AUSTRALIAN.

Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

..Sydney;, Aug. 14. , The proposed labor demonstration which was to have been held, on Saturday is (postponed till next week,, .when it is .expected that there will be a 1 bigger turn-out, of: the labor bodies if a general stride' takes place. It is probable that 'ten,, of the intercolonial boats 1 " will be laid up oh Monday unless the demands of the .Marine-Officer^ Association are conceded. , ' In' reference to the Pacific Mail j Company's action against New South Wales, ' Mr D. O'Connor, Postmaster-General, . states that neither Government is at fault, and that the company has only itself, to blame. The contract provided ■that New South Wales inigh.t withdraw at three months' notice., ,Tne company signed 'live' ; contract with . tb.4 fullest, knowledge that New. South Wales might withdraw; and' thfit thiy miglrt have to cHrj'y on the service with the New' Zealand subsidy, alone. . The company had nothing iio' do ! with any arrangement ra'ade by New South Wales with New Zealand as the sole contributing colony. ■••"••■ ' " MELBOURNE, Aug. 14. The Shearera' Union has' issued a manifesto to the effect that in consequence of the Pastoralists Union having declined to have any further dealings 1 with the Union unless sheepowners are allowed the option of employing union or nonunion labor, there is' • nothing left but to fight the matter out to an end. At a meeting of delegates from the, pastoralists, shipowners, and, stevedores' associations it was determined to mako a firm stand. The stevedores' laborers are said to be firm in their determination not to handle the wool shorn by non-union men. The marine officers and shipowners have arranged for a conference to-morrow.