WORKING MEN’S CLUBS.

Evening Star, Issue 3615, 23 September 1874, Page 3

WORKING MEN’S CLUBS.

As the subject of a working men’s Club is at present being much discussed here, the following extract from the ‘ Herts Advertiser ’ may be considered apropos:— At the aunual meeting of the Working Men’s Club and Institute Union, held in the hall of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, liondon, Dean Stanley pi’esided, and amongst those present were Lord Lyttelton, Mr Samuel Morley, M.P., Sir Harcourt Johnston, and Mr Thomas Hughes.— Mr Morley said the fact that 100,000 working men believed they coukl find healthier society in their clubs than in the tap-room was a subject of thankfulness to everyone interested in the well-being of the country. He thought employers might to interest themselves in the welfare of their men, The absence of an entente, cordiale between the rich and the poor had broken France to pieces more taan orc», and the safety of this countiy depended on the maintenance of a good understanding between the different classes. The report instanced the successful operations of the society in various parts of England and Scotland—Resolutions were adopted, setting forth that such clubs promoted national prosperity, and rendered a great public service in developing aline a spirit of self-help and of co-operation for the general good—The names of Karl Russell and the Bishop of London were added to the list of vice-presidents.—The Chairman, in bringing the proceedings to a close, attributed the decrease of drunkenness amongst the upper classes to the spread of intelligence and culture, pnd expressed the belief that when the same influences were brought to bear by these clubs on the working classes the same result would follow.