TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10359, 14 May 1895, Page 4

TRADES AND LABOUR.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. '7. Sydney. May 13. ■■'.-.; : The Hetton miners, hay*. accepted a redaction of 2d. The Dudley and Ferndale, pits are the only two now idle. {Feom Oue Own Cokhespondent.) : ' Wellington, May 13. The Premier has received the following petition, to which are attached 104- signatures:— The humble petition of the unmarried and unemployed residents in the city of Auckland. Whereas the Go vemment employment here offered is in its sebpe confined to married men, and they form but a small part of the unemployed, and have credit alone,in. the present commercial community; and whereas the fact of men marryinK without means of support is a sign of improvidence and, a peril to any State or colony, and the . consequence' highly productive •■: Of des-. titutioii and crime; which the majority of the unmarried have well considered, and therefore constitute the more moderate and stable portion of this community;>' and whereas work or any kind, at any price is not to be procured by your petitioners, thus reducing tliern to the alternatives of crime, beggary, or even starving. New; therefore, your petitioners request and pray that for the future all Government: Works and employment shall be given both to married and unmarried, and that they shall share equally in the distribution of* labour, and shall receive the same wages, thus abolishing the unjust and unnecessary distinction, married and single, and allowing tbe opportunity of jirovidehce among the younger portion of the people, ahd for the future ahd for ever abolishing tht* premium on meb who, without, foresight, commit themselves to matrimony, hoping for the State to find them with the means of livelihood, many being known to procure the presence of, their, wives for the express purpose of being amenable to the "bounty." ,-.;'■

(Pee United Press, Association.) a *~ ' .." Auckland, May 13. ' The Premier telegraphs to Mr Crowther, M.H.R., that those who fixed Saturday for the half-holiday are to blame, not the Government, for the hardship entailed. ' At a public meeting at Onehunga a resolution was carried in favour of closing oh Wednesdays. A . .' Inspector Emerson, Sergeant Lyons, and six men are keeping everything quiet at "VVhirinaki, Where co-operative men are forming roads rapidly through'the Uriwera country at the rate of two miles a day. Inspector Emer_on is forming a mail service, keeping two mounted constables going from Te Whiti to Rotorua. Mr Philips, surveyor, has gone to Te Whiti to a Native meeting. The Hon. J. Carroll has returned to Auckland from Whakatane, having concluded his business with the Uriwera Natives at Ruatoki. He says he does not anticipate farther trouble with the Uriwera Natives respecting survey, excepting, possibly on the part of some cf the youDger and more turbulent men who might protest iv some way against a further survey. When Mr Carroll left Galatea there were 71 men there ready to start on road work, and others were to arrive. The ro id work from Galatea to'Ruatoki and from Gisborne to Galatea will be continued.during the greater part of the winter should the weather prove favourable. Applications have been made by 150 Natives of the Tuhoe and Ngahinanawa tribes for work on the roads, and work was promised oa alternate sections with Europeans as far as practicable. Mr Carroll leaves lor Gisborne to-morrow, and then goes on to AVellington.

• Wellington, May 13. At the monthly meeting of the Board of Management of the Wellington Typographical Union, the president reported that a deputation df unemployed compositors, representing 4-1 men, had waited upon him, and requested that the board should take some action in connection with the taking on of hands at the Government Printing Office next session. They considered that there were quite sufficient men here at the present time from ail parts of the colony to meet the demand. The board decided to wait upon the Hon. Sir P. Buckley, the Minister in charge of the department, in connection with the matter ; also to send a list of the unemployed to other typographical societies in the colony, with the view of their placing the matter before their members. Gkeymouth, May 13. One of tha unemployed is going round taking

the signatures of men out of employment in town for some time. He commenced yesterday, and has already received 100 signatures, though many more are known to be out of work. The matter will brought under the notice of the Premier when he visits the Coast shortly.

Oamard, May 13. The New Zealand Workers' Union are asking the Government to accept the names of unemployed from the secretaries of unions instead of having the men visiting the bureaus and police stations-day after day.