*THE
WORKER*
BRISBANE,
APRIL 6, 1895.
Mail
Bag.
WANTED
– (to prepare way for Socialism in our time):
One
Adult One Vote.
Land
Tax.
State
Bank.
Shops
and Factories Act.
Eight
hours day where practicable.
Referendum
and Initiative.
Taxation
of every person according to ability to pay.
The
State to find work for unemployed.
The
State to fix a minimum wage.
Free
Railways. Free administration of Justice.
_________
The
WORKER does not hold itself responsible for the opinions of its
correspondents.
__________
W.
D. - Will hunt the matter up.
C.B.
- Don't think will do any good to publish.
ED.
WORKER – I wish to draw your attention to the great number of boys
between the ages of 9 and 13 that are being engaged through the
pastoralists' offices for woolshed and other work. These boys should
be at school. - Edward Carlton.
ED.
WORKER – It is amusing to read the “sympathetic” references
that are daily made by the capitalistic press to the subject of Sir
Thomas M'Ilwraith's health! The poor workman, who has done far more
than any M'Ilwraith or Tozer to “advance the prosperity” of the
colony, is allowed to die in poverty, as Scott says, “unwept,
unhonoured and unsung,” while the man who has helped to make
Queensland a land of capitalists and alien labourers, to the
consequent deprivation and degradation of the white men, is spoken of
as the “saviour of the country.” Impudent cant! And his every
movement is watched with fraternal solicitude by by the subsidised
and sycophantic capitalistic press. The greatest act of patriotism
that Sir Thomas, in my opinion, could now perform, would be to stay
away from Queensland for ever. He would then justly earn gratitude. -
Frank Tell, Gympie.
Woman's Equal Franchise.
The
annual meeting of the Woman's Equal Franchise Association was held in
the Trades Hall, Brisbane. The president, Mrs. Miller, occupied the
chair. The annual report and balance sheet, which showed a credit
balance of £8
0s. 5d., was read and adopted. The election of officers for the
ensuing year resulted as follows: President, Mrs. Miller;
vice-presidents, Mesdames Higgs, Briggs and Macfie; secretary, Miss
Hughes; treasurer, Mrs. Fairman; council, Mesdames Cross, Alder,
Johnson, Burton, Nelson, Snell, Nash, Chambers, Manuel, Jensen,
Farrow; Misses Parsons, S. and M. Glassey, Patterson and Rhind.
New
Unionism.
The
feeling in labour circles is that the old unionism is outgrown, and
that a new unionism, wider in its scope and distinctive in its
weapons, must be established. A movement is now taking place in
Australia having for its ultimate object the making of unionism more
attractive and therefore more comprehensive, the idea being to
embrace within its folds all workers whether with brain or hand. This
definition is to be so elastic that it will admit not only all
classes of employ'es, but nearly all employers if they can be induced
to come in. As a first step an effort is being made to bring about a
federation of societies of workers as recommended at Ballarat some
years ago, each colony being mapped out into districts with councils
for each, a federal council for the colony and a grand federal
council for the colonies. The urgency for the movement is felt to lie
in the fact that the new unionism regards strikes as an obsolete
weapon; it must fight by means of legislation, and to use the
ballot-box effectively it must broaden the base of constituency. A
class considered capable of furnishing a large number of recruits to
the forward movement is the clerks, and immediate attention will be
probably given to a scheme to bring them into a suitable
organisation. The leaders of labour throughout the various colonies
are exchanging views in the hope that something practicable may be
done towards more effectively adapting trade unions to the
necessities of the times, and some expressions on the subject may
shortly be expected. It may possibly be found that the expansion of
unionism will be at the expense of its programme, every extension of
the members involving a contraction of demands. In other words, it is
recognised by the leaders of the movement that the growth of new
unionism must be a growth in intelligent moderation.
South
Australian Register
General
News Summary.
FOR
THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 6.
Price
of maize going up.
London
wool markets brisk.
Mayor
of Maryborough resigns.
Victorian
revenue still decreasing.
Purchase
Brisbane eight-hour tickets.
A
bi-metallic crank lecturing in Australia.
Two
little girls burnt to death in Victoria.
Lady
Norman snubs the Brisbane toadies.
Treasurey
revenue for last quarter £703,562.
Victoria
goes in for military retrenchment.
Rebellion
at Boyacs, Columbia, suppressed.
Disastrous
fire at Belmont; thirty-five cows burnt.
Sydney
hotel keepers fined for selling bad liquor.
London
market glutted with Australian rabbits.
Exodus
of 23 farmers from Victoria to N.S.W.
