TRADES AND LABOUR.
Sydney, June 18. Foutteeu days' notioe of a reduction of a penny to twopence in the hewing rate has been given in tha Wallsend colliery. Sixty slaughtermen in the Sydney Moat Preserving Woiks bava struck, owing to the employment of two non-unionists. Jure 20. A deputation of gardeners, furniture dealers, and trades societies wailed on the Premier urging him to legislate in the direction of making the Chinese amenable to the Workshops Act and sanitary laws, also to conform with European hours of labour. In reply Mr Ryid warmly sympathised with the views expressed by the deputation, and said a comprehensive measure dealing with workshops and health would be among the first dualt with by the Government aexb session. Under these Chinese will be made amenable to proper laws of health and sanitation. He approved of stamping tha furniture of Chinese manufacture ; and, though a strong Freetrader, favoured Europeans doing their best to encourage their own people. Brisbane, June 18. Rouseabout^ on the Avon Di>was station struck work for .an increase in wages to 80i per week, and the demand- being conceded they resumed work.
The Dunerlin branch of tho Bootmakcrn' Union yesti tf^ay cabled to their fellow-trades-men on strike iv Queensland the sum of £30.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2157, 27 June 1895, Page 36
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