TRADES AND LABOUR.
(Pee Press Association.)
London, Dacember G. The Scotch miners who struck some days ago for an advance in wages have asked Mr Gladstone to intervene with the colliery owners.
Mr Gladstone has deolined to agree to a temporary introduction of the eight-hour principle in Government departments in the interests of the unemployed. He says it is impossible to have the uniform rate of working hours in the Government service.
December 7.
The report of the commission set up to inquire into the matter justifies the action of the military in firing on the riotous strikers at Featherstone in September last. One hundred thousand miners in Scotland are lecked out.
Mr Gladstone declines to interfere in the strike cf the Scotch miners until both parties ask him to do so.
December 9. Many of the Scotch miners are resuming work on the masters' terms.
December 10. The Scotch miners intend to resume work on Monday on the employers' terms. New York, December 7. The strike of railway men at Lehigh in Pennsylvania has collapsed.
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Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 36
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