The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

THE PRESTON STRIKE.

IT is now the sixteenth week of the strike, 311 a pre'
twelfth of the lock-out, and still it is impossible an
diet when the present contention is likely to be brit, the
to a. close. There seems to be little, if any, increase,t the
number of applicants at the closed mills ; ,nt 'S
registration of the names of those seeking employ,:lue t
scarcely ever mentioned. It is said that the conln%ceid
the Masters' Association met on Thursday, but the Ole.
of their deliberations has not been made publiLAse
reports show that there has again been a large int'sittees'
the number of persons relieved by thevarious conlT,b the
The income, however, has more than kept pace :,11:6,d
increased demands on the 'kinds. The sum dish' of the.
the respective committees since the commencerae'„n ilt3l
strike now amounts to close upon £30,000. As ,„`" r
tration of the condition to which some of the llneling
are reduced, it may be mentioned that, at a wflon-art'':
spinners, on Friday, an operative, named Giles,, where
I;
made the following startling announcement
frerio- es
suffering in the town of Preston ; and such Don .
few have any idea of, who are not familiar with lily' ba7,
and haunts of misery. I myself, know a falnillred hisf,r.t
visited a slaughter-house regularly, and Preenad to m-nt
and used it, without anything like groats or.
..„Lbr"- withfile
with it. There is also another man who has eq—,i fro°
food, until he has been seen picking the bits °-
wash that was intended for pigs." a Sate lace
The weekly meeting held in the Orchard' Jjtakesten to
was as large and enthusiastic as any that P—pirnol Mr.
since the commencement of the strike; „resew"
twelve thousand of the unemployed vre""
Waddington, of Preston, presided. d he
The CHAIRMAN, in some opening ob
anticipated that the weavers' fund for the e ~.,0. it odd
would be £2,500, and that in the week follonu'v
hieb
be increased to £3,000. t
ting t
Mr. BROWN had been present at a Inee Oa of
one of the Earl of Wilton's agents attended; reselvro,
tleman stated that the earl, having heard ofilit had
the factory operatives to erect co-operative noeao' a
mised to let them have three acres of land for
_s3rd, ae
consideration, say a farthing or a halfpenny Per
to lend them £2,000 on approved security- ilieffy. rep
it
Mr. CO WELL delivered a lengthy address, e' which 0)
to an article in the Manchester Guardian; away
was insinuated that the delegates were rull!lL_uti„;d. goe
£25 out of every £lOO collected. Let us, ileh;Ze 'huh Tey
ward, peaceably, orderly, and quietly, as wllethe Inillec7oty
done, and you may rest assured that not a.ning this j
in the country can prevent us from
obtaining
so long stralv
this fair ten per cent., for which we have pecri,
we had it now in ea. .0
Bled. It is as surely ours as if
to resume e
servatniositols,
ets. All you who are determined_ nevery bands
until you get the ten per cent. hold up ea.he
multitude unanimously responded. . meetings. 0,
haldirat•he said'ire
places, tl
Padiham, and Burnley, at all of which
f the opera tGenßdredmsliduArTnggatvheeawneeeer autlitlfoefy:l, Tedn36-retehe
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)rnmenced at half -past two, 6'9'54

- The meeting
at four o'clock.

Ved
STEAM-SnIPTIIE ARGENTINA .—A letter recel flap,
Liverpool, on Friday, from the River Plate, statecour-
the South American and General Steam Navigation to
pany's steamer Argentina is plying successfullY
Brazilian coasting trade. She has to compete witturif
American steamer of the same power, which she reg
beats on the ratio of two miles to one, her average SY -60
being fourteen knots an hour, while her compptitor or,
only accomplish seven. The Argentina was built mower)
John Laird, and is of the same power (120 hors-w,'
and tonnage (400 tons) as the new iron paddri
steamer Collaroy, for the Australian coasting traue.