The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-25

Inc ->cW hampshire bcsiSiaiuTe pa>sed Ia"
declaring ten hours legal days work-whch
law to go into effect in August last
IL met unexpectedly, with sirong opposition
from certain employers. The overseers of the
Mills, at Manchester, i'm that State, endesvored
10 evade the law by special contracts with opc-
ratives, and, that failing, TO force them into
measures. Neither plan succeeded. The ope-
ratives are satisfied with the law, and insis, up.
on its enforcement
In Machine shop, the following petition was
signed BY the workmen therein:
| To the Stockholders of the Amoskeag Msnpfac.
turing Company, at Manchester, n. H.
The undersigned would most respectfully rep.
resent, that they operatives in the machine
shop OF sadr Company, and that they would
gladly be governed by the beneicent principle. OF
the Law Of the last Legislature of this State,
which recognizes ten hours of continuous labor
asa DAYS WORK; believing, as we do. that il
would be for the interes, of all concerned in the
labo 7 of this cstablishment,-the EMPLOYERS, as
well as the employed-that this principe should
prevail:-We therefore would most earnestly
request that you would so act in the premises
that Your operatives in this shop b, required to
labor Ten Hours only on each day.
Manchester, Aug. II, 1917.
This petition was instantly declined bv the
agent of the company. The result was meet
ing on the part Of the operatives. The CITY
Hall, Manchester, was full TO overfiowing---hun-
dreds upon hundreds being unable to get in-snd
the following resolutions, except the fifth, pass
ed with tremendous applause
Resoired, That we hold these truths self.eyi.
dent-that man is endowed by his Creator with
certain inalienabe rights-among which il life.
liberty, the pursuit of happiness, a home on the
earth, right to labor, and the power to limit for
himself, his hours of labor.
Resolved, According to the laws of New
Hampshire, ten hours constitutes a legal DAYS
work.
Res0Ired, That ten hours labor in each day.
is all that a mans constitution is able to bear.
Resolred. That and after the 18th Se2tem-
Der, We will not work more than the legal num-
Der Of hours per day.
Resolred, That We will sign no contracts 10
work more than ten hours per day.
Resoired, That, to the support Of these reso-
lutions we pledge our lives and our cred honor
The fifth resolution was postponed for con
sideration, until another night. The Nanches.
ter paper says, it will be passed. and that the
meeting will have the effect of inducing manu-
faciurers to adopt the ten hour system.
There has been circulated commu nication |
from overseer, which, if true, shows a bad |
state Of things among employers in this quar-
ter. lie says, she is compelled TO bow to Baa |
and kiss his image, or be guillotined." He advi-
SEES the operatives to be 'cautious" and the girls
to "sign no papers," 1--WE are many of us bro.
ken down in constitution, ne declares '.from the
long time We are obliged to serve before we be-
come qualified to take charge Of a room, and SO
by the time upon the top round of
the ladder. many of US ripe for death, and TO-
tally unfit for any thing else
This is a slavery bad any we know Of
II ought not to be endured, and will not be. IL
freemen are TO sweat and toll beyond what hu-
man nature bear, II besides that, they are to
'ecome liars and hypocrites that they may earn
heir bread, it is time that public opinion should
'pply speedily its corrective. Avarice can stand
much; but it cannot stand its hiss and scorn
The task master may lord it over the operative;
'ut he dare not encounter the fierce rebuke Of
he public voice.