LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2651, 26 April 1894, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC.

Bud a Pesth, April 24. Serious labor riots have taken place here. The soldiers were called out, and, not heading an appeal not to fire on their countrymen, swept the streets with bullets, injuring sixty-one of the rioters. Washington, April 22. The Lower House is discussing the unemployed question. Reinforcements for Coxey’s labour army are marching to Washington. Mr Davis, a Kansas member, proposed that employment for 500,000 should be found on public works for the purpose of preventing disorder. The motion was rejected. April 24. The Senate has refused to receive petitions from Coxey and his army. The National Guard is being mobilised with a view to preserve order if necessary.

A hundred thousand colliers are now on strike. The labor malcontents demand that 500,000,000 dollars shall be expended on relief works. The daily loss by the coal strike is already estimated at £25,000. New York, April 23. The colliers’ strike in the United States has begun, and a large body of Coxoy’s men are arranging to assist them. The Omaha Railway Companies have stopped their services, fearing outrages, and the city is thus isolated. The militia is ordered to be in readiness, and citizens are urged to provide waggons to assist an exodus from the town.

Sydney, April 23. The split between the Labor party inside and outside Parliament is becoming more intensified. Several of the former have signed the requisite pledge, while others firmly resent it.

A deputation of the unemployed waited on the Premier at Wellington. The deputation urged that work ba found for about 300 men who are out of employment. In reply to the deputation, the Premier complained of the terms of an advertisement calling the unemployed together, in which it was said—“ We must have work.” He wished the workers to distinctly understand that the Government would not be dictated to, and that mass meetings were unnecessary. Every effort was being made to provide productive work for the surplus labor of the colony, but the Government had no means to provide merely relief works. He pointed out that the Government could not continue to provide for the surplus labor which arrived from Melbourne or Sydney through the establishment of cheap fares. The Labor Bureau was doing good work, and its officers had proved themselves true friends of the workers. He regretted to hoar of poverty anywhere, but denied that there were 300 men out of work at Wellington. At the same time every care would be taken to give work to the deserving where it was possible.

The Mayor of Christchurch has received the following telegram from the Premier re unemployed;—“Your let. te* covering resolutions re the unemployed to hand. The manner of subsidising the local bodies has been determined by" Parliament, and the amounts fixed by appropriations under which effect could be given to the resolutions passed. If the principle recommended was affirmed w® should have an unemployed difficulty in connection with every local authority in the colony, and, I fear the taxpayers would suffer. The Government, consistently with the funds at its disposal, is doing the best it can to meet the ut. employed difficulty, but any expenditure must be in connection with reproductive works, only. The Minister of Lauds has received the necessary authority to go on with road works in connection with the Cheviot estate. This will absorb some thirty or forty of the most pressing cases in your district.” During last month 1863. men were employed on co operative works under the (.Government. Tim official labor report states-tb « the greater number of mi employed are in Auckland and Christchurch. The Journal of the Department trusts that there will bo no clement o' charity in the scheme for the unemployed, and adds that once import that into dealing with the. able-bodied unemployed difficulty and the whole thing will end in failure,

A Queen Cake. —Two natives; named Solomon and Josiah loi't Tauraugu, for Motiti Island on Saturday afternoon in an open boat. The steamer Katikati found Josiah in an open boat about throe miles off the island on Sunday morning. Josiah says that the boat stuck on the hunk about half way clown Tiuuanga harbor. He got out, pushed her olf, find remembers nothing more till the steamer picked him up. The men were somewhat intoxicated on leayyj.vr Taurauga, and bad liquor in the IjQjjli,