10 JANUARY 1852, Page 9

The workmen engaged in the iron trades at Manchester assembled

in Carpenters Hall yesterday, to the number of about 3000, and passed re- solutions declaring their opinion, after serious consideration, " that the resolutions issued by the Amalgamated Council for the discontinuance of over-time and piece-work are absolutely necessary " ; and pledging them- selves to do all they can peaceably to effect the abolition of those evils.