PROPOSED REFORMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1376, 10 February 1905, Page 2

PROPOSED REFORMS.

CRUEL TREATMENT OF GORKI. By Telegraph—Press Assooiatlon —Copyright Reoeived 9.40 p.m., Feb 9. St. Petersburg, Feb. 9. Tho Czar approvingly referred to a committee of Ministers Mr Kokovstoffs proposals to permit workmen to participate in measures for the improvement of their lot, including a joint conciliation to settle wages and other questions affecting their welfare. Mr Kakovstoff recommends a ten hours day and nine for night work. He thinks it possible to fix a rate for an eight homs’ day, also to permit manufaoturers'ito work on holidays, but being bound to give men four days in a month. Men will be permitted to strike for economic reasons if therte are no excesses. London, Feb 9. The Daily Telograph’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that a Vladimiron bluejaoket has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for refusing to fire on the people. , , . Madame Gorki, in a letter, deolares that her husband is entitled to hiß own olothes instead of the thin prison garb. She complains that he is exposed to a cold stone floor and deprived of writing materials, such punitive treatment being unjustifiable and illegal before trial. There are 130,000 strikers at Lodz.