TRADES AND LABOUR.
(Pbb Pbess Association.) London, March 12. The "strike of dockers, stevedores, coalheavers, &c, at Plymouth has collapsed, owing to the revolt of some of the officers of the unions against Mr Wilson, secretary of the Seamen's Union. A number of men who were coerced into joining the unions have withdrawn and entered tbe ranks of tbe non-union labourers. London, March 16. The Cardiff strikers have accepted the federation ticket and resumed work. Sydney, March 14. News has been received from Barcaldine that a strong body of unionists made an unsuccessful attempt to remove a number of non-union shearers from the Manneroo Station. A unionist was drowned in crossing a river. A large wool shed on one of the stations in tbe disturbed district has been burned down. It is clearly a case of incendiarism. Washington, March 14. Fifteen thousand men have struck in Pennsylvania for eight hours a day. This is the beginning of a movement which is expected to involve 125,000 men by May. The estimated population of Victoria on 31at December last waa 1,147,994, the net increase during the year being put down at 29,966. The male population exceeds the females by 67,552.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 15
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