TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1933, 12 March 1891, Page 15

TRADES AND LABOUR.

London, March 3.

March 4.

(Per Peess Association.) London, March 3. The unions threaten to call out 30,000 seamen and firemen if the Shipping Federa- j tion ticket is made compulsory. The Shipping Federation experience no difficulty in working the 13 ships at Albert docka which were blocked by the waterside unions. Owing to the difficulty with the unions a Cardiff shipping firm, with a capital of £60,000, has resolved to remove to Antwerp March 4. The dockers are returning to work. They j have withdrawn their delegates from the Joint Labour Committee, and refuse to join in a general strike. The strikers at Cardiff are appealing to the Shipping Federation to arrange a settlement of the dispute. Fifteen out of 60 blast furnaces have been relighted. The shipping strike is spreading northwards. The port of Aberdeen is now blocked. March 5. The shore unions in London have agreed to return to work and to remove the block in the shipping. Mr Burns has tabled a motion opposing the statutory limitation of labour. Mr Parnell is in favour of shortening the hours of labour -and of the establishment of boards of conciliation. Lord Salisbury favours the appointment of Mr Mann and Mr Burns to sea,ts on the

Labour Commission, but bis colleagues differ with him.

March 9.

Lord Salisbury, speaking at a banquet given by the associated Chambers of Comj merce, said two dark shadows threatened the trade of Great Britain. One was the revival of Protection, especially in France and America; the other was the straggle between capital and labour at Home. It was, however, useless in his opinion td remonstrate. An Eight Hours' Bill was| impracticable. ! Three thousand five hundred non-unionists are now being employed at the London docks. Maech 6. : The stevedores and coalbeavers at London; have again refused to work with noni unionists. , I The various unions at Cardiff are greatly} divided in opinion on the question of a strike. The railway men refuse to support?, the seamen and firemen in case of a general strike. j It is feared that a general strike of miners, in Germany will take place shortly. { The Shipping Federation have refused to, withdraw their ticket. i The German Government are purchasing; English coal to provide against a general strike of miners. j March 8. j Four thousand of the Marquis of London-, derry's colliers have again struck, out ofi sympathy with the families evicted at Silks-j worth. Free seamen and firemen are available! beyond the requirements of orders. Dockers are vainly offering their services, owing totheir places being filled up. j The undecided attitude of the P. and O^ Company towards the Shipping Federation's programme is the cause of some remark. The dockers, stevedores, and coal-heavers' desire to buy out the free labourers. j London, March 9. Mr Parnell is advising the Irish workingclasses to join with the English working classes in seeking to obtain an alteration of! the laws, and thus remove -the oppression,' that exists in many industries. ( The Glasgow and Liverpool branches ofj the Seamen's Union have refused to join in a general strike. ! An extra charge of a penny a dozen for. the evening newspapers caused the news-! boys to strike. They took active means to, | prevent others selling papers, and the result; was that very few were sold in the streets.! Numbers of police, armed with whips,; guarded the various newspaper offices. > Beblin, March 4. i The Emperor states that he is determined) I to remedy the crying injustice tinder which; ! the labouring classes suffer, but he disapproves of irresponsible agitators. j Mblboubnb, March 6. j Another donation of £200 has been for-] warded to the Denniston miners. j Brisbane, March 4. ! A large force of unionists have left for, Logan Downs to intercept the non-unionists.' The Bockhampton Labour Council havej issued a general appeal • for assistance to shearers. ' March 9. . A serious disturbance took place yesterday! at Olermont. Several members of the Pastoralists' Executive arrived without previously informing the police, and over 200 mounted unionists attacked them. Sergeant Donnell endeavoured to protect them, and succeeded in keeping the rioters at bay until the carriage escaped down a narrow lane, but the inspector was severely wounded on the head by a stone. ' Bbisbanb, March 10. A small force of police and military succeeded in arresting four of the unionist ringi leaders concerned in the disturbance at Olermont on Sunday. The Central Council have ordered a general call out for the lGfch inst., but it is stated that the railway men and town unionists are not included in the call. In some quarters, however, it is expected that these also will be called out. It may not be generally known (says the New Zealand Times) that three of the five prominent members of the executive of the Railway Servants' Society, who were dismissed during: the recent strike, have again entered the service. It was stated some time ago that Mr Owen had re-entered the service, and we now learn that Messrs El vines and Winter (who it will be remembered was an unsuccessful candidate at the recent general election) have also been taken back. The men have been employed as vacancies occurred, on condition that they signed a declaration that they would have nothing to do with the Railway Servants' Union as at present constituted. In no case have the employes mentioned been reinstated in their former positions. The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times wires : — " Government are not forgetting the cause of the dismissed railway servants. I have reason to believe that two written memoranda on the subject have already, at different times, been addressed to the commissioners. On Wednesday the Hon. R. J. Beddon,aB Minister for Public Works, had along personal interview with the three commissioners. What passed at the interview I cannot discover, so far as details go ; but I understand that Mr Seddon pressed on the commissioners, in the frankest and fullest manner consistent with perfect politeness, the advisability of re-employing the men." At a full meeting of the council of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce the following resolution was adopted : — " That it is desirable that the chamber should take action with the view to lessen the friction existing between the two great classes of industry, and that means should be devised for prevention of open rupture, or, where that may not be possible, for healing differences and establishing* permanently better relations between employers and employed." According to a Northern contemporary the original discoverer of Mount Morgan is knocking about the stations in the South Island. He sank a couple of wells on the now famous property and in the course of operations brought to the surface a quantity of dark looking stuff, the nature of which be did not understand. He sent some specimens to Sydney, bat was informed that they were of no particular value, and he did not trouble any further with the matter. Why was there not some good fairy to tell him of the vast treasures that lay but a few , feet from the bottom of his abandoned wells.

Steps are being taken to form a coursing club for Maniototo, where barea we said to be plentiful,