The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

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DAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1848

E were unwilling, so long as any evidence
NI of a disposition, on the part of the idle
lisorderly portion of our population, to con-
;he claims put forward by certain of our k-
ing classes into an excuse for riot and disorder,
ter into an examination of their justice, or of
xtent to which the authorities of the town
to endeavour to meet them, Thanks, how-
the firmness, prudence, and watchful fore-
displayed by his Worship the Mayor and
her magistrates; thanks to the loyal spirit
y our merchants and tradesmen, in so
ering their aid to repress outrage ;
)ove all, thanks to the patient spirit and
it conduct of the suffering classes them-
we can now address ourselves to the task,
the danger of exciting any irritated feel-
ing to yield to mob dictation.
nen, we should imagine, who will

lftend

n• of s

Imit the existence of a large amount of dis-
it and ill-feeling, on the subject of the ar-
nents under which the business of our port
ducted, amongst the classes in question—the
and labourers in our docks and warehouses.
sibly, such ill-feeling was recently directed
Ise classes against alleged abuses of the pre-
ystem—the paying of men in public-houses,
canting of licenses as master porters to parties
blic-houses, beer-shops, or boarding-
_
s, and the employment by such parties of
lent hands who might be willing to submit
But we know well enough
ie were not the real grievances felt. We
A they are not of consideration and amount
to excite any serious discontent. Amongst
ster porters there are only two
who are either publicans or lodging-house
concession, therefore,
h the complaints of the classes aggrieved
by the Dock Committee, can be produc-
The grievances were
ill exist. The latter is
fely to be drawn; and
ly warn the merchants and
ties of Liverpool against the danger of
lining any other.

ist exactions

ole of our r

no healing of

ginary or they

n the most s

e extension throughout every branch and de-
nt of the business of the port, by which the
____rloyed, of the principle
.fich our dock warehousing system is
'ed—a principle whose essence is monopoly—
grievance really felt by the labouring classes.
not by them alone is this grievance felt. It
tred by the masters and employers of labour
any of the most important trades of the town.
e men, along with the mass of our porters and
mem see absolutely closed against them the
rt Dock and its warehouses. The porters,
;rs, and others, see a large portion of the
less of the port as absolutely withdrawn from
reach and competition as if it was removed
the Mersey altogether. They see, in this spe-
and germ of the new system the foundation
^noly, which must in time crush all inde-
ly annihilate some of
4es, whose prosperity has been hi-
Jed as a great element of the general
4 and progress of our town. The recent
nent by which the porterage business, in the
port, was banded over to licensed
_ _.,ors, each privileged to discharge the
"argo of a vessel, shutting out all individual
and denying even to the owner of
of such cargo the right to employ his
ervants to handle his own merchandise, is
regarded as evidence of that monopolising
centralising spirit amongst our mercantile
, the perfect operation of which is to he found
e Albert Dock and its warehouses. Happily
neasure has been a failure. It is condemned
own framers. It is more expensive than the
,stem ; and whilst the labouring man under
fleeced of a portion of his reward, the mer-
.. and the community are not benefited in
rtion. But granting that this grievance may
noved, that its intolerable pressure may pro-
n time the adoption of the old or of a new
n, we have still the close dock and warehouse
3, winding its thraldom round our tradesmen
ur labouring classes, and threatening ulti-
- not to leave a day's work or a day's pay
the reach of any tradesman or labourer who
t been fortunate enough to find favour in
ht of that public body which seeks to mo-
e the entire business of the port ; and we
iorov conviction that to the further
nr 4uch system will or ought any
1-Y to '

or the labourer is err

ertion, and virtua

ks of the

:tition

thorough
of no -

nay be quite true that, thus far, we have had
tanifestation, on the part of the labouring
s, that this is the grievance against which
hostility is immediately addressed. Men of
iss do not ordinarily look beypnd the im-
e evil which afflicts them, or contemplate the
' snd effect upon their condition of one
ears in reaching them. But the
body of porters against the system
,ed into our open docks was, virtu-
4.

complai

is being carried out
although the labouri