THE LATEST.

Colonist, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5928, 8 October 1890, Page 4

THE LATEST.

LONDON, Ootober 6. Two thousand lightermen bare struck at Hall, and at Newport two thousand miners ud Boilermakers nave been looked oat. A federation of unskilled Labor Unions is j projected embracing one-and-a-qnarter million workers as a oouaterblast to the Ship* owners Society. The Dockets assert that the resolution not to block veaf els in the Australian trade refers to the present period only, and blocking may j still possibly ba resorted to if the strike is prolonged, SYDNEY, October 7. The Marina Service Association which was formed in opposition to the Marina Offloars Society bas been disbanded. Some of the Western miners have resumed work without the consent of the Labor Defence Committee. A mBBB meeting ia to be held to-morrow. The female riotera were fined, and the men were sentenced (o teim3 of imprisonment ranging from a week to four months. WBsTPORT. Ootober 7. Everything is quiet at Danniston. It is understood that the non-Uaionia a will commence work in the mine to-morrow. Colonel Hume returned to-day, but Inspeotor Good-ill end the police remain at Denni&ton. WELLINGTON. October 7. A orowded meeting of Unionists was addressed at the Theatre Ro}al to-night by the Labor Delegates who Bpoke at come length on the burning question of the hour. Amongst other things, Mr Winter strongly advised the Labor party in Wellington not to try and elect three candidates if by so doing they jeopardised the chances <t all, buc rather to drop one and try to make pure of two. His remarks seemed to meet with a large amount of favcr. Besolmions were carried appioying the action of the delegates in refusing to agree to Unionists working with Eon-Unlooiatß, deprecating the refusal of the Employers Association to attend the Conference on the grounds of discourtesy, and a tendency to widen the breach between the employers and the working elapses, and endorsing the recommendation of the Conference to establish a National Maritime Trades and Labor Council for New Zealand, aleo that as the only condition of compromise offered by capital, namely indiscriminate mingling of Union and non-Union labor amounts to an unconditional surrender of unionism, this meeting is of opinion that a levy of ten per cent on those earning wages should be contributed by all Uniocs for the purpose of supporting those men who are directly engaged in the struggle.