Handybook Of Social Intercourse

[RichardB]

We cannot here pass wholly unnoticed the outrages against life and property continual in Sheffield, though we are unwilling long to dwell on this painful disgrace to the character of our working men, fully believing that they are now alive to the absolute necessity of promptly securing life and property there.

Unless the Sheffield trade unions look to this in time and use their organisation effectually to put an end to this regular system of assassination and violence, their very existence is doomed and the prosperity of Sheffield will not long continue.

All our work in iron and steel is exposed to the keenest foreign competition as this year's exhibition of the industry of all nations proves and everything that prevents masters and men of the highest character from freely combining capital with skill in maintaining our pre-eminence will sooner or later take the bread from thousands of English workmen as surely as the sun shines in the heavens.

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