SPECIAL CABLE MESSAGES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4461, 30 August 1889, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLE MESSAGES

(By Slioirio Tkleobaph—OoPTKiairr,)

(Special to Press Association.) Rtceived August 30, at 1.45 a.m. London, August 28. Several of the coal oartors at KingaoroßS railway Btation have been Bentenoad to terms of imprisonment for rioting and intimidation. London, August 20. The dock owners have held a conference, at whioh it was dooided to agree to everything oxoept the demand for 6d an hour. The dock men refused to ncaopt the compromise, and Burns 1b engaged in negotiating a settlement. The wharfingers will unload on to tho wharves from midstroam, and boycott the docks, Three thousand Belgians have oflfarad their services at 4£d an hour. Burns telegraphed to the Belgian labor leaders to stop coal carters from ooming, and was successful in Inducing them to do so. Seventy thousand oarcasoß of Australian mutton havo been unloaded. Tho Glasgow dock laborers are demanding an advance of £d per hoar. Tho stovedores have published a manifesto In which they say that they do not oomplaln themselves, bat sympathise with thedookmen. Thousands similarly situated Bra striking daily, and riverside factories, and warehouse*, are oonfined to unskillod labor. Men who do not belong to tho uuion are totally without meant, and frightfal privation haß been cansed by this labor orisis. The payments from the strike fund average LIOOO per day. There are 100,000 married men on strike, and their allowance Is limited to Is 6d worth of food dally eaoh family. The piokets get 2s per day. Thousands of womon and ohlldren besiege tho food depots, where the soenos are perfeotly harrowing. Tho Committee beg that the strlko may bo confined to riverside laborers, otherwise they fear that the movement will oollapso from its own inherent weakness, m#;,