ABSTRACT
This chapter by Dickinson turns to religious imagery in which workers are viewed as a family involved in the sacred task of making an ‘Eden’ for themselves and their children. Indeed, it calls capitalists and the government to account for the prosecution of labourers trying to create a trade union in the region of Wolverhampton. Capital, the produce of the people industry, is contracting its circle, and getting into fewer hands. Machinery is bursting into existence on every side and supplanting manual labour. There is no want in nature’s dealings; no niggardliness, no pinching; her table is spread in plenty that all may enjoy the universal banquet. Rally round the Trades Association as a first step in pilgrimage to the promised land, and in every town in England form local committees, to gather the representatives of trades together.
