Seamstreßseß on " slop" in Brisbane work out their joyleßß Hveß nine hours a day at prices that yield them 10s a week— if they are smart. The English Social Democrats secured six seats in the Municipal elections, and did excellent propaganda work wherever they put up candidates. The Brisbane Sun Bays :— James Power, the champion shearer of New Zealand, has been turning over 200 sheep a day off the Wolseley machines. The Paris Municipal elections have re sulted in a big increase in the socialist vote polled for old members, and new men haveagone in with good majorities. No fewer than fifty-nine labour strikes occurred in Great Britain during the month of March. The majority were in the building and mining trades. Most of the Btrikes ended unfavourably for the strikers. In Germany last year wages remained stationary in 232 districts, fell in 72 and roae in 2 only, while prices in food pro ducts went up universally. Out of 806 cities 211 showed full employment/ 30 almost complete stoppage and the rest very clack indeed. In England the number of women employed as printers increases with every year; bat they are still more numerous in America, where about 3000 women are employed in printing offices. In London there are about 200 women compositors. The Australian Workman Bays:— "We have before us a list of nine firms who have dismissed within the laßt month two thousand one hundred hands, simply because their current account balances have been stolen by the Be-deßtruotion Banks." Fifty firemen and forty trimmers en gaged for a steamer supposed to be run ning from Southampton to Chicago found themselves when six miles out atqea trans ferred to the Hamburg steamer frormania. As they considered themselves to be duped they refused to Bign German articles, and demanded an immediate return to England at the Company's expense. A syndicate is being formed at (Hull, in England, to acqure 5000 acres of land at Benmark, the South Australian irrigation colony on the Biver Murray, below Mildnra. A demonstration took plaoe the other day to mark the departure of. a number of people from Sydney to found the New Australia in Paraguay. There is a striking contrast in these two events. Probabilities are that the iron trade of Pennsylvania will witness this year one of the greatest strikes that has ever occurred in the country. 