TRADES AND LABOUR. (Per Press Association.)
"-■" " ■ London, May 4. Tho seamen and firemen have struck against a reduction of wages. ' May 5. The strike at Swansea has collapsed. The Hon. W. E. Gladstone's refusal to receive a deputation in favour of the eight-hour system has much incensed the Democrats. May 6. The Manchester spinners are resuming work for three days a week. The cotton strike has been settled by a compromise, and the hands will resume on Monday. The Marquis of Salisbury and the Hon. A. J. Balfour have agreed to receive a deputation from the Trades Council on the question of legalising the eight-hour system. May 8. The conference between the cotton spinners and the masters has resulted in a basis of settlement being arrived at. Members of the House of Commons have subscribed L2OO for Mr Hood, the stationmaster who was dismissed by the Cambrian Railway Company for giving evidence before the Labour Commission. The Durham miners have empowered their federation to negotiate with the owners. The executive of the Midlands Federation have advised the Forest of Dean miners to resist a reduction of 12£ per cent. Two thousand cabmen in Vienna have struck work. May 9. Sir John Gorst, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, advocates the establishment of boards of conciliation and arbitration on similar lines to those set up in the Australian colonies, which, he says, have justly been called the " Paradise of Labourers." The Stalybridge strikers have refused to resume work unless- non-unionists are dismissed, but the owners have declined to discharge them. The Vienna cabmen who went on strike have been defeated. There is a severe crisis in the iron industry at Herstal, near Liege, Belgium, owing to the pressure of the French tariff. It is reported that 20 foundries are closing down, The cotton spinners who are on strike refuse to resume work unless they are engaged as a body. May 10. Mr John Burns, addressing a meeting at Battersea, stated that Mr Gladstone's attitude was important with regard to social and economic labour questions, and would not assist to sweep the country if the labour party insisted on a quid pro quo ; and by the same rule Mr Gladstone had better disregard his suicidal advisers.
TRADES AND LABOUR. (Per Press Association.)
Otago Witness, Issue 1994, 12 May 1892, Page 35
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