TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12447, 2 September 1902, Page 5

TRADES AND LABOUR.

CONCILIATION REQUESTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 10.42 p.m.) 'The quarrymen employed in Lord Penrhyn's quarries have asked Lord Peiirhyn to accept Mr Bnlfour or Lord Rosebery, or both, as conciliators with a view to terminating the strike which has so long existed. CONFERENCE OF TRADE UNIONISTS. LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 2, at 0.40 a..m.) A conference of trade unionists in Toynbee Hall favoured legislation for the enforcement of a uniform system of cheap workmen's trains to every populous centt'e pending the nationalisation of land and means df transport, it also favoured the- scheme of Mr MacNnniara, member of the House of Commons for Cainbprwell , North, for housing the working classes and a Rating Bill. TRADES UNION DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, September 1. (Received Sopt. 2, at 1.11 a.m.) Ten thousand trade unionists demonstrated in pouring rtun in Hyde Park on Sunday as a protest against the House of Lords' decision in the famous 'faff Vale case. They adopted resolutions demanding that the Government should legislate to rescue the rights, threatened by the Lords' decision, Parliament meant to confer on trades unions. STRIKE OF 40,000 WORKERS. ROME, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 10.42 p.m.) Because the Locar foundry dismissed a few men 40,000 workers In Florence struck in sympathy. The feeling was so high that the stroet lamps were only lighted under military escort. PUTTING DOWN STRIKERS. NEW YORK, September 1. (Received Sept. 2, at 0.40 a.m.) Owing to a dynamite outrage and the difficulty in protecting the free labourers in connection with the Pennsylvania coal .strike, General Gobin has ordered the troops to iire upon the strikers on the least provocation. The losses during the four months the strike has existed amount to £18,000,000. Coal is selling at 50s per ton.