LABOUR STRUGGLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9321, 16 June 1891, Page 2

LABOUR STRUGGLES.

Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

EUROPEAN.

STRIKE AT LYONS. (SPECIAL.) (Received June IS, 1 a.m.) Paris, June 15. There is a general strike at Lyons for shorter hours. AUSTRALIAN. THE SHEARERS GIVE IN. (per press association.) Brisbane, Juue 15. At a mass meeting of shearers hild at Barcaldine Station, a resolution was passed declaring the strike ended. The Chairman explained that the Unions bad been crashed out by the Government and the equattere. He advised the men to go to work, and to insist on the Government finding employment for them.

Many of the Unionists are bitter against their lenders for misrepresenting the state of the funds. Some of the men are in a perfectly desth tuto condition. NEW ZEALAND. THE AUCKLAND BOOTMAKERS. Auckland, Juno i 5. At a meeting of the Boot Manufacturers' Association U was stated that Mr 0. H, Sexton, who had signed the federal statement, bat whose men were called out because he made boots for the Northern Boot Company, had joined the Association. Some of the Union men have resumed work under the local statement. The 14 manufacturers ate offering Union men the option of a written agreement and engagement for a term of years, Christchurch, June 15.

The Canterbury Trades and Labour Connoil has passed the following resolution ; "That this Council views with satisfaction the programme of the Government, as shadowed in the Governor’s Speech, and also the retrenchment policy as carried out during the recess,” The Council approved the Labour Bills as a whole.