THE EMIGRATION OF EXRAILWAY SERVANTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3078, 31 December 1872, Page 2

THE EMIGRATION OF EXRAILWAY SERVANTS.

The concluding portion of the subjoined paragraph from the Home News shows that the Agent-General is not, as some people seem to suppose, asleep or inactive, “The emigration of ihe dismissed railway servants of the London and North-Western Company —tho men who were discharged in consequence of the strike at Broad street—is gradually but steadily progressing. A second batch of the men has been seat out to Quebec by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and a third party of emigrants are preparing for departure. The society advances L 6 to each man, taking iu exchange for the money the emigrant’s note at six months’ dale, so that the amount given to assist the men will turn in again, to be ready in a similar or some other benevolent purpose. Taking into account the fact that the Amalgamated Society is ouly about nine months in existence, its success as a bfenelit organisation for the railway servants of the kingdom has been quite unprecedented, as there are now upwards of 29,000 members enrolled on its books. How far its financial operations have been successful, is shown by the fact that in the first week of the strike on the London and North-western Railway a sum of 10s. each was paid to upwards of 530 men In the second week, 120 men; in tiie third, 90 men; and in the fourth week of the strike, SO men received a similar sum. At the present moment more than 70 members of the society are in tho receipt of a weekly sum. The number of men out of employment has steadily decreased, as the society does uot confine its assistance to the granting of money, but gets berths for some, and helps others to emigrate. Toronto, Upper Canada, has been, up to the present, the intended destination of the emigrants, audit is understood, from advices received from across the ocean that those men who are really experienced in railway work will find no difficulty whatever in obtaining employment on the Canadian lines. It is proposed to found, iu connection with the societv, a special emigration fund. Mr Baxter Langley, the president of the society, who has just returned from a tour in the north, has reported to the executive that the emigration scheme was highly approved of wherever he wont. The president has also received a letter from Or Featherston, AgentGeneral for Few Zealand, stating that suitable emigrants will find plenty or work there. A general levy for the North-Western men has been made, and the members of the Manchester branch have promised LIOO as a first installment, ”