The Cotton Factory Times. — 1891-05-15 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

LABOUR MOVEMENTS ABROAD.  There was meeting of employes of the General Omnibus Company of Paris on 6unday afternoon, when 2,000 of them decided to form a onion for their protection and advancement. They also declared in favour of a 12 hour day instead of s 14. They might have gone down to 10, and been more in earnest.  The dock labourers of Ghent, numbeling 400, went out on strike on Monday for higher wages and less interference from the walking hosss.Thi dockers have souls and feelings, and are &Aug to let the world know it.  There are now 3,000 compositors on strike is Vienna, and although at present the employers are obstinate, the men seem likely to win. There are more than a dozen papers stopped on account ot the strike, arid the public are short of reading matter, awl are cursing the employers, which shows their sympathy is witu the men.  The coal heavers of Gibraltar, who are Maltese and Spaniards chiefly, have be:.,ri on strike recently, refusing to allow British subjects to i•ase into the Spanish line. John Bull abroad is bully, and the coal heavers wonld not have it, ar they had a few grievances removed before the ceased their resistance. Patriotic coal heavers at not extinct if patriotic shippers are.  Italian women living at Parma are clamouring for bread. The bakers made a ring and ran up the price of bread, and the women and children in the poorer quarters were starving. As the people were starving, they had a procession to the Maynr, urging cheaper bread. They got stones in the shape of ponce with fixed bayonets. No one wadi murdered.  The Pope has put out, or is putting out, an encyclical, in which he condemns the ext. aNagant aims of capitalists and excessive accumulation oi wealth, and also coudemns Socialism.  The Belgian manufacturers are in queer streets. Their men are on strike for a revision of the Constitution, and to end it the employers have deter. mined to go see the King, if be will let them, to urge upon that personage the necessity of a Minis. tonal declaration in favour of universal suffrage, in order to put an end to the labour crisis. The Belgians are hard hitters, and the manufacturers fee! it.  Mr. Cunninghame-Graham, IP., is very well known on the Continent, and on Sunday had a hearty welcome at Calais at a Labour meeting he:d there, which he addressed in French. The meeting protested against the action of the French Government in shooting human beings for demonstrating on May Day. Mr. Cunninghame Graham has since been ejected from Franee by the authorities, and will be punished if he re-enters any part oi the country.  The strike of weavers at Watel and Roubaix go'A on, the proprietors of the mill refusing to (at pr. sent) reduce the hours of labour to 10 per day, pleading that until all the others do they should not be asked. Someone has to make a beginning.  Another Labour Congress, as will be gathered from the fact that the General Council of the Belgian Labour party have issued an appeal to the workmen's associations of all countries urging them to participate in an International SocialiA Workmen's Congress, to be held in Brussels on Sunday, August 18, 1891, the debates of which will extend over a week. Societies are reque,ted to send in their adhesion and the number of delegates they intend to send before July 16. The tollowlng three points have already been placed on ti.e order of the day :—(1) The state of protective legis. . . . .  „ lation of work, from the national and international point of view, and the means to be employed fnr extending and rendering it efficacious. 121 The right of coalition, its guarantees, strikes, boycotti L 1 and the co-operative movement from the inter.. national point of view. (3) The position and &then of the working classes with repard to militarism.  J. D. Fitzgerald is back in Australia and busy. A mass meeting of trades unionists was held lately in Sidney to welcome him and discuss the shearers' strike, and John made a splendid speech. After speechmaking on the shearers' grievances the fol. following motions were carried :—(1) "That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Queensland bush workers are deserving of every encouragement and support in the noble stand they are making in defence of their rights and interests, and for the principles of unionism." (2) "That those present hereby pledge themselves to assist to the utmost (I their power in raising funds to assist the Queensland bush workers to successfully resist the bitter hostility of Australian capitalism totvards tLe workers of Queensland."