WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 8483, 7 April 1891, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

The Auokland Tailors' Union have passed a resolution supporting the bootmakers on strike,

The Miners' Congress at Paris has passed a resolution requesting the various Governments to legislate in the direction of having eight hours reoognised as a day's work, and threatening that unless this is done a general strike will tike place. Six hundred miners nave struck work in Nevada.

The Spanish Government are taking steps to regulate the hours of labor fer women and children, and will also legislate in the direction of restricting Sunday work. Mr W. H. Smith has refused to accept Mr M. Davitt as a representative of Mr Justin M'Carthy's party on the Government Labor Commission. A conference of the employers' associations in New Zealand will be held at Wellington during the next session of Parliament. THE MINERS' CONGRESS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Per Press Association.] PARIS, April 6. (Beoeived April 7,1891. at 11 a.m.) The Miners' Congress, before authorising a universal strike, has agreed, at the request of the European Governments, to arrange an international convention which will decree eight hours as the limit of labor. The Congress has resolved to support the Belgians if they strike. THE SHEARERS' DIFFICULTY. SYDNEY, April 7. (deceived April 7, 1891, at 11.16 a.m) Tha Pastoralists' Union have received another proposal from the amalgamated shearers, asking that a oonference be held to discuss the present differences. BRISBANE, April 7. The correspondence impounded at the time of the arrest of officers of the Shearers' Union is of a most revolutionary character, and recommended resort to arms. It also mentioned that the Union would indicate to the shearers in New South Wales when the time was ripe to adopt such a course.