SETTING AN EXAMPLE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7175, 29 May 1885, Page 4

SETTING AN EXAMPLE.

|||tfarjjable and gratifying instance njiderate conduct on the part of 3|j^sforkmen has just' been made pfSaya the London Daily Tele' pf^arch 25). It appears that ;|CT?iUjam Oooke and 00. (Limited), jjeWinsiey 5 Steel, Iron, and Wire ;B^Kave,;in common with other e^indnßtries, felt the depression ||l|JjLt)9.ry .• severely. The wages of irlmiyprkers aie governed by the |$|affprdshire Board, and the men ttggSfore, in a position which preb^tthem ■ -'f rom making: any conjl^'fin/that way, even if it were p^Lhe;pther day a deputation re|3^np vtho' puddlers and xnillraen lyed^ythe company— -from 100 to — waited upon Mr ttom^sifWilkinson, the secretary, and ||§i^^pai^-they knew the company ; a3fc them for a reduction in they were bound '• to ', decisions come to »^nijjy|gtaff6rdßhire. Still, being |nectiyß' avware ■■ of the difficulties the . 'company labored, SWg||o?the' extraordinary hardness of ' wiSne^S; ?tKey had felt it their duty to to show their desire to j over the depression. aWcfladyotherefore, held a meeting at decided to offer the work for nothing, the offer would be ac- j who was much TO^^|b|rctWß' generous aot of selfWnficglon the part of the men, said he |jp<pn6tY<|bj otherwise than accept the IBi^ffprTffirhich had been made. When the terrible battles between of which Sheffield has the change is most grati;'only some five years ago aS|4th'ere^:waß an obstinate strike at works,, accompanied violence. Some of the very deputation may have pM?^<Broadhead, who organised a criwnafcc|nspiracy to murder or .mutilate >vho disregarded the dePH^fe^Bj^pret tribunal directed by a 'ruffians.