The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-17

man is asked to walk any distance to his
work, that walking forms part Of the days
labor; but in many cases every person who
is employed on any job 'that is at distance
from the headquarters of the master, must
be allowed walking time, Dhether he requires
il or not.
We now turn to the procedure by which
the English Unions enfor:e submission to
the laws already described, or punish those
who infringe them. The penal code is one
of great severity, and includes series OF
penalties to be levied on property or person,
ranging from small pecuniary fine to the
nc plus ultra Of bodily violence. The en-
ployer is punished by fine; by strike so
timed as to cause him serious or ruinouS
loss; by malicious injuries to his manufac-
tured materials or stock; by shelving" his
works, that is placing them under ban in
terdicting all Unionists from working there,
and keeping off non -Unionists by "picquet-
"ting;" and lastly, by personal Violence
Upon the recusant workmen the arm OF the
Union falls even more heavily. Default IN
paving contributions or fines is visited with
"rattening." The tools or other materials
of the workman are taken from him and
held pledged until the society is appeaSed
aud paid. If he continues refractory, re-
course is had to acts Of outrage Here is
an abstract OF few OF the cases reported
by the Commissioners:
|. James Linley, q sawgrinder, who kept
apprentices contrary 10 the rules OF the UnlOn.
He was shot with an air gun and woundeu Dy
Samuel Crookes. Afterward can OF pow
der was thrown into his room, but hurt no
one. Five or six weeks later he was snoi
arain and mortally wounded. The men who
fired The shot were hired to do 1t by the sccre-
tary of the Union.
3 CHRISTOPHER Rotterdam employed men
who refused to pay to the Union His boiler
was blown up, can OF gunpowder was
thrown into the house, which was Dadiy GAM
aged. A two gallon bottle nlled WIN pomocp'
with fuse attached, was thea put IN his ware
house adjoining the rooms occupied by MS mo-
ther. sons and daughter. The fuse became
extinguished before 1t reached the fire.
3. Geore Watridge, O non-Union man, en-
ployed by Rotterdam, slept in garret win
his wife and child. In the room below slept
a lodger named Bridget 0'Rourke. In the
night can of gunpowder was thrown into
Mrs. O'Rourke's room. Mrs. Watrldge ran
down and seized the parcel, which exploded
in her hands, setting fire to her night. dress
and severely injuring her. Mrs. ORourKe was
burned 10 death.
4. Robert Renshaw confessed that he was
hired by the Union for &c to throw the can ol
powder into the house.
Such outrages as these can never beperpc'
trated in the United States, but it is neces-
sary to show what harm unbrldled Trades
Unionism has done in order to make evil
dent what good it may properly and reason
ably accomplish. Having now briefly re-
viewed the organization, principles and
practical workings Of the unions, we shall
proceed to consider in what light these asso-
Citations ought to be viewed in relation to
the laws Of political economy, it being eFro-
ncously assumed by one class OF writer's that
combinations OF workmen which restrict,
under certain self-imposed conditions, the
sale of their labor, must needs be at variance
with the fundamental aXioms OF political
economy, as being opposed to Free Trade.