New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-01
BRITISH LABOR INTERESTS
AGITATION FOR DIRECT REPREsTST4.
TIoS IN PARLIAMENT.
HAMpERED BY THE taft VALE DECISION
PRESToN'S ANCIENT CELEBRATION.

HAMpERED BY THE taft VALE DECISION
PREsToNs ANCIENT CELEBRATION
Especial to The New-Tork Tribune by French csols1
Copyright: 1902 BY The Tribune Association-3
London, Sept I, I a. n1-The trades union
demonstration in Hyde Park yesterday TO pro
test against the Taft Vale Railway decision vas
nnarred some extent by rainy weather. Al
most the invariabie theme of the speakers az
the several platforms was the necessity for
direct representation Of labor in Parliament
II was confidently predicted that with an ads-
euate number of labor members In the House
of Commons an act would not only be PASSED
freeing trades unions from the trammels Of the
Taft Vale Railway decision. but other Iegisla-
ton of real effect I'm eievating and improving
the condition OF the English working classes
would be enacted Every point touching on tbs
necessity for direct labor representation was
quickly caught and enthusiastically applauded
After absence of tventy-one years the
Trades Union Congress will meet in london to-
day. Messrs. Blackmore and DoIan will attend
the sittings of the congress delegates from
the American Federation of Labor
During the present week the old town 81
Preston. in Lancashire. celebrates it's Guild
Merchant which is unique survival Of the
Middle Ages. Ever since 1928 there have been
Guild celebrations in Preston. and since f343
they have been held at regular intervals for
twenty years The Guild Merchant has obvi-
ously to do with admission to the freedom Of the
town. guild" being merely corrupt spelling 81
'gid. which means a money payment II IS
curious that these celebrations were carried
when the English civil war was breaking
out. for in 1912 proclamation exhortirg the
burgesses 70 repair to the town for the Guild
was read in the presence Of RoyaIists and Par
ramentariaus. \ feature of the Guild this year
is a collection of pictures which Earl Derby
has got together by personal appeal Lord
Derby is Mayor of Preston, and his ancestors
have been Guild burgesses since 1912.
. Generals Botha Dc Wet and Delarsy re-
turned to London yesterday morning from the
Continent The fact that they were accompanied
by Mr. Fischer is regarded as proof that the
famous generals hold the same views the
delegates with regard to the situation in South
Africa.
The American 5atteship illinois, which has
been at Chatham six weeks repairing the dam
age sustained by grounding az Christianis, will
leave for the Mediterranean to-day.
According TO intelligence from ST. Petersburg
definite arrangements have been arrived az BE-
tween an Italian company and a committee 81
the Russian Volunteer Fleet. the latter engas-
ing 70 open regular line between Odessa Ma
pies and New-York- The Volunteer Fleet Will
receive the sum of IS for each emigrant from
Naples. and ii is thought highly probable that
this new tide may divert the tide Of Russian
EMIGRATION to America from the German lines
The first steamer will start towards the end OF
September
The depression IN the English shtpnrfidtnS
trade IS assuming acute phase. The Wear
ho- and
Durham, Steel and Iron Company. which con
trolls about half Of the output Of ship plates in
the North Of England is obliged to close one Of
its works.