THE LABOUR AGITATION.
Workmen's Hours and Wages. { Eight Hours Agitation in \ Ameriea, . j (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,) ! London, May 4, ; . The London County-Council is ( discussing a motion by John Burns, ' that contractors should be compelled to pay the Trade Unions' rates of j wages, und observe their, hours. Mayß. ; Four-fifths of the Bolton, cotton spinners have Hgreed to work shorter hours in order to aid the masters ot Staleybridgo and Oldham. Sir Haveloci Allen,, in the House of Commons, stated' that at least 1000 Durham miners-had become disfranchised owing to the acceptance of Poor Law relief, and urged that a Rill should be introduced reinstating them. Mr Ritchie replied that be did not expect that the course of business would allow suoh a measure to be brought in. , The motion tabled by Mr Dalziel, M.P.forKirkaldy, for the oreation of a Labour Department, was ruled to be irregular, , . . : :WABHINO.ION,MayB. Several strikes have taken place over the eight hours question.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4105, 6 May 1892, Page 2
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157THE LABOUR AGITATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4105, 6 May 1892, Page 2
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