HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) AND

infmtion axxmg tk men ihanselvec." " In an interview. this time. with Loadon's
Dockworkers, Mayhew documented that "om gentleman seemed as anxious to withhdd
information as the oae was to impart it." " Ma*
discovaeb in fact. that the Qpu ty-
superintendent's orders were different with each subcxdinate officer. M a w recorded
that "no answers should be made to any inquiries I might put to them; and it was not until
I had communicated my object to the secretary that I was able to obtain the least
infixmation coacerning even the number of hands employed at different times, a the
armunr of wages paid to thm" " Regarding intimidatinn a lulnpa unwillingly leaked
information to Mayhew that his colleagues intimidated him at wak M a w found that
"only by a series of cross-questionings that any approximation to the truth could be
extracted from him. He was evidently in fear of losing his work a d the tavern to which I
had go= to take his statemem was filled with fa- watching and intimidating him." 24
"We shall be discharged if they know we have told you the truth," several men confided
in ~ a~hew.~ Mayhew revealed some of tk details of che battle for industry control in
the developumts of London's early omnibus industry. He stated that it was "but a series
of struggles and ruimus lawsuits, om proprietor with amher. umil many were ruit~d"~
"Several opposed companies a individuals coalesced or aged," Mayhew discovertxi,
"and these propriaas mw present a unified, and, I believe, a prospaous body." " The
remaining omnibus companies, mw successful and increasingly pow&ul, represeated
Ibid., 111: 234.
'' Ibid., 302.
23 bid.
2' bid.. III: 290.
'5 Ibid., 276.
26 bid.. m: 342.
" bid.