Anti-Corn Law League

Japanese: 反穀物法同盟 - はんこくもつほうどうめい(英語表記)Anti-Corn Law League
Anti-Corn Law League

An organization formed in Manchester on March 20, 1839 in response to the Corn Laws of Britain. Its direct predecessor was the Anti-Corn Law Society, which had been formed the previous year by Prentiss and others. As its name suggests, it opposed the Corn Laws, and in April of that year began publishing its official newspaper, the Anti-Corn Law Circular, calling for the repeal of the Corn Laws. Its arguments were made from the standpoint of free trade, representing the interests of the emerging merchant and industrial class, but it also gained a certain amount of support from workers while opposing the Chartist movement, effectively organizing a mass movement outside of Parliament, and thanks to the efforts of Cobden, Bright and others, it succeeded in getting Parliament to pass a resolution to repeal the Corn Laws in 1846. Officially, the association was dissolved in the same year, when its primary objective had been achieved.

[Mitsuhiro Okamoto]

[Reference] | Corn Law

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

イギリスの穀物法をめぐって、1839年3月20日、マンチェスターで結成された組織。直接の前身はプレンティスらによって前年に結成された反穀物法協会である。名称の示すように穀物法に反対し、同年4月より機関紙『反穀物法巡報』Anti-Corn Law Circularを刊行し、穀物法の廃止を要求した。その主張は、新興の商工業階級の利害を代表する自由貿易の立場からなされたが、チャーティスト運動に対抗しつつ一定の労働者の支持をも獲得して議会外の大衆運動を有効に組織、コブデン、ブライトらの活躍により、46年議会で穀物法の廃止を決議させることに成功した。公的には、いちおうの目的が達成されたこの年に解散している。

[岡本充弘]

[参照項目] | 穀物法

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