[284] The prospectus of this Society is in the British Library of Political Science at the London School of Economics. A copy is given in the _Morning Chronicle_, December 7, 1833. Its Manchester meetings are reported in the _Crisis_ for November and December 1833. It seems to have had for its organ a penny weekly called _The Herald of the Rights of Industry_, some numbers of which are in the British Museum. Professor Foxwell has kindly drawn our attention to a further reference to it in the _Life of James Deacon Hume_, p. 55. It excited the curiosity of the Home Secretary. See Home Office Papers, 40--31. [285] See Owen’s elaborate speech, reported in the _Crisis_, October 12, 1833; _Robert Owen: a Biography_, by Frank Podmore, 1906; and _Trade Unionism_, by C. M. Lloyd, 1915. [286] _Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most conducive to Human Happiness_, by William Thompson, 1824; also his _Labour Rewarded, the Claims of Labour and Capital_; _How to secure to Labour the whole Product of its Exertions_, by One of the Idle Classes, 1827; see Professor Foxwell’s Introduction to _The Right to the whole Produce of Labour_, by Anton Menger, 1899; _History of British Socialism_, by M. Beer, 1919, vol. i.; and _The Irish Labour Movement_, by W. P. Ryan, 1919, ch. iii. [287] The pamphlet, entitled _The Grand National Holiday and Congress of the Productive Classes_, by William Benbow, 1831, had an extensive circulation. Mark Hovell (_The Chartist Movement_, 1918, p. 91) thinks he was the same William Benbow whom Bamford mentions as a delegate from Manchester in 1817 (_Life of a Radical_, p. 8), and whom Henry Hunt describes as of the Manchester Hampden Club, and as having been reported by a Government spy to be manufacturing pikes in 1816 (_The Green Bag Plot_, 1918). [288] Leading article in the _Crisis_, October 12, 1833. [289] A specimen dated 1837 is preserved by the Stonemasons’ Society, according to which a Liverpool contractor bound all his employees to serve him at a fixed wage for a long term of years, any time lost by sickness or otherwise not to be paid for and to be added to the term; all “lawful commands” to be obeyed; and no present or future club or other society to be joined without the employer’s consent. [290] See his manifestoes reprinted in _Northern Star_, July 6 and July 27, 1844. “Lord Londonderry again warns all the shopkeepers and tradesmen in his town of Seaham that if they still give credit to pitmen who hold off work, and continue in the Union, such men will be marked by his agents and overmen, and will never be employed in his collieries again, and the shopkeepers may be assured that they will never have any custom or dealings with them from Lord Londonderry’s large concerns that he can in any manner prevent.