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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702 Belegstellen. the value of those articles, should be added to the workmen and master manufacturers, for the purpose of arbitrating and getting them to agree ıpon disputed points? — Yes, I think it might. 882, The boards of trade have been in operation about three years in Paisley, have they not? — For three years there has been a table of prices for trimmings, and for near four years for other kinds of plain work; in the heavy line it has been in existence two years. The silk- gauze table came into operation on the 1st of July last year. 883. Then during the case of the trimmings, how many disputes have arisen where an arbiter was required? — There never has any dispute arisen from any attempt to pay below the table price; the disputes fre- quently are about bad materials, and misunderstandings about the engage- ment, bad-finished work, etc.; but there never has been a dispute, so far as I know, in consequence of any manufacturer giving less than the table prices. In the silk-gauze there have been complaints of manufacturers endeavouring to give out work at less prices than the table stated, but not in the trimming. 884. Then do you conclude that if there were boards of trade existing for Paisley and Glasgow, or for Scotland generally, in the hand-loom business, that very rarely indeed there would be disputes, provided there could be some person capable of judging added to that board of trade, to be an impartial arbiter between the masters and men, when cases of under-payment occurred which were capable of being proved against the manufacturers? — I think that disputes would occur very seldom. When I speak about the opinion of the people of Paisley, their opinion is that it should be composed of weavers and masters; but from my experience in Paisley, the view I have taken of it is, that had there been a manu- facturers’ committee in existence for the last 25 years, and if the weavers had not had any connexion with it, they would not have agreed among themselves to reduce prices in the same way that it has been done in- dividually, by one trying to make cheaper than his neighbour. Had there been a committee of manufacturers, without weavers at all, my conviction is, they would never as a body have agreed to reduce prices so far as they have done. 885. Do you suppose that in the event of those boards of trade being established in Scotland, it would be necessary that corresponding boards of trade should be established in England and Ireland? — Yes, [ think so; because if Manchester were to make cheap, Paisley and Glas- yow must either make cheap or give up the trade, Paisley has suffered extremely from the introduction of French manufactured goods into this market; it has been a greater detriment to Paisley than anything else within the last 20 years. It occurred first in the silk-gauze trade, in the year 1826, and the manufacturers and weavers at that time petitioned; they were unsuccessful: all the other manufacturers in Paisley stood

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