The Cambria Daily Leader

MOTHER SHOT. Serious Accident at a Welsh Hotel There was a. serious s hooting :uri- I dent at the Boar's Mead Hotel. | Aberystwyth. When Lloyd Evans, a<god j twelve, son of the proprietor, was playing in the bar Mith a rook rifle, the wcapon suddenly went off and shot mot her, who was standing at the other j end of the bar. The bullet penetrated deep into the right groin, and Mrs. Evans lies ill a serious condition.

TO TALK THINGS OVER. Important Conference About a Sv/ansea Headway An important conference of represen- tatives of the Swansea Corporation, the f Harbour Trust, the Duke of Beaufort, and the London and North Western Railway Co., has been a rrangcd to take place at the Harbouis Offices nex t Thursday for the purpose of discussing certain questions arising out of the dis-i pute concerning M'hat is known as the j 130ft. roadway near the West Pier. |

;LONE.,   co Town's Rough Ex- perience DELUGE OF RAIN. I Wind Blowing at Fifty Miles! an Hour. i \t the nne of writing Swansea is ii; toe throes of an Atkuatic cyclone oi 111:- usual severity, with, its centrc to th" j north of us. It is also aeeompaaiied heavy rain, aiid the velocity of the wind last night must have reached a rate o- something like 00 miles an hour. The rainfall measured a third of an inch, but taking all things into consideration. however it was a stormy rathei- than a rainy night, the direction of tho wind j being from the South-East. j No Shipping Damage. irom the Ivmg Uoeiv entrance -I-, I the report that although the Mind blowing very hard no da nut go had (ioii-e tu tli, The report from the Mumbles light- house was also to the effect that the gale Mas still blowing from a. south- easterly direction, but that there Mas no damage to the .shipping, and that in tnat respect all was quiet. The Swansea police issued no official report as to any damage having been done by the gale in the town and dis- trict generally. In the Streets. I The appearance of the streets bore eloquent testimony to the ilJtcIJity 01 the tempest, for they were ba.re and bleak, and rain-SMept pools here and there testifying to The fact that not only had the rain fallen, but tlia-c, it I had fallen in abundance. L-pouill- quiry at the Borough l^ngineer's De- partment, however, a Leader cor- respondent M-as informed that there was no information as to any serious flood- ing having taken place m any quarter or the torl-ii. Tiie olJh- incident of im- portance at the Mumbles was the up- rooting by the Mind of a big tree on the Mumbles-road. It \,as soon removed, however. Otherwise, the gale did very littlo damage. Snow Fall. I Sno" felI in various parts of the I country this morning. Schooner Ashore. I The Sv:edi.sh schooner M?.tiMa? for i ll, ? ashore at Howick Burn, and 1 will probably bo a total wreck. The I ere". of eight were landed by the lite- saving apparatus. ) Local Farmer's Plight. The plight of the loca l farmer is eer- j tainly a pitiable one, and, :n the lüw- I lying parts of Gower especially a serious set-back to agriculture has been experi- enced. From all over the peninsula comes the same tale of fields and roads being under water, Llanmadoc, Knel- ston, Reynoldston. Frogmore, all are I under Hood, and at Parkmili it is no I. exaggeration to say that the fields are more like swamps than anything else. The year is openlllg very gloomy in- deed," said one old farmer whom a "Leader" reporter intervieMed on Saturday morning. "Last year was a bad year for us. and dw Year before, curiously enough, was too dry." Tin we Mere complaining cf everything being burnt up, and now they are sodden." '• Then how does it affect you mostlyr" "ell. to begin with. Me cannot get our beasts out to graze, and we have to feed them indoors Mith patent food. This is not only expensive, but it is not I as good for the animals. The diffcr- I ence between a naturally fed beast and j a beast fed on artificial food is most I marked. Then, again, we cannot pre- (Continued on Page 5). i

