This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. STRIKES AND TRADES-UNIONS ABROAD. After the terrible and afflicting disclosures resulting from the enquiry at Sheffield, Manchester, and elsewhere into trades-unions and strikes, Government wisely determined to grapple with the question, and issued a Royal Commission, armed with great ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. STRIKES AND TRADES-UNIONS ABROAD. After the terrible and afflicting disclosures resulting from the enquiry at Sheffield, Manchester, and elsewhere into trades-unions and strikes, Government wisely determined to grapple with the question, and issued a Royal Commission, armed with great and general power, with the view of thoroughly investigating the subject. That commission has pushed its enquiries into almost every quarter, and we have little doubt but that its report, when it appears, will be a full and ample repertoire of almost all that can be prudently said upon the subject. With this object in view, our Foreign Minister, Lord Stanley, addressed a circular to the British embassies and legations at Brussels, Paris, and Berlin, for the purpose of ascertaining whether combinations analogous to tradesunions existed in those countries, and, if so, what was the legislation on the subject. A circular was also subsequently addressed to all our embassies on the Continent, and to our minister in the United States, with instructions to make particular enquiries into the working of associations of this kind, and to explain fully how they are regulated by the Governments of Europe and by that of Washington. The results of these investigations are interesting and instructive, and deserve the instant attention of thoughtful persons. They throw a good deal of new light on the condition and organisation of industry in some of its principal civilised centres, and their general resume of the arrangements that in a considerable part of Europe adjust the rights of labour and capital suggests reflections of no ordinary importance to the welfare and prosperity of this country. The circular, however, weftf basrtHiiftie cause of this useful...
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