... the 'blue slate,' she said, What's that ? I asked. She means the workhouse, one of the othees explained. It's a poor prospect for weavers on strike when there is only the workhouse to which to loct't forward. Guardians of the poor have a disagreoable ...

... male pauper seems to have been a friendly society member who has lapsed. In 1881, out of 64,000 adult male paupers in the workhouses of England. 11,304 had belonged to benefit societies, of whom 3,913 had lost their coonectiou through the society itself ...

... take it?' said one of my fellows to a new comer to old St. Pancras ono day in my hearing. The persons who complain of the workhouse authorities are persons Who are the meet undeserving. The master ovec the wall said to in. one day, wine plums; BOC:i; uf ...

... right, and they cannot be starved into submission like a parcel of poorly-paid operatives, who are never separated from the Workhouse door by an interval of more than a week. Accordingly the managing director refused to see them, and naturally when the deputation ...

... their warps ps may be mere rubbish instead worsted. And in the matter of hing a new ' hand ' may know to I may be as bed as workhouse 'test' i unreasonable, then, that masters, 7 a mere written or printed bill ore or less obscure place in wee weavers to bind ...

... praiseworthy exceptions) can, nay, do corn. pate successfully with any of the masters in the surrounding districts in giving workhouse pay. However they thick (that is, if they take the infiuite trouble to consider the lot of their hands) men and women can ...

... their own homes. 9. Workshops to be organised by the workers with subsidies from the municipalities or State. 10. Prison and workhouse labour to be conducted under the same oonditions as free labour, and to be employed as far as possible on great public works ...

... would enable the worker, with sobriety and thrift, to save that which would make him independent of the poor relief and the workhouse. One reason urged by the weaver against joining this association was that the workers, being chiefly women, were more liable ...

... can hardly be allowed to go unchallenged. There is • dispute between the majority of the Holbeck Board and the matron of workhouse (Mrs. Hilton), and a proposition was on Monday submitted that the matron be debited in a sum of Horne Bs. per week for her ...

... allowed a few shillings per week as long as they lived, and they as weavers would in all likelihood end their days in the workhouse breaking stones at the rate they were at.—The chairman went on to say that he would like someone that was not in the association ...

... cigars, us. 6d.; waiters, 125.; cloakroom attendance, is.; total, £l9 10s. A Foarcia FOR • P•crea.—An inmate of the Derby Workhouse Infirmary, named William Bromley, has just succeeded to some valuable property. Last week his married sister died suddenly ...

... he's shined up to you! Well, I guess you'll 2et enough of him, a great, lazy, drinkin' vagabond, as was raised in Pork Hill Workhouse, and served two terms the in the penitentiary for Lawyer Odderley's name to a check for fifty dollars. Gerty stood pale ...