THE STRIKES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8386, 14 October 1890, Page 5

THE STRIKES.

OUTRAGES IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

ARSON AT GRETA

THE MILITARY AND THE MINERS. Press Association.—Eleetrie Telegraph.—Copyright. [Received October 14, X a.m.J Sydney, October 13. The. miners at Mount Kembla have made several unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the free labourers, but in each case the military frustrated their object. A large stock of coal at the Greta mine has been set on fire, and damage to the extent of several thousand pounds done. Five hundred miners, who are on strike, took possession of the CoalclifFe mine, Illawarra, and refuse to permit the free labour to enter the mine.

A detachment of military has been despatched to secure and dislodge the strikers.

The Union Co.'s steamer Rosamond, which was lying at Woollongong, was cut adrift, but the discovery was made before any injury was sustained by the vessel.

The trollymen are returning to work.

AN APPEAL FOR MONEY. London, October 12, Mr. Edwards, secretary of the Labour Defence Committee, Australia, has cabled to Mr. Burns for a loan of £20,000, re payment to be guaranteed by the united Australian unions. He declares the success of the strike would then be assured. The labour leaders are confident that they can raise the money, and are taking immediate steps to obtain it. An Australian Saturday, on the lines of the Hospital Saturday, is suggested.

ACTION OF THE SHIPOWNERS. London, October 11.

The shipowners are organising free labourers prior to locking - out the unionists.

The Allan liners are unloading at Glasgow and elsewhere. It has transpired that the owners of this line are paying less than the ruling rates. It is thought probable a difficulty will recur, but unless it does a lock-out is doubtful.

The London owners are engaging men for their ships, irrespective of unionists, and the latter, in consequence, are picketing the ships.

STRIKE OF GRAVED IGGERS. London, October 13.

The gravediggers at Dublin have struck owing to the secretary of their union having been dismissed. A SHIP'S CREW ARRESTED. Dunedin, Monday. The crew of the ship Hurunui, which arrived from London last week, refused duty to-day. They had been started at work discharging cargo, and on the captain's return, after a brief absence, he found the men declined to work. After pointing out the obligations laid on them by the articles the captain offered them an additional 10s per month, but the men declined, claiming stevedores' wages Is 3d per hour. The men remaining obstinate, the captain swore an information against them, and nine men were at once arrested. The tenth man continued to work for sometime when he also knocked off, and will be charged with the others with disobeying orders.

THE EMPLOYMENT OF UNION LABOUR. Chkistohurch, Monday. This morning the steamer Lawrence arrived with 300 tons of coal from the Mokihinau mine for the railway. The Lawrence is manned by a union crew, as the coal is from a union mine, so her owners have managed to keep the vessel manned by the old crew and the mine open. When the vessel arrived, the captain applied to have anion wharf labourers to discharge the cargo, and union hands in the railway trucks to receive it. The men were willing to do the work, but when the railway officers were applied to to pub men on, the station master declined, saying he had his own men ready to go into the trucks. The captain offered to pay the men working in the railway trucks himself, which offer was refused. The captain's endeavour was to keep non-unionists away from the work of landing his cargo, so that his crew and the miners engaged in the Mokihinau mine would not be affected. He states that Timaru, Napier, and other ports he has visited, have allowed him to engage what labour he wanted to work in the trucks. Telegrams were sent to Wellington at three p.m., and instructions were received not to unload pending further orders.

Inveroakgill, Monday. Three delegates from the Bluff Wharf Labourers' Union proceeded to Dunodin today. If is understood the union is to represent to the Maritime Council the futility of involving the Bluff wharf labourers any longer in the present dispute, free labour being abundant.

Our Wellington correspondent writes : — I learn that the Railway Commissioners have expressed their willingness to take back several of the hands that were out on strike; but liko the gentleman in the opera of " The Grand Duchess " they must "obey the regulations." Reports from the South say that Mr. J. Millar, the head of the labour movement, is likely to receive a warm reception should he go to Dunedin. There is said to be a considerable reaction among his former followers resident in that city. A further detachment of coal miners is being sent up to the Kamo coal mine, Whangarei. It is the intention of the company to work double shifts, so as to bring the output up to 4000 tons a-month, all of which can be disposed of readily in Auckland and at the Thames goldfields. A number of the union lumpers, it is understood, intend to return to work this week, as they find that 10s per week strike pay will not keep a home running. On Saturday at noon as the Union Company's clerk passed down the wharf with a large bag of gold and notes to pay the free labour employed by the company, many of the onion lumpers looked wistfully at the bag in the official's hands, and expressed regret that the money was going to the free labour instead of themselves.