A POWERFUL PLEA BRIGGS (Jeremiah, Attorney at Law, General Manager of the National Labour Alliance)

'The Labour-Advocate', No. 1, price one penny, headed "Wages without Stoppages!!!", describing how piece-earnings of 4s to 13s a week have all but a few pence stopped as Frame-Rent, Charges and Fines, the misery that follows, and the need to establish by law "</i>Net</i> instead of Nominal Contracts", with verses and articles on the "fatal scourge" of competition and "truck", advertisements for "The Labour Hall, Park Street, Derby", its reading room, and nightly meeting at 8 p.m., 8 sides 4to., 28 Iron Gate, Derby, no date, c. light damage at end with loss (?deliberate) of the printer's name and some text on the inside as a result

Briggs quotes Henry Mayhew and reprints Hood's 'Song of a Shirt'. "The rage for Cheapness having pauperised the Working People, and ruined half the Tradesmen in the Kingdom, is ... making wretched work with the Nation".

Item Date:  1855

Stock No:  19542      £75

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