The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-11-22

yards fora few OF our leading arti-
fcers, such as draughtmen, pattern
makers, foreman boilermakers, and
leading engineers. But it must be
very apparent to all that the French
Government, when they conceived
the idea of developing their shipping
industries by the means of State
bounties, did so in the interest of
their own workpeople, and to find
employment for them; therefore
there is but little hope of our people
being able to find employment in the
French yards in any appreciable
numbers.
With regard to Lancashire, the
reports of the state of trade there
are most unsatisfactory. There is
no activity in the engineering trades,
and the tendency is to slacken work
in every direction and resort to
short time. In the coal and iron
trades of that country, there is only
Il very small business being done,
and this at low prices. There is a
lack of animation in the cotton
trade, and nearly all other indus
tries are quiet. In Staffordshire
and the Mldlands. trade in all
branches is in a lifeless and depressz
ed condition, and has been SO for
several months past, with no sign of
improvement.
In South Wales, the condition Of
the coal and iron trades is bad. In
the Mertlyr, Aberdale, and Rhon-
dda Valley districts, the mining pop
ulatiou are in a sad state; some OF
the largest works-more especially
in Dowlais and Merthyr Vale-are
ceasllis to produce, thousands Of
men are forced to play by the
discharge of the volume of labour
at the works OF the Dowlais Com
l2panyy and Messrs. GlHawslsss W. ,-.-.
La the metropolitan ar,a, although
up to the present time the wall OF
industrial distress has not been
heard SO loudly as from the provin
clal centres OF trade, yet the inten-
slty OF depression among the work
men in London, althuu IA more var
led, is quite as extensive as in The
north or other parts of England
The docks of London, which have
afforded employment to large mum
bers of all cllsseS of WORKERS in the
eastern and southeastern districts
of the metropolis, are now practi-
cally at Il standstlll. From per
sonal examination of the condition
of the laborlny classes in the dis
irlcts of Llmehouse, Poplar, st
Georges East, Whitechapel, Ber
mondSey, Rotherhthe, Deptford
and other districts on both sides O
the Thames, | can state, on The au.
thorlty Of the organized bodies o.
workmen in those districts, that al
least 80 per cent. of the wage
earnlng classes are unem ployed. La
the East London districts the work
ing allege that a large portion Of
the want of employment anon.
them is due to the foreign sugar
and shipping bounty system, and
through the entire district a very
strong feeling exists among all Sec
tions of labour against the main
tenance of the foreign bounties OF
Europe. This feeling among the
East-end working men is the sole
reason which has influenced Mr.
Ritchie,::M. p, to give notice o
motion to draw the attention ot
of Parliament to the operation OF
the bounty system on the labour OF
the industrial classes of the East
end, it being stated that in face oi
: those bountles the import and ex.
port trade between London and thi
West Indian colonies has been ser.
iously crippled.
The widespread feeling anon.
all sections ol wOrkmen, who regar(
the present depression OF trade a
the worst they ever experienced
, indicates that 1t is incumbent upol
Parliament to favorably conslde
any motion which may be brough
, forward to meet the present lament