F. Einigungsamt. 
699 
The general plan observed by the weavers, when any were found paying 
lower than the rest, was to assemble and force the workers to carry home 
the work unfinished that was found contrary ‚to the statute law, Several 
manufactures were sworn out of trade, which was also found illegal and 
anserviceable. 
5678. In the list you have given in of subscriptions in London, 
there is the name of Sir Robert Peel for 30 guineas? — Yes. 
F. 
Zu 8. 459, Anmerkung 1. 
Man strebt nach einem Einigungsamt. 
Handloom weavers Report 1834, 8. 62. 
271. You have mentioned @ table of prices; is that the regulating 
system which has been described as boards of trade in the petition? — 
It is, and had worked well. But the great difficulty in Paisley, in these 
tables of prices or arrangements between the workman and his employer, 
arises from this: the weaver finds it his interest to support them, the 
manufacturers generally say it is not injurious to them as manufacturers, 
but they do not find the same interest as the weaver. Hence the pro- 
tecting of these tables depends entirely with the weavers, and when an 
infringement is made the weavers are the complainers, and the manufac- 
turers, moving in a higher sphere, sometimes get irritated at this inter- 
ference. Had the manufacturers found it their interest, and formed a 
protecting committee, the weaving body could have done almost without 
their own committee, or without local boards of trade; but there is nothing 
to bind the manufacturers that do not find it to their advantage to keep 
to the tables of prices, although they admit that it is not to their dis- 
advantage. 
872. Do you think that if those boards of trade met with the ap- 
proval of Parliament, that the manufacturers in that case would be more 
reconciled to go hand in hand with the weavers in maintaining and sSup- 
porting them? — I could not answer that question. I know so few of 
the manufacturers; all those that I do know would cordially agree to the 
measure. I believe there are nearly 200 manufacturers in Paisley, and 
we have a few firm friends, and a very few strenuous opponents; and the 
great majority do not attend much to these things, if they can just carry 
on their business from day to day. That is my own opinion of the state 
of matters in Paisley. 
873. You state that some of the houses are very anxious to have 
any mode of keeping up prices to a fair and adequate subsistence for