The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

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AT "MEE
TING of MASTER TRADESMEN and
CONTRACTORS, held at NEWTON-IN-TILE-WILLOWS,
on TITURSDAY,IIie 7th May, 1846, and which was attended by
183. representatives from the towns of Liverpool, Manchester,
Birmingham, Birkenhead, Sheffield, Bolton,- MaCclesfield,
Leeds, PrestonAllackbnrn, Stockport, Wigan, and Bury,
DAVID BELLHOUSE, Esq., in the Chair, •
The following Declaration was read by Samuel Holme, Esq., of
Liverpool:—
The Master Tradesmen and others w e iffentified with
the Building Trades, Contracts for • ways, and other Public
Works, have now for the first time, et together to consider the
position in whit% they have b placed by the combinations of
the workmen throughout e country. A deeply-rooted and
wide-spread organizatiq f trades now embraces the whole of
the British IslandsLattfl, by a change of circumstances, hut par-
ticularly by the repeal of the combination laws, employers are
no longer permitted to conduct their business as before—are no
longer able to make arrangements with 'their own workmen—
but have to submit to the most arbitrary innovations, and the
most dictatorial mandates of the central connikittee of the union
Of trades.
It is no longer possible to manage their affairs with comfort
or advantage, nor to enter into any contract with •security. All
good faith and sympathy between master and workman seems
to have been destroyed, and instead of that identity of interest
which was formerly recognised, workmen have been preju-
diced against their masters, and feelings have been engendered
of a most painful nature to contemplate.
Employers can no longer deal with their workmen in their
individual capacity. The purchaser of labour cannot agree
upon terms with those who have labour to dispose of; because
another party arrogantly steps in, and possessing an organised
power without any recognised responsibility, interferes between
both parties, and dictates conditions which are as inimical to
reason and justice, as they are in themselves cruel to the work-
man, and insulting to the master. This unjust interference,
'however, has been acceded to by the operative classes in many
thousands of cases most unwillingly), but their tacit acquies-
cence has left them no longer free agents, and their employers
have now to deal with men who are bound and fettered by the
general union who support their 'demands by the weight of a
well-organised association, while the employer has only his in-
dividual strength to sustain him in the conflict, where the odds
are so fearfully against him.
The result has been, that in many places rather than enter
into a conflict with the unions, contractors have hail to submit
to demands the most arbitrary and humiliating. In some in-
stances the entire control and managenient of their business
have been taken out of their hands, inflicting upon theni heavy
pecuniary losses, and in other cases involving contractors in
absolute ruin ; and such has been the extent to which dictation
has been carried, that firm and -unyielding resistance has be-
come a necessary duty, unless the order of things is to be in-
verted, and the employer become the slave and the tool of the
workman, directed as the latter is by a secret and irresponsible
tribunal which exists by forced contributions, which reigns by
terror, and whose principles are repugnant to every notion of
British liberty.
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The prineiiile is at once conceded that the operative classes
have a legal right to combine to raise the price of labour; it is
equally clear that it is also the right of those who have the right
to purchase it, to combine to prevent that price being unjust,
or more than they can afford to pay. An imperative necessity
now exists, for all employers to cuter into an association for
mutual support and protection, because it is dangerous for any
man to enter into a large undertaking without having some
guarantee that he may be secured against ruin by demands
which the terms of his:contract prevent him from acceding to.
This necessity is not of their seeking. It has been forced
upon them by the trades' unions, and by the severance of those
ties which formerly existed. In forming a, protective associa-
tion for employers, its Orst members desire to place on re-
cord their regret that such a resolution is necessary; but it is
their solemn and deliberate opinion that no other mode exists
by which they can successfully resist the demands of the trade
clubs of the workmen. They desire to place on record the fact,
that no attempt has been made by them to reduce wages, to in-
crease the hours of labour, or to abridge the privileges of the
operative classes. On the contrary, wages have been advanced
—the hours of labour have been lessened, and the workmen
have their privileges increased, by the concession of minor
points which only caused a pecuniary sacrifice on the part of
masters. But new features have been exhibited—newinten-
tions disclosed. Flagrant acts have been deliberately commit-
ted, and painful as it is, the conclusion is most reluctantly
forced on the employers that organization such as that which
now exists-, can only be successfully met by counter-organiza-
tion,—that individual security can only be found in the asso-
ciation of bodies, because if an individual has to defend himself
against a powerful combination, he must be overwhelthed.
That tradesmen may continue to conduct their business with
safety—that they may contract as usual for works both of a
public and private nature—and that they may be able to fulfil
those engagements into which they are required to enter—they
have now met for the purpose of enrolling themselves in an as-
sociation, which it is intended to establish upon a broad and
permanent foundation, and where every member may find that
protection and security which is so, essential for the general
welfare of society, as well as for his individual interest.
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The association is founded for self defence, and if it has to
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take up an aggressive position, it will be forced to do so by the
acts of the operative unions, and under such circumstances, its
members will be prepared to act in unison and with vigour.
While the trades' unions make no unreasonable demands,
this association will remain quiescent, but united. When those
unions are dissolved, this also will expire; but while individual
employers are interfered with, or particular localities selected
for a strike, this association will be ready to act with prompt-
ness, and to take such determined steps as will bring strikes to
a speedy termination.
This association will always be found ready to give encou-
ragement and protection to those workmen who dissociate
themselves from the trades' unions, or who refuse to join them,
by affording to them. as much as possible, constant employ-
ment, by giving them the means of bettering their condition,
in all cases giving them a preference in the winter season, or in
seasons of depression, over those workmen who are the mem-
bers and supporters of clubs which are found in hostile array
against the employers.
Every master, tradesman, or contractor engaged in building
or public works, is therefore invited to join the association, and
to give in his adherence to its general principles. The rules by
which it will be goVerned, the details which it insist necessarily
embrace, and various other matters connected with it, will pro-
bably be better left to the committee of management which will
have to be appointed.

Moved by Mr. G. C. PAULDINO, of Manchester, seconded by
Mr. Ki LPIN, of Liverpool,
• That the declaration now read be .adopted.—Carried unani-
mously.
Moved by 'Mr. TONIKINSON, of 'Liverpool, seconded by Mr.
GwvTry Err, of Birmingham,
That the, interference of the trades' unions with the /egiti-
mate conduct of husincsa—their attempt to raise wages—to
dictate, conditions which cannot he acceded to—tO coerce those
of the operative classes who arc unwilling to join them, and the
bad feelings which they have excited between employers and
workmen are all deserving of reprobation; and this meeting
resolves that it will discountenance nil attempts which may be
Made by any club to interfere between the buyer and seller of
labour, and which this meeting asserts ought to be attended
with perfect freedom to both parties.—Passed unanimously.
Moved by Mr. MARSDEN, of Bolton, seconded by Mr. BOOTH-