TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9933, 29 December 1893, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

[BY BLEOTKIC TELEGRAPH.—OOPYBIGHT.] (Peb Pbess Association.) „-

.Capetown, December 27. . : _ (Received December 28, at 10.10 aim.) Rtoting bas owyaTied among ttie native miners employed in the gold mines near Johannesburg. Two thousand of them indulged in a furious combat, in which some hundred were wounded. Washington, December 27. (Received December 28. at 1.45 p.m.) The steel-workers at. Pontymister .have gone out on strike, and, are resisting the introduction of Scotch- and English freemen. They also stoned the police, but the latter charged the mob and-dispersed the rioters. ; The military have been Btimmoned to assist in preserving order.: ■: • . .:/ Sydney, December 28. . (Received November 29, at la.m.) ■- The southern coal miners, have decided against any reduction in the hewing rate The non-associated collieries have intimated that they do not intend to reduce the present rate, ■ . . : (Pbb United Pbess Association.)

•'■''■■.: Wellington, December 28. Several prosecutions are "to be instituted under the Factories and Shop Acts against employers who took away holidays last week on the mistaken ground that as two holidays fell in this week none was requisite.' •■'■'"•

The following letter (says the Age) has been received by the Melbourne Progressive Society of Carpenters and Joiners from one of its members, who has lately been trying hia luck in SonthfcAtrica:-»I arrived in Capetown on October 29, after a. boisterous voyage of 25 days It is a small place, with gaunt, i old-fashioned buildings, about 100 years behind Melbourne. There is a little work going on here, butthereare plenty of,men to do it, and hundreds are arriving every week. The wages are from 7s to 10s a ,day.. The accounts from Johannesbarg are very bad, and sfi'ow that men are walking about there almast starving, and the men returning advise us not to go up. there on any account. Bricklayers, plasterers, and carpenters' work is there "done by Kaffirs, who work at a very cheap rate. Everybody here works nine hours a day. I. send these few lines to advise any of our members not to come over here, as the place is very small, and there are a lot of men'walking about looking for work." * . -