Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Ihi*..: , ClcTkcnweU Close, lUGUES, Ihoto : Batsano, Old Bond St., ^ FAWCETT, SOME SYMPATHISERS WITH LABOLIl. 822 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. [1865-1885 rediietidns of wagcs and longer hours ot work. The high hopesof 1874 were shattered. Strike foUowed upon strike; but themen were in almost every case defeated. In the three years1878, 1879, and 1880 the Amalgamated
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Ihi*..: , ClcTkcnweU Close, lUGUES, Ihoto : Batsano, Old Bond St., ^ FAWCETT, SOME SYMPATHISERS WITH LABOLIl. 822 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. [1865-1885 rediietidns of wagcs and longer hours ot work. The high hopesof 1874 were shattered. Strike foUowed upon strike; but themen were in almost every case defeated. In the three years1878, 1879, and 1880 the Amalgamated Engineers paid out£287,.596 in out-of-work rehef The Agricuhin-al Unions,and hundreds of small societies, ceased to exist; and in 1881the number of members of unions represented at the annualCongress had sunk to one-third of what it had been New It was natural that the depressed trade of 1875-80 should Umonism. \^.^f[ j,, ?^\•icle ditierence of opinion among workmen as to thewistlom and adequacy of the policj* hitherto jiursued by theunions. The movement known as the New Unionism wasthe outcome of some of these diverofences: and although itmainly belongs to the yea
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