| Description | [Comments on the unwarranted presence in the workshops of one of the Smiths’ brothers, the possibility that Smith was planning to set up his own workshops in competition with Soho and enticing workmen to leave Soho (under the inducement of alcohol), the need for an inventory to be taken, and arbitration to be arranged. ‘The longer this business is kept open the more time they will gain to prepare for opposition, & making Tools, fitting up Shops & seducing my Workmen whereas if all was now so settled that I could go on with the business I could keep such Men in employ as chose to continue & such as did not wd remain a burthen upon Smith who must pay them wages for doing nothing.’] |