LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2349, 28 April 1892, Page 1

LABOUR.

London, April 24. The cotton spinners have resolved to submit to arbitration the points at issue respecting bad work and breakages, but the masters excluded the question of the employment of non-unionists. The Durham mine-owners will hold a conference with the Miners’ Federation on Monday. The Federation are said to be acting without the authority of the men. April 26. Six hundred steamers are lying idle at ports between the Humber and Tyne. The total value of the vessels is estimated at £7,000,000, and the cause is attributed to the Durban* strike. Mr T. Bqrt, M. 8., and secretary of the Northumberland Miners’ Association, is of opinion that the Durham minors are open to censure for refusing to submit the matters in dispute to arbitration. The engineers have lost by the strike wages to the amount of £IBO,OOO. The total loss to the district is estimated at £500,000. Mr McCarthy, president of theUnekei’s 1 Union, in a letter to The Times, states that the riverside labourers are worse off than they have been for twenty years. Fifteen thousand men .are idle at the East End. It is alleged that some of the London , ’bus men are working 100 hours per week for 2:}d per hopr. THE ANARCHISTS. London, April 24. Mowbray, publisher of The Common- ' wealth, has been released. Morris, the editor, has been admitted to bail. The funeral of Mrs Mowbray, who did a few hours before her husband’s arrest

was attended by 150 persons. Anarchist orations were made over the grave. Immense precautions are being taken all over Europe to prevent disorder on May Day. Paris, April 25. The dynamite found at Rustchuk was intended to be used in a plot against Prince Ferdinand and the Sultan of Turkey. Fifteen of those concerned have been arrested. April 26. A resturant kept by M. Very, who was the chief witness against Ravachal, the Anarchist leader, has been wrecked with dynamite. The place was the scene of Ravachal’s arrest, and hence the outrage. Very was found amid the ruins of the building with his legs smashed. He was taken to the hospital,where his limbs were found to be so mangled that they had to be amputated, but the poor fellow did not survive the operation. Four other inmates of the restaurant including M. Very’s twelve-year-old daughter, were also severely injured, and were removed to the hospital. The bomb was placed in the cellar of the building. Many people, who happened to be passing the restaurant at the time the explosion occurred were injured by the falling debris. Three arrests have already been made in connection with the outrage. The terrible affair had such an effect on M. Very’s wife that she has completely lost her reason. Troops are guarding the streets in the city, as it is feared that the Anarchists may attempt similar outrages in other parts of the city. It is understood that the explosion was intended to overawe the jury in the trial of Ravachal’s four accomplices which begins to-day. The police authorities have taken extra precautions to preserve order during the trial. Further arrests of Anarchists have taken place in Paris and other continental cities. A document has been discovered, showing that there are 340 Anarchist committees in France, and that an extensive campaign of violence is being planned. The Government have given orders to arrest all the officials of these organisations.