LABOUR, ETC

Temuka Leader, Issue 2687, 19 July 1894, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC

Washington, July 14. The working men have appealed to the President to visit Chicago personally and redress their grievances. Debs, leader of the men, has announced that the strike is at an end. It is estimated that the cost to the Governmont of stopping the strike has been £200,000. The President intends to appoint a Commission to enquire into the causes of the recent movement. The managers of the railway companies have declined to confer with Debs regarding the reinstatement of tho men who left work. The employees of the Pullman Company declined to yield. The strikers threw a mail train in Indiana off the rails. Two persons were killed outright, and many fatally injured. July 17. Pullman’s Palace Car Company’s operatives have resumed work at the old rate of wages. A company of militia have been arrested at Chicago for mutiny. They declined to serve against the strikers. It is expected that a consequence of the failure of the strike will be the disappearance of the Railway Union, New York, July 16. Four million dollars’ Worth of railway property has been destroyed by the strikers in Chicago. Thousands of men who went out on strike are desertiug the unions and returning to work. Debs, the leader of the Railway Union, is endeavouring to arrange for a renewal of the strike. Brisbane, July 16. Martin, the organiser of the Australian labour federation, has been bound over for good behaviour for six months. An inflammatory placard which is being circulated throughout the country calls upon men to join the union aud thus raise funds for arms aud ammunition to carry on a guerilla warfare against the squatters aud pick off blacklegs as they proceed through the bush. It also advocates the destruction of property, and specially mentions certain members of the pastoralists’ council to be first dealt with. A meeting of the executive of the Workers Union was held at Waimate on Saturday last, when the following business was transacted. Letters reporting progress were read from outside branches and from Woodville and Masterton, stating what steps had been taken to prevent shearers signing the pastoralists’ agreement, or any agreement other than that of 1891. From the Otago Trades and Labour Council, forwarding resolutions with reference to the shearing dispute in Australia. From Victoria and Sydney giving particulars of the dispute between the pastoralists and shearers. A resolution from the Waimate unemployed was received. It asked that the Governtnke steps to deal with the unemployed difficulty at once. The meeting concurred with the action of the men, and it was resolved to forward copies of tne resolution to all branches of the union. It was resolved to request the Rev. D. J. Murray to lecture at an early date on “ The Government aud its dealings with the Workers.” It was decided to open a new branch of the union at Wanganui. The meeting then terminated. Discussing with a Christchurch reporter the labor troubles in the United States, Dr Talmage said ;—“ The reason of the trouble in Chicago is due to two causes, both of which spring from the recent World’s Fair, When the World’s Fair was first projected, large numbers of artisans and labourers collected in Chicago expecting tq be employed. Many of them were so, but not all. Now tho World’s Fair is over all are out of employment, hence the trouble. But, like elsewhere, iu my country it is not the bona fide working men who burn cars aud tear up railways. It is the Anarchists, sparred on by agitators who live by these troubles. They are the people who are fomenting and keeping alive the strike. At the same time there is no doubt that it is a very serious aud melancholy state of things when 50,000 men are out of employment and iu a great many cases starving.”