The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
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BERLIN, May 1O.-The reichstag, beginning
its active labors Monday, has six weeks of
work before proroguing, which has been
fixed for June 20. Not much will be heard
of measures for the benefit of workmen be-
fore adjournment. Since the labor protec-
tion bill issued Wednesday, scrutiny reveals
q number of riders to the main proposals,
tending to make illusory the best provi-
sions of the measure, by giving employers
the means of escaping them. Thus, under
special circumstances, employers can be
authorized to break the rule limiting the
work of children under Is years to six hours.
and youths under 16 to ten hours. The bill
mentions spinning factories and similar
granted. Another clause transfers direct
responsibility for breach of the laws from
employers to managers or fOremen, thus
opening the way for evasions and making
men of straw answerable instead Of the
principals.
tracts are held by the freisinnige party and
socialists to be disguised attack upon the
right coalition, leading to further powers
for the suppression of strikes. The oppo-
sition gathers force. socialists declaring that
the supposed new era of labor reforms diff
fers little from the Bsmarckian. and that
the bill will be deception unless much
modified. This spirit of opposition prom
ises a sequence of irritating debate before
the house can dispose of the labor bill.
Another labor conference, having an in
fuence in moulding the final form of the
bill, will be held here. The emperor in
tends to summon delegates from every
tions, and proposes to establish a special
permanent operatives council. under the
presidency of the minister of commerce.
Members of the council will be elected for
delegates to the conference. The project is
obviously in the Same line as the labor
schemes, aiming to give imperial control
of workingmen. with purchase power over
the salar:ed leaders. Socialists like Voll-
mar, Liebknecht and Bebel, who are i'm
pregnable to money considerations, will re-
sent the emperor's offers.
The white book of the east of Africa was
issued to-day. It gives dispatch from
Major Wissmann stating that Emin Pasha
strongly desired to place his experience at
the disposal of the German service. and
begged that his offer might be placed before
the emperor and Bismarck. Bismarck re-
piled, sEmin's offer welcome" Wissmann
thereupon arranged the existing engage
ment with Emin, who, from his first con-
tract with Wissmann, has been eager to
escape from English influence. The white
book describes the progress of the German
power until the capture OF KllWa.
| Bismarck during the week received sew
eral communications from the emperor,
couched in friendly terms. but practically
suggesting that his retirement from office
should involve political inactivity. Baron
Huchter and Poschenger stayed two days
at Friedrichsruhe, and left impressed with
the conviction that the ex- chancellor con-
sidered himself still the most potent politi-
cal influence in the empire, believing that
the emperor ere long will be compelled to
recall him to extricate the government
from the difficulties in which he will have
plunged it. He freely expires sed his dis
content because the emperor in his speech
from the throne omitted any reference to
his dismissal.
The Freissinnige Zeitung is gaining bad
notoriety through its publication of scan,
dals in regard to Bismarck. It declares
that medical specialist knows that the ex-
chancellor is suffering from alcoholism and
not from the morphine habit. Bismarck e
friends do not heed the attacks and even
his enemies are disgusted by them:
At Hamburg 5000 masons and carpenters
are on strike and at Stettin 5000 masons
and carpenters are out. At Cologne the
brewers workmen quit work. The shoe
makers demand minimum of twelve
marks weekly, and a working day of eleven
hours. At Leipsic the employers havs
formed pei manent union to fight strikers
The Berlin irOnmasters and metallurgists
have signed an agreement by which they
bind themselves not to employ strikers.
ENGLAND at the Fair.