I VIOLENT f Violent snowstorm raging over Scotland. Many >hip> driven ashore. I Ferry lifeboat has been out. ROYAL PAL.U !~A HI AZi To-day fire broke (".It III "W ltt-ois- hoche.b Pa lace, Munic h where til" Prince Regent is in n > deuce. Little damage was done. LA BO I'll RinTS. 1, 1 u E 1"1\,riu!( arising cut oi labour put" occurred III (house Province, ( arl-allino Commune villagers plun- dered neighbouring villages. STRTKK PAY (.1!ANTED. r;"put,1tj()ll "j (""])]'('1" Pit 111l']1 l11(>t Mine! Ex,cut-i\ "I (',lnlitT to-dry. and as a result str.ke pay has been granted as from commencement of strike. Half-time: RISC A—Nil. NEATH —1 penalty goal. MOUNTAIN ASH— 1 try. il' tk' y—Ea.t, 3 goaS West, 0. Final Score: Neath 'J pen. goals; Mountain Ash nil. FRANCE—5pts. Bctiing: 6 to 5 on Cabanas.

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Our Note Book. Spelter Dispute Settlement—The Terms— A Victory for Both Sides—Mothers of the Mother- land Women Whose Work is Never Done. Any article published m a newspaper a-hich atempts to deal with lito in domestic service, is pretty certain to raw from numerous correspondents varied opinions, as is again illustrated in the letters now appearing in the "Leader." The servant girl in these days is very far from inarticulate. There is, however, another class in the community—the most vital ty im- portant class, whicli, collectively bears a weight of responsibility that cannot be compared with any other, namely the vast body, for public purposes, lll- articulate, of the house wives and the mothers. Ot these we do not hear. A woman's work is never done. Yon talk about your 70 hours, your 90 hours; mother has to work h il the hours viiere arc, and would fain squeeze a tew more out the void where no hours are, so numerous, intricate, exacting, arc the demands made upon her. She is, in tact, too busy to agitate for better conditions. The terms upon which the Scwan- sea spelter dispute has been settled tilay be best described perhaps as a victory for both parties in the sense that while neither has got all they sked fo r both have secured some- tiling. It is impossible not to sympa- thise with those who are desirous of reducing Sunday labour to a minimum at the same time. the spelter industry is one carried on under peculiar con- ditions—conditions so peculiar in the opinion of the employers as to render it altogether impracticable to concede the demand for the abolition of the svti- tom involving the Sunday charging of furnaces. i Circumstances may arise in future j in the process of natural envelopment which will enable the amount of Sun- day labour now necpssary in many in- dustrios to be. greatly curtailed if not dispensed with a ltogether, and one may hope. at least that the spelter trade will be amongst the earliest to be beneficially affected. In the meantime the great thing is that the Swansea Rtrike is definitely settled upon suert lines as will permit of an immediate resumption of work taking place. All that is necessary is to congratulate both employer and employed upon the successful outcome of the negotiations and the tact and courtesy with which thev have been conducted throughout. The men aro also to be complimented Tipon the exemplary manner in which ibey have conducted themselves during the ten weeks over i-lilf,h the striko has extended. The fact that not a single complaint of any kind has been made reflects great credit upon the epelterinen of the district. ————— -0 ————— To-day's Gossip The Real Resister must be very ) passive to allow his coal to be seized at this season of the yea,i-. M Amongst the names mentioned as j>oss ible vicars of St. Mary's, Bangor, j is that of the Rev. W. Morgan Jones, j a native of Llandilo. "This is a bit of real ol(! china." ,!| eh Id the optimist, as he looked out o: ivindo-, this morning. "Quite nice and homely, this rain The fact was lie did not need to go out all day. i On the Neath Boy Scouts' menu ca.rd appeared Patrols' leg of mutton with Troop leader's Sauce 1'' We always get plenty of the latter," promptly remarked a scout, as lie passed his plate for the third help- ing of Baden Powell's plum pudding! Our secretary has done a lot of work. He n'lwt bifrn the midnight ) oil remarked tho provident at the Swansea atnralists" Society annual mooting. No, gas," corrected the secretary. Nothing like exactness in a scientific society! A correspondent writes that, de- spite the wind and rain, wild roses are lilooming near Sketiy, The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, Have nothing to do with the case I" l?i d ic, the Some of the young ladies of tho Swansea Naturalist' Society arc de- lightfully frank. One, proposed as an addition to the committee, pleaded that 1,('1' scientific ritiainments did not war- rant it. She Jikcd the society's rambles, she said. Bui's that's all I go for—the enjoyment of tho wa'ks!" Verb. sap. Unlike Wales, the Bible in the ) TV est of England seems treasured rather than read. It is too sacred a volume for common use. We always keep a Bible in the house in case of illness." said a pious ) Ills(, fc)l- t, thsnk Heaven, T% k-(- had no use for it fcinco poor old grandfather was took." l-f The chairman of the Rhyl Council has intimated that he will invest -tl0 for the benefit of the. first child born within the Rhyl district on whose ac- count its parents become entitled to medical benefit under the National In- surance Act. The sum invested is to be paid on the child reaching the age of twenty-one- years, and in the even: ) of its death the money will go to the child next on the list. Sympathy is good, but it ha-s its limitations, as Mr. H. G. Davies, the popular, conductor at the Rev. Oscar Snelling's Albert Hall Mission, has < found. "One of the boys"—a very well-to-do one—complained about the way a New Year's treat is given to old people, and that of boys and girls in the littls Orchard-street. Had. 7 Why not have that for boys and girls on the Fame day. and in the Albert Hal] said he." "Very good: I shall be piea?ed to do so, if you will pay for the Hall!" was the reply, ami then the inteiviewcr m-ent away sorrowing

