TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 23

TRADES AND LABOUR.

LONDON, April 22.

The Times says the tyranny of 'abour legislation is imperilling the prosperity and credit of Australia.

PARIS, April 18. Everything is quiet now at Limoges in connection with the strike.

April 19. During the disturbances at Limoges 200 officers and! soldiers were injured.

ROME, April 19

The railway strike is collapsing. The Chamber passed the State Management Railway Bill by 306 votes to 34.^ The minority were Socialists.

One thousand) peasant sympathisers with the strikers attacked the police at Foggia, and stoned the troops, who fired on them. Another thousand joined the rioters, some using revolvers on the troops, who again fired, killing three and wounding seven.

April 21

The Italian strike has ended, as a result of the withdrawal of the obnoxious Railway Bill.

NEW YORK, April 18

The. State of New York Legislatuie passed a law limiting the hours of labour in bakeries to 10 ]>er daj^ or 60 a week. The Supreme Court has now decided that the law is unconstitutional, on the ground that it interferes with th.c free exercise of the rights of contract guaranteed) to every citizen by the United States Constitution.

SYDNEY, April 20,

A deputation- from the Labour Council asked tor amendments in the Arbitration Act, in order to expedite its work, to enforce non-appeal against the decisions of the Court, and to give preference to unionists. Mr Carruthers, in a non-com-mittal reply, promised consideration of the request.

Advice to Mothers. — Are tou broken In your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at orice to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it produce? natural, quiet'slcep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes " as bright as a button." It soothes the cliiid, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates he bowels, and is the best-known remedy for Jysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising froni teething or other causes. Mrs 'Winslo-w's Soothing Syrxip is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere.