The Labour Movement

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 109, 7 March 1891, Page 2

The Labour Movement

(f'KR imfTED PRK9S ASSOCF ATION.) LoNroN. March 4 Mr J. B. Patterson, ex-Commissioner of Customs of Victoria, in addressing a gathering of workmen at Almvick, de clared that a universal strike meant universal starvation. The shipping strike is spreading northwards. The port -of Aberdeen is now blocked.- ' , Beblin, March 4. The Emperor states that he is determined to remedy the crying injustice under which the labouring classes suffer, but that he disapproves of- irresponsible agitators. March 5. Speaking at Clerkenwell, Mr ParneU made a clear bid for the British labour i vote. . ! ' The . shore tTnions m . London hare agreed to return to work and remove the block. Mr Parnell is in favour of shortening the hours of labour and the establishment of Boards of Conciliation. Lord Salisbury favours the appoint* ment of Messrs T. Mann and J. Burns to seats on the Labour Commission,' but his colleagues differ him with. Received March 7, 10 45 a.mi London, March 6. The stevedores and coal heavers at London have again refused to work w 4 i non- Unionists. Various Unionists at Cardiff are divided, in opinion on the question of the strike. The railway men refuse to support-the seamen and firemen in a general strike. It is reported that. Mr Goschen' Chancellor of the Exchequer, will be Chairman of the Labor Conference. • ' .