, 1912-03-23

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The st. Croix arrived at Copenhagen on
the nineteenth.
London, March 22nd-Ellen Petsfeld, the
Snffragette who attempted to set fire to the
General Post Office, has been sentenced to
elk months imprisonment in the second d-
vision. The Judge said a more severe SEN
tence would have been passed, had her
health been stronger.
The Miners Federation, upon consideration
of the Strike Bill, has resolved not to accept
any act which does not contain a minimum
wage of FIVE shillings for men and two shil-
lings for boys. 1t was also resolved that the
Labourite party should move the miners
schedule as an amendment to the Bill. AS
Mr.. Asquith rejected this schedule during
the negotiations his acceptance of the
amendment is doubtful.
The surfacemen have resolved to inform
the Labourite Com moners they will reject a
settlement unless it includes surfacemen,
and the railway men have resolved to de-
maud the enactment of a twenty five shil-
lings' weekly minimum for them, thus initit
ting q movement for broadening the Bills
scope.
A meeting of Unionists, including Mr.
Austen Chamberlain, Mr. Walter Long,
Mr. F. E. Smith and Mr. Bonar Law, re-
quested AIR. Balfour to move the re-
lection of the Bill, and Mr. Balfour ac-
cepted. The Liberals regard this as a Tory
and Labour plot to overthrow the Govern
lnent. Others think that Mr. Asquith, finding
his difficulties insolubIe, is riding for a fall,
and willing either to abandon the Bill or re-
sign. This alteration of the situation has
deferred the expected crisis from the second
reading yesterday to the Committee stage
to-day, when the amendments will be moved.
The Daily Mail regards the Bill as wreck
ed, and reports that the Liberals lave been
warned to prepare for a general election.
The Unionists are willing to take office.
The Times view is calmer, it expects a
longer consideration of the Bill and it's ulti-
mate passage next week, the situation being
liquid there is no reason for the Govern
ment's precipitate abandonment Of its posi-
ton. The Cabinet will consider another view.
the adoption of the five shillings and two
shillings' minimum in consideration for the
miners acceptance of the rejection OF their
entire schedule.
Mr. Will Yhorne, the Lobour member for
West Ham, charges prolongation of the dis
tressing situation by the owners as q coDspi-
racy to exhaust the Union funds, thus pros
trating the labour movement Indefinitely.
The industrial paralysis, with it's consequent
hardship, is constantly growing, and the Gov
ernment has circularjzed all Boards of Guar
dams suggesting cooperation with the local
authorities in relief movements. Three
hundred starving men at Grimsby petitioned
the Mayor for assistance, aud South Wales
has not suffered so much since 1898.
Tue Earl of Harrowby, after touring the
Pottery Districts, reports that sixty thousand
are idle besides others in affiliated trades.
The Mayor of Ilkeston has received applica.
tons for relief from four hundred families,
and of six hundred school children, four
hundred are being fed by the teachers. The
London County Council is considering omit
ting the Easter holiday for the convenience
of keeping the school children together, thus
assisting the necessitous. Liverpool has post
poned its international Exhibition till next
year, and there are other innumerable similar
details.
The President of the United Mine Owners
of America says three hundred aud seventy
five thousand bituminous miners will stop
work during the first fortnight in April,
pending a settlement of the anthracite
negotiations, and q national strike of all
GOLFERS will be dependent upon the nego-
~tiations.
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