LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2435, 8 December 1892, Page 4

LABOUR, ETC.

London, Dec. 5. The secretary of the Jewish unemployed committee assert that there are 15,000 persons in the East End without work. Some of them are so destitute that they tried to sell their children. Sydney, Dec. 5. The Premier requested the South Australian Government x.o convey the Broken Hill unemployed at reduced rates to places where they are likely to obtain employment at harvesting. Sir J. W. Downer declined to do so, and Sir G. R. Dibbs has sent an official to deal with the question, and send the unemployed at Government expense to any place where they can get employment, whether in South Australia or Victoria. Dec. 6. A deputation, including thirty-one members of Parliament, presented a petition to the Minister of Jnstice today, asking for a remission of the sentences passed on the leaders of the Broken Hill strike. The Minister made a vigorous reply, saying that he did not consider the sentences excessive. The men had taken the law into their own hands, and he declined to treat them differently from others who had broken the law. It would be a farce to release them after serving five weeks only. Their offence demanded something more than merely nominal punishment.