£ 20* What the Spelter j Strike Cost. I TERMS CONSIDERED. Men Complimented on Their Behaviour Throughout. The news of the settlement of the dispute which originated in the Swansea spelter industry ten weeks ago as the result of a demand of the men for the abolition of Sunday labour, has been re- ceived with great satisfaction. It is impossible to state exactly what the stoppage has meant financially, directly or indirectly, but the loss in wages alone is unofficially estimated at Lir),000, while a similar amount may be set down to cover the indirect loss to the shippers, colliers, and others who have been affected by the strike, while the cost to the Dockers', the Gasworkers' and the Workers' Cnions in strike pay is approximately £ 2,000. j More Than f.20,000 Lost. It will thus be seen that the total loss occasioned by the stoppage is consider- ably over £ 20,000. Some of the men III accordance with the terms of the settle- ment agreement, resumed work this morning. The tires were drawn some weeks ago from several of the furnaces, and some little time must necessarily elapse before the whole of the hands can be fully employed. So far, however, as the furnaces, on slow fire are con- cerned, they arc being got ready for cha.rging to-morrow, and by Monday work here will be in full swing. Mr. James Wignall. the organiser of the Dockers' Union, who conducted the negotiations oil behalf of the men be- longing to that organisation, in the course of an interview with a "Leader" representative tins morning, stated that throughout the best of spirit prevailed on "oth sides, and a hope was expressed that there would be no bad feeling of; any kind arising out of the strike. S The Sunday Question. "Mr. Mills, of the Morfa," he went | on, assured us there would be none so far as the employers arc concerned, and we gave a similar assurance ou bc- half of the men. 1 Of course, we had to admit that we were beaten on the ques- tion of the abolition of Sunday labour. "That was the primary object we had in view, and it failed. When we realised that the employers were deter- mined to closc down the works, wo ieit it was useless prolonging the strike on this issue, which would have only been 'I adding to the poverty and suffering of the men, and the innocent women and children. j "It was of the women and children we were thinking most. Under the circum- stances wc deemed it advisable to u-iake the best arrangement we could, and that is what we have done. The terms are the best that could be got, and pro- viding the agreement is carried out in the right spirit, I don't think the men will have very much to complain of. No amount of extra money that may liavo been given for Sunday labour would have been acceptable with such conditions as the employers sought to attach, viz., that it should only be paid in the event of the furnaces being worked the six previous days of the week. "That meant that if the furnaces wore not worked through any act on tho part of one or two men, those who did the Sunday work would have been penalised and got nothing. We con- sidered this very unreasonable, and I am glad to say that upon reconsidera- tion the employers agreed to withdraw the stipulation they had previously made, and to pay the extra money un- conditionally. Then holidays are to be counted the same as Sunday. That, I think, is a feature of the bargain. Men Complimented. I We can only express the hope that the men will not have to work on Bank Holidays, but if they do, they will re- ceive the bonus the same as with re- gard to Sundays. We have also given a pledge in the agreement that there shall be no down-tools without the re- I quisite legal notice. So far as the men arc concerned, 1 think the manner m I which they have conducted themsclye3, during the ten weeks the strike has lasted has been something splendid. This will bo admitted when I toll you that there have been no riots or distur- bance, not a single arrest or cause for a, single policeman to be on duty at any time. lit fact there has been no com- plaint of any kind. That, J think. is something of which the men of tho town generally have reason to be prond. "Finally, we should like to take this1 opportunity of extending through the! "Leader" our hearty and sincere thanks to all who have so generously assisted the men during the strike period. We iiaiit to thank the trade unionists of the district for their contributions; we want to thank the Free Churches for their resolutions of sympathy, and for j the money we have received from them amounting to over £ 50; and we want to thank also the Established Church, from whom we have received throe resolutions of sympathy. To all who have assisted us in any way whatever in our struggle for the abolition of Sunday labour we are deeply grateful. We have not been able to achieve the great object for whieh we set out, but if we have been defeated i on this point I think we can at least claim that we have not been disgraced." Mr. Matt Giles expressed thanks also on behalf of the Workers' Union, and added thanks also on behalf of Mr. Victor Morgan of the Gasworkers' or- ganisation. Thanks wore expressed to tho ieadti- for the impartial reports given of the proceedings of both sides.

