THE LABOUR AGITATION.
DUNDEE MASTERS MAKE CONCESSIONS. BURNS? COUNSEL. THE EIGHT HOURS BILL. FRANCE AND GERMANY. Press Astociation.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, February 11. The Dundee dockmen have struck for an increase of wages to 8d per hour. The Dundee masters have yielded to the demands of the men. Burns declares it to be madness to risk defeat for the sake of the men employed at two wharves only. He also asserts that the dock companies were trying to entrap the men. Mr. H. Matthews, Secretary of State, has agreed to receive, on Monday next, a deputation of miners in support of the Eight Hours Bill introduced by Mr. R. Cunningham Graham, M.P. for North-Western Division of Lancashire . France expresses regret it cannot take part in the Labour Conference, and gives, as an excuse, that it clashes with the forthcoming Conference at Berne. It is understood that the Emperor of Germany has arranged with all the Powers except France, to work harmoniously on this question.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8178, 13 February 1890, Page 5
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