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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 511, 27 September 1890, Page 2

Grrtmouth, Thursday—A mass meeting of 600 miners was be a In Victoria Park yesterday afternoon. They marohod in procession from the railway station to the park with three bands playing. It was a very orderly meeting. The following resolutions were passed:—(!,) That as the age we live in is fraught will) momentous questions, and with none more so than the labor question, this meeting hails with gladness the movement throughout the world to better the condition of the working classes. (2.) In the opinion of this meeting the attempt now made by a combination of capitalists to crush unionism is entirely against the interests of the whole population ot the colony, and should be resisted by all legal means. (3.) That this meeting strongly condemns the action of those members of the House of Representatives who pervert their position by forwarding their own private interests as shareholders in the Union Shipping Company, and influeneing the Government to back that monopoly to tbe detriment of the people at large. (4.) That this meeting condemns the Government for giving ear to two or three silly nervous indi viduals, and sending an armed force to dissipate those phantomi which their tears or infiignatian conjured up. Mrs Aidis sends ths following pointed letter to the Auckland Herald;-Sir,—lu spite of all the pretty theories about man as the provider, it is a fact that numbers of women, if they would avoid starvation for | themselves and for help'ess ones depending on them, have to choose between pauperising themselves by an appeal tn the Charitable Aid Board and going to work ac their own firoviders. Is it either just or manly to say, ike the Auckland printers, that such women must not enter into competition with men ; or, like the Board of Education, that such women must give 25s wortHof toil for every sovereign they earn ?