TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 18

TRADES AND LABOUR.

THE AMERICAN D?ON STRIKE. NEW YORK, July 15. The metalworkers on strike at Pittsburg in three subsidiary companies of the Steel Corporation now number 100,000. The association threaten that 140,000 more mea will strike unless the men's demands are conceded. July 16. The iron strikers are playing for high stakes in imitation of the Steel Trust. They calculate on the Wall street brokers aiding them. All hands in the non-union mills in the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, and Indiana have joined the strikers. July 19. A syndicate, with a capital of 40 millions sterling, h.ts been formed to prevent a slump in the price of fclcel shares on Wall street. LONDON, July 17. The New York correspondent of The Times states that 19,000 skilled workmen and 40,000 unskilled have struck work. The New York press do not sympathise with the strikers, considering that they are bent on controlling the entire body of labourers employed by the steel companies. SYDNEY, July IS. The emplo3-meut of Lascars on the Omrah does not necessarily mean that the plan will be generally followed throughout the fiecr. The Omrah belongs to the Naval Reserve, and is compelled to carry a minimum number of British "sailors. She was unable to gefc the requisite number to take the vessel to sea. Scandinavians were engaged, but this was objected to by the Lascars, who are British subjects, and they were therefore engaged. If white British sailors are not more amenable to discipline, it is likely that Lascars will taka their places on the sea.

Owing to the severe frosts that have been experienced at Bendigo (Vie.) recently, large plate-gla^s windows at the establishments of Henderson and Goodisson, the Beehive Stores, and Germann and Germcuin, in I'aU Mall, Luv>e been ciacked.