THE LABOUR STRUGGLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 999, 24 April 1891, Page 19

THE LABOUR STRUGGLE.

By Electric Telegraph - Copyright. TEE AMEBIC AN AQUATION. ANARCHY IN PENNSLYVANIA. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, April 21. Disturbances at Pennsylvania continue, and desperate mobs are parading the streets. Washington, April 21. Scottdale, in Pennsylvania is in a state of anarchy. A desperate mob surrounded the works, firing guns and exploding bombs. The Sheriff is powerless until the troops arrive. (per press association.) Brisbane, April 20. Another baloh of men, charged with intimidation at Barcaldine, have been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment each. Melbourne, April 22. The Tradeß Congress, which opened at Ballarat to-day, passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the Queensland shearers in the strike, and a’so one pledging their their financial support. A motion to invite Sir George Grey to attend the aittiug3 was oarried with great enthusiasm. London, April 21. Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary, has refused to giant the petition of the London and Dublin Trade and Labour Councils for a remission of the sentence of six weeks’imprisonment passed on Mr Wilson, searetary of the Seamen’s Union, for inciting the Cardiff strikers to riot. Messrs Beraet, of the Board of Trade,

and Drag®, barrister, have been appointed secretaries of tbo Royal Labour Cominis eion. Christchurch, April 21. The Canterbury Employers’ Association have telegraphed to the Employers’ Association at Auckland requesting them to use their influence to obtain an amicable settlement of the difficulty in the boot trade by persuading the manufacturers to aocept the settlement agreed on at the Wellington Conference.