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SATURDAY NIGHT.
Mr. Oastler continues his agitating progress in Yorkshire, and on Thursday he had a Ten-hours meeting in Halifax. It was held in the Odd Fellows Hall, and nearly 3,000 are computed to have been pre- sent. Mr. John Fielden, however, was one to address the meeting. He touched upon the question of reduced wages, asking, " Are you willing to run the risk of wages being reduced, if a Ten-hours Bill be passed?" Several cried, "We are, we are!" The assertion of the Borough Member, Mr. Charles Wood, that few of the working men really wish for shortening the hours of labour, was angrily discussed by most of the speakers, and pronounced to be " a lie." Mr. Oastler said- . Whether Mr. Wood himself was the author of the palpable falsehood, or whether the millowners had employed persons to write letters to him, in order to deceive him, it was certain that by some one or another there was a deep and unconstitutional plot laid to deceive the House of Commons on this most
vital question. • He must either let the House of Commons know how he was deceived or he should be made to stand in that House and declare that be was the author of the lie."
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