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... he was sure, neither they nor the committee would wish to see. Mr BEAVAN said the present hours they worked in Cardiff was slavery. Mr CORY said no doubt the hours were excessive, but at the same time it should be borne in mind that it was not severe physical ...
... to 9-i for 60 hours. That fact alone ha considered sufficient to call for the attention of Parliament to the condition of slavery in which a large p IrG of rhe population was existing. Mr RITCHIE that the question which the hon. member bad brought before ...
... entry to the best and most intelligent society in the country, which was not to be despised. By study wo had less of the slavery, drudgery, risk, and the hard work of life. Study lifted a man above penury and poverty. Study was also a source of usefulness ...
... of aiding in the achievement of one of the greatest and purest triumphs of the eighteenth century—I mean the abolition of slavery and the slave trade. And I kuow not whether any man did more in propagating the idea and the sympathy—if I might say so, almost ...
... daughter of the late General Ulysses Grant, the saviour of the United States, and the instrument by which the abolition of slavery wa.s brought about in that great country. H. J. F., Cardiff. POPULAR WELSHMEN. Ever since the extension of the franchise, ...
... might be men- tioned that the next Parliament elected after the passing of the Reform Bill proceeded to the aboli- tion of slavery in the English colonies. One of the acts of the old unreformed House that might be mentioned was the enclosing of seven million ...
... unselfishly given up the Sunday in order to give greater zast and strength to the demands of railway men for emancipation from slavery. (Applause.) His regret arose from the fact that in this the 19h century, in this age of Christianity, gentlemeu could be ...
... to the views of their employers would have to go. In flct the labour clause was a polite way of introducing what he called slavery at the docks. The speaker then explained the system under which the trimmers work. At Cardiff there were one foreman and eight ...