The cotton-spinners as well as other classes of manufacturers of Lancashire remained in a state of organized opposition to their masters on the subject of wages.
Some spinners prefer the spindle loose, so that it can be withdrawn when changing the centers, while others prefer one with considerable lateral motion, but not enough to permit of withdrawal.
While the operation of spinning is a comparatively simple one to describe, it is not easily learned, and to-day good all-around spinners are hard to find.
This center is sometimes the ordinary dead center that is in general machine shop use, but nearly all spinners use the revolving center, shown in Fig.
The spinners prefer them to the tools which are forged in one piece, because the heads which are screwed to the shanks are made of the best quality of steel, such as the high-speed or self-hardening steel.
Some spinners will “hop in” a blank with the lathe running, but this is dangerous practice and sometimes the blank will go sailing across the room.
Some spinners can keep within 10 per cent of the gage on ordinary work, but they are scarce.
These tools are of the type commonly used by spinners for turning the various shapes of wooden spinning chucks.
A Bolton manufacturer writes: "The elongation of the mules of our frames permits us to employ but twenty-six spinners where we employed thirty-five in 1837.
The prince thought, "If I rode alone to the cottage in the wood, who knows but that the gold-spinners might be able to give me some explanation of this wonderful occurrence.
The spinners knew not how the golden flax came into the house, nor for what fabric the thread was used, for the mother never replied to any questions on these subjects.
The Gold-Spinners What the Rose did to the Cypress Which was the Foolishest?
No longer did it take ten spinners to keep one weaver busy.
Some farmers became spinners in the winter when outside work was impossible.
The marble workers, who began to see their mistake, were reproaching the foundry men with enticing them into to coalition, and the spinners were hot in their denunciations of the molders.
That same morning the spinnerswent back to the mules, but the molders held out until nightfall, when it was signified to them that they demands would be complied with.
The section of England about Manchester became in time the seat of the great cotton industry; this was due to the settlement of spinners and weavers from Flanders.
The mule, however, does the work of more than 1,000 hand spinners and takes up much less space.
The French spinners found that the strongest yarns were those of the undyed wool.
It thus appears that the primitive spinners with distaff and spindle had nothing to learn in point of fineness from even the most advanced methods of spinning by machinery.
English weavers and spinners became very skilful and invented different mechanical aids for the production of yarn and cloth.
The very first invention, the jenny, worked by one man, produced at least sixfold what the spinning-wheel had yielded in the same time; thus every new jenny threw five spinners out of employment.
Finally, he relates the following: At one time the coarse mule-spinners had misused their power beyond all endurance.
In one factory alone, where eighty spinners were employed a short time ago, there are now but twenty left; the others having been discharged or set at children's work for children's wages.
He cites five factories in which no spinnerswhatever are employed, self-actors only being used.
A hoarse, rough voice is common to all operatives, but especially to wet spinners and doublers.
Patiently the tiny spinners toiled, and those worms that failed to spin were put into a room by themselves where the temperature was graded to a higher degree of heat that the warmer atmosphere might stimulate them to work.
Of course there are other spinnersin the universe, however.
Until they did, however, it would be useless to hatch the eggs so carefully laid away, for there would be no food to give the ravenous little spinners should they rouse from their long sleep.
They knew well that the labor of making the place immaculate was far from wasted, for unless the rooms were spotless the fastidious spinners would either sicken and die, or would refuse to fashion their wonderful webs.
After the fly-shuttle had come into common use this pressure of demand upon the spinners was obviously increased, and the most skilful organisation of middleman-clothiers was unable to supply sufficient quantities of yarn.
The joint operation of both these conditions in the cotton-spinning trade explains why the Lancashire spinners have been unable to check the effects of cut-throat competition.
Even before the invention of John Kay's Fly Shuttle, which doubled the quantity of work a weaver could do in a day, we found that spinners had great difficulties in supplying sufficient yarn to the weavers.
But since these latter are not owners of anything which the spinners and manufacturers wish to consume or to possess, the exchange of commodities for commodities cannot take place.
Male spinners alone received the "high wages" he names, and out of them had to pay for the labour of the assistants whom they hired to help them.
The president of this Society, Mr. Potter, spent thirty thousand dollars in the cause, and at a time when times were hard and fortunes as well as cotton-spinners in distress through our blockade.
By September, five sixths of the Lancashire cotton-spinners were out of work, or working half time.
It must have been to some such measure that the spinners and the young maids sang, 'Come away, Death,' in the Shakespearian Illyria.
We are not cotton-spinners all'; or, at least, not all through.
Besides the Advantage of this Spinning Engine in Ease, Its expedition will also be considerable; For if (as we doubt not) by this help Spinners can earn 9 d.
Ell; which Three quarters of a Pound two Spinners may spin in one day; Hence it follows, 2.
In This Series of Pictures the Spinners and Weavers Are in Native Costume.
Sidenote: Boiling Off] After the yarn leaves the spinners it is again run off on reels to be taken to the dye house.
This was, however, only for a time; demand slackened, and the spinners were reduced to misery.
It appears that there was a kind of reciprocal movement going on between the spinners and weavers during the transition, which is of interest as illustrating the kind of skill and intelligence that was required.
It must be also remembered that each weaver kept several spinners employed, so that unless his family could supply him, he might easily be forced to have recourse to the services of women workers outside.
A peculiar feature of the occupation is that the operative spinners themselves, who employ and pay their piecers, are thus interested in obtaining a supply of cheap labour, just as any capitalist employer is, or supposes himself to be.
In December the Lancashire Cotton Spinners called a conference at Ramsey, Isle of Man, to consider the question of a national organisation.
The Union was to include all male spinners and piecers, the women and girls being urged to form separate organisations.
Then I took it to hand-spinners 20 or 30 miles distant.
Although the preparing and spinning of flax is a skilled industry, the highest wage paid in the mill to spinners was 11s.
Ring-spinners are often included in the same Union with card-room operatives, and quite recently a special effort has been made to improve the organisation of ring-room workers.
So far, however, it has been freely met by the holders; and the speculators and spinners have had an abundant choice of all qualities.
For yarn the demand continues good, and prices very firm, but the spinners are so generally engaged, that no great amount of business has been done.
When the government was offering large premiums to farmers for raising extra quantities and detailing soldiers to assist in threshing it, poor bankrupt spinners must have had a hard struggle for a bare existence.
The maiden concealed the three spinners from the Queen, but showed her the heaps of spun yarn whenever she came, and received no end of praise for it.
Then the three spinners took their leave, saying to the maiden: "Forget not what thou hast promised us; it will make thy fortune.
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