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

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AT a MEETING of MASTER TRADESMEN and
CONTRACTORS, held at NEWTON-IN-THE-WI,LLOWS,
on THURSDAY, the 7th May, 1846, and which was attended by
188 representatives from the towns of Liverpool, Manchester,
Birmingham, Birkenhead, Sheffield, Bolton, Macclesfield,
Leeds, Preston, Blackburn, 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 who are identified with
the Building Trades, Contracts for Railways, and other Public
Works, have now for the first time met together to consider the
position in which they have been placed by the combinations of
the workmen throughout the country. A deeply-rooted and
wide-spread organization of trades now embraces the whole of
the British Islands, and, by a change of circumstances, but 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 thecentral committee 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
povver 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 had to submit
to demands the most arbitrary. and humiliating. In some in-
stances the entire control and management of their business
have been taken out of their hands, inflicting upon them 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.
The principle 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 enter 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 first 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 labonr 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—new inten-
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 overwhelmed.
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.

The association is founded for self defence, and if it has to
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 affordina• 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
easons of depression, over those workmen who ire 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 must 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. PAuzpiNo, of Manchester, seconded by

Mr. Ki LPIN, of Liverpool,
That the declaration now read be adopted.—Carried unani.
mously.
Moved by Mr. Tom KINSON, of Liverpool, seconded by Mr.

aWYTII ER, of Birmingham,
That the interference of the trades' unions with the legiti-
'nde conduct of business—their attempt to raise wages—to
dictate conditions which cannot be •acceded ta—to coerce those
of the operative classes who nre 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 all 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-
MAN, of Leeds:—

That the time .bas now arrived when an association of the
master tradesmen is imperativelyirequired, it being the opinion
of this meeting the only way in which the unjust and unreason-
able demands of the trades' unions can be successfully com-
batted, and security be afforded to every man in conducting
his affairs.—Passed unanimously.
Moved by Mr. WYLIE, of Liverpool, seconded by Mr.
EDWA R DS, of Manchester:—
That every member now present do sign the declaration
which has been read, and he hereby pledges himself to assist in
carrying out the objects of the association.
Moved by Mr. WALKER, of Birkenhead, seconded by Mr. KAY,
of Manchester :
That a committee be now formed for the purpose of drawing
up rules, and making all the arrangements for the extension
and consolidation of the association, and that such committee
shall have powerto appoint a secretary; who shall be a solicitor
of standing in his profession, and to call in his aid in the forma-
tion of the laws by which the association shall be governed.—
Passed unanimously.
Moved by Mr. IlouwE, of Liverpool, seconded by Mr. JOHN

JonNsoN, of Liverpool:—
That the following gentlemen be appointed for the purposes
stated in the last resolution, with power to add to their number :
Liverpool—Mr. Tomkinson, Mr. Samuel Holme, Mr. Kilpin,
Mr. John Johnson.

Birkenhead—Mr. John Walker, Mr. John Hogarth.
Manchester—Mr. Bellhouse, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Paulding, Mr.
ICav
fiirmingham—Mr. Briggs, Mr. Gwyther, Mr. Pashby, Mr.
Davies.
Leeds—Mr.• Benjamin Russell, Mr. Joseph Wood.
Bolton—Mr. James Marsden, Mr. James Walsh.
Preston—Mr. Stephen Fawcett, Mr. Richard Crighton.
Oldham—Mr. Manuel Whittaker, Mr. Willoughby Shepperd.
Stoenport—Mr. Samuel Bann, 'Mr. Samuel Hunt.
Marcie held—Mr. John Evans, Mr. John Bootle.
Nuffield—Mr. George Smith, Mr. John Harrop.
Tfrigetn--Mr. Thomas Ellis, Mr. James Fairclough.
Blackburn—Mr. Henry Ibbotson, Mr.'Richard Hacking.
Bury—Mr. Thomas Barnes.
Passed unanimously.
Resolved—That the meeting be adjourned till called together
IMain by the united committee of the association.—Passed una-

nunonsly.
Moved by Mr. Kilpin, seconded by Mr. Tomkinson
That the iwst thanks of the meeting be riven to the chairman
for the able and Satisfactory manner in which he has conducted
sheAntsipess hronOt before him.—Fussed unanimously,

ST. J ES% -CHURCH, TOXTETH PARK.
TtTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a MEETING
of the PROPRIETORS of PEWS in the above CHURCH
will be held on the EVENING of Tit URSDAY next, tne 14th in-
stant, at Seven o'clock, in St. James's School Room, St. James's-
road, for the purpose of taking' into consideration the best
means to be adopted for the efficient Repair of the Roof, and
for Ventilation.
Churchwardens.
THOMAS ROYDEN,
JAMES OVEREND, II
MaY 7th, 1846.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
TIIE ANNUAL SERMONS for the above Society
will be preached (D.V.) in several ChurChes in Liverpool
and the Neighbourhood, on SUNDAY, the 17th instant.
MEETINGS will be held, and SERMONS preached, on several
of the following days.
Particulars will be given in Handbills, to be had at the Offices
of the Courier and Standard Newspapers, and of the following
Booksellers, viz., Messrs. PERRIS, NEWLING, and SMYTIIE.
The Rev. G. HAZLEWOOD, Dublin Secretary ; Rev. R.
DAVIES, Londou Secretary ; Rev. Mr. BERNAU, Missionary;
Rev. J. HUGHES, Vicar of Aberystwith ; Rev. C. HESKETH,
Southport; Rev. H. STOWELL, (for the Meetings only), and
the Rev. Mr. OWEN, (Ditto), will attend as a Deputation.
Tickets to the Meetings will be given out to Subscribers, at
Mr. PERRIS'S Church-street, on THURSDAY, the 14th instant;
and to other Friends of the Society, on FRIDAY, the 15th.
Saturday, May 9, 1846.