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Show Swaging was jJBLASPHEMY lfl Move in en t B cinq-ID cinq-ID Made to Repeal Eng- Tf lish Laws Which Are Said to Be Unfair Gossip From London fcaj LcncVn April r.-R;!' i X 41 lions WM ftgalr.st b r i 'l ft ' -r C r r p. h1 on ! y a; . i rehalc hn, and fc-.v Sbcij ! ..'11" I fin' 1 iaii tr r. . - ' -rgymen ai I pron ttBj Inc ' al! j.Mned in cck. i : i3 1 1 n I- , i . .. - r D " IIIJ 111' i who drr'arod he H (lis r;:i . : ri ne i enforce Bit R1 IK? eaid that if a Fellow of an Oxforl I ro'! . i i member of ' parliament, or an eminent literary Kan car J to blaspheme In learnei , and forcible language, there was little lit-tle chance of hlfl being prosecuted r.nd Imprisoned, but If a workingrr.nn ' at the street corner or In a public nark gave expression to the same ' in crude or foolish Inngnae,.. ne was haled before a court und fr-quently fr-quently sentenced to a considerable term of Imprisonment. A number of cass for damages irfslng out of the sinking a year ago j f t ho Titanic are to be brought In ho EnKllsh courts by relative! of j.-ssr ners who tost their Uvea In hat 'l;?nstcr The ssnotima clnimed will be noth I ke these which the American rts will e colled upen to den! t There is no way. however, of Btimatisf them Accurately because In England, unlike America, few of the iiimants mention any epeiific sum BBVlng If to the courts to award what iney tl:ink proper. Among those who will tak action in Kngl.ind are rel-. tlves of Russians and Scandinavian who went down In thp ship. A U v fst cffM will be heard tf n orr'cr to arrive at a basis for t',. jbseruept trials. Ordinarily the la 'rMts the amount claimable to $75 pc-'"n pc-'"n of the ship's gross tnnr "hu'd this apply to the r.-so of rl..-Titanic" rl..-Titanic" the total liability of th White Star compr.ny would not exc i 11,500,000. The attorneys for th-claimants th-claimants will ronton thr.t this lrw iocs net apply in this case. Th? university man In business Is becoming a burning subject in En and. b.U several of the magnates o' commerce who have interested them selves In the movement are Bomewh? dlscourated by the If.ck of respons. from those on whose behalf they cr worklnfr. These magnates state that whi'e buslne33 needs the unlverslt-mm unlverslt-mm it can continue to get along much better without him than he can withcut it In sr!t" of the. af?-act;ons of th? mil- itar; service, the church and the law for Kir.- lsh anlverelty graduates, come of them have e::prs3Pd themselves lr. favcr of business careen If they can be started in at or near the top. One I Cambridge A. B. eurv-'pstd in the most Ingenupufl manner thqt he would he i.Ulte willing to go into commerce if he could secure a tutor who would 'each him the business so well thit ho could immediately take a diroctinc I share In It Xcne of the ambitloi'3 , seekers after business careers have shown any desire to enter It by the I I basement door Because the lace industry of En land has been given tariff prote. tion. a prominent manufacturer of i Nottingham hes carried out his thrp?. I pud mo.eil his entire lace esta.bils i i ment to the town of Raab, in Hui-gery. Hui-gery. While it is not at all likely thr' I all the lace tnnken? of Kottingham ' will seek foreltm tariff protection, the first Btep in this direttion has causej much unpasiness and considerable speculation as to the future on the part c: the workers. The Hungarian government offered the ICr.rllah manufacturer very liberal inducements. He is given a froe Dlte for his factory on the banks of the Danube freedom from local taxation ' for ten years an.d imperial taxation j for fifteen year and n cash grant it 1 $17,000 The only stipulation Is that ! after the lapse of a considerable lime ! I native labor shall be employed. The lace makers of Nottingham ' have long claimed that their industr would be killed unless a tariff was established to give them some pro I I taction, from loreigu competitors I On? of the principal features of th 1 new education bill io be Introduced j I during the present session of parll". i ment it Is understood, will be the es 1 tabllshment by local authorities of evening schools throughout the country coun-try and the comT'u!eor attendauce of children und?r 16 years of age The ; school age Tor the preseni day sehools also will b raised io fourteen yean ! so that for two years after leaving lay school children uiU have the ad-rentage ad-rentage of lessons in the ening To meet the objection that bova and girls at work during ,ho day would Ik M, 're, ,'? n',Hn' erenlng eehoole , the bill win iimit tbe emnloymenl ot ; young persons to probably 86 hour, B n eek. Sudden strikes, put into efTert with out .varning and ai a time selected I uith the sole purpose of causing employer as much embarrassmen; ae nosslble are lxToming a feature in England and their notah'p pucceifl leading to a widespread recognition of their efficacy. In no less than five cases recentlv the workers have Ald down their tools at the moment their service! were most urgenth needed Four or these etrlkep occurred in restaurants ukI hotel? whore the prlnrips f ,), Syndicalists bare mado'th greatest headwa. Down plates" was the order or-der given to be executed at the mos: inconvenient hour of the day. and In all four cases the strikers won, practically prac-tically on tn r own terms. The fifth strike of the waiters and hotel servants was their masterstroke The union declared a strike at one of the leading restaurants of the West I End just before noon of the day on which 170 members of the Incorporated Motelkcepers' association met to eat 'unoh The waiters' flat demands for immediate concessions were not heeded, heed-ed, and there was no 'unch for any one The restaurant Imported strlk-' breakers and prve lf p-trons dinner instead of lunch, and the strike 6tiM remains unsettled. |