NOVEL EXCURSION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 389, 31 July 1889, Page 4

NOVEL EXCURSION.

The American workmen's expedition, under the auspices of the Scripps League, started from New York for Europe on the 24th July. When ib was announced that the British Government would send 100 British woikmen to the Paris Exposition it was hoped that Congresa would do likewise, but ib did not. Thereupon the newspaper men took up the scheme, and soon arrangements were completed for sending fifty working men to Europe. In arranging the details of representation all the leading industries of the United States were included. The selection of these representatives was not made trary, but in all cases was left to' the judgment of the working classeeibhemselves, to their employers and to those most conversant wich their capabilities. As a consequence the party is made up of men and women who, while being actual workers in their respective trades, are also competent to study the foreign market and of communicating the results of their observance to the large classes of working men whom they represent. The delegates met at Cleveland on July 24, and at once started for iNew York. At the various stops along the route they were the recipients of favours and enthusiastic greetings. Altogether they are a fine body of representative American working men, and will reflect great credit on the people they represent. The trip will last eight weeks, and will be through England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and France, with Paris and the Exposition as the objective point.