TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2103, 14 June 1894, Page 17

TRADES AND LABOUR.

London, June G. The Home Secretary, Mr A^quitb, will act as arbitrator in the cabdrivers' strike. June 7. It is expected the cab strike will continue for some little time yet. The men are offering an average of 11s Gd per day, but the owners insist on the payment of 13s 10d, and there seems very small prospect of a compromise being effected. June 8. The Scottish miners are in favour of a strike against the reduction of wages which comes into operation on the 21th inst. June 11. Tne Duke of Devonshire and several members of the Labour Commission have issued a supplementary report proposing that trades unions and masters' associations shall be registered"*a3 corporate bodies, and disputes settled by legal proceedings between them. Another stake is feared in England. The mine-owners are demanding 10 per cent, reduction id the rates, which the men are not likely to agree to. June 12. The London cab strike has been settled by an agreement that until Hex 1 ; April the maximum fee from drivers shall be 16? per day, and thcyaverage all the year round 12i 3d per day. Sir J. Gorst, in the House of Commons, said the non-union workers in Great Britain are five times as numerous as the unionists. Ha advised a system of joint committee to settle disputes with non-unionists and m isters. Washington, June 7. At Peoria (Illinois) a mob of 1000 strikers blew up a powder magazine. A fight ensued with the non-unionists, two of whom were killed, while a number were mortally wounded. June 8. Twelve hundred troops have been sent to Ohio to raise the blockade of the coal trains, which is causing a coal famine. The strikers in other districts are showing considerable violence, and are seizing mines and burniDg railway bridges'. Jane 11. Tne largest mine 3in Pennsylvania reopen with non nnion labour. They will be defended ly cordons of police. The Cripple Creek miners have given up their arms. June 12. The coal miners of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois, resume work on Monday. New York, June 7. The strikers at M'Kee's, Port Pittsburg, have mounted three cacnon sou an eminence commanding the line of railway along which the train bringing the marshals and troops must pass. Six thousand strikers are destroying property in the vicinity of the town. In Ohio the strikers have blockaded the railways. The strike at Cripple Creek has been renewed, and the miners have occupied a fortified camp from which the police are preparing to forcibly eject them. The Sanate will appoiat a commission to inquire as to the amount of distress prevalent throughout the United States. June 9. Indecisive fighting has taken place at Cripple Creek between thu strikers and police. The latter used Gatling guns. Collisions also occurred between the strikers and the police in Cleveland and Ohio. Sydney, June 10. At a meeting of bakers it is reported that of 42 members who supported the motion for boycotting employers 30 were unemployed and interested in having the motion passed. A statement was ateo made that a number of these have s-ince taken work at non-union rates, consequently the union will-decide to declare tl is boj cott c ft. Jane 12. Mr Dargar, president of the Pastoralists' Council of Australia, in the course of a Bpeecb, said there is every possibility of a shearers' strike over the whole of Australasia

iv a fortnight, which may lead to a general labour crisis more serious than anything yet experienced.