Cabinetmakers'
shop at Red Hill destroyed by fire.
Gold
rush at Crow Mountain, near Barraba, N.S.W.
A
woman run over by train and killed at Geelong.
Chinese
fleet bombard the principal city of Formosa.
A
Melbourne firm fined £124
for defrauding the Customs.
Victorian
Parliament further prorogued until April 18.
Burketown
Meatworks commences operations April 10.
South
Australia takes steps to prevent banks obtaining commission on State
loans.
Ben
Tillett brings an action against a London newspaper. Verdict for the
latter.
Queensland
railways Commissioner invite tenders for two short sections of
railway.
Hook
King, arrested at Parramatta on a charge of murdering another
Chinaman.
The
Great powers again decline to interfere in the quarrel between China
and Japan.
Steamer
Bhundarra arrives at Adelaide from Calcutta with a case of smallpox
on board.
Tasmanian
Premier states that public education must be free from dogmatic
teaching.
Strained
relations between the English and French Governments over the Nile
Valley.
Spanish
Government despatches a force of 3000 soldiers to quell the
insurrection in Cuba.
John
Finaberg, a Melbourne bookmaker, shoots himself.
A
little girl named Mary Cooney burned to death in Sydney.
English
relief expedition on its road to Chitral in India.
Manly
railway station on the Cleveland line destroyed by fire.
British
government offers to act as arbitrators in a strike.
Thomas
M'Crae drowned at Cairns through falling overboard.
Fatal
boat accident at Ravensbourne, N.Z. Two boys drowned.
Conciliation
justices supplanting lawyers in Beenleigh disputes.
Sydney
Mint coined 648,000 sovereigns during last quarter.
Measles
prevalent among the blacks in the Herberton district.
A boat
capsized at Botany Bay. Four of its occupants drowned.
French
Government subsidising its mercantile steamship service.
Victorian
Board of Health asks Government to establish crematories.
Row
between missionaries in New Guinea and a German company.
Squatters
at Thargomindah agitate against rabbits, taxes and rents.
French
Government instructs its Consul to withdraw from Paraguay.
New
Zealand Government assisting farmers by reducing railway rates.
French
Government wants a conference of Great Powers regarding British
occupation of Egypt.
Great
fire at Milwaukee, U.S. Twenty warehouses destroyed. Damages,
1000,000 dollars.
Second
reading of the Welsh Church Dis-established Bill carried in the House
of Commons.
Brisbane
Fire Brigade threaten to proceed against insurance companies for
arrears of contributions.
An
accountant of the bank of Australasia gets twelve months in gaol at
Wagga for embezzlement.
A
Papal propaganda permits Roman Catholic students in England to enter
Protestant universities.
Owing
to the attempted assassination of the Chinese envoy, the Emperor of
Japan grants an armistice.
Railway
commissioners reduce freight on wheat and maize for export.
Be sure that the first Eight Hour tickets you purchase are Brisbane ones.
Be sure that the first Eight Hour tickets you purchase are Brisbane ones.
Tenders
issued by the N.S.W. Government for locking the river Darling.
First
annual meeting of the Woman's Franchise Association in Brisbane.
Gold
yield on Charters Towers last month 23,110oz.; dividends, £24,785.
N.S.W.
court orders the winding up of the Daily Post Labour
newspaper.
Land
Board inspecting land at Warwick under offer of sale to Government.
Gladstone
promises to lead a crusade against the Turkish atrocities in Armenia.
Government
Savings Bank deposits decreases £48,074.
6s. 2d. during past month.
Albert
Dettmar fined £100 at
port Adelaide for running an illicit whisky still.
Hon.
T. J. Byrnes addresses a hole and corner meeting at Mount Morgan.
The
Japanese who shot the Chinese envoy sentenced to imprisonment for
life.
New
Zealand police recover all the coins stolen from the Auckland Museum.
Charles
Bartley, 17 years of age, blows his brains out, with a rifle, in
Brisbane.
Russian
Government masses 30,000 soldiers at Vladivostok and has also 21
warships in Chinese waters.
Cape
Colony residents protesting against the Governor appointed by the
British Government.
John
Feeney dies on Charters Towers from injuries received through falling
into a pan at the Enterprise Mill.
French
authorities decide to admit Australian live cattle to France if
accompanied with health certificate.
Japanese
demand from China a war indemnity of £140,000,000 and
the occupation of Peking pending payment.
British
steamer conveying French troops to Madagascar collides with another
vessel in the Straits of Messnia. No lives lost.
N.S.W.
Government calls upon the superintendent of the Sydney Fire Brigade
to show cause why he should not be removed.
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