Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-11
An Important Movement.
EMIGRATION OF FACTORY OPERATIVES
FROM ENGLAND.
The. London Times saws:

The, London Times says:
Ever since the cotton famine caused
by the American war, emigration has
been more or less generally advocated
by the factory operatives of Lanca
shire MS the grand panacea for the
evils Of short time and low wages, but
until recently no definite system was
propounded nor any general effort
made to try tho experiment. The
idea slumbercd until the recent sue
ccssful effort Of Preston millowners and
manufacturers to reduce wages again
evoked it. Gradually the scheme was
brought to the surface once more
FIRST in Preston, then in Blackburn
and it is nurscd, by nearly every fac.
tory operative in North and East Ian.
cashire.
Nearly one hundred spinners and
mindcrs with their wives and families
have left Preston, chiefly for the
United States, since the recent unhap.
Py dispute began, and eight more
families will leave Preston for Liver.
pool, to depart for tho same dcstina.
tion in the steamer Manhattan. Mr..
Henro Davis, gentleman now in
London as the agent of certain firms
in New York for the engagement Of
operatives here in various branches OF
industry, has been invited to Preston
by the committee of the Spinners' As,
sociation: to consider plan fer more
numerous deportation Of the members,
and he has replied that he will visit
Preston for that purpose in short
time.
In Blackburn still more energetic
measures are on foot with the same
object. Subscriptions arc largely col
lected ariiong the power-loom weavcrs.
and their executives are preparing to
send off rs possible, and as soon may
be, upwards of one thousand having
already expressed their desire to
leave for America. About twenty OF
these operatives will depart from
Blackburn during the present month.
The Spinncrs' Association in that
town have votJ fiue hundred pounds
sterling from the union funds for the
same purpose, and the ordinary week
ly levy por member has been doubled
for The solo purpose of augmenting
the Emigration Fund. The increased
levy will take effect Immediately after
tho Whitsuntidc holidays. Arrange
mcnts have already been made to send
off between sixty and seventy mem
bers of the society, and more will fol-
low them as the funds come IN. Some
families must, before this, have reach
ed America, and on Tuesday last an
other batch of cmigrants took their
departure for the United States.
In Darwen, also the idea prevails
that sit. would be far better to send
people to a country where work is
plentiful, and where they are abund-
antly paid for their labor" The no.
tion is general among the operatives
there that tho manufacturing trade is
leaving this country altogether; and
it is fact that this ;s cae of the rea-
sons given and accepted why the ope-
ratives should not strike against the
recent reduction Of wages there,
which it was urged, was only enforced
in order to "kill the strike in Pres
ton," by disabling them from contrib
uting to the support of the operatives
there: In Darwen there are 1865
looms, and it has been agreed to raise
IN emigration fund by levy of Id.
per loom per week, to raise ESQ 18s.
3d., which will be. sufficient, it is csti,
mated, to send Ave persons per week
to America, "giving them s10 each
to start them across the Atlantic"
The present and projected drain Of
the hest cottonworkers from the man.
utactqring districts of Lancashire is
undoubtedly a matter that ought to
receive the immediate consideration
of the employers, who, if it be, not
checked will certainly at some future
lime, perhaps not very far distant, be
placed in q position of, great embar.
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