END OF THE SYDNEY STRIKE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5575, 4 January 1879, Page 5

END OF THE SYDNEY STRIKE.

[inr «I£BOBAVB.] IT I MES SPECIAL WIRE*] < WELLINGTON, Jaw. 8. The Mayor to-day notirti a telenam from the Sooretary of the seamen’s strike in Sydney snnounelag the termination of the •trike, stating that no more subscriptions were rst) wired, and expressing thanks for the sum sent. A Pot* special gives the following as the terms of settlement SrawßY, Jan. 8. “The great anti-Chinese strike has been settled < at' last 'through Mr Loekhead, The terins of arrangement which have been agmed to by diriwtoreof the A.S.N. Company on thsoae hind Arid the malcontent seamen on the other are at follows s—(l.) All men are to return, as far as possible, to their former positions in the service of the Compeny. (2.) The Company are to retain the semoee ot 180 ohine»e, which number is to bo reduced to <l2O ’within a period of three months from Jon. l, 1879. v (3.) All wages due on Nor. 18 to the men who wera eA •trike to be paid in full by the Company. (4A Ship’s discharges In the customary form to w given in all cases where it may be found necessary. An agreement embodrtng these terms has been formally received by the representatives on both sides, and the meh wul return to work immediately.” ■'

■i An attempt m made on Deo. 20 to lettla the dispute, and about 70 shareholders of the A.S.N. Company attended a private meeting, to consider an offer fromthe Seamen’s Union to;the following effect s—That the Company should retain Oninamen in the Hong Kong trade Hind in the Fiji so far as the Black Swan is eonoemecL In the 1 New Caledonia trade, that they taka, the meai back in the same petition as before, paying all wages due from the date.of the strike; the men who had gone to work since the i strike not to be interfered with;:. If the Companr agreed to this, and guaranteed, to keep the strikers on at the tame wager for IS months, the men would deposit £SOO ae security against their breaking their agreement. After some discussion the shareholders, by 43 to 11, resolved not to move in the matter,-but-leave things as they were. -■