LABOUR QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2778, 3 May 1890, Page 2

LABOUR QUESTION.

(BY ELECTRIP TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.) London, April 30. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs that a Royalist conspiracy in Paris, to take place on May 1, has been discovered.

The Marquis Mores has been arrested in Paris on a charge of inciting the army to join the Anarchists.

Numerous Anarchists, including M. Perevost, Secretary of the Paris Trades Union, have been arrested, as it is believed that they intended to dynamite financiers' houses tomorrow.

Fifty thousands troops are stationed in Paris to preserve order, on the occasion of the labour demonstration.

John Burns and Michael Davitt will deliver addresses at the labour demonstration on Sunday in favour of legislation fixing eight hours as a day's labour. The organised unions are opposed to this step. Those who are in favour of legis lation fixing eight hours as a day work, and those who are against it, will occupy separate platforms at the labour celebrations on Sunday. The Socialists will support the view taken by the former.

Archbishop Walsh, who is acting as mediator between the directors of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, and the men out on strike are opposed to a compromise. Several of the signalmen were prosecuted by the diroctors for deserting their posts. One was fined £10, and the charges against six others were withdrawn. The drivers state they will strike if the directors engage blacklegs. Berlin, April 30. In this city strikes of various trades have taken place, owing to the refusal of the masters to grant the men a holiday on the occasion of the labour demonstrations. Several of the masters in order to prevent trouble have conceded the men's demands. The bricklayers who are out on strike attacked blacklegs taken on in their places. A stubborn fight ensued, during which there was a good deal of bloodshed. The ringleaders were arrested. Paris, April 29. At Lyons arrests have been made of several persons whom the authorities suspected intended to take part in a dynamite plot at the labour demonstrations on Thursday. Two Italians, recent arrivals here, have been advising the soldiers to shoot their officers if they ordered them to shoot the people at the labour demonstrations on Thursday. April 30. The Government have discovered an anarchist stock of iron-tipped bludgeons and revolvers which were secreted in the city.

Fourteen hundred street hawkers have; been arrested on a charge of being connected with the anarchists.

M. Constants is confident that the measures taken by the Government will prevent any outrage being committed during the labour demonstrations, and he threatens to surrender 5000 foreign Anarchists.

Louise Michel, who recently delivered a seditious speech to the Anarchists, advocating that the use of dynamite was essential to the attainment of their objects, has been arrested. At the labour demonstrations tomorrow 61 trades will be represented. The trades that will not be represented total up to 87. Vienna, April 30. A serious conflict has taken place between rioters in Moravia and the military. Many of the former were wounded. It is expected that 150,000 people will parade the streets advocating the eight-hour system. As disturbances are feared the whole of the Austrian army has been placed on garrison duty. Brussels, April 29. The labour demonstrations in Belgium will be carried out on a large scale. Over 200,000 workmen will take part in the processions. Madrid, April 30. A grand procession of members of the various tradas will be held here on Thursday. Orders have been given for the soldiers to remain in the barracks to-morrow, in readiness to put down any disorder that may arise at the labour demonstration. Rome, April 30. Most of the shops in the city are closed. The authorities have forbidden meetings and processions in connection with the labour demonstration. The Pope has written to the Archbishop of Cologne requesting him to exhort the bishops to mediate in the strikes which are taking place in various parts of the Continent.

Bcda-Pesth, April 30. Strikes of enormous extent are occurring throughout Germany.