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Reuben Farley (17 January 1826 in West Bromwich – 1899), was the eighth of ten children of the mining engineer Thomas Farley (1781–1830).〔A brief history of Alderman Reuben Farley, The Friends of Dartmouth Park〕 Farley was a pupil at Borwicks Heath Academy and an active member of the West Bromwich Institution for the Advancement of Knowledge. ==Business interests== After a mining apprenticeship, Farley took over Dunkirk Colliery when he was twenty-one. By 1861 he bought the Summit Foundry with his brother-in-law George Taylor. The foundry became one of the largest of its kind in South Staffordshire, and the firm won a medal at the 1897 Brussels Exhibition. Farley played a leading role in several local limited companies. He was a leading shareholder and Chairman in Fellows Morton and Clayton, a large canal carrier which his brother-in-law Joshua Fellows had founded, and Edwin Danks & Co. an important local maker of boilers and boats. He was a director of the Sandwell Park Colliery Co. and later an active Chairman of the Hamstead Colliery Co. His labour relations attitudes were stern. He condemned the eight-hour day as ‘interference with the liberty of the subject’ 〔Birmingham Daily Post, 3 February.1891.〕 He also criticised union organisers at the Summit Foundry for alienating employers from workmen. However, Farley provided excursions and pensions in his own firm and experienced little labour trouble. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reuben Farley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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