LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2420, 3 November 1892, Page 4

LABOUR, ETC.

London, Oct. .30. The Council of the Department of the Seine voted 10,000 francs in support of the Carmaux strikers. The indignation of the Socialists is increasing, owing to meetings in Trafalgar Square being limiu-.i to Saturday afternoons, Sundays Ik .'ore dark, and bank holidays. Lancashire master spinners decline the mediation of the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool, and threaten to lock-ont the men if a reduction of 5 per cent is not accepted. The cotton spinners are reversing their former attitude, and now favor a legal eight hours limit as a means of reducing the output. Nov. 1.

The Times says the Government of New South Wales has shown that the taunt that it was afraid to prosecute the Broken Hill strikers was not deserved, and that the doubts as to whether the Executive would venture to interfere have happily been set at rest. The continuance of the former state of things would have been nothing less than a triumph for lawlessness and disorder. The sentences will, it considers, be an effective blow to tyranny and intimidation by trade unions. The arrest of thirty-six men on Saturday is a further blow to the disorder, but the mischief is only scotched, not killed, and there is need for continued firmness to subdue the lawless spirit of large bodies of workmen in Australia.

The Pall Mall Gazette, Financial News, and Globe also applaud the action of the Government although the Gazette thinks the sentences might have been more lenient.

The unemployed intend to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square on Saturday. The feeling amongst the Lancashire operatives in favor of the legal eight hours is spreading. Snider, a Sydney Socialist, addressed a meeting of unemployed at Tower Hill yesterday. lie earnestly enjoined them to show a bold front to the capitalist. The same misery and want he had seen all over the world, and now was the time to take decisive action to secure definite relief.

Mr John Burns says that fully 60 per cent, of the working class over sixty years of age are in receipt of poor relief. Paris, Nov. 1.

In the Chamber of Deputies M. Clemenceau's statement that he had pledged himself to obtain pardon for those imprisoned for riotous behaviour during the labor difficulties, has induced the friends of the prisoners to resume petitions for their release. In the course of his remarks M. Clemenceau claimed that the labor strife had resulted in a democratic victory throughout the world. The Carmaux strikers have resumed work. Sydnev, Oct. 13. The Herald supports the verdict in the conspiracy cases. The Telegraph applauds the vei'dict, which it says is a complete justification of the action of the Government in connection with the arrests. The verdict and sentence aroused a very bitter feeling in unionist circles, and the leaders assert that

the agitation is of greater magnitude than any that has yet taken place in the colonies. "" At Broken Hill on Saturday night seven men were arrested for riotous behaviour, and twenty-nine for various offences, ranging from assaulting the police to drunkenness. Nov. 1. At a meeting to-night nearly 10,000 people were present. Resolutions were passed, condemning the sentences passed on the strikers, and it was decided to prepare a petition for mitigation of the sentences. A large body of police and mounted troopers were present, and succeeded in maintaining order. Dnring the evening a guard was placed over Parliament House.

Addressing a public meeting at Broken Hill several speakers accused the police of brutality in arresting men who were only the worse of liquor.