TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10036, 30 April 1894, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

Pres3 Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Washington, April 27.

Before the marshal's men were defeated by the Coxeyitea and their followers at Dakota a heavy running firo was kept up between the occupants cf the train. Threo hundred unionists aro marchirg to Lotuka to compel tho miners there to join the strike, and the troops have been ordered to tho pcene in expectation of trouble. Railway and steamer traffic throughout the States is paralysed, owirg to tho Ecarcily of coal consequent on the miners' strike. April 28.

The guard at the White House lias been increased. President Cleveland remains nt Wa*hingtcD, though warned to avoid the street*, since tl c Ooxeyites possess dynamite. News has been received that the Lotuka workmen fl-:d, aDd that tbe troops dispersed tbo unionist cocrcsrs.

According to the Taieri Advocate theMo?giel Woollen Factory will be working three-quarter time from to-day. Accordicg to tho Gareton correspondent of the Southland News most of the men on Sew Hoy's race, which U being takeu into a claim on tbo N'.-koma:, have struck for hightr wages. Tho rato ruling at present i 3 6s per day, and the men want ls more. He understands that it is unlikely their demands will ba conceded, for it ia easy to procure men from among the Duuediu uoemplojcd, who are quite wiling to start at 6s a day. The race employed about W nun, most of whom, up till the tima of tbo strike, were Chinamen. Mr Farnie, local agent of the Labour Bureau, returned on Saturday from the Catlin's river district, where he selected 30 men to start work there iv a f.*w dijs. Mr Adams (chief surveyor) and Mr Mackay (chief clerk of the Libour Bureau in WeUington) will leave forthe Catlins district to-day to select two blocks of land to be taken up under the Minister's assisted bush satthiuent scheme,

The Publio Works department invite the Wellington Harbour Board and City Council to say whether they still ptrsist in objecting tothe construction of the Te Aro goods shed. It is pointed out that the prosecution of the work would afford employment for a considerable number of men, and tend largely to relieve the congestion at present existing in the labour market of the city.

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