LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2089, 23 August 1890, Page 1

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, Aug. 19. The Docker's Onion is lull, and it is announced will not admit additional members. The delegates to the Dock Labourers' Congress advocate legislation for eight hours as a day's work, The labourers in rural districts are beiog organised to prevent the flooding of towns with labour.

A systematic boycott of anti-Union employers is being established, A serious strike of dock labourers has taken place at the Tilbury docks, the men demanding the expulsion of three non-unionists.

The ptrike among the Cardiff dockers has virtually been settled; At a meeting at St. James' Hall the standing conciliation committee have proposed to discourage the emigration of men to Australia daring the strike there.

Nbw York, Aug, 20. The brickmakers are boycotting the works employing non-unionist labour. The masters have arranged to, stop suplying, and in conseqaenoe the New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey city building trade, which gives employment to 80,000 men, is paralysed, Mblbourkh, Aug. 20. Employers of labor are thinking of closing up all their places such as factories. Aug, 21. The letter carriers are demanding an increase of pay. The steamship owners of Melbourne will meet the Sydney owners at Albury i on Saturday and oonfer on the situation. Prices are rapidly increasing,, Sydhby, Aug, 20.

A cablegram from Antwerp to the laborers says, "Don't forget London dockers strike, Bound to assist. Never fear," Twenty-three vessels are laid op

at various i porYs, The New Zealand Btaercer Waihora (Union Company's!) was worked by the crew. The whar|t laborers refused to work her. A large number of non-union m°n are offering their services in working the wharves and the ships. It is stated that tb'emembers of the. batchers, bakers, and grocers' unions have been forbidden to", supply stores to the -vessels m»nned by nonunion officers and cr-w. The carters and draymen are ceasing work. Aug. 21. ;

The strikes continue, and policemen *re guarding the wharves. Some'little disturbance' has taken place, and an attempt made to burn one i: of