THE STRIKES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8387, 15 October 1890, Page 5

THE STRIKES.

THE LOAN APPLICATI

FAMILIES IN DISTRESS. I'rett Association.— Telegraph.— Sydney, October 14. It is understood that the £20,000 loan for which the Labour Defence Committee have applied to the English unions will be applied to the relief of families of strikers who are just now at a lamentably low ebb.

An excited feeling prevails among the southern miners.

Strike matters are quiet- in the Southern coal districts.

The Coalcliff and Mount Kembla mines are working by means of free labour. Melbourne, October 14, The Joint Employers' Unions have written to the Strike Committee reiterating the conditions on which a conference will be granted.

. Nearly the whole of the stevedores have resumed work.

The wharf labourers are now free to unload a number of vessels which have previously been boycotted. In future the latter will load and unload all vessels, provided they are not asked to work alongside free labourers. A LABOUR CANDIDATE. Sydney, October 16. Herr Brennan, President of the Trades Council, is a candidate for the seat in the House of Assembly vacated by the death of Mr. Alfred Lamb. STRIKE LEVY. [Received October 15, 1 a.m.] London, October 14. The engineers have agreed to a weekly levy of Cd in aid of the Australian strikes.

THE TIMES ON THE STRIKES. London, October 14. Commenting on a letter descriptive of the strikes in Australia, the Times states it is amazed at the magnitude of the strike, and at the power and pretensions of the leaders, also the extreme developments of the conflict between capital and labour. THE GRAIN PORTERS. London, October 13. Owing to renewed trouble with the grain porters, the dockers' committee is engaging hundreds of permanent hands at 24s per week.

Gisborne, Tuesday. Most of the wharf labourers and lightermen who went on strike here have resumed work.

Wellington, Tuesday. The Railway Commissioners declined to take their men out of the trucks at Lyttelton, and put in unionists to receive the Lawrence's coal.

Dunedin, Tuesday. The Star announces that the strike pay has been reduced to 133 to married men and 8s to single men. The members of the Federated Stewards and Cooks' Union of Australia are moving the Supreme Court for an injunction to restrain the present trustees from uplifting £850 accumulated funds, and applying them as strike pay. It is alleged that the men were illegally called out under the union rules.

Christchurch, Tuesday. The union seamen and firemen of the steamer Lawrence agreed to take a day's holiday, and non-unionists are discharging her cargo. Nine seamen articled in the New Zealand Shipping Co. Hurunui were charged at the Police Court with disobeying orders to discharge the cargo. Mr. Macdonald, who defends, raised the point whether seamen can be called on to discharge cargo without being paid as lumpers. The evidence showed that the faster offered them 10s extra per month U< the end of the voyage, which they refused, claiming lumpers' full wages. Judgment was reserved till Monday. The men, it is understood, will return on board and go to work in the meantime.