
paid by Messrs. Raynor, 72 reed, 27 inches, 29 yards,
76 picks, llid. per piece; paid by Messrs. Mellor, 72
reed, 36 inches, 88 picks, 121 d. per piece ; paid
by Messrs. Bayley and 'Brothers, .72 reed, 36
inches, 88 picks, • 12d. per piece. Thus you.
see
.that Messrs. ,Bayley commenced a new- reduction
of wages of- one halfpenny per piece, • according to
their oivn statement, as to the amount of the redac-
tion, when, at the same time, paying one farthing per
piece less than other masters, as set forth in the above
specimen of prices, before they offered this new re-
duction. And we can prove that Messrs. Buckley.
of Moseley, in the immediate vicinity of Staleybridge
are paying •124 d. per piece for the same kind of cloth
as what Bayley's are havimr: worked for 101-d. per piece.
We now leave the lying monster of 'Nat= Bayley
to writhe out of the difficulty he has brought upte]
both himself and millions of our fellow creatures.
Yours, most respecttUlly,
THE OPERATIVE COMMITTEE OF
AS lITON - LINDE R-1, YNE.