The Labour Question

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 131, 29 April 1890, Page 3

The Labour Question

By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. (PER UNITEB PREBB ASSOCIATION.) London, April 26 Owiqg to the strike of the employes of the Great Southern and Western Jt ail way Company of Ireland, the traffic is completely paralysed. Owing to a split among the London workmen, it is now estimated that the attendance at the meeting in Hyde Park on the 4th May will 'be under 100,000. New Yobe, April 26. Fifteen thousand butchers in Chicago hare threatened to strike unless the hours of labour are reduced , to eight per day. Chicago. April 26. The strikes which are being arranged to take place here on Ist May, and will affect 12,000 firms employing in the aggregate 200,000 men and 24,000 women. The leaders of the agitation are becoming alarmed at the dimensions the strike is likely to assume, and seek to limit it to carpenters. . Berlin, April 27. The German Minister of Works intends to dismiss any of the Government employes who absent themselves from work in order to take part in the labour celebrations on the Ist May. Large numbers of the employes have decided that those working men ' who are absent at the demonstration on the let of May shall not be taken on until the 9th. thus depriving them of a week's work. It has been decided that the troops ahall remain in barracks on the Ist May. They will take no part in the celebrations. Bismarck, condemned the refusal of a holiday to Government employes on the occasion of the labour demonstration, but said he was certain that the celebration on the Ist May would pass without any disorder or trouble