Dock Labor, speech to Liverpool workers, Samuelson 1880

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Pamphlet published by Egerton Smith at the "Mercury" office in lively Liverpool, England in November,1880, entitled Dock Labour: Its Present Position and Future Prospects. An address given at the Inauguration of the Benefit Society in Connection with the Liverpool stevedores, Quay Porters, and Dock Labourers' Union, by James Samuelson, Barrister-at-Law, of the Middle Temple. Samuelson talked straight and plain to the assembled longshoremen and , unlike most legal addresses, this makes highly entertaining reading. The union secretary John J.Baillie stated in the preface that the author, along with the earl of Derby and Richard Lowndes had just previously acted as arbitrators between the Liverpool Steam ship Owners' Association and the Stevedores and Quay Porters of the city, and authorized the printing of this 14-page work. Baillie strongly urges his fellow hands to follow Samuelson's wise advice. Samuelson speaks of ruffians and tramps, wastrels, etc. ' who go down to the docks and contaminate the honest men in working beside them....' (I am paraphrasing) And so, he continues,' you have been unfairly disgraced.' He advises them of the wisdom of keeping united and working intelligently. He compares conditions in other ports, and reads from correspondence showing conditions in West India. Questions and answers are posed: " Of what read more
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