LABOUR, ETC.
London, Oct. 16
One hundred thousand workmen paraded in Hyde Park in support of the miners who are on strike.
The Daily Chronicle says that the remainder of the coal-owners are offering to let the men resume at former wages, provided that they pledge themselves not to ask for an advance later on.
Mr John Burns, addressing a meeting at Hyde Park, said that the miners were winning a great battle. Forty per cent of the men have returned at the old rate of wages.
Work has been found on Gatlin’s river railway for twenty of t the Christchurch unemployed (married), and a few will be sent to Mount Cook next week, if the weather is favourable,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2570, 19 October 1893, Page 1
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119LABOUR, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2570, 19 October 1893, Page 1
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