Labour Questions.
London, October 15. Mr John Burnett, Labour Correspondent of the Board of Trade, reports that the demand for skilled labour is steadily decreasing at home. In respect to the chief industries eighty-seven Btrikes took place during August and sixty-four in September. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Congress is framing a bill requiring the assent of a two-thirds majority to en« force the recognition of the prinoiple of eight hours a day. Believing that the leaders of the Dockers' i Unions have no real control over the dockers ' the Riverside employers are organising a system giving a certain number of men permanent employment at twenty • four shillings a week, working eight hours a day with pensions, thus doiog away with ossual hands. Four-fifths of the men already employed at the docks are permanent hands.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 246, 16 October 1891, Page 2
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136Labour Questions. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 246, 16 October 1891, Page 2
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