LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2423, 10 November 1892, Page 3

LABOUR, ETC.

London, .Nov. G. The meeting of unemployed in Trafalgar Square, yesterday afternoon was a fizzle. Barely three hundred were present, and they were mostly Social Democrats. There was no disorder. Motions were carried calling on the Government to provide work and to hold a special session to discuss the unemployed question. Most effective measures had been taken by the police in case of disturbance, a large reserve of constables having been stationed in the adjacent streets.

Mr Perceval, speaking at the Working Men’s College, London, said that labor legislation in New Zealand had been chiefly directed towards the prevention of sweating. He denied that the labor members legislated for the working class solely : on the contrary their efforts were directed to the united benefit of all classes, and hence their success so far.

The cotton lock-out in Lancashire has begun. Fourteen out of fortyfour million spindles are affected, and 60,000 operatives will be idle. Nov. 7. Mr Asquith , the Home Secretary, is enforcing the clause of the Factory Act, 1891, requiring employers to keep a list of outworkers, with their addresses, open for inspection, in order to prevent sweating. The London building trades, by mutual consent, begin the eight hours system to-day. Washington, Oct, 7. The Pittsburg Unionists are resuming work, their funds being exhausted. Signalmen are protesting against overwork and undue pressure in passing goods trains betiveen sections of expresses. Sydney, Nov. 8. There is a great rush for employment at the Broken Hill silver mines, Brisbane, Nov. 8. The wharf labourers at Cooktown have struck for higher wages. Men are scarce, owing to a rush setting in for the Batavia river goldfields.