LABORGRAPHS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3556, 22 June 1912, Page 3

LABORGRAPHS.

(By "Excelsior.”)

Approximately a third of the children in the neighborhood of London are supported by female labor, owing to the inability of the men to get work.

On his recent trip to England Dick Arnst put in several short spells in the stokehold- Evidently it- is allriglit when you haven’t got to do it. * • * ✓ *

The press lias discovered a millionaii’G. anarchist in Paris. Many other millionaires have been anarchists, as far as tlieir regard for the law is con- ■ ' .

<J.s it not time an active agitation was started to hurry up State steamships? Why should not the y New Zealand Government carry its own mails and passengers on water as well as land ?

The Poverty Bay Branch of the U.L.P. held their annual meeting last Friday, when the -secretary*s report showed progress alh around. Election of officers . for the ensuing term resulted *as follows : —President —Mr Gill Inglis ; . vice-i president, Mr E. C. Muricey; treasurer, J. Spencer; secretary, G. T. Bartlett; minute secretary, Clias. Gibson; auditors, J. H. Hall and J. C. E. Turner; executive, D. W. Coleman, H. Mead, J. H. Hall, J. C. E. Turner, W. Hatten and A. Munoey. When the Trades Council decides, which doubtless it will do, to fall into line with the U.L.P. the electoral branch, along with other progressive bodies, will he represented on it. It wiH then he a labor representation committee. # * Revolutionary syndicalism has obtained a strong hold on the unionists of Norway and Sweden. At a recent conference in Christiania the principles governing union activity were discussed for four days behind closed doors, and it- is reported that in spite of the opposition of the union leaders, a resolution was adopted by 221 against 212 pledging the organised working class to syndicalist methods, including sabotage and.the non-observance of contracts made with employers.

A social held under the auspices of the T. and L. Council turned out very successful last Monday night in Mmotton’s Rooms, when local unionists met Mr J. McCullough, of the Arbitration Court, Messrs J. C. E. Turner and D. W. Coleman wore in their element.

The Trades Council held a meeting of ratepayers in Whim-ay’s Hall on Tuesday night, which has been duly reported.

All local unions have been circularised with a request to hear a speaker from the Federation of Labor re the Waihi and Reefton strikes. Many of the local bodies doubtless will, if for no other object than common courtesy. will give to any speaker, no matter from where he hails, an ordei]y meeting at any time. We do not have enough communication with the labor circles. During the last three years we’ve had Professor Mills, Mr D McLaren and Hon. Geo. Fowlds speaking here under the auspices of organised labor. One at twelvemonth ! It’s about time we had a regular visit form some of the leaders of labor from various parts of the Dominion.