WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 8815, 3 May 1892, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] [Per Press Association.)

LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, 1892, at 10.30 a.m.) Mr Glad atone urges that a lord mayor’s fund should be established in aid of the workmen who have been thrown out of work in consequence of the strike of the Durham miners. Four thousand bands employed in the building trade in Cardiff have struck owing to the masters refusing their demand for a higher rats of wages and for reduced hours. Lord Randolph Churchill has written a letter to Mr Harold White predicting that the time will come when the labor laws will be made by Labor for the advantage of Labor. He further says that the latter task is the life or death of the Constitutionalists, and will enlist the sympathy of the masses. (Pbb United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 3, During the past month two hundred men have been provided with employment through the agency of the Labor Bateau. The monthly meeting of the Dunedin Operative Tailors’ Society was held last evening, the president (Mr Black) in the chair. The deputation appointed at last meeting to interview the Employers re the Saturday half-holiday reported that they had succeeded in getting them to grant the half - holiday to all tailors in their employ, to commence on Saturday, the 7th inst., at 2p m. The report was received and a resolution passed thanking the employers for the courteous manner in which they had received the deputation, and for the ready way in which they had agreed to the society’s request for the half-holiday.