LABOUR QUESTIONS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8780, 28 April 1894, Page 7

LABOUR QUESTIONS.

MIXERS' EIGHT HOUES BILL.

COKEY'S MEN MARCHING UPON

WASHINGTON.

Pres3 Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

London, April 26. Judge Hughes, in. a letter to tlie Times, cites Sir H. Parkes' opposition io the compulsory eighc hours for miners.

Me3srs John Morley,Burt aud thirty unofficial members voted against the Eight Houra Bill.

Lord Raudolph Churchill, speaking in the House of Lords ia support oi the Miners' Eight Hours Bill, said the measure would benefit 400,000 miners, and it was preferable to strikes.

Washington, Aoril 26

The Coxeyitcs at Bute ran a train into Dakota and defeated and disarmed a body of eighty-live men sem by the Marshal in pursuit. The President has ordered the troops to stop the train. Coxev will bathe candidate

of tha party kuown as the Populists for the Presidency. The present movement is regarded as political.

Several towns in Colorado are arranging to pay the fares of 000 men to the capital.

The Knights of Labour also threaten to march an army upon Ottawa. April 27. Troop 3 surprised 650 of Coxey's men asleep at Keogh. No resistance was offered, aiid the railway authorities will prosecute the men.

Eighteen bands of Coxey'a array, numbering 7000 men, are mentioned as inarching upon Washington.