Zwei Bücher zur socialen Geschichte Englands

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Identifikator:: 1891000233

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-260008

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Held, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/116681667

Title:: Zwei Bücher zur socialen Geschichte Englands

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1881

Scope:: XIV, 775 Seiten; 1 Portrait

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweiter Anhang. Belegstellen.

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E. Gesetzliches Lohnminimum. 697 That your petitioners have for a series of years suffered very great hardships by reduction of their wages. That such reduction of their wages hath been principally effectuated by the competition or rivalship of the master manufacturers, in paying various prices for the same kind of goods, whereby the skill and industry of your petitioners is sacrificed by a depreciation of the value of their labour. That your petitioners do not observe any abatement in the demand for goods, though they are reduced nearly one half the wages they have hitherto been paid; and such wages do not, in many cases, amount to more than 9 s. per week. That your petitioners have seen the advance of price in.other trades and branches of manufacture to correspond with the increased prices of provisions, while they have from the foregoing causes , together with the increased prices of house-rents, firing, and other necessaries attendant upon the manufacture, been rendered incapable of procuring a sufficient livelihood. That your petitioners are, and ever will be, ready to submit to any privations arising from national calamities, and with becoming fortitude to bear them; but they believe they have nothing to dread either from the arts or arms of foreigners, they therefore look up to the justice and wisdom of this Honourable House for redress, in the premises which they are ready to prove (if so permitted), either by themselves or counsel. That if a fair and equal regulation were adopted in the trade, and uniformity of prices established for weaving the various fabrics in the cotton manufacture, such manufacture would be rescued from its present sompetitors, and all concerned therein be much. benefited, Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray, that leave may be given to bring in a Bill to regulate, from time to time, agreeable to existing circumstances , the prices for weaving cotton cloth; such prices, eules and regulations, to be uniform and general for every species fabric and texture in the said manufacture, or to do herein as to the great wisdom of this Honourable House shall seem meet. And your Petitioners shall ever pray.“ Now the above petition and paper show exactly the principle of our petitions, and is it the sentiment of the trade in general. Now this is the cure mentioned in the last clause: „Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray, that leave may be given to bring in a Bill to regulate from time to time, agreeable to existing circumstances, the‘ prices for weaving cotton cloth; such prices, rules and regulations to be uniform and general for every species, fabrie and texture in the said manufacture, or to do herein as to the great wisdom of this Honourable House shall seem meet.“ Now this is the very spirit, and I might say the letter, of the peti- tions before the Committee. I have another decument here which shows

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