[192]Home Office Papers, letter of January 3, 1832 (H.O. 40—30).
[193]It is pleasant to record that some of the workmen expressed their gratitude for Francis Place’s indefatigable services. “Soon after the proceedings in 1825 were closed,” he writes, “the seamen of the Tyne and Wear sent me a handsome silver vase, paid for by a penny-a-week subscription; and the cutlers of Sheffield sent me an incomparable set of knives and forks in a case” (Place MSS. 27798—66).
[194]June 25, 1825. Ibid. 27798—57.
[195]Sheffield Iris, September 27, 1825.
[196]Handbill preserved in Place MSS. 27803—255.
[197]Manchester Guardian, August 7, 1824; see also On Combinations of Trades(1830).
[198]This is expressly stated in the preamble to the rules adopted at the meeting on August 16, 1824, and recorded in the first minute-book.
[199]This society afterwards developed into the existing General Union of Carpenters and Joiners of Great Britain.
[200]Two rival journals, The Journeyman’s and Artisan’s London and Provincial Chronicle, and The Mechanic’s Newspaper and Trade Journal, were also started, but soon expired.
[201]The Trades Newspaper was managed by a committee of eleven delegates from different trades, of which John Gast was chairman, and was edited, at first by Mr. Baines, son of the proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, and afterwards by a Mr. Anderson. The Laws and Regulations of the Trades Newspaper(1825, 12 pp.) are preserved in the Place MSS. 27803—414. The issues from July 17, 1825, to its amalgamation with The Trades Free Press in 1828, are in the British Museum.