The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-06-21 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SCALE OF PAYMENTS.  7.—That the amount paid by the Council to the membend auy branch that are on strike with its sanction, be 10s. per week for each man, 2s. for wife (if unemployed), and Is. owl for all unemployed children under 14. B.—That the representatives of the Council report the number of members in their 4ocieties every quarter; and that each society be eligible to receive support for the number of members it pays for to the Council. . . . . . _  9.—That -thO Council meet for tho transaction of business on the last Tuesday in the months of December, March, and Juno, and on the first Tuesdays in the months of September, October, and November. Mr. OWEN said he did not think it needed any argil. merit to show them the wisdom of a central council. No man would be able to throw his trade into difficul. ties, and no branch could strike without the sanction of the other trades, which in itself would be a guarantee of the peace of the district. Under such a system there would be a great increase in the membership of eaeh branch, as all would be under an influence they knee nothing of at present. If at any occasion like the last working men's conference at Leeds they could send representatives from the potters generally, instead of from the separate branches, they would have greater force. Had there been in &rancid when the china saucer-makers had their dispute and were out at Longton, those poor men would not have had to beg on their knees for their situations back again, for if the masters could have replaced their saucer.makers the Council could have settled the matter in other ways—(hear)—and the saueermakers of Longton would have been a vigorous branch now, instead of being de. moralised no far as union was concerned. Mr. Gilmore was of opinion that they could not do better than amalgamate in some way or other, though he was for every branch managing its own funds. In any dispute they could all act as one. They ought always to be prepared to fight, whether it was required or not, but, above all, they shoul& have a council to guide them. (Hear.)—The CHAIRMAN hoped the time was not far distant when they should have a council to keep them from falling into error. Isolated they could do no. thing, but bound in council they could accomplish any. thing. If there was a dispute in one trade, the others could help them out of their difficulties, and any master who felt inclined would not dare to do wrong. The cs.uncil would also keep dishmourable men in their own ranks straight. He said the sooner they had a council the better. (Hear.)—Mr. Oakes (overman) moved the following resolution—  That this meeting, representing the various branches, expresses its opinion that a Ceutral Council for the potting trade to regulate the questions of general importance to all branches is desirable, and that we recommend the formation of such a Council, on the basis of the rules rend at this meet. Mg by Mr. Owen.  This was seconded by Mr. Lyth and carried unani. mously.—Mr. Gilmore moved, and Mr. Owen seconded, a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was also carried, and the meeting separated.  The Board of Trade has resolved to advise the withdrawal of the sanction of the Privy Council to the Art Union of Great Britain after next month. Five youths were on Tuesday committed for trial at Halifax, for the murder of Jeremiah Swift, by kicking him on the bead.  The Crystal Palace authorities have offered to set apart a day for the benefit of the sufferers by the Alexandra Palace fire. The Archbishop of Canterbury, as patron of the Stationers' Company, was present at the banquet given on Saturday night by the Lord Mayor. Captain Carew, of Haccombe, Devon, committed suicide on Saturday, at a private lunatic asylum at Bristol.  Several parlous were injured by a collision which occurred at Bradford on Saturday night between a Lancashire and Yorkshire and a Great Northern train.  A murder, supposed to be agrarian in its came, is reported from King's County. On Monday night a farmer, named Devarey, was beaten to death in his own house at Cloogonna, within a short distance of Ito Clonfala police station.  Mark Jennings, a carpenter at South Shields, was fatally stabbed on Saturday night by a young man named Iffeuseforth. It appears that the latter was paying his addresses to a niece of Jennings, and that the quarrel arose from deceased offering opposition to the courtship. . .  At the town of Derby, on Saturday, new public baths, the gift of Mr. Bass, M.P., which have been erected at a cost of £5,000, were formally presented by Mr. 81154 to the Mayor and Corporation of Derby as representatives of the town. The baths are situated in the Recreation Ground, which was also the gift of Mr. Bass,