WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 8407, 7 January 1891, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

(Bf EIEOIBIO XbUOBAPH— OOTTBIBHI.j [Peb Press Association,] DEMANDING WOR& LONDON, January 5, Two thousand laborers at Swineford, County Mayo, demand work at the railway relief works, and threaten if it is not given them to stop those at present engaged. A SHEARERS’ DIFFICULTY. BRISBANE, January 6. A difficulty has arisen owing to shearers declining to shear under the new agreement with the Pastoralists’ Union. The latter wait for a few weeks to see if the men give in, and if they do not, then non-unionists will be employed. UNIONISM AND ITS PROSPECTS. (Feb United Pbess Association.] WELLINGTON, January 6. A public meeting was held to-night to consider the present position of unionism and its future prospects. The president of the Trades Council was in the chair. The principal speakers were Messrs Dnthie and Kennedy Macdonald. M.H.R.S. Messrs W. Collins and D. P. Fisher. Mr D. P. Fisher advocates doing away with federation, even allowing each district to control its own affairs, the principle of amalgamation having worked badly. Mr Dnthie insisted that wages must be regulated by the prices of commodities,