LABOUR MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 98, 26 April 1895, Page 2

LABOUR MATTERS.

I UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION.) Pabis, 25th April. The drivers on Btriko rejected, at the instance of the Socialists, an offer made to them of 25 centimes advance in wages. Latest. I SPKCIAL.] (Received April 26, 8 a m.) Lokdon, 25th April. Mr Ward, Secretary of the Masier Bootmakers' Association, claims that the masters have secured a charter of libertus, and practically gained all their demands. It is intended to register the federation as a Trades Union. ; Paris, 25th April. The 'bus owners offered to increase the wages and add grants to the Biok fund, but the arrest of the strike leaders prevented a settlement. [UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION | (Received April 26,11 a.m.) Thursdat Island, This Dat. Reports from Hongkong btato that many thousand coolies have struck work, owing to the Government enforcing the registration of coolie lodging houses. Convicts and the military were engaged in coaling ships and handling cargo, but when the mail steamer . left it was expected the strike would soon col'apso. Timabu, 25th April. At the conference of the New Zealand Workers' Union, the Labour newspaper ' question was discussed, and it was resolved that tho Kxecutive take up £30 worth of shares. Members were requested to encourage the use of the T.W.B. brand of shears. Mr. Meroier gave a long report on his North Island tour The President said that the fact that the rules were posted np in the shsds, whether they were read or not, was binding. Tho Minister of Libonr addressed the Conference in the afternoon The next Conference is to be held at Oamaru.