LABOUR MOVEMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1893, Page 2

LABOUR MOVEMENTS.

I UNITED PRB3B ASSOCIATION. | (Received August 2, 1 C.40 a.m.) London, Ist August. The Belgian miners offer to 00-operate with the strikers, with tho view of bringing on au international strike. The coke-burners have joined in the strike, A aeotion of Yorkshire lnine-owners offer to withdraw the notices reducing the wages, and to give a pledge not to a' tempt a roduotion for a y oar. '.BPECIAL.J (Reoeived August 2, 11,30 a m.) London, Ist Angnst. Tho agitators assert that there are 100,000 unemployed in London. They havo written to tho Premier, and if he does not reply they wi>l hold meetings outsido the rosidenoos of members of Parliament. I UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Ist August. At a recent meeting of the Council of tho National Asßocia'ion, Auckland section, the subjoined report, proparod by tho Political Committee, was adopted :— " That the Council considers the Shipping and Seaman's Act Amendment Bill calculated to do injury to all political parties— l. To the publip. because, through exaggerated care in providing for -tho enforcement of its rnleß, it places yery arbitrary powors in the hands of officials, and because i's requirements aro so_ harassing to shipping interests as to hinder the free development of commerco and intercourse. 2. To the shipping intorest, because unnecessary and expensivo proceedings and cautious are proposed, which would restrict in many ways that freotlom in matters of detail whioh is essential to successful competition with foreign shippin?. 3. To tho seamen in whose interests the Bill has ostensibly been drafted, by oheoking their liberty as regards rating and pay, and restricting omi.loyment by onoouraging competition from foreign vessels and foreign scamon. Tho Bill, it passed in its prosent shape, appears likely to load to a transfer of Now Zealand-owned shipping to other ports, and to greatly increase friction, on tho one hand between the Mercantile Marine and Custom 3 Department, and on tho other between the employers and employed in colonial and intercolonial shipping. , Tho Employers' Association has appointed n sub-oommittoe to draw up certain objections to compulsory arbitration.