Note 305 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Northern Star, August 20, 1842. “It is clear that the trade societies as a whole stood outside the Chartist Movement, though many Trade Unionists were no doubt Chartists too. The societies could not be induced to imperil their funds and existence at the orders of the Chartist Convention” (The Chartist Movement, by Mark Hovell, 1918, p. 169).