Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-10-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARR.  a demonstration of London trades-unionists in support of the Miners' Federation took place on Sunday afternoon in Hyde Park. Processions, accompanied by bands, arrived from all parts of London, and took up their positions in front of 12 waggons which served as platforms. Amorg the Speakers were Mr. John Burns,Mr. Benn,M.P.,Rev.S. Q. Headlam,Mr. W. C. Steadman, L.C.C., Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P , and Dr. Avelino. Mr. Bums said they lied come there to express sympathy with Stuving women and children, and also their determination to sustain the miners in upholding their present rate of pay. That struggle was the biggest thing which had yet taken place in the contest between labour and capital. They had 300,000 men directly involved, with nearly three-quarters of a million of peok le depending upon them, and with half a million of men in kindred trades suffering more or less in consequence of the lock-out. It was not a strike at all—despite what London penny-a-liners said—except against hunger to-day, hunger to come, and hunger as long as the capitalist system , existed. He demanded on the part of the miners that the present miserably low rate of wages shall be the basis, the irreducible minimum below which neither wages nor hours must go in the future. (Cheers.) He combated the idea that wages should follow prices. The employers did not believe it, or they would bring a cargo of Chinamen to England to work in the pits for their rice and curry and 3d. a day. They knew that the country would not stand it,or they would do it, and English workmen would have to adapt themselves to a semi-civilised, semisavage state a comfort. He would go further, and say that not only prices but profits,rents, royalties, suet even rates and taxes, must adapt themselves to wages and a decent standard of comfort. He insisted that it would be an easy matter for profits, its, and prices to adapt themselves to wages, because wages in ouepresent system of producing by machinery were only a small item in the cost of production. He concluded by advising the miners to work OD lh ir return only four end a half days, to allow no steck to accumulate, and refuse to work 'fts. fle also threw out a hint that what the Council should do was to bring about 60 colliers to the 'litanies, and thus bring about Unction of the middleman.—Shortly after ak a bugle was sounded, and the following ion was put from each of the platforms and "Tha; this mass meeting of the people of places on record its emphatic condemnation associated colliery proprietors in endeavourdefraud the miners of a reasonable wageid in paralysing the whole trade of the coun• the furtherance of their own selfish policy, ?es itself to support the wives and children liners during the present lockout, to press ,erests of the mining community on the ientary representatives, and to secure for the le unquestioned recognition of their right te tyment for good work."  assoc  [edges  to a telegram from Graudenz, a daring under cover of night, has been made by ivicts from the prison at Thorn. One of las Kogiestecki, the man who was recently I to penal servitude for life for the murder _ Goltz, oi Diugimost, and so far neither his companions have been recaptured. Mayor oi T,rquay, Mr. Splatt, was found bed =Tuesday morning. His worship,who years of .ge, to,lr a prominent part in the incorpora• ion of the town, and was actively d at his out les up to Monday evening, when present at a performance of the "Mikado" local theatre, of which he was managing