TRADE AND LABOUR.
UNIONISM IN SYDNEY. (Per Electric Telegraph—Copysight) (Per Press Association.) (Received 12 15 p.m., July 4th.) Sydney, July 4. There are now 53 Societies, representing 35,000 workmen, affiliated to the Sydney Trades and Labour Council. THE RAILWAY MEN. (By Telegraph.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. Tho Executive of the Railway Servants Society have decided that immediate steps be taken to introduce a rule that no member of the society shall work with a non-society man. (HEYMOUTH COAL MINES. GRKYMODTH. July 4. • There are no further developments of the strike. The men are to consider the matter to-night. In the meantime they are to have an opportunity to check Mr Kennedy’s statements as toJlobsos by sending experts to see the Company’s books at Dunedin, where they are kept, and this will be a work of weeks. Mr Kennedy wants hewers to work on Monday at 20 per cent reduction, and if his statement as to the Company’s losses if correct, he will expect the hewers to accept the 20 per cent redaction; if on the other hand he is in error, he will not press for the reduction.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6259, 4 July 1890, Page 3
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