Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-03-26

The TROUBLEs IN MANcHRsTER.-Tb Man
chester Mirror SAYS that at a crowded meeting
OF the citizens of that place, in the CITY Hall.
on Thursday evening, resolution was passed
to the effect that "we as citizens of Manches.
tel, knowing the injurious effects of the long
hours of labor proposed by the corporations of
this place, will use all fair ard honorable
means to induce the next Legislature of this
State to give US q system that will stay the
tide of avarice, and thereby promote the phv-
steal, mental, and moral condition of the op.
eratives.'
On Friday morning. procession, composed
OF about thirty-seyen hundred persons,
marched through the streets, escorted BY the
cornet band. At ten o'clock the operatives
assembled at the City Hall, ana listened to a
number Of addresses and the reports of sew
eral committees. In the afternoon thew form.
ed another procession, much larger than that
of the morning, and at last accounts were
marching TO their rendezvous at the City Hall
to hold another meeting. The Manchester
mills stopped running, for the present on
Thursday night, and the Stark mills on Fri
day noon. The only mills now running are
the Amoskeag, and but one-third of the ma
chinery in them is in operation. Girls are
leaving the city in every train of cars, and the
Mirror says that probably at least two thou
sand VIII have left before Tuesday.
At the meeting OF the operatives on Thurs
day evening, committee appointed to confer
with the agents, made their report. The
agents stated to the committee that they had
received orders from the directors to the effect
that they must reduce the cost of each ward
Of cloth or stop manufacturing, and the only
alternative was, either to reduce the wages or
lengthen the time. They thought, at this
time, when the price of living was so high,
the latter was the best course and it was
adopted. Personally, as men, they sympa-
thized with the operatives and hoped in a few
months manufacturing would be better, so
that change could be made. As goods now
were, 1t was impossible.
The agent of the Manchester mills said the
directors of his mills were DESTROYS of stop
ping them, for they had large stock of goods
on hand, beyond what they could sell, and the
agent of the Stark mills said that corporation
had paid an average dividend of only 2 per
cent. since its start.
NEW PATESTs.-The following are among
the patents issued for the week ending March
goth:
Pumps: Chas. g. Curtis, Springfield, Ms.
Improved shot cartridge: Abbot Il. Davis,
East Cambridge, Mass.
Improvement in Lamps Elbridge Harris.
Boston, Mass.
Improved hand press for printing: Charles
Remission, Boston, Mass.
improvement in seed planters: Ebenezer
Morse, Wslpole, n. II.
Improvement in moving machines Fisk
Russell, Boston, Mass.
Improvement in pumps: VIM. L. Yose,
Newtonyille, Mass.
Improvement in the arrangement Of wheels
axles, and friction rollers George A. Prem.
tiss, Cheshire county, n. II.
improvement in attaching augers to handles:
Charles w. Cotton, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
improvement in casters for furniture Gil
bert L. Bailey. assignor to himself and Mig
hill Nuiting, same place.