Bishopsgate Institute. Tracts for Trades Unionists.—No. IV. The National Federation of Associated Employers of Labour. Report Upon the Memorial Presented to the Home Secretary by the National Federation of Associated Employers of Labour, December 13th, 1873.

A Report upon the Memorial presented to the Home Secretary by the National Federation of the Associated Employers of Labour. The memorial goes on to quote largely from the well known report of the majority of the Trades Union Commission, but makes no allusion to the fact that the wholesale charges which had been brought against Trades Unions, and out of which the Commission arose, had not been substantiated, or that the whole Commission had acknowledged the beneficial side of the Trades Unions. The quotations made, chiefly parliamentary, not judicial, are so onesided as entirely to negative the claim of the employers to an impartial, or to use their own word, to an “imperial” treatment of these questions. A law which says that any person standing in the street shall be punished is obviously unjust. The memorial deals very shortly with the Master and Servants Act.