TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 34

TRADES AND LABOUR.

(Per Press Association.)

m . . . , , London, August 11. Tho bootmakers have agreed to tho proposition that 44 hours shall constitute a week's labour.

Mr Wilson, M.P. for Middlesex and secretary of tho Seamen's Union, has been lined iivo guineas for persuading seamen to desert their ships.

A hundred thousand Welsh miners aro to bo reduced 2£ per cent.

August 15. Tho programmo for the Trades Union Congress, which meets on September 5, includes proposals for an international congress on the eight-hour question, a legal instead of an optional eight-hour system, and the introduction of the decimal system.

Paris, August 15. Four thousand cabmen have struck work, Bnd 5000 omnibus men threaten to go out. New York, August 11. The Pittsburg mills aro employing 40,000 men, and, with the exception of Carnegie's, have conceded the demands of the unions.

„,, . August 15. The switchmen of tho New York, Lake Erie, Western, Leheigh, and Buffalo Creek railways have struck for higher wages. The strikers fired on two trains consisting of 60 carriages, and on houses occupied by the watchmen. They also derailed a passenger train, but fortunately this act was not accompanied by loss of life. The police and soldiers aro restoring order.

The miners of Tracey City, Tennessee, seized a number of convict labourers, put them on board a train, and deported them from tho city.

The miners of Tracey City lulled several of the convicts whom they had seized. The Governor of the State declares that he will order the ringleaders of the outrage to be shot in the event of their capture. Washington, August 16. Two hundred cars were burned by the strikers on tho Leheigh and Erie lines.

The Traccy City miners have carried off a number of other convict labourers despite the efforts of the police.

Sydney, August 12. Tho Broken Hill strikers are drawing L 15 ,000 worth of supplies weekly. Tho leaders assert that they have sufficient to carry on with for three or four months, even if they receive no further assistance.

The Government have granted a month's extension of the labour conditions to tho Broken Hill mine owners. This prevents tho mines reverting to the State through failure to perform a certain amount of work on tho properties.

Some of the Victorian unions have been rather unfortunate in their officers. Froderick J. Rogers, late treasurer of the Locomotive Enginedrivers' and Firemen's Association, and who had pleaded guilty to embezzling funds, has been sentenced to two years' hard labour. George Hay, recently convicted of embezzling money of the Tanners' and Curriers' Union, was sentenced to nine mouths. The North Otago Times understands that 12 of tho unemployed arc to bo sent to the North Island and about 40 to the Catlins district. The Labour Bureau found work for 80 men during the past fortnight.