New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-13

That you may that have real grievances In our
country, permit to give you view of the position OF
our mining population. ] will say only what the Com
missoncrs authorized by the House OF Commons SAID
about H. and what The Standard newspaper said about
| TIA paper which has sympathy with the wicked
Bradlaugh 1t proven that in the iron and coal
works In South Wales the men were paid IN sueh
fashion that the majority OF them never fairly got paid
at all. The men were paid every six weeks or every
10 weeks or course a laboring cannot live 80 long
without money, from week 20 week at least 80, wh en-
a, m i wanou oH' Sorr r w when he had already
earned it, Suppose he wanted TO borrow" a pound;
"on account If wages advanced" &C. but advance"
was never made until the man had earned more than
was advanced and then he must take 10 across TO the
pay office, VIII re II tcketed If was all right, but
he did not get the money. But he could go somewhere
where they sold tobacco and although he dd not
tobacco, they would gave him II silings worth or
tobacco and three sm'lngs IN money ana ,,, ane
in order 10 raise money; and there were
hundreds thousands OF pack gees OF tobacco that had
been bought by the men, and sold again az loss not
having been opened and all OF which again returned 10
the shelves of The stores from which they originally
issued and the men who Kept these stores church
deacons aud legislators in our House OF Commons-Inen
nigh in authority We told that these men are
ignorant. So they are But who made them ignorantt
II was tue VINO obtained their labor IN This way; 1t
the men who kept them IN TINS saVlsh NE. te inen
who kept their money IN their packets nut opened the
| whisky and toDacco shops There was one woman i,
81 I8s per week. but chat she had never seen sover
eig1 from years end TO another There was man
Who happened 20 be killed by an explosion ne was not
member Of burial society, ana 1t was Deediu 10 col
and they had not me means lney put 9oMn tho
names in book which the clerk had, ana the CLERK
charged much cent for putting their names down
TO get the advance" and then onehaf of the money
winch 10 bly, tue coffin and pay the undertaken was
evidence, not four years old-eydenee which
was laid upon the table OF the House OF
time to cgslae protection of pheasants.
uey nave hOt 9cb IcSlSiatCu uP e.s @ y
until had cured the evil Take the case OF His Grace
the Duke OF Bucclcugh-he of lords and land
a.
naely. One OF his predecessors with the natural ability
Of Duke IlaughteI managed acquire for about one
Thames He butt upon that land "a house lie acquired
n Was Crown land. We have recently en-
banked that side of the Thames, and in
the embankmcnt have improved the Dukes
property, and made II worth much more than 1t was
We have removed from the Dukes garden quantity OF
mud. He claimed compensation Tor that, ana we nave
had to pay him 80 times what he originally gave for the
property. The Duke also owns village situated on ms
lead NINE The dwellings, tuere are liseIaoIe, AM, anu
everything about the place betOkens serdOm OF Wnlch
you can scarcely conceive We then, on oeHadi or te
people, claim che right 10 leglslatt III me HOUSE
OF Commons against these things fou tax OF
and we mean 10 nave those rights. lApplause.I
one of the best pad populations OF the mining dlstrlcs
the whole OF England is that OF Northumberland ana
Durham. They are well led. Ihelr leaders are sucn
hope to see IN the next Parliament. Ihey Will
be carried whether elected or not and they have IN
sngurated a system OF arbitration. In controversy
tnat arose the miners Of Durham disagreed with the
cepted the decision loyalty and thoroughly ana they
obeyed it ana devoted themselves industrousiy
10 their tasks as educated gentlemen would
nave dono-If gentlemen are supposed IN consequence
OF that alone have higher feelings of honesty IN that
which they undertake.
ESPEDIMENTs TO MORALITY.
But great complaints nave been made that these
people arc not moral Their answer is How
can you expect TO be morall We can
not live in a house would like 20 live in; the
coalowner will not let build own houses, which
we would willingly 90; forced, therefore, TO live
in one room OF a with haifattic il, and We
cannot he the moral people we wOud otherwise be- And
land and build houses then the law should compel you
to erect reasonable houses in which We can live. You
care for yOu horses and your dogs aud you ought TO
care for us, too. ut least permit us TO care
for ourselves" This grievance applies to at least
Durham We say also that the unpaid magstracy
aud TIER jurisdiction in al matters OF trade disputes
better than yours here. believe that as whole
we have the best and most pure bench OF Judges OF any
fHr Dan we're summoned for refusing TO descend a pit
that IT, work according TO their contract, because the
chain by which they had To descend was unsafe The
magistrates before whom they 10 be brought
Themselves pitOwners; they friends OF the prose
cutter and dincd his table They sent the men to jail
for q days for refusing to work without legal excuse,
and while these in jail, the chain broke and
some descending by II were thrown out and killed
Ii had stpeuoiary magistrates the disputes between
labor and capital would not be cmbittered by such
fragrant aud Ubiquitous injustice.
TBE CONDITION or THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION
There is another matter upon which wish to make a
special plea. the state of agricultural labor
ers And I am not going to 40 IT from any view OF
mine. My view would be bitter one indeed. But l
will give to yOu from report made under authority
of the crown ana signed by the present Bishop or Man
chester, Mr.. Henley ana Mr. stanhCpe-a commission
which certainly did not take evidence IN any spirit OF
undue toward the laborer And here let me say
word Tor pressing these tnlhgs upon your attention,
for editors here who do not know our gTief
or our wrongs who say that these are matters which
need not he here discussed. But when there are 50
pens and tongues to paint everything golden to
show the other lining of the cloud: Prolonged APP
pause Bishop Fraser says Of some of the dwellings in
Nftffnl hat fgs nf
Of some OF them in sussex that they are a
disgrace to any civilized community. and then
picture Of an agricultural labOrers dwell |
father, mother grandfather grandmother, sons and |
daughters are born, live, If call it life, and die
in which every operation Of nature dressing undress
ing, BIRTH death Is performed ~ each within the sight
and hearing OF all in which children Of as much IA or
6 wears Of age, OF both sexes driven TO sleep In the
same bed, that If you call those things beds in
swine" And this he says, picture fromsfe. 1 be-
eve that while that state OF things exists, have the
right 10 try 70 wreS tAe ahd out OF the hands OF those
who have used 80 badly Take the aborers wage. III
your newspaper reports are nor utterly neorec per.
not long ago In THIS room spoke OF ap0rers wages
as from six 70 eight shilIngs day; why, have
Of Northumberland and Durham out of the |
wage taking the year round, has averaged more than
i4s week, and say that the tbulk of the wages
with facts and figures 10 quote from IN Hereford jail
the cost prisoner for food alone comes TO more than
twice as the Hereford laborer gets TO
buy himself food clothing, hOuserOon and the Injuries
of life IL he can get them. Laughter Why, the |
lab0rers is an awful wage. And am told they
waste 1t in beer lLaughter was the other day In
Sussex, which is entirely owned by the Duke of
Richmond Lord LecOnfield, and Lord EgremOut. A |
relative OF mine has rented cottage in that district
and much To their disgust they obliged occasionally
10 put up with my presence in that neiRhborhood.
have gone about among the laborers there and
into their homes. Tue Duke Of Richmond is rich
duke You can make fence OF IA miles round his
C;Oodwood estate, and he is much In favor
of civilization that he would not allow telegraph wire
To cross land Till last ana then he only
se MED because the Prince OF Wales wanted To send word
sbont his bets. The bulk OF the peoples wage there