The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

NE GRIPING FREE TRADERS

—What do the members

rn law league want ? They wanted to increase their
profits by reducing the price of labour. That was the secret
of this grand boon. They wished to become the corn mer-
c;nhiaLts_oet:England ; they wished to convert one part of their

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ld tne corn

' a granary, and the other part into machinery to
they ---- fA laugh.) Honourbe members mi
,-• ; oe could not deceive the working A. ght
.ried to make them . --,--sses ; they had
believe differently, with all their agita-
tors, and they could
were to go down to thesennt do it. Thus the poor of England
their
men into the manufacturing dis-
tricts, with money;owviasacks, to buy corn. That was
part of the system inhut
mem-
bers never heard of the truck system came next Had hon.
of labourers having their wages
? Had they never heard
part of the system. But he wouldgespaid hi goods ? That was
Italy to the treatment of the pc, now refer more particn-
the north of England; and lie would
by the manufacturers in
house such a system of tyranny,
oppression,
produce before the
w:is disgraceful to a civilized counitirPyreasi"
When ; and plunder, as
t 3 receive their work of the manufacturers, the poor went
.onsisted of a very inferior article. Their wool they
found it now
hick was dealt out to them, was so poorwthol in
the warps,
yid comb the wool or convert the warps inatt they scarcely
qaturday came the period which ought to tc,'e Pieces. On
^ek for the working man—when he oughtthe sweetest
labour, the reward of his toil. ito receive
went with
is work, and who, do you think, received it ? Notl
'r of the mill ; but an overlooker. The overlooker exiaemtliaea-
, and found fault with it. He said " You have done examined
irk ill ; I must deduct so much from your combing?" and
' poor weavers, who were only receiving 38. 6d. or 4s. a
.., were constantly mulcted by these overlookers, who had
wages paid from what they deducted from these poor
and a per centage on the amount. Then what came
The poor people had not the small remant paid in
.cy—it was paid in goods, in rotten flour, and cheap
urn. When the poor man carried it home to his wife and
family, after in vain endeavouring to induce his master to pay
himhis wages in money, he found that the flour which he
had taken home the week before and given to his family they
had not been able made the children
to consume. It had
sick. He asserted that this was truth. He had it from the
months of hundreds-
of the working classes, and they said
that they had no hopesti or relief or succour from the anti-
corn-law leaue—
from their oppressors
only chance they had of being rescued
was bthe landed interest of England
rallying around them, as they•
had ever been ready to do, by
saving them from this t
were the men for whom Then" and oppression. And these
to be destroyed. These w landed interest of England wer
manry were to be trampled under the men for whom th, ,
who were to become the possessorsnier foot; these were the men
were the men who were ruining tn of the English soil ; these
chants and manufacturers on ne character of Bsh mer-
men who moved and had their being Continent; these were the
cared not how they got it—what eruefr money alone. They
inflicted, so long as they amassed we cruelty and oppression they
the poor man's brow. They refused wealth from the sweat of
labour •, they looked for nothing but enormous them the price of their
declared there was no religion in trade. They profits ; they
the language of Mr. Burke, a set of men
,hey were, to use
ledger into their Bible, their counting-house.: who made their
and their money into their god."—Mr. F into their church,
and'a Speech.