, 1912-05-29

allowed.
On Sunday fifteen thousand lockers de.
monstrated and pledged themselves not to
resume until every grievance is settled,
including the release Of Mr.. Tom Mann.
Mr. Gosllng, III q speech, said the strike
might last several weeks and if starvation
compelled them to resume they would
soon strike again. Parliament must com
pei sweating employers to toe the line.
Mr. Ben rillett said the workers were
the nations backbone, and as valuable
to the nation as the King and Cabinet, and
10 longer will they be drudge5 and slaves.
Many ruses are adopted for delivery Of
blockaded goods, for example, some butchers
used cabs.
The Home Office has allowed the convicted
suffragettes to wear their own clothing, and
receive books and food from outside. Mr..
Pethick Lawrence was first sent to Worm
wood Scrubs, but upon representations the
Home Office ordered his transfer to Brivton.
Mr.. Hyndman presided at u meeting Of
delegates representing forty thousand So
~cialists, gathered III them first annual cou-
ference.
A meeting of the United Irish League
Mt Cardiff has reelected Mr.. O'Connor Pres
ident, and pledged itself to support Welsh
disestabIishlnoHt and AlsendowInent-
50 Lord Charles Beresford, ina speech at Car
diff, said England had abandoned the guar
dianship Of the Empire as Il whole, and
had been compelled to assemble float
ing forts to guard the heart Of the EN-
pire. He congratulated Mr.. Churchill upon
his new departure at the Admiralty,
and hailed with satisfaction the jour
MY of the Prime Minister and the
first Lord to the Mediterranean, which,
IN, ~o,nrlo1 a, mana ICaf1j t1u1. tho ippI.
ney of a distinguished lawyer to Ger
many. He was sure that Mr.. Asquith's con-
suItation with Lord Kitchener will result in
an enlargement of the garrisons of Glbral-
tar, Malta and Egypt, and n reduction OF the
present great risks IN England Eastern posi-
ton. In Berlin ii is expected that Lord Hal
dane will visit that city after consulting Bar
on Marschall Won Bieberstein Ill the Black
Forest.
German subscriptions for an aerial feet
have reached two hundred Thousand pounds,
double Frances subscriptions.
At the annual conference of the Labour
party in Wales it was resolved that equal
suffrage laws should be enacted.
The clerk Of the House Of Commons has
received twenty eight pnges of amendments
to the Home Rule Bill, mostly conseI vatlve
pI oposals, which would nulIify the meu-
sure it accepted, the Radical amendments
would enlarge its scope. Mr.. GinneIJ,
Independent Nationalist, proposes the
Home Rule Bill should be considered
II Money Bal, therefore uualternble by
the Lords. There are amendments enough
for the entire session if all are col5i-
deredj but the proco !ure is for the Speak
Ell to make selections Of amendments upon
consultation with the party leaders, thus
only & few of all are ever heard Of again.
New York, May 28th.
Flour, Blended Clears per barrel 20.
Meal, Kindred, per barrel $4.25.
New Seasons Pork 10 quotation.
Heavy Mess Pork 2o!.-S202
Crystals per 100lbs. S3.9S!
sugar Muscovodo 80 test loolbs. 3.484
Molasses Eng. Islds. per gal. no quotation.
Liverpool Cotton, mjddiing Upland, 62-5d.
Exchange, New York &London, 60 days sight
4.S4a
Exchange New York and London, sight 4.S7f
London, May 18th.
Dem. Crystals It's. Od.-l7s 81.
Muscovado, floating terms IN
ouGaf' bond, lis. 4. lis, 3D.
German beet So f. o. b, lis l05d.
40 -, I.l -I 4. 49, I.n,. -.