TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 20

TRADES AND LABOUR.

Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyright. London, June 13. The cab strike cost the owners L 60.000. London, June 14. Forty collieries in Fife and Clackmannin, Scotland, are dismissing the workmen, owing to the latter attempting to dictate terms ■when notified there would be a stoppage. London, June 18. At a meeting in Hamilton (Scotland), at which 10,000 miners were represented, it was resolved that the men should go out on strike next week. New Yoek, Jane 13. Daring the strikers' riot in Alabama three bridges were destroyed by dynamite. - The troops were despatched thither, and succeeded in restoring order. Sydney, June 13. Mr Dangar, president of the Pastoralists' Union, while admitting that the statement as to an approaching shearers' strike attributed to him is true, says he did not intend it to have the importance now attached to it. Sydney, June 14. The officials of the Pastoralists' Union ! state that over 40 sheds in Queensland have completed shearing under the uew agieement, while reports from the early shearing districts in this colony indicate that there will be no difficulty. Consternation has been created at Greta through the Equity Court ordering the winding-tip of the Greta Collieries Company. For some eight months past the miners have subsisted on charity, and the probability is that in a short time the place will be entirely deserted. Melboubne, June 13. Mr Spence, general secretary of the Australasian Shearers 1 Union, interviewed respecting Mr Dangar's statement, declared that the bulk of the pastoralists were quite satisfied and desirous of shearing under the old agreement, but a few officials of tho Owners' Association were determined to force on a fight. The shearers had known this for some time, and were quite prepared. They would fight the thing out, but not on the same lines as the last strike. Ho also stated that the Victorian Union as a body refused to accept the new agreement, and the other colonies would support them. Brisbane, June 18. , Mr Thomas Glassey, the former Labour leader, has been elected to represent Burke in tbe Legislative Assembly. f The Labour member who represented Burke resigned in order to allow Mr Glassey to enter Parliament. It was thought he would be returned unopposed, but a Mr Little decided to enter tbe field against him, but from the first Mr Little's prospects were considered very poor.] BniSBANE, June 19. In connection with the shearing difficulty the secretary of the Labour Federation states that although a letter is alleged to have been sent by the Pastoralists' Union offering to meet representatives of the men at a conference, no such letter has been received, and the pastoralistß are now making an attempt to sheer under the agreement in regard to which the conference was supposed to be pending.