LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2654, 3 May 1894, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC.

London, April 30. Michael Austin, James Maudsley, and Tom Mann, representing a minority on the Government Labor Commission, have now submitted their report. They advocate a system of Socialism, recognition of the eight hours principle, abolition of conand carrying out of publio works under trade union conditions with a minimum rate of wages, Vienna, May 1. Thirty thousand masons have struck for shorter hours. Washington, April 30. Four hundred Coxeyites have arrived and are encamped in a private park. The police are increasing the supply of fire hoao and material in anticipation of incendiary fires. Owing to the distress which is making itself felt among them, the strikers are forming a huge camp in the park in the capital and are trying to raise money by charging sightseers admission. The Coxeyites seized a train in Oregon, but the cavalry patrol receptured it. A band of 70 were arrested on Rhode Island as vagrants. Another mob seized a traiu in Ohio, but the troops brought Gatling guns to bear upon them, and the captain with his watch in hand gave them three minutes to retire. This proved effcetual and the train was given up. There are signs that the movement is collapsing. Sydney, April 30. As the outcome of. the meeting of shearers the executive of the Pastoralista* i Union have been informed that if it was ' found the agreement required amendment the honorable course should have been taken of asking the other party to the agreement to confer on the matter. The shearers' executive are determined to resist the reduction in the rates of wages.

At a public meeting at Christchurch on Tuesday evening, presided over by the Mayor, and at which Messrs G. W. Russell and W. W. Tanner, M.H.115., and the Bishop of Christchurch were present, resolutions were passed earnestly requesting th» Government to extend the viUage settlement system, to relieve the over-crowded labor markets in Canterbury ; asking the Government to make a a special grant of £ for £ to local bodies willing to put relief works in hand ; urging the Government to bring the allotment system into operation in the vicinity of the principal towns; that one oy more state farms should be established in Canterbury ; to make an appeal to the public to raise funds to £ud work for the more aged of the unemployed in beautifying and improving the city and its environs, and to call upon the Government to. introduce a Lands for Settlement Bill providing for compulsory- repurchase, at the earliest pp/saible moment; should the measure he rejected by the Upper House the Government to take such steps as to ensure it becoming law during the present year.

The Secretary of tl\(j Canlwrbury Progressive Liberal Awooiation ha.', received the following r «p!y from the Premier to his regarding the unemployed : —« The Government are using their best endeavours to meet the unemployed difficulty, consistent with appropriations made for the construction of reproductive works., h' AVe been informed that the of the permanent solution of t-he unemployed difficulty will be taken into consideration next session. You are further aware that placing the people upon tbo laud goes in thy direction indicated. In this respect 1 hope that you will do the Governtnont justice, for every eilbrthas been made, and that successfully to increase- the number of our permanent settlers. I regret that your committee should have thought fit to protest against the tone of my romarks to the unemployed at Wellington before having given mo an opportunity of ascertaining from what source your committee obtained its information. Had you sent the newspaper clipping upon which I presume the decision of the oommitteo was based and asked me for an explanation you would have- adopted a fair and proper course."