BRITAIN'S WORKERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 246, 16 October 1891, Page 3

BRITAIN'S WORKERS.

CARMEN RETURNING TO WORK.

THE DEMAND FOR SKILLED

LABOUR.

EIGHT HOURS BILL.

LONDON DOCKERS' SCHEME

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

[by electric telegraph—copyright.]

London, October 15. The Union has instructed the carmen to return to work. S The lightermen are much dejected ab this step, and it is thought thab_ the strike is likely to collapse. The stevedores are consulting as to what action they shall take. John Burnett, labour correspondent of the Board of Trade, reports that the demand for skilled labour is steadily decreasing at Honbe. In regar,d to tho chief industries, eightyeix strikes took place during August and sixty-four in September. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Congress is framing a Bill requiring the assent of a two-thirds majority to enforce the recognition of the principle of an eight hours day. Belioving that the leaders of the Dockers' Unions have no real control over the dockers, the riverside employers are organising a system of giving a certain number of men permanent employment at 24s per week working eight hours a day, with pensions, thus doing away with tho casual hands.

Four-fifths of the men already employed at the docks are permanent hands. The "Pall Mall Gazette" says that the offer of pensions by the employers to the dock labourers is possibly a dodge to reduce Wugea and smash the uaions.