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Show SOCIALIST LEADERS ON TRIAL. Gladstone, Chamberlain and Broad-hurst Broad-hurst Subpoenaed to Appear in the Riot Cases. London, February 16. The genuineness of the laborers' demand for land to cultivate culti-vate is being put to a practical test in Kent. A number of landlords in that country are letting half -acre plats to laborers at a noni- , inal rental. The experiment will be watched with interest by the friends and opponents of Mr. Colling's scheme for relieving the distress of the poor. . Many interesting features are promised at the hearing on Wednesday before Justice Ingham, of Hyndman, Burns, Champion and Williams, who have been summoned to answer - CHAEGE3 OF INCITING TO MOT. Contempt of law, etc., during the disorder in London last week. Gladstone, Chamberlain Chamber-lain and Broadhurst have been subpoenaed ; - V T . - ' 7 : ; : by the Socialists, and the examination of the gentlemen will ba watched by all parties with intense interest. The Social Democratic Demo-cratic Federation has issued a manifesto convening a meeting for Sunday to demand that the government begin work on publio improvements in order to give employment to the workingmen now idle, and that the wages paid be sufficient to ensure healthy subsistence. The manifesto ' , APPEALS TO THE WOBKINGMEN To assist in maintaining order, and explains the objects of the Federation. It concludes as follows: Let the governing classes face the inevitable downfall of a decaying de-caying civilization without hypocrisy or panic Upon them res"ts the responsibility for a peaceful or forcible issue of the last great class struggle of our time. |