LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2196, 2 May 1891, Page 1

LABOR QUESTIONS.

London, April 28. It is probable the stevedores will strike on May 4th on the ground that they find it impossible to work with the Shipping Federation. The Rev. Mr Ciarke, in letters which have been published here, denounces ihe ineenete selfiishness, of Australian workman, who. he says, deserve to suffer for driving aapital away from the colonies. The operatives at Manningham Mills have struck work. April 80. The Standard infers tbpt riots will take place in France, Spain, and Austria, tomorrow (May Day), in connection with mass meetings of workmen which have been called. Berlin, April 30. Ibe strike of miners in Westphalia for shorter hoars of labor has resulted in a signal failure. Brussels, April 28. The National Federal ion of Belgium bas joined the German miners in the proposal for a general strike for eight hours per day. New York, April 29. There are signs of the strike at Scoldale collapsing, and the movement for a general strike cf 8 hours has been postponed. Brisbane, April 29. Several Unionists, on a charge of aid. mg and abetting the leaders in the recent riots, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to three months. At the trial of (he Peak Down rioters at Rockhampton a panel of 270 jurors was exhausted without getting a jury. April 30.

Whet appears to be a deliberate a - tempt at murder has been committed at Barcaldine. One of (he Unionists gave a trooper ou apple poisoned strychnine, but by an early application of emetics the doctor saved the trooper’s life, Melbourne. April 30.

A committee of (ha Labor Congress now sitting at Ballarat bas presented its report on political reforms, but owing to divergence of opinion on the subject i* was decided to discontinue the discussion. A resolution was passed denying the statements of Mr H. H. Champion in England and the colonial press with reference to the recent strike.

Mr Robert Chapman, an old identity, and father of Mr O. E. Chapman, who has contested one or two elections, has promised the Reserves Conservation Society £IOOO to erect a monument in the Octagon to the memory of the late Dr Burns, the Presbyterian minister who came out with the first settlers to Otago,

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