Labour Riots

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 129, 20 April 1893, Page 2

Labour Riots

(pee pbess association.) Bkussels, April 18. The Belgian strikers now number fully 50.000. Many have been killed in conflicts with the police and military. Work is ai a standstill at Charleroi. The Premier has agreed to accept plural voting as tho only means of appeasing the agitators. Tho strikers at Mons are maddened by the death of their comrade*, and have sworn to avenge them. The Brussels compositors hare struck, and the publication of newspapers is suspended. Tbo Chamber of Representatives, by 119 to 14, approved of a proposal to confer plural votes on persona taxed for property as acounterpoiso to universal suffrage The labour party accept the decision as an instalment of their demands, and have directed the men to resume work ; they intend, however, to continue the agitation for the abolition of plural voting. April 19. Frequent collisions have taken place at Antwerp between the strikers and the military, and most of the engagements have been accompanied by bloodshed. A large cotton warehouse in Antwerp was set on fire and the rioters attempted to seize a candle factory at Bergerhout and stoned the Fire Brigade who guarded the building. The Brigade fired on the attacking party killing three of them and wounding four. London, April 19. The loaders of the dockers' strike declare there is no definite prospect of an immediate settlement.