The workingman's advocate., 1867-11-09

| From the Eep- Hive
I The middle-class Tory papers, aud the
| journals Of blood and culture" are still
uniting "a chorus, endeavoring to Iasten the
folly and crimes OF few isolated trades
unions and rongh, igaoTant, unskilled labor
observation-disclosures the whole body Of
trades unions
! The injustice Of the statements made in
! those journals IRE only equalled by their
folly aud dishonesty. The writer's, in the
great majority OF cases, are wholly ignorant
on the subject Of trad.s' unions, and know
nothing about tho men who compose them,
OF they would not risk Their literary repua-
ti0n, and their chaFacIer for fair play. by
| putting forth such st nsational rubbish dish
Ell up even though !, be in fine language,
and gaTnlshe1 WI b classical quotations.
The cOnd0ct aud operations of the thous-
ands Of trade societies in the United King
dcm are not e. be judged by that of some
half doz-n societies in Sheffield, composed
Tor the most part, Of rough, uneducated men,
or by tile societies Of Lancashire brick
makers, composed Of the very lowest. cI ass
II unskllled anu uneducated laborers. We
broadly declare that these journals who ask
and desire lbe public 10 estimate trades
Saw Grin ders, or the Lancashire brick
'naAers, either write IN igaaranGe, Or win a
isr wagss motive We would cot for one
moment maintain that the trades unions Of
the working classes, any more than the
trades unions Of the parsons, the lawyers,
or the doctors, are perfect, or that they Dc
not often commit foolish acts, but we boldly
assert that 80 out Of every hundred trades
unions Of operatives will stand the test oi
the most searching inquiry as TO any acts o.
criminal nature being done by them
BY the way, it j. rather remarkable, tha
in the inquiry at Manchester into the brick
makers unions. the fact has come out tia
numbers OF brlckmasters are members O
these unions, and therefore cagnizant with
the other members that the fuads of the 80
cisty have been used for paying men guilt
! OF the alleged outrages upon the propert
| and persons oil obnoxious masters and men
One witness, on Wednesday, a master brick
maker, acknowledged that he was q mem
Der Of a masters union, formed exprsssl
for the purpose of driving the little master
ont Of the district
9 These facts. as they tell against the mai
tiers, are studiously Suppressed in the sen
!. sational "leaders'' OF the partial {?
members Of the Fourth EsIste," now 5
busily occupied, to order, 10 writing dow
trades unions, Aad branding thousAcds {
0 honest, industrious workingmen as bande,
d together for conspiracy, outrage and murdel
r We bold the moral assassin-the man who
!. for Q consideration, direct or indirec
coolly occupies himself in DESTROYING "a
moral character of his fellow men--a at leas
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= tempts 10 take away life or destroy props
b ty; and We think the writer's Of q bloc
& and culture" who, anonymously, daily an
weekly in tie Journals under their confrl
! -whsther Il be the Daily Thundsrsr, a
= Old Lady OF Shoe Lane, the Tory A4ck
= the Strand, OF the Saturday hsvi1sr-v
present and cainmaiate the honest arlirA
in because his We've of political scoaouy =
not framed on the 0rthodox prinoipls4 D
re5 . whit better than The Rroadhs1ds q
|. Croekss--the men Of g blood" witheat sos
: tsre." Let thess enlightAned joarnsiizts 3
ware IN time. We warn them In pii
+ They are doing their hsat, hy their incs
u diary writings, to psspesnzss Che wse i
" eissses; ave, nos only u pespstnAls, bas
/. increase the bitterness ol thkS war. a ia
i may and thst soon 446n - 90
Y ingmen win not V % poliiich11e ke1Sloss
y at present 4 and Il ID fhe nod nE 8i6nI
y be Is noe % modefats es mf9k& " 166ksnki
the fauls will be with those pohl,c insuu
Ie tors " who set him 90 bad an &xampls., :
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re Cemmon-sease an the Use Of lFaeAans
,e To devise improvementfin any ybrsnch
a uechanical science involves the exd<ries a
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