LABOUR DISPUTES.
THE SHIPPING FEDERATION. A GREAT STRIKE IMPENDING 140,000 MEN INVOLVED. STRIKE IN AMERICA. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.— London, February 10. The combined resistance of the unions against . the Shipping Federation labourers is likely to extend to all ports. Several vessels are blocked at Hull and Glasgow. It is feared that shortly 140,000 seamen, dockers, coalheavers, stevedores, and lightermen will be involved, and that the agitation may possibly extend ' to the railway men and miners. ~- , London, February 11. The position in Cardiff is acute. The railway men are hesitating.
The stevedores at Albert Dock have struck. Tom Mann states that it is intended to block the steamers of the British India, Shaw-Savill, and New Zealand Shipping Companies. New York, February 10. The cokemen in Pennsylvania have gone out on strike, which seriously affects a large number of collieries. The labour unions in Chicago threaten to stop the erection of the building for. the World's Fair if free labour is employed. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8488, 12 February 1891, Page 5
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