WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9726, 16 May 1892, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

[Special to Press Association.! LONDON, Mat 18. Lord Rosebery declares that unless the Liberals institute experimental legislation in favour of the working classes, they will find that they will he divorced from the great mass of the people. Lord Eosebery supported the claims of the Labour party, and advised them not to he content with the crumbs that fell from the table, but to demand seats. [Received May 15, at 6.30 p.m.] Mat 14. Parleying between the .Durham miners and the colliery proprietors has failed to make a satisfactory arrangement. It is thought that that Forest of Dean miners are likely to strike against the reduction in wages. Mr Ben Tillet considers that Mr Gladstone’s reply to the Trades Council relating to the eight hours deputation was evasive, and that of Mr Morley insulting. It was much more preferable to have. Lord Salisbury’s undisguised opposition to the scheme. [Received May 15, at '1. 30 p.m.] Several railway employees refuse to give testimony before the Parliamentary Committee, as they fear they may be subjected to the same treatment as Hood, who gave evidence, but was subsequently dismissed by the company. In the north-east portion of the city, a hundred thousand people are subsisting on charity, this result being brought about owing to the strike of the Durham miners. In Middlesborough, Yorkshire, fourteen hundred people are receiving relief, against two thousand last vear.