[300]George Howell suggests, we are not sure with what authority, that Nassau Senior, whose report on Trade Unionism to the Home Secretary in 1830 we have already described, tendered this to Sir Henry Parnell as the basis of a report by the Committee of 1838, but the proposal was not accepted (Labour Legislation, Labour Movements and Labour Leaders, 1902, pp. 83-4). See also The Irish Labour Movement, by W. P. Ryan, 1919.
[301]A series of subsequent publications has now gone far to fill this gap. The Chartist Movement, by R. G. Gammage (republished 1894), may now be supplemented by The Life of Francis Place, by Professor Graham Wallas (revised edition, 1918); Le Chartisme, 1830-48, by E. Dolléans, 2 vols. (Paris, 1912-13); The Chartist Movement, by Mark Hovell, 1918; The Social and Economic Aspects of the Chartist Movement, by F. F. Rosenblatt (New York, 1916); The Decline of the Chartist Movement, by P. W. Slosson (New York, 1916); Chartism and the Churches, by H. V. Faulkner (New York, 1916); Die Entstehung und die ökonomischen Grundsätze der Chartistenbewegung, by John Tildsley (Jena, 1898); and especially by the two separate volumes on the History of British Socialism, by M. Beer, 1919 and 1920.
[302]Northern Star, August 20, 1842.
[303]Sheffield Iris, August 1842.
[304]See, for instance, that for October 1839.
[305]Northern Star, August 20, 1842. “It is clear that the trade societies as a whole stood outside the Chartist Movement, though many Trade Unionists were no doubt Chartists too. The societies could not be induced to imperil their funds and existence at the orders of the Chartist Convention” (The Chartist Movement, by Mark Hovell, 1918, p. 169).
[306]History of Birmingham, by W. Hutton (Birmingham, edition of 1835), p. 149.
[307]Northern Star, August 24, 1846.
CHAPTER IV
THE NEW SPIRIT AND THE NEW MODEL
[1843-1860]