HOME AND FOREIGN.
[Per Press Association — Electric Telegraph — Copyright] (Received October 27, 10.40 a.m.) London, Oct. 26. The disoussion of the dock companies to abolish labor gangers is likely to provoke serious trouble. Tha dockers are sullen, dogged, and demoralised, and refuse to fulfil agreements arranged by their leaders. They openly declare that they will work when it pleases them, and that they will prevent, others working. Mr Wilson, Secretary of the Sailors' Union, fearing defections, advises action be taken to precipitate the struggle. Two Atlantic-Liverpool lines of steamers have been laid up affecting 60,000 tons of shippin.2. (Received Oct. 27, 10.10 a.m.) . London, Oct. 28. Owing to the coul owners refusing to grant an advance of 15 per, cent, oji the wages of the colliers at the Fife and Kinross mines, the men threaten to g$ out on strike. «
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5906, 27 October 1890, Page 2
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