LABOUR MATTERS.
[PER PRISBS ASSOOIATIOM.]
London, April 30. In a letter to a city newspaper, a Queensland farmer says that the Government gulls the people in Great Britain to emigrate to Queensland to starve. The Hull dockers are depressed, and many of them are famishing. May 1. Three thousand London dockers have resolved to go out on strike to-day unless the Shipping Federation men at the Victoria docks are removed. Mr Burns is averse to the proposed national strike, which he regards aa madness, but Keir Hardie and Mr H. Wilson are in favor of the proposal being carried out. (Received May 2, 11.15 a.m.) London, Mayl. The dockers strike in London has fizzled out. The First of May labor processions on the Continent have passed off quietly.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2962, 2 May 1893, Page 3
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