LABOUR QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2776, 29 April 1890, Page 2

LABOUR QUESTION.

BRADLAITGH DENOUNCES AGITATORS. PROFIT-SHARING SCHEME. ' (BY ELKOTBIO TKLKGIIAPH. —COPYIIIGHT.) London, April 25. A procession comprising the members of eighty trades in London will parade the Victoria Embankment on May 4. Their manifesto demands that the Government and local governing bodies shall adopt the eight hours' system. In the House of Commons to-day Mr G. C. T. Hartley, M.P. for Islington North, withdrew the motion tabled by him on the 18th March, " That a select committee be established to enquire into and report on the profit sharing system between employers and employees." 1-Ie explained that Sir Michael HicksBeach, President of the Board of

Trade, has given a promise that the Board would enquire into the question. During the debate on the motion for withdrawal Mrßradlaugh strongly denounced the labour agitators. April 26. Owing to the strike of the employees of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, Ireland, traffic is completely paralysed. All the European Powers, with the exception of Hungary, have declined to allow their employees to take part in the labour demonstrations on May Ist. Owing to a split among the London workmen, it is now estimated that the attendance in Hyde Park, on May 4th, will be under 100,000. April 27. The strike of the Great Southern and Western railway employees in Ireland delays the transmission of

the American mails. Mr Davitt advises the men to moderate their demands and he consents to interview the directors of the company on their behalf. Berlin, April 24. The Socialists have presented to the Reichstag a petition bearing 3,000,000 signatures, urging that the eight hours' system be adopted throughout the German Empire. Germany remains neutral in the eight hours' labour demonstration, but will protest, workers against any action of non-workers. Chicago, April 24. The carpenters on strike have appealed to English and German tradesmen to desist from supplanting them. Auril 2G. The strikes that are being arranged to take place here on Ist May will affect 12,000 firms, era--1 ploying in the aggregate 200,000 men and 24,000 women. The leaders of the agitation are becoming alarmed at the dimensions the strike is likely to assume, and seek to limit it to carpenters. New Yokk, April 25.

Fifteen thousand butchers in Chicago have threatened to strike unless the hours of labour are reduced to eight per day.