THE LABOUR AGITATION. MR. GLADSTONE'S COLDNESS TO A DEPUTATION.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1892, Page 2

THE LABOUR AGITATION. MR. GLADSTONE'S COLDNESS TO A DEPUTATION.

THE TRADES UNIONS INCENSED. | UNITED PBKBS ASSOCIATION.! London, 16th Juno. Mr. Glodstono received a deputation on the Eight Hours Question to-day. He did not show much sympathy with the proposal, and said he was astonished at tho desiro to restrict the personal freedom of workors. He also declined to give any expression of his own opinion us to what should bo tho hours of limitation. | SPECIAL.] London, 17th June. The Trades Unions aro incensed with Mr. Gladstone's refusal to recognise tho Eight Hours movement, and threaten to run a hundred candidates against tho Liberals in retaliation. Replying to Mr. Shipton.Mr. Gladstone earnestly deprecates the idea of asking for promises whioh he is unable to fulfil. Latest. A LIVELY INTERVIEW. i UNITED PRESS A88OCIATION. ! (Reooived June 18, 10.50 a.m.) London, 17th Juno. Mr. Gladstone's interview with the Eight Hour Deputation was an animated one, and in the disousaiou he combatted every statement advanced by tho delegates. Mr. Gladstone declared that he would bo disgraced, and sink to tho lowest point it was possible for tho most unprincipled man to fall to, if he forsook Homo Rule in favour of other matters. The Times applauds Mr. Gladstone for rofusing to commit himself to tho demands of the Trades Council. The Standard considers that the unhappy champions have been led from point to point until they are roduoed to too position of floundering in a morass. THE HOURS OF SHOPWOMEN. (Rooeived Juno 18, 11.10 a.m.) London, 17th June. The report of tho Select Committeo on the Shop Hours Bill opposes any intorforonce with the hours worked by adult women.