COPPER PiT DISPUTE. Mr. John Williams, M.P., yestorflwy had another interview with H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines (Professor Hed- mavne), in reference to the Copper Pit dispute, and ascertained that the Home Office inspector wn-s making CTcry effort to settle the InHttcr.

Mens Words are Ever Bolder than their Deeds! I (COLERIDGE.) (" Lender J, Cartoon.) DAI SMALLCOAL (after reading the "Leader's" article prving that there is plenty cf work to be had at Swansea): Work! Who said work? Let me get at it I Where is il? I can't sea it!

'GO TO THE UNION" Interesting Opinions on the Local Labour Question. WORK AND WORKERS | Tho case referred to in the "Leader" a day or two ago of a number of Swan- sea men who expressed an eagerness to wecuno ,employment, wch the .insult- that when an offer to provide work was forthcoming only halt turned up to make a start, is not an isolated one by any means. Some little time back a gentleman in- terested in philanthropic work in the town was induced to take compassion on a number of the able-bodied fellows 1.0 be seen around the railway stations on the look-out for "hobbles." Meeting 4 friend of his one day lie mentioned the subject and asked whether it was not possible to do something to help these "poor fellows" who would, he wa assured, be only too delighted to get in to regular employment. The gentle- man approached also thought that something in trc direction. indicated mighjb ba done. Twelve Selected. A dozen ot the poorest looking were selected, provided with food, a new -Ult ot clothes each, and their railway {are to a colliery in the district where work was « a;ting. Of the whole gang sent not more than two remained at the end of a few weeks, the others either finding the work un- suuabiO or preferring to go "on the road," where they said they could get a goo ddeal more than the ordinary collier was able to earn.. Ono of those who continued on the job was a youth who is now earning JL;2 and upwards per week regularlv. "Not Work-Beer.11 I "One comes across genuine cases of unemployment," says tiie colliery man, "but my experience of the class of men referred to is that they are not worth touching. It isn't work they want—its beer. And they are not happy until they have got it." Tho representative of a yell-known shipping firm, in conversation M ith a '•Leader" man, mentioned what lie1 described as an instance of particular hardship arising from the employment of men of the work-shy class. 4) f "Not long since," he said, "there v, as French vessel in (locks. Sho had her cargo completed with the exception of a single truck load of bricks, a.nd for the moment there were none of the regular mon available. Foreigners." "Inquiries were made, and eventually four men wore secured and despatched from the South Dock. They called at a couple of pubs on tho way, and Lv the time they reached the wharf they wcro in a beautiful mood, as you can imagine. The skipper could not make up his^mnd whether it was best to employ theel or not, but eventually lie did. What was the result ? A start could not, bo made for some time because the men said they were not going to work on the ship foreigners' (the understand, being the regular crew of the vessel), After they had complptcd UL: debate ou this point, it took three hours to put the bricks on head. with the ••••■>-• suit that the captain lost the tide. That is what you must expect by put- ting on men of this type. Had the ordinary men been available, work would not only have been done more efficiently, but in less than a third of the time. My experience is that if you want good men. go to the Union for them. The men who are not in the Union are no good, either to themselves or anyone, else."

