LABOUR ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2421, 5 November 1892, Page 4

LABOUR ETC.

London, Nov. 1. Processions of the unemployed are taking place daily. The Jewish unemployed are organising a three days’ processsion, during which time they will parade the principal thoroughfares barefooted. At a meeting of unemployed to-day at the East End of London, the speeches were of a revolutionary character. Nov. 2. The Yorkshire miners demand that if the output is reduced, they sh all have a lull week’s wages. Paris, Nov. 3. The Carmaux strikers assert that they resumed work only on the pledge of M. Clemenceau that those convicted of riotous behaviour would be pardoned The Government have now granted a pardon to those who took part in the strike. New York, Nov. 2. Owing to the McKinley tariff the owners of the cotton mills in Fall’s River a town in Massachusetts, are voluntarily increasing the wages of their operatives 7 psr cent, (Sydney, Nov, 2.

At a meeting of the surface and underground branches of the Miners’ Association at Broken Hill, the former decided that it was inadvisable to declare the strike off, while the latter expressed confidence in the defence committee, leaving it for them to say whether or not the strike should be declared at an end. Nov. 3. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilcannia has appealed to the miners to declare the Broken Hill strike at an end. The money still in the hands of the strike committee will support for a short time, those unable to get work, but if the strike is not terminated it will be a gloomy outlook for their wives and children.