Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-14
V|E|NC FOR VOTES,
The Tories Striving to 0utbid
the Liberals for the
Labor Support.
FUNDS FOR THE CONFLICT.
Andrew Carnegie. 1t Is Said. Will Be
Munifcent Subscriber.
THE DUKE OF ORLEANS SCANDAL.
Factory Inspectors Unearth Glaring Abuses
of0peratiyeS.
lTIpNTNG DEEErTS IN NAVAL GUNS
FUNDS FOR THE CONFLICT.
THE DUKE OF ORLEANS SCANDAL.
Factory Inspectors Unearth Glaring Abuses
of0peratives
ALARMING OBJECTS IN NAVAL GUNS

COPYRIGHT 1891, BY THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATED
PREss.l
LONDON, Nov. 1S.-The Executive Com
mittee of the Conservative associations have
drafted a platform to be adopted at the
great party caucus which opens in Birming-
ham on the 2Sd inst. as the final programme
of the party for the coming elections. The
distinctive name given to the meeting,
National Union Conference" does not
imply the inclusion of the Liberal Unionist
element. The caucus will be purely Con-
servative and will consist of joint delegates
drawn from the English and Welsh con-
stitueccies.
The Executive Committee, in view of the
momentous character of the resolutions as
embodying an authoritative party utter
ance, have been long discussing them and
finally approved them yesterday. A
perusal of advance proofs of the resolutions
show that the leading proposal concerns
Irelsnd, and discloses the fact that the Con-
servative leaders have resisted the appeal
of an influential section of the party to ig-
more Irish affairs.
Cutting Down Irish Representation.
The conference will be asked to indorse
the intention of the Ministers to extend
local government and promote technical
education in Ireland. At the same time, it
is declared that the inequalities arising
from according Ireland a disproportionate
representation in Parliament ought to be
redressed.
Other importan. planks provide for the
extension of the franchise to women land
owners and house occupants; the creation of
a Labor Department under member of the
Cabinet, TO be termed the Labor Minister:
and legislation to enable local authorities
to acquire land to facilitate the creation of
small rural holdings.
As further concession to the labor vote
the conference will declare in favor of the
principle of labor representation, and will
urg Conservatives to support labor candi-
us.,es everywhere, who appeal to enter public
life upon no party lines. The plank is deftlv
contrived to encourage a split in the Radi-
cal workmen's vote. Next, the Government
is requested to increase the number of ap-
pointments of workmen as factory inspec-
tors, and to appoint women inspectors.
A Step in the Direction of Protection.
A resolution proposed by Howard
Vincent, NJ. p, an eager advocate of i'm
perial federation, who has Just returned
from America full of wrath against the Nc
kiDley law, favors a preferential tariff
throughout the British Empire, the adop-
tion of which will not commit the party
leaders. Next, the lone man, one vote"
principle is denounced, while il is declared
that the ballot act must be amended to ex- |
clude illiterate voters.
Lord Salisbury, Home Secretary Mat |
thews and Sir ]. E. Gorst will deliver ad- !
dresses at the meeting. The Liberal |
Unionists, under the lead of Mr.. Chamber |
lain, will entertain the delegates.
The Conservative bribes to the labor vote
will energize the Gladstonian movement to
establish a labor candidate fund" Mr..
Schnadhorst finds that grants of money to
labor aspirants are largely wanted. 1t is re-
ported that Andrew Carnegie offers to place
in the hands of a trustee a large sum as
a nucleus for the proposed fund.
Abuses on English workingmen.
Startling evidence has been laid before
the Labor Commission in regard to the con-
dition of the operatives in the textile trades
in Lancashire and Yorkshire OF the work |
ers' scant wages, ranging from 16 shillings
weekly upward, system of relentless fines |
absorbs large percentage The manufact- |
urers hold the workers responsible for |
spoiled material. A single fine sometimes |
absorbs whole weeks wages, and any ex-
cess of fine over wages is carried forward |
until the whole fine is worked Off Many |
workmen live in state of semi-starvation, |
bound hand and foot by the accruings of |
their employers illegal fines
Truck abuses, supposed to have been sup |
pressed, are still in active existence and the |
factory acts are openly defied Factory in |
spectors deposed that spies were sent to
rah and - L.
order to prevent them from getting COM
promising information.
Alarming Defects in Big Naval Guns.
The British Admiralty is much excited /
over the growing record of defects in great
guns on English warships Five vessels
have recently been officially declared to be
carrying unreliable guns In the 110-ton gun
of the ironclad Benbow. which has been
in commission only a few weeks, a !
crack developed in the inner tubes after fir
ing few rounds of go pounds each, consti-
tuting the full charge Similar accidents
have happened to guns on the Victoria and
Sans PareiL Generally the heaviest weap-
One are becoming distrusted, and the Ad-
miralty has ordered that a number of them
be taken to the ordnance works to be
strengthened. Meanwhile the 75-ton guns
Of the French fleet are acting perfectly
The Due d. Orleans Scandal.
The Due de Ia Tremouille and the Duc de
Noailles, prominent Orleanists, have ar
rived at Sheen House for a conference with
the Comte de Paris in regard to the charges
against the Due d Orleans in connection
with the Melbs divorce case. The Due d.
orleans persists that his relations with
Nine. Melba have been purely platonic.
Political clubs are interested in contro-
versy raised by T. P. o'Conner, NJ. p, in
accusing Mr.. Stuart, NJ. P, of originating
he split in the Parnellite party by iniudi-
,ious haste in publishing Mr.. Gladstone's
November letter to Mr.. Parnell Mr..
)'Connor's abuse of Mr.. Stuart, who sue
,eeded him as manager of the London Star
las led to the disclosure that Arnold Nor
ey, the liberal whip, gave to the press the
etter referred to under the authority of Mr.
Gladstone. Mr.. o'Connor is, therefore, left
n the position of charging Mr.. Gladstone
With the initiative of the rupture in the
IRISH party.
Land Monopoly the Cause Of War.