TRADES AND LABOUR.
(Per Pbess Association.)
London, August 14.
The strike of 50,000 Clyde ironworkers, which involved 12,000 other workmen, has collapsed owing to the executive fefusing assistance.
The seamen are demanding from the shipowners an improvement in the provisions supplied them, and request that Australian preserved meats should be included in their dietary scale.
August 16. The men employed by 30 more firms of carpenters have struck.
Sir Charles Dilke, addressing an assemblage of 10,000 miners at Nottingham, advocated the passing of an Eight Hours Bill.
Mr John Burns, speaking at Clapham, said that the coming depression in trade would shake old established unions, and bring about the abolition of these that had been recently formed. He advised the workmen to look to Parliament for the redress of their grievances.
Sydney. August 17.
Mr Stanley, secretary of the Bourke branch of tbe Shearers' Union, has been suspended for withholding information which it is now considered would, if it had been made public, have prevented the late shearing troubles.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 31
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