LABOUR ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1665, 19 January 1895, Page 2

LABOUR ITEMS.

— +• Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Per Press Association. Ottawa, January 17. ! The unemployed m Montreal threaten to blow up the principal buildings with dynamite unless they obtain work. Special to the Press Association. London, January 17. Mr Asquith approves of the request for amelioration of the factory laws, and improvement m the condition of the workers. He has promised to persevere with the Employers Liability Bill m the form m which it passed the Commons 4 . last session. (By Telegraph.; WELLINGTON, January 18. The Trades Council candidate for the j Arbitration Board will be Mr Poynton, , solicitor. The Council intend to ask Mr ' W. P. Eeeves to address a meeting next Friday on Labour Legislation, with special reference to the Conciliation Act. , ; ( In the course of the hearing of a case t at Eangiora, before the local Justices, it ; came out, says the Christchurch Star, \ that stable lads work from half-past four * m the morning till half-past eight 3 o'clock at night, for six shillings per 5 week. If this is not a fact that furnishes food for thought, and if that thought l does not produce indignation, what t would ? The fact is, the condition of r the white slaves of the country calls, and f has long called, for legislative interference. There come, too, into Christ- c church city eveiy morning, boys, girls, fi and men who are worked for periods of c 15 to 18 hours per day. .The Labour & members must take these matters m hand, and not allow another session to pass before a change is wrought m the condition of the country workers.