Appendix G — List of Some of the Principal Labour Organizations and Trades Unions Which Have Condemned Unrestricted Alien Immigration
The Blackburn Power-Loom Weavers’ Protection Society.
National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers.
Steam-Engine-Makers’ Society.
Amalgamated Society of Engineers.
Operative Bricklayers’ Society.
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.
Boiler-Makers’ and Iron Ship-Builders’ Society.
Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton-Spinners.
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Miners’ Association (Durham).
Sailors’ and Firemens’ Union.
British Steel Smelters’ Amalgamated Association.
The Amalgamated Hammermen’s Trade Association.
Liverpool and Vicinity United Trades’ Council.
London Trades’ Council (Special sub-committee).
Operative Bakers of Scotland National Federal Union.
Cardiff, Penarth, and Barry Coal Trimmers’ Protection and Benefit Association.
National Union of Boot Clickers and Rough Stuff Cutters.
Durham County Colliery Enginemens’ Association.
Operative Cotton Spinners’ Society.
The United Pointsmen and Signalmens’ Mutual Aid and Sick Society.
Sailors’ and Firemens’ Union—Green’s Home Branch.
Quarrymen’s Union.
Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives’ Association.
St. Helen’s Association of Colliery Enginemen.
Dockers’ Union.
West Bromwich, Oldbury, Tipton, Coseley and Bradley Amalgamated Association of Miners.
United Operative Plumbers’ Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
Birmingham Operative Brass-Cock Finishers’ Society.
West Riding of Yorkshire Power-Loom Weavers’ Association.
Protective and Provident Society of Women working in Trades in Oxford.
National Amalgamated Coal-Porters’ Union of Inland and Sea-borne Coal Workers.
Progressive Union of Cabinet-makers.
London Potters’ Trade Society.
Liverpool Operative Ship-painters.
Society of Compositors.
Operative Lace-Makers’ Society.
The Operative Plasterers’ Association.
The Tin and Iron Plate-Workers’ Society.
The Society of House Decorators.
The Shoemakers’ Association.
The Master-Tailors’ Association (Liverpool); and many others.
Notes1
i.e. 1890.
2 i.e. 1891.
3 Vide Appendix A.
4 Daily Telegraph, January 6, 1892.
5 Vide Appendix A.
6 15th September, 1891.
7 Statistical Tables relating to Emigration and Immigration, 1890.
8 Vide Appendix B.
9 Letter from Board of Trade, 15th June, 1891.
10 Vide Monthly Returns of the Board of Trade.
11 The Evening News and Post.
12 26th October, 1891.
13 Letter to The Times, August 23rd, 1890, and elsewhere.
14 Vide Appendix C.
15 1891.
16 24th August, 1891.
17 2nd October, 1891.
18 10th June, 1891.
20 Times, 26th June, 1890.
21 Congress of Hygiene and Demography, August 1891.
22 Vide Majority Report, Hackney Board of Guardians, April 1891.
23 The late Canon Kingsley.
24 Great Cities, and their Influence for Good and Evil.
25 Arnold White, Problems of a Great City.
26 Speech, Public Meeting of “Association for Preventing Immigration of Destitute Aliens,” July 1891.
27 Speech, House of Lords, June 1890.
29 1891.
31 Problems of Greater Britain, vol. ii. p. 314.
33 17th January, 1891.
34 The italics are my own.—W. H. W.
35 Vide Appendix G.
36 Speech at Inaugural Meeting of the Association for Preventing Immigration of Destitute Aliens, May 1st, 1891.
37 Mr. Sydney Buxton, M.P., Right Hon. E. Heneage, M.P., Mr. W. McArthur, M.P., and many others.
38 For the information contained in Appendix A I am indebted to Mr. C. J. Follett, C.B.
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