LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2088, 21 August 1890, Page 1

LABOR DISPUTES.

THE AUSIJIALIAN DKADLOOK. London, Ang. 17. The Portsmouth masters having given way the porters are resuming work. Aug. 18. At' the celebration of anniversary of tfoa dockers' strike sympathy was expressed with'the strikes iu Melbourne. Berlin, 'Aug'. 19. Prijpce • 'Btemirek 1 is supporting 1 a gigan'tic coai syndicate, which is being ,established in Gi>rmaay to check the rise [in the wages of colliers. New YoBKj-Aug, 18. i .-During„a disturbance arising out of the strike on the New 1 ' Yorki "GtntralJ Railway' the police stationed' at Aibariy | fired on. the mob, wounding 1 three persons. This action eor»gea\ tho crowd}and Borne of the police narrowly escape* being lynched, The labor agitation innthis fcity has! beem renewed: j MtetßounNKj Adg. If J The officers' are leaving the vessels and being replaced by npn, r unionists, The engineers are, offering' to lend the officers tbetsum of. £2OOO. ' , The maritime ■-, bodies have resolved, to come out to-morrow, i : 'BTDKBY,' 1, .AUg..1.9.; ; "' The seamen, cookyand held meeti^s 'at.whioj|i r thpy resolved Jo, give 24 hours' notice wiUleaye the ; a.bipß aad,«upp,Qrt;tLbepffiqers.i; The dJniQnilCompany ofrNdw*Zealand ib the only intercolonial 1 not effected by the present difficulty. The 1 t!^glißh r .have. ;initructed thpir 'flights r here to; sj>ip woo! shorn by non-unionisfs, at ; all The,mann«* officers!hayft,jeßclv;fd not !.<?. sail in any vessel*' carrying non-uuipu wool. '

There (is active deraind for produce. owing to 1 ine Bpprebensipp of the stop-. page\ of steamVr traffic. The shearers, have received * telegram, from, the Arc.erican: Knights >of Laber offering their support The wharves present a deserted ap-, pearanoe. The whatf Üborers came out. in a'body at 2 o'clock this afternoon,, •Dd the seamen are comingout as their notjceß,, expire. The .master stevedores, are advertising for labor to load and die* charge vessels. All vessels in port, except the bojits trading to New Zealand, have been laid up; The Jobilee and Tefcapo eaifed for, New Zealand this evening. ■i The coal lumpers have decided strike to-night. " ' Brisbane, A.pg. 19. i Managers,. o'erlfs add, pthqc officials are engaged cargo on tjhe wharves.

NEW ZEALAND. ChRIS'KJHJRCK, August 19., , Considerable excitement;and amuser, inent was; caused in Lyttelton by the, boyeotting of a certain firm's beer,, because one of thp shareholders also held shares in the Whitcombs and Tombs Company. The consumption of this beer foil off so much that one publican'sSaturday takings are said to have fallen from £l6 to £3. Three pub icanß, with aprominent member of the labour party,' waited on the manager of the brewery,, who explained that the'gentleman whose name appeared, amongst shareholders of .Tombs held t very fqw : shares in the brewery. The brewing \ company were not in sympathy with Whitoombe and Tombs, nor did they favour them with any of their printing. It been done in a union establishment, which wjould continue to get their work. The labour pasty were satisfied with the i explanation and removed.the boycott. I Wbiungton-, August 19. In reply to the i representations cj Messrs Lomas and Newtoq tha Qownment have offered {q a.ppojnt>a mission; to a»-Voe oircuroataopea con.nepted,w»» ai(heGreymoath coal difficuUr