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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1896, Page 2

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\ THE CLYDE STRIKE SETTLED. THE DUBLIN CONVENTION. BEN TILLETT'S ARREST. TRADE UNION CONGRESS. (Per Press Association). London, Sept. 7. The imports laat month decreased by £2,114,770. The Clyde strike is finally settled. A correspondent of the Standard states that Kapnist, the Russian Ambassador in Vienna, ia likely to succeed Prince LobanOff. John E. Redmond declares that the Dublin Convention was the most useful for Ireland since the gathering convened by Pnrnell. I The Trades Union demand an amendment to the Employers' Liability Bill, forbidding '• contracting out " of it and the establishment of a general eight hours' system. Mr Redmond denies the Irish in Australia and America have any right to dictate the policy and the conduct of Irish members in the imperial Parliament. The delegates from Australia at the conference were unknown, and be ' denied they wens genuine representatives of the colony. At the Trade Union Congress at Edinburgh, Mr Mallison, President, said the fight of the future will be for a living wage, and that the papmeut for labour will be the first, on production. The social millenium was still at a distance. Madrid, Sept. 9. The rebellion in the Philippine Islands is spreading. Berlin, Sept. 8. Krupp has discharged all foreigners from his workshops on suspicion of their having revealed (secrets of the manufacture of his weapons. Brussels, Sept. 8. The Marquis of Salisbnry is communicating with the Belgian Governmen t over the arrest of Ben Tillet.