LABOUR STRUGGLES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1060, 23 June 1892, Page 34

LABOUR STRUGGLES.

Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. MR GLADSTONE AND THE EIGHT HOURS MOVEMENT. (PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) London, June 16. Mr Gladstone received a deputation on tha eight hours question to day. He did not show much sympathy with the proposal, and said he was astonished at the desire to restrict the personal froodom of workers. He also declined to give any expression of his own as to what should be the hours of limitation. London, June 17. Mr Gladstone’s interview with the Eight Hours deputation was an animated one, and in the discussion he combated every statement advanced by the delegates. The Times applauds Mr Gladstone for refusing to commit him3elt to the demands of the Trades Council. The Standard considers that the unhappy champions have been le 1 from point to point until they are reduced to the position of floundering in a morass. Tho report of the Select Committee on the Shop Hours Bill opposes any interference with the hours worked by adult women. (SPECIAL.) London, June 17. The Trades Unions are incensed with Mr Gladstone’s refusal to recognise the Eight Hours movement, and threaten to run a hundred candidates against the Liberals in retaliation. Replying to Mr Shipton, Mr Gladstone earnestly deprecates the idea of asking for promises which ho is unable to fulfil.