THE LABOUR QUESTION

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9138, 8 November 1890, Page 3

THE LABOUR QUESTION

(By Electric Tei.eoh fh—Copyiuout.) (PER riiKSS ASSOCIATION.) THE POSITION IN ENGLAND. (Received November 7. 8 p.m.) ' London, November 6. The dockers have cabled a further turn of £SOO to Australia. (SPECIAL 10 PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 7, 7.30 p.m.) , London, November 0. Mr Henry Broadhnrst, M.P., late Secretary to the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Cod teas, is delighted that the telegrams of Mr H. H. Champion, the English labour advooate, have been reU d* a^(X{ aoo ivod November 8, la.m.) . London, November 7. Mr J. D. Fitzgerald, the Sydney labour delegate, denies the defeat of the Unionists, and states that the employers are coming to reason* THE POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, November 7. Food, in the shape of bread and meat, is being distributed to the wives and families of the strikers. The oooUb and stewards have decided by ballot against returning to work, but it la expected that, notwithstanding, they will return with the rest of the strikers. The collapse of the strike does not afTeot tho Southern miners, whb arc still deter, mined to hold out. (Received November 7, 8 p.m.l Sydney, November 7. The rjovernment have appointed a Board to administer relief to]tho strikers' families In distress. „ _ Mr Tho«. Playfair, M.P. for Sydney VVesb, has generously decided to distribute 60001bs of meat and 1000 loaves of bread to deserving oases. The Mayor of Sydney will distribute vegetables in tho same proportion tomonow. Many of tho Newcastle mines resumed work to-day. (Received November 8, 1 a.m.) Sydney, November 7. All tho Unionists who ban obtain work are returning. THE POSITION IN NEW ZEALAND. (FilOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Westport, November 7. Forty.lhree trucks of coal were brought in by the train last evening, A number of tho seamen who were called out from the Anchor Line boats have now applied to bo taken back, bat so far none of Lheir number have been engaged. Every day for a fortnight past free labourers from Denniston have been charged with drunkenness or obscene language at the local Court. There are many M hard cases” amongst the new men. • The draft agreement between the Coal Companies and the Government in connection with tho working of the Mokihinui Railway Is now under tho consideration of the Mokihinui Coal Company. The local railway men who severed their cbhneotlon from the service daring the strike have made individual applications for reengagement. The Directors of the new Cardiff Company view with favour tho proposal of tho New Zealand Co-operative Coal Mining Association to undertake tho working of tho property on the profit-sharing system. Arrangements have, so far, been made that a party of expert coal miners will go oat to the lease immediately to do some prospecting work thereon. The Westport agent of the Westport Coal Company has been in Hokitika and other Westland townships daring the past ten days recruiting men for the Company's mine at Denniston. He gave tho preference to young West Coasters, used to underground worulnga. By the Charles Edward this afternoon there arrived some 35 young men. all of whom have been more or leas engaged in gold mining. They are all West Coasters born and bred. The party took their deSartoro for Waimangaroa, en route for ►eoniaton, by the afternoon train. 1 understand * that some 40 more of tho same class have been engaged, and may be expected here on Thursday next. It is said that the Hokitika people do not appreciate this loss to their population. Now that the coal output has commenced the Union Company will ran their time-table steamers on this coast as usual.