LABOUR.
London, May 16. Mr Livesay lias voluntarily granted the eight hours’ privilege to the men employed in the liotherhithe gas works. At a great gathering of railway employees in Hyde Park resolutions were passed demanding shorter hours and better pay for men in the service throughout the United Kingdom. In the course of his remarks, Mr Burns urged that the railway men should have larger representation in Parliament, and said that the companies were treating their men shamelessly in practising economy in their respective services. He declared that the length men had to work had been the cause of an enormous number of deaths and accidents; aud that thousands of men wore only paid a starvation rate rate of wages, and, actually had to exist on the tins they received. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Marquis of Salisdury, Mr Balfour, Mr Gladstone were hissed. JSFew Yohk, May IG. The labor executive have ordered 100,000 stone-workers in the United States to go out.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2358, 19 May 1892, Page 1
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165LABOUR. Temuka Leader, Issue 2358, 19 May 1892, Page 1
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