LABOUR, ETC

Temuka Leader, Issue 2684, 12 July 1894, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC

London, July 8. The Chronicle states that with a view of securing the adoption of the principle of a living wage the English miners ?. ro accepting a reduction of 10 per cp.at. provided the rate shall remain X ed for two years. It is expected that the Scotch miners will receive 15 per cent, increase, which will place them on a level with the English miners. Washington, July 8. The railway strike now includes every State in the union, Chicago is in a state of chaos, like Paris under the Commune. The mob have burned the greater portion of the rolling stock. The losses of one railway company alone are reckoned at £250,000. July 10. Martial law has been proclaimed in Chicago, and the troops have received orders to suppress the outrage at any price. This has cowed the strikers. Postal traffic is being resumed, and the worst is believed to be over. The threat of a general strike to-morrow is not believed. The strikers at San Francisco are arming themselves with rifles and drilling. Seven hundred blue jackets will assist the garrison to maintain order, and warships will be brought up from the naval station. The strikers dynamited a train at Pueblo. Indiana is in a state of famine owing to the stoppage of the railways. Newspapers are being printed on wall paper. The Chicago News says that the Governor of Illinois, and Mr Hopkins, Mayor of Chicago, openly sympathise with the strikers. The Chicago trades delegates, representing one hundred thousand men, have resolved upon a general strike. A number of delegates denounced the President for using soldiers against the strikers. The troops have received twenty thousand rounds of ammunition. The state of Idaho has urged the president to initiate a bill in Congress legalising compulsory arbitration. There is a general concensus of opinion that Great Britain and Canada will soon be compelled, in consequence of the disorganisation of traffic, to rely on the colonies for their food supplies. Chicago, July 8. A mob of fifteen thousand assailed the troops in Chicago with stones. The militia fired, wounding twenty-five, several of them fatally. The mob then charged the militia, who used their bayonets freely, and eventually had to retreat. A body of armed police finally dispersed the rioters. July 9. There are ten thousand troops in Chicago. The condition of affairs has improved. The police estimate that there are fifty thousand idlers and marauders roaming about the city, consisting largely of foreigners, who form the larger proportion of the population of the town. The losses to property and traffic are put at 6,000,000 dollars. The strikers at St. Louis are returning to work. The leaders of the railway men have persuaded the Knights of Labor throughout the country to strike. It is reported that the Pullman Company will hold a conference with the strikers. All the Ilotroit railway men have struck. Before firing on the strikers the militia charged with bayonets, killing the ringleaders. They used their rifles freely, and after the men had mobbed them replied with revolvers. The Chicago News declares that the strikers believe that the president will soon proclaim, a military despotism. Biusbane, July 9. A force cf mounted troopers has arrested three strikers who aro supposed to bo concerned in the recent burning of the woolshcds. The polico surrounded the strikers’ camp and warned tho men that they had been instructed to firo if any resistance was offered. James Martin, organiser of tho Australian Labor Federation, was also arrested near Winton, but tho charge against him has not boon made known. Two more shearers have been arrested at tho strike camp. The mammoth cheese, weighing 10 tons, which was on view at the Chicago World’s Fair, on arrival in London took a team of eight home.". convey it from tho railway station to Kensington.