Labour Items.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2965, 28 October 1902, Page 1

Labour Items.

PARIS, October 23 M. Peletan, Minister of Marine, experimenting with the eight hours’ principle in some of the French dockyards. Its general adoption depends on the amount of work done. October 24. The dockers at Dunkirk pillaged the shops and afterwards lired the bairicatles ; threw merclxandi.se into the harbour, and attacked newspaper and other offices. They pillaged and bred the Dual-merchants’ reMidences. ’the rioters, who were armed with sticks, shovels and stones. came into conflict with the police. The child' of police had his skull fractured Every commissary of the force. and some of the military were wounded

Martial law was proclaimed, and tlie cavalry charged the mob and killed two pi>rsot?s. Ultimately arrangements were made to-day to discharge cargoes to L day excepting coa I.

M. daures, during the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the strike appealed to the Government to emulate President Rooseveldt’s ('.Minatory action. (Checixst) The Premier in response moved a resolution favouring the reference of me q.’tstion to arbitration, and u euoun-.ed that he would confer with the r :.i eowners and the miners. Oct. 25. M. Coomhes. the Premier, has induced the miners to accept arbitration. The Premier i.s to interview the employers on the subject. Work iias been resumed at Calais and Dunkirk. Pall cartridge was issued to 4000 troops who were maintaining order and freedom of labour at Dunkirk. NEW YOUK. Oct. 25. t Rumours are current that strikes will ocelli- on all tin, 1 railroads westwards of Chicago. CHRISTCHURCH. Octo! e ■ 24. The Labour Department .V.s already sent 14 returned troopers 'o the Midland and Cheviot, rs-'wiiy works, and six more wil be sent, on Moiulav-

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LONDON, Oci. 33. Viscount Cranborne, in the House of Commons, stated that Britain had urged the Porte, while taking adequale measures to maintain order in Macedonia, to avoid severity. Oct. 2-1. The Unionists arc elated at Sir 11. UampUcJf-Pamierman's reiterated rcm.yl lo identify the Radical Party with the anti-coercion motion or ißwill ii. He contends that the qlies- ; iioii i.s purely one for the Irish. Naiionalists who arc entitled to demand a discussion. The Unionists ice hire i luu Sir li. Campbell-Ban-nerman has shattered the quaui-iden-lily interests which had been coloraid y maintained between the Nationalists ami Radicals from 18l!:> until ilie education crisis. Mr Balfour, in replying to Mr O'Brien, said that he was willing to give way if the Opposition accepted Use motion. (Cheers). Sir 11. Campbell-Bannerman amidst uproar declared that the Premier was entitled to assume that he accepted it.

The Nationalists persistentiy attempted to obstruct business, till the Speaker remarked that he hart gone lo the limit of his patience and enbirancc.

Mr Urodrick staled that Earl Roberts considers the report of the Remounts Inquiry unsatisfactory.

The Committee of the House of (‘omnions, decided in favour of the withdrawal of the United Electric Railways Bill to connect Hammersmith with Hyde Park. This action prevents the Morgan syndicate proceeding with a Bill to continue that Dihe to the city and north-east inasmuch as the preamble of the latter Bill implies an amalgamation to complete the through route. The withdrawa! represents a victory tor Yearkcs and Speyers over Morgan inasmuch as the .united tramway under Speyers’ control instead of feeding ihe projected Hammersmith tube will feed the district railway. Moreover the Central London Company aspires io the completion of a circle covering a portion of Morgan’s route. ’Flic Government’s amendments to ihe Education Bill, providing that local authorities are entitled to act as managers if the managers have disobeyed’ their mandate, have been carried. Each education committee must contain at least one woman.

Oct. 25. Mr Balfour is dissatisfied with the progress which is being made with pic- Education Bill, and has warned the Opposition that obstructive discussions will be met- with wholesale closure. The mode in which the opnnsition was conducted would, if applied to other measures, render parliamentary government impossible. Parliament must resist a confession of its own impotence. The Standard states that the Catholic authorities fear that the concessions which have been made will enable the local authorities to seriously interfere with the managers in the arrangement of the work of selection of school books, and have suggested that they may reconsider their attitude towards the Bill. The Nationalists hope that the Bishops will ask them to actively oppose the measure.

Blocking motions have been tabled by Mr Butcher (York City) and Mr Malcolm (Stowmarkct), with a view of checkmating Air O’Brien and preventing a discussion on tire Irish Land and Crimes Act.