THE LABOR TROUBLES.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7506, 22 March 1890, Page 5

THE LABOR TROUBLES.

DISTUBBANCES AT LIVERPOOL. CLOSE OF THE. MINERS' ■ '■.-..:■, ■ strike. :j r"' , Ittst Ajsaootkrum.) . Reodred March 21flfc, Boon- -.;,..". London, March fs, s A farther disturbance has wraja place among those on strike afc Liverpool, owing to the employment of nonUoioniets, Troops have been biiletted in close proximity to the docks, and haVe been ordered to remain there until the aferike is ended.

The stock of coal on hand in the districts affected by the colliers' etriko The employers assert that the work at the Liverpool dooks iiae been overtaken with the assistance of imported laborers, and that the strike is pfaoti* cally at an end. fieedtod Much Sis*, us t^Sb London March 20. Owing to thfi miners , strike there are half a , million unemployed in Lancashire. Tens Of thousttndii of cotton looms are idle. The eupply of gas in the North is becoming reduced in many places. ' Half the Yorkshire owners have yielded. The engineers' strike Jβ spreading to Hartlepooi and Middlesborough. The coal strike has come to an end, the masters having yielded to amended terms.

Naw YoftS, March 20.

The American Federatioti Labor Council bare directed carpenters to demand that eight hours shall cotistitute a day's work. It is expected that if the carpenters are successful other trades will follow with similar demands. ReceiTed March 9 p.m. LONDok, Marcb The strikers resume work to-morrow the masters having agreed to an increase, of 5 per cent, immediately and 5 per cent, on the Ist August., A principle regulating the rate of wages in future has been agreed upon.