LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2438, 15 December 1892, Page 4

LABOUR, ETC.

London, Dec. 12. The unemployed accuse Sir Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, of stating that he will not believe there is discontent until shops are looted and the docks fired. Washington, Dec. 12. Dalziel’s agency publishes a telegram stating that the cook who supplied Carnegie’s free labourers at Homestead, poisoned their food, the result being that forty men are dead, and sixty others in a dying state. The cook and nine others were arrested. The strikers are said to have promised the cook 5000 dollars to poison sufficient hands to compel the mill to be closed. An accomplice informed the manager. It is further stated , that the cook has confessed. New York, Dec. 13. Late news from the Homestead states that only six deaths have occurred among the non-unionists who partook of the poisoned food. The closing down of the siver mines in Denver, Colorado, is denied. Sydney, Dec. 12. A ballot will shortly be taken among the Newcastle miners to decide whether they will adopt or reject the new agreement. The miners desire payment for splint coal, but the owners firmly refuse to accede to the demand, declaring that it is not a marketable article, and should be treated as refuse. Dec. 13.

At a meeting of three thousand trade unionists at Broken Hill it was decided to forward a petition to Parliament signed by 25,000 men praying for the release of the strike leaders.

Auckland, Dec. 13. At a meeting of those interested in the establishment of classes for technical and general instruction, it was resolved to form an organisatisu with that object, to be called the ‘ Auckland Working Men’s Association.”