Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
CHAMBERLAIN is BOLD
To the Verge of Socialism in bis
Programme as Announced.
HE FAvORS ARBITRATION BOARDS
And Is Even an Advocate Of legal Eight
Hour Working Fay.
THE NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ABROAD
rBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.

by CABLE THk plsrATCHsl
LONDON, Oct. 29. - tCopyrsght - Mr..
Chamberlain held conference to-day with
the leaders of the Liberal Union party, pre-.
liminary to his departure for holiday
abroad. The details of his Unauthorized
programme" appeared In the morning pa
pers, taken from the forthcoming number
OF the Nindeersth Ce,lt,uy, and the matters
there presented were naturally the subject
OF the conference.
Mr.. Chamberlain deals with labor and
other social subjects boldly and in . social.
istic spirit, but the measures which he ad-
vocates are put forward, not as remedies,
but merely as harmless experiments. Thus,
he approves an eight-hour law for miners,
although the other day the members of the
Durham miners union voted %, ,217 to Il,
GSl against legal eight-hour day.
Mr.. Chamberlain favors local option, reg.
ulation of hours, etc, of shop assistants
upon application of GO or rs per cent of those
affected. He would create boards of arbi-
tration, but would rely only on public
opinion to enforce their decisions He is in
favor of limiting and controlling pauper i'm
migration, helping workmen by advances of
public money to purchase their homes, and
some plan of old-age pensions
Practical Politics of the Programme.
The practical politics in all this lies in
the question whether Mr. Chamberlain and
Liberal Unionists will maintain their al
leGiance with the Conservatives while advo-
eating such radical measures The proba-
bilitv is quite strong that Mr. Chamber
lain's ideas will dominate his own party,
but some of his proposals cannot hope Tory
support. Indeed, his programme as a
whole would meet with greater sympathy
among Mr.. Gladstone's supporters.
Mr.. Chamberlain himself seems to take
the contrary view. "In social questions, !"
he saws, ''the Tories have almost always
been more progressive than the Liberals,
and the Conservative leaders, in their latest
legislation, have only gone back to the old
Tory traditions"
Certain it is that some of the subjects dis
cussed by Mr.. Chamberlain and others more
urgent and practical will be forced upon the
attention of Parliament in the opening
hours OF its session.
Hundreds Demand Food and Work.
The cry of the unemployed grows daily
more threatening. Tower Hill continues to
be the popular forum, and, in spite of the
continuous storm OF the week, hundreds
have assembled there daily to demand food
and work. 1t was true and significant in
cident at one of the meetings that the chair
man complained that a gentleman had
tempted away six of their best speakers by
The promise of a meal. The talk at most of
the meetings continues to be revolutionary
and anarchistic
The Government has thought it best, not
only to have large detachments of police in
plain clothes upon the ground, but to have
stenographlc reports made Of the words of
the most violent speakers. The meetings
are now followed daily by parades in the
east end of the city, always under the red
or the black flag. The great strike or lock-
ont in the cotton trade is now almost at
hand. The attempt, day or two ago, BY
the Mayors OF Manchester and Liverpool to
induce arbitration will not succeed, because
neither side desires a compromise. spent
some DAYS this week on the scene of the
coming struggle, which will be unique in
tie history of labor troubles
Both Sides Prepared for the Fight
The spinners, who number only 1000 of
the GO, 900 who will be thrown out of work,
hold the key to the situation. They have a
reserve iund of 5000, 900 and they are de-
termined to enjoy the fruits of several
years economy at the same time they test
tie mettle of the new federation
of their employers The mill own
ers, on the other hand, will be
glad to shut down, for overproductlon on is
the real trouble with the market. The
sotual victims of the struggle will be the
$4,000 unSkilled operatives, without union
resources, who will be thrown out of work
at the beginning of winter. No one can
foretell the issue of the campaign which
promises to be the most important in which
federated capital and well garrisoned,
thoroughly organized skilled labor ever en-
gagged.
The first of the series of Cabinet councils
at which the business of the coming ses-
sion OF Parliament will be settled was held
Wednesday, and rumor has been busy since
with tales of ministerial dissensions which
may be safely described as ridiculous. A
split is said 10 have occurred upon the
question of the retention of Uganda, but
there is the best reason for believing that
the subject was not referred to at all at the
Cabinet council
Plenty of Time for Thought
Lord Rosebery's compromise has given
time for thought, and the Government will
take q note OF the drift of public opinion
and arrive at a final decision before the
opening of Parliament. 1t is becoming
pretty clear that the country is against the
abandonment of Uganda, and the Tories, in
nope that the Ministers will not have the
sense to see that fact, are already talking of
proposing and carving a vote OF censure,
with the aid of discontented Liberals
Whatever the final settlement may be, it
will not take the form of further subsidies
10 the British East Africa Company.
The hearing of the petition against the
election of Baltour's men for East Man
chester will commence November IA The
Liberals make no allegations save of care
lessness against the Tory leader personally,
but they have collected mass of evidence
showing that his agents were guilty of
various corrupt practices and if these can
be proved-of which there Is good prospect
the Tories in the House of Commons will
find themselves minus leader at the open
ing of the session. The prospect is particu-