LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2041, 3 May 1890, Page 1

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, April 29. The firemen employed on the Great Southern rnd Western Railway, Ireland, will not strike unless the military intervene. The directors have decided that if the men apologise and return to work they will give fall consideration to their alleged grievances. Archbishop Walsh is acting as Mediator between the employers and the men. April 30, Archbishop Walsh, who is acting as mediator between the directors of the Great Southern and Western Railway Uompany and the men out on strike, is opposed to a sompromiae being effected. Several of the signalmen were prosecuted by the directors for deserting their posts; One was fined £lO, and the charges against six others were withdrawn. The drivers stale that they will strike if the directors engage blacklegs, John Barns and Michael Davitt will deliver addresses at the labor demonstration on Sunday in favor of the legislature fixing eight hours as the length of a day’s work. The organised Trades Unions are opposed to this step. Those who are in favor of legislation fixing eight hours os a day’s work, and those who are agaainst it will occupy separate platforms at the labor celebrations on Sunday, The socialists will support the view taken by the former. Madrid, April 29. A grand procession of the various trades will be held hero on Thursday, 'Paris, April 29. At Lyons arrests hove been made of several persons suspected of intending to take part in a dynamite plot at the labor demonstration,

Two. Italians, recent arrivals here, have been advising soldiers to shoot their officers if they ordered them to charge the people at the labor demonstrations on Thursday.

April 30. The Marquis Mores has been arrested jn the cily on a charge of inciting the army to join the anarchists. Numerous anarchists, including M, Prevost, secretary of the Parisian Trades Union, have been arrested, as it is believed they intended to dynamite the financiers’ houses to-morrow. Fifty thousand troops are stationed in Paris to preserve order on the occasion of (belabor demonstration, April 30. The Marquis Mores, who was arrested on a charge of inciting the array to join the anarchists, had letters in his possession which will implicate the Due Del. wynes (sic) in the Royalist conspiracy which was to take place during the labor celebrations, A warrant hoe been issued for bis arrest. Louise Micbel, who recently delivered a seditious speech to tbs anarchists, advocating that dynamite was essential to the attainment of their objects, has been arrested. Rome, April 29. Most of the shops in this city are closed, The authorities hare forbidden meetings and processions in connection with the labor demonstrations. April 20. The Pope has written to the Archbishop of Cologne, requesting him to exhort the bishops to mediate in the strikes which are taking place in various parts of the Continent. Buda Pesth, April 30, Strikes of an enormous extent are occtjrring throughout Hungary, Dunedin, May 1. At the Tailoressee’ Union to-night it was decided to send £2O to the tailoresses on strike at Auckland, and to make a levy on members to enable them to send £25 per week to help those on strike. It was also decided to send £5 to the Petone Woollen Mills operatives,