Note 3 — PUBLIC LECTURES—MR WARREN ON LABOUR.[1]

“One of those combinations,” says Mr Warren, “was bound together by this oath (so atrocious that were it not on record in the authentic ‘debates’ of the day, I would not cite it):—‘I, A. B., do voluntarily swear, in the awful presence of Almighty God, and before these witnesses, that I will execute with zeal and sincerity, as far as in me lies, every task and injunction which the majority of my brethren shall impose on me, in furtherance of our common welfare; as,—the chastisement of nobs, the assassination of oppressive and tyrannical masters, or the demolition of shops that shall be deemed incorrigible: and also that I will cheerfully contribute to the support of such of my brethren as shall lose their work in consequence of their exertions against tyranny, or shall renounce work in resistance to a reduction of wages.’”