TRADES AND LABOUR.
j CALCUTTA, August 16. ' A widespread strike is in progress on the East Indian railway. The Calcutta natives are demanding the same salaries ns Europeans. Other labour disturbances are reported. As the result of an organised agitation, 500 postmen have struck at Bombay fer an increase in .wages. The service is paralysed. .. " 1— j/jITOWN, August 17. The Cape Government has issued Z warning to skilled workmen not to comb to the colony, the supply being fully equal to the demand. August 18. The Portuguese colonial authorities have granted the Robinson group of mines in the Transvaal a license to recruit native labour on the same conditions as those granted to the Witwatersrand Nativ* Labour Association. SYDNEY, August 18. A conference of northern coal-owners and miners' representatives to-day discussed the miners' demand for an increase in the hewing rate, in connection with which trouble is again threatened.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2736, 22 August 1906, Page 26
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