LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2039, 29 April 1890, Page 4

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, April 24. A procession, comprising members of eighty trades in London, will parade the Victoria Embankment on May 4lb, Their manifesto demands that the Governimnt and Local Governing Bodies shall adopt the eight hours system. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Geo. C. T, Bartley, member for Islington North, withdrew a motion tabled by him on 18th March that a Select Committee be established to inquire hito and report on the profitsharing system between employers and emplojeL lie explained that Sir Michael Hicks Beach, President of the Board of Trade, had given a promise that the board would enquire into the question. During the debate on the motion for withdrawal, Mr Brndlaugh strongly denounced the labor agitation. April 26. Owing to the strike of the employes of the Great Southern and Western Hail way Company, Ireland, traffic is completely paralysed. All the European Powers, with the exception of Hungary, have declined to allow their employes to take part in the labor demonstration on May Ist. Owing to a split among the London workmen it is now estimated that the attendance at the meeting in Hyde Park on May 4th will he under 100,000. Berlin, April 24. I he Socialists have presented to the Reichstag a petition bearing three million signatures, urging that the eight hours system be adopted throughout the German empire. G.rmany remains neutral in 'lit-* eight hours labor demonstration, but will protect workers against any action of non-workers. The town of Bula, on the Vistula, in Galicia, wss sacked by 4000 rioters, the military bmig called out. An engagement took place between them and the rioters. Eleven of the latter were shot dead. The Protestant and Roman Catholic Bishops of Prussia have appealed to their clergy to repress Socialism. New lork, April 25. Fifteen thousand butchers in Chicago have threatened to strike unless the hours of labor are reduced to eight per day. Chicago, April 24. The carpenters on strike have appealed to English end German tradesmen to desist from supplanting them. April 26. The strikes which are being arranged to take place here 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, Christchurch, April 27, There wop a slight disturbance over early closing in High Street on Saturday night, The police arrested two young men who began to hoot Straits, lha

jeweller, arid no further disturbance occurred. Dunedin, April 25. At the Conh rencei of the Federated. Wharf Laborers Union Mr Lewarne, of Lyttelton, being in the' chair, the report of the executive was submitted. It congratulated members on the great success of the branches which had been established at Tifnaru, Oomaru, the Bluff, Napier, and other ports, The membership is now about 3000. Jhere was a balance in the bank of £444 11s 4d. Mr Bv Maxwell, of Dunedin, was appointed secretary. Messrs Brown and Creagh gave particulars of the intercolonial conference at Sydney, and were thanked for their services. Aprif 27, The delegates from the Wharf Laborers Union sitting here have resolved to federate with the unions of Melbourne and Sydney. They will thus have the largest labor organisation south of the line, the membership being 24,000