LABOUR QUESTIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8792, 30 April 1890, Page 2

LABOUR QUESTIONS.

STRIKES AND DEMONSTRATIONS,

[By Electric Telegbaph.—Copyright. (Per Press Association.)

London, April 29.

(Received April 30. at 1.20 a.m.)

A compromise has been arranged between tbe Medway lightermen and the masters, and the men have resumed work.

The sailors on the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamers have struck, demanding 48 hours as a week's work while the steamers are in harbour. The New Zealand Shipping Company have conceded the demand. The dockers endorse the demand made by the sailors.

Much alarm is being felt in most European cities at tho approaching labour demonstrations on Thursday, and in Vienna the residents are placing their valuables in the custody of banks.

(Special to Peess Association.)

London, April 28,

(Receiveel April 29, at noon.)

The National Federated Trades Council have decided to adhere to their previous determination of holding the grand procession of various trades in Hyde Park on May 1, as they consider it would be a breach of faith with the foreign workmen to abandon the procession on the lst for demonstration on Sunday, the 4th. The workmen in the provinces are apathetic in the matter.

The majority of the bootmakers on strike have resumed work on the basis proposed by the masters. In this the latter agree to provide workshops for the men who have hitherto been employed under the sweating system. A few of the men have, however, declined to return to work until the new workshops have been actually erected.

The tailors have given notice of their intention to go out on strike on 4th May.

The directors of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, of Ireland, are engaging " blacklegs" to fill the places of the men out on strike. It is expected that traffic will be resumed. The signalmen who went out on strike' are to be prosecuted by the directors for deserting their poats.

The difficulty with the Chicago carpenters is still unsettled. The masters are willing to concede the men's demands regarding hours and wages, but decline to recognise the trade unions.

The Vienna Workmen's Executive Committee has issued a manifesto, in which the request is made to the men to behave in an orderly manner during the labour celebrations on lst May, and also to uso their best endeavours to preserve order.