Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-14
news BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
FOREIGN news BUDGET.
The Governor of Rio Grande
do Sui Deposed.
FREIGHT BLOCKADE IN The WEST.
Mr.. Harrison's thanksgiving
Proclamation.
ANOTHER CONSPIRACY IN RUSSIA.
Collision of Steam Vessels
at Sea. @
FORKIGN NEWS.

English Textile Operatives in a Com
g. dition of Semi-Starvatton-En
BILE Guns on British Vessels-Plat-
fora Drafted by the Conservative
g Associations.
copyrighted by the Associated Press.l
LONDON, Nov. 13.-Startling evidence
has been laid before the labor commission
in regard to the condition of the operatives
in the textile trades in Lancashire and
Yorkshire. The workers wages range
from IS shillings weekly upward. The
manufacturers hold the workers RESPONSE
BILE for spoiled material. A single fine
sometimes absorbs hole wweek's pay and
any excess Q over wages is carried
forward until the whole fine is worked off.
Many workmen live in semi-starvation,
bound hand and foot by the accruing of il
legal fines. Truck abuses, supposed to
have been suppressed, are still in active
existence, and the factory acts are openly
defied. Factory inspectors deposed that
spies were sent to watch for their coming
in order to prevent them from getting
compromising information.
The British admiralty is much excited
guns on English warships. Five vessels
have already been officially declared to be
carrying unreliable guns. Generally the
heaviest weapons are becoming distrusted,
and the admiralty has ordered that num-
Der of them be taken to the ordnance
works to be strengthened. Meanwhile the
75-ton guns of the French feet are acting
perfectly.
The executive committee of conservative
associations have drafted a platform to be
adopted at the great party caucus, which
opens in Birmingham November 90, as the
final program of the party for the coming
elections. The platform endorses the in
tention of the ministers to extend local
government and promote technical educa-
ton in Ireland, and declares that the
inequalities arising from according Ireland
disproportionater representation in parlia-
ment ought to be redressed. 1t favors the
extension of the franchise to women who
are land owners or house occupants or the
creation of labor department under
member of the cabinet, to be termed the
labor minister, and legislation to enable
local authorities to acquire land to facili-
tate of small rural holdings. The plat
form approves the principle of labor rep
resentation and urges conservatives to sup
port labor candidates everywhere who seek
This plank, contrasting with the liberal
pronouncement against labor candidates,
in purely labor interests, is contrived to
encourage split in the radical workmen's
vote. The platform requests the government
to increase the number of appointments
of workmen as factory inspectors and to
appoint women inspectors. The Zone
man-one-vote" principle is denounced,
while it is declared that the ballot act
must be amended to exclude illiterate vot
ers. 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
Mckinley law, favors preferential tariff
throughout the British empire, the adop-
ton Of which will not commit the party
leaders.
The conservative brides to the labor
vote will energize the Gladstonian move
ment to establish a 'labor candidate
fund"
1t is reported that Andrew Carnegie
offers to give large sum as nucleus for
the proposed fund.