LABOUR QUESTIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1891, 1 May 1890, Page 22

LABOUR QUESTIONS.

\ STRIKES A&D DEMONSTRATIONS. (Per Press Association.) London, April 29. The firemen and drivers employed on the Great Southern and Western railway state that they will not strike unless the military intervene. The directors have decided that if the men apologise and return to work they will give full consideration to their alleged grievances. Archbishop Walsh is acting as mediator between the employers and men. At Lyons, in France, arrests have been made of several persons whom the authorities suspected intended to take part in a dynamite plot at the labour demonstration on Thursday. Two Italians, recent arrivals in Paris, have been advising the soldiers to shoot their officers if they ordered them to charge the people at the labour celebrations on Thursday. Most of the shops in the city of Rome are closed. The authorities have forbidden meetings and processions in connection with the labour demonstrations. A grand procession of the members of various trades will be held at Madrid, Spain, on Thursday. The labour demonstration in Belgium will be carried out on a large scale. Over 200,000 workmen will take part in the procession. London, April 30. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs that a Royalist conspiracy in Paris, to take effect on May 1, has been discovered. Paris, April 30. Marquis Mores has been arrested in the city on a charge of inciting the army to join the Anarchists. Numerous Anarchists, including M. Prevost, secretary of the Parisian Trades Union, have been arrested. It is believed they intended to dynamite financiers' houses to-morrow. Fifty thousand troops are stationed in Paris to preserve order on the occasion of the labour demonstration. Vienna, April 30. A serious conflict has taken place between the rioters in Moravia and the military. Many of the former were wounded. Buda-Pesth, April 30. Strikes of enormous extent are occurring throughout Hungary. x