I A FATAL DREAM. 1 .———————— I Mother Murders her Child While Asleep. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. I Vienna, Friday.—An extraordinary tragedy, which occurred at Trieste tilis week, is attracting wide attention on the part of medical scientists and the general public. Tho case is one in which a "mother dmm?- sleep murdered her infant child with a 1"¡t,zoJ', 'w I woman, who has been almost demented I since the terrible, occurrence, is being held at, the disposal of the judicial authorities until the medical experts shall have been able to give all opinion on the affair. The circumstances under which the tragedy was enacted render it all the more distressing. The woman is the wife ot a man named Boelii. and when, after six years of married life, a child I was born to the coupjc in September last the M' dearest wishes were laJ iSl'd, Father and mother alike appear to have worshipped the little one. On the night of Sunday the woman, soeakin-g in her sleep, said to her hus- band, The child is ill." The man, although aware that his wife was not awake, got out of bed and looked at the baby. It was lying quietly, and no fear was aroused in his mind, but he called his sister-in-law. As soon as she took the child in her arms she saw that it was de4id The mother was then aroused, and as 'JI)e in<)tlicr tlieii -ilid that she had a razor in her hand. She had reached out during a dream and taken the razor from a chest near the bod, and with it had cut the child's throat.

I GHASTLY OUTRAGE. I Thirty-nine Lepers Massacred by Chinese Authorites. (Renter's Foreign Special.) I Shanghai, Friday.—Letters from the Roman Catholic Mission at Hanniiig, in the province of Kwangsi, Jkcemba- 14th, ghxvs details of the barbarous massacre of thirty-nine lepers by order of the provincial authorities. For some years lepers have been living in a wood a few miles outside the j city. In view of their pitiable destitu- tion, the Roman Catholic fathers sought permission to build a lazar house at theii own expon.se. The authorities first refused, but sub- sequently pretended to consent. Mean- while they caused a pit to he dllgi 11 the parade ground, and the bottom was filled with wood soaked in kerosene. Into this pit the lepers wore suddenly driven at the point, of the bayonet, and shot and blrrnt in the presence of largo crowds I?<-wards Mere offered for the dis- covery cf more lepers, and another has si nce been shot. The Governor has issued a proclama- tion accusing the lepers of outrages for which the writers of the letter say there was no foundation. The authori- ties. tho letter adds, are glorying ir. the deed

PANELS COMPLETE. Ample Confirmation of Mr. Lloyd; George s Prediction. It is now offici a llv announced by the Insurance Commissioners that panels have been formed for every county and county borough in Great Britain and comprise the names of more trail 15.00U I doctors. In a 1 arge number of eases 70. 80, or 90 per cent, of the doctors in the area, j probably includiiiLi all those engaged in practice among insured peron, have I come on to the panel.