LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2433, 3 December 1892, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC.

London, Nov. 80. Lord Mayor Knell suggests that the Agents-General should form a committee to consider a scheme for the immigration of the cream of the unemployed in England to Australia and Canada.

Giving evidence be'ore the Royal Commission on Labor the chairman of the London Conciliation Board stated that 60 unions were now affiliated to the board, which was extending its field of operations and should have the power to summon witnessees. Public opinion, he said, was the best means pf enforcing awards. In his articles in the Nineteenth Century Mr John Burns, M.P., denounces General Boot ■ and Mr A- nold White for drawing all the loafers and tramps into London. Bee. 1. The Bolton cotton operatives have advanced £20,000 to sustain the strikers. New York, Nov. 30.

Fifteen hundred strikers at Homestead, whose places had been filled by non-unionists, are suffering great privatioms. Melbourne, Nov. 30. In the Legislative Assembly it was stated that there are sixteen thousand unemployed registered on the books of the labor bureau, and that 12,000 houses are empty in Melbourne. Also that unless something is done to provide bread riots might be apprehended. Sir Graham Berry replied that the Government were fully alive to the position, and liberal provision would be made in the estimates for carrying on public works, with a view of giving relief.