TRADES AND LABOUR
PARIS, March 26. Tho dockers on strike at Marseilles
rioted and exchanged revolver shots with the police. A stone a policeman's skull. Nine of the police and 12 rioters were wounded. Subsequently an agreement was arrived at, and the strike terminated.
March 28.
The dockers' stirke at Marseilles has been -renewed iv consequence of a unionist, arrested on a charge of insulting the police, not Leing released. The mail steamer Arcadia was unable to discharge or coal owing to the strike, and proceeded to Gibraltar to cotil.
March 24
MELBOURNE,
The conference of pastoralists and workers has arrived at an agreement over the question of day wages. The pastorali-sts decided to eliminate clay wages if the existing weekly wages remain unaltered. The men's representatives agreed to this condition.
REEFTON, March 28. The ballot of Mangahua miners resulted by 265 to 11 in favour of submitting the wages dispute between .the union and the various mining companies to the Arbitration Court.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 30 March 1904, Page 23
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