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trades’ unions. 
funds of the farriers were flourishing, and partial strikes were 
almost daily taking place, and a general one was threatened ? 
why, nothing ! ! But there were a certain number of all grades 
among us who united together; and their united strength and 
united influence put down at once the meditated oppression of 
the journeymen ; and the farriers, almost the only trade of which 
this could be said, joined the union as paupers. We transcribe 
two or three of the resolutions of these masters who so nobly 
stemmed the torrent. They do them credit. 
u 18. That no journeyman that has struck, or that shall here¬ 
after strike, against any member, with reference to the late at¬ 
tempted encroachments of the men, shall be employed by any 
other member of this society, until he has made proper submis¬ 
sion in the opinion of his late master ; and this on pain of the 
member’s expulsion. 
“ 19. That in order that refractory journeymen may be known 
to the society, each member shall regularly send to the secretary 
the names of those men who strike against him, or whom he is 
compelled to discharge for other bad conduct; and the secretary 
shall keep an account of the same, and report it to the society 
on the following meeting night. 
“ 20. That the workmen belonging to the club or union shall 
not be dismissed while they do not resist wages they have been 
accustomed to receive, or while they will work with men not 
belonging to the club or union; the object of the society being 
merely to protect the interests of the masters, without prejudice 
to any set of men: but in the selecting of new men decided pre¬ 
ference shall be given to those who do not belong to such club 
or union.” 
This quotation contains a sufficient answer to the two 
questions—what have we done, and what do we recommend 
to be done ? The relative situation of master and mechanic is 
now become a subject of paramount importance. It involves, 
and it has almost effected, a separation ; a gulph between these 
two classes of society, that are so closely united in interest, and 
should be in good feeling. It is the first step towards a dissolu¬ 
tion of all the ties that should connect society together. He 
must have observed the signs of the times with a careless eye 
who has not perceived how diligently and widely—let it not be 
fatally—politics have been mixed up with the question between 
master and mechanic. The speeches of the leaders of the unions 
have been characterized by a suspicious violence; and every 
page of some of the publications that have been so industriously 
disseminated, teems with the rankest sedition ; while secret obli¬ 
gations continue to be taken, at which the blood runs cold. If 
