THE LABOUR WORLD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1163, 15 June 1894, Page 34

THE LABOUR WORLD.

The position of the men recently discharged from the co-operative works near Eketahunahas been much exaggerated. All of them drew goodeheques,and most of them returned to Australia to spend the same.— < Wairarapa Star. The Board of the Wellington Typographical Society held its monthly meeting . at the Trades Hall on Saturday evening, the president (Mr D. P. Fisher) beijfrin the chair. Final arrangements were Jwo for the Typographical Conference, takes place in Wellington about the 18th inst. Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland have signified their intention of being represented. Probably Napier also will send a delegate. Messrs D. P. Fisher and W. P. McGirr wero appointed to represent Wellington. The Board was asked to interview the Hon Mr Cadman and protest against his bringing compositors from other parte of the Colony for sessional work whilst Wellington was already overstocked with hands from those ports, but the Board declined to take that step, on the ground that they would probably be charged with local selfishness. The Board, however, decided to make unemployed printers one of the subjects to be considered by the ensuing Conference. The Trades Council, on behalf of the Political Workers' League, requested the Board to help on the objects of the hitter body by sending delegates to its meetings. This it was decided to do, and the following were appointed:—Messrs D. P. Fisher, B. E. Vaney, H. J. Mason, A. Greig, D. Eberlett, J. Rapley, W. Drummond, A. Clark, T. Mclntyre and J. Griffiths. The weekly meeting of the Wellington Traces and Labour Council was held last week, Mr Allan Ward in the chair. Mr Osborno took his seat a 3 a delegate from the bookbinders. The debate on the question of recommending the amendment ot the Municipal Corporations Act, by the imposing of a frontage rate, was

resumed, and further adjourned. I The letter enclosing a resolution' passed by the Canterbury Liberal Associat'on, suggesting the issue of .£1,000,000 worth of national guaranteed notes for land settlement purposes, was further discussed, and eventually ordered to be laid on the table. A committee comprising the President, Messrs Osborne, McGirr, Rogers, Bastin, Mason, Hackott, Collins and Shaw, and the secretary was appointed as a deputation to wait upon the non-affiliated unions with tho view of inducing them to become affiliated to the Council. London, June 7. It is expected tho cab strike will continue for some little timo yet. Tho men are offering on an average lis 6d per day, but tho owners insist on tho payment of 13s lOd, and there seems very small prospect of a compromise being effected. Mr Asquith will act as arbitrator in the London cabmen's strike. London, Juno 8. The Scottish miners are in favour of a strike against the reduction of wages, which comes into operation on the 24th inst. London, June 11. The Duke of Devonshire and several members of the Labour Commission have issued a supplementary report proposing that Trade Unions and Masters' Associations shall be registered as corporate bodies, and disputes settled by legal proceedings between them. New Yoek, June 7. The strikers at McKee's Port, Pittsburg, have mounted three cannons on an eminence commanding a line of railway along which the train bringing marshals and iroops must pass. Six thousand strikers are destroying property in the vicinity of the town. In Ohio the strikers have blockaded the railways. The strike at Cripple Creek has been renewed, and the miners have occupied a fortified camp, from which the police are I preparing to forcibly eject them. The Senate will appoint a Commission to enquire as to the amount of distress I prevalent throughout the United States. Washington, June 7. I At Peoria, Illinois, a mob of 1000 strikers blew up a powder magazine. A fight ensued with the non-unionists, in which two of the latter were killed and a number mortally wounded. Washington, June 8. Twelve hundred troops have been sent to Ohio to raise tho blockade of the coal trains, which is causing a coal famine. The strikers in the other districts are showing considerable violence, seizing mines and burning railway bridges. Washington, June 10. The largest mines in Pennsylvania are to commence work again with non - union labour. They will be defended by cordons of police. Washington, June 11. The Cripple Creek miners have given up their arms. New York, Jane 0. Indecisive fighting has taken place at Cripple Creek between strikers and police. The latter used Gatling guns. Collisions also occurred between the strikers and the police in Cleveland and Ohio. Sydney, June 10. At a meoting of bakers, it was reported that of the 42 members who supported the motion for boycotting employers, 30 were unemployed and interested in having the motion carried. The statement was also made that a number of these have since taken work at tho non-union rate, consequently the Union will decide to declare the boycott off.

Christchurch, June 8. At a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Amalgamated Railway Servants, several suggestions for consideration at the next conference were passed. A motion that steps be taken to obtain an old ago pension scheme was lost, and it was resolved that all consideration of an insurance or pension scheme be deferred till the Government's intentions in that direction are definitely known. It was resolved to draw the Government's attention to the necessity for permanently settling the unemployed difficulty by State farms and State factories, and by a general policy of providing work for tho unemployed during times of depression, the necessary funds for which might be raised by a special graduated and progressive tax upon all incomes. The establishment of the Labour Parliament proposed by the Wellington Trades and Labour Council was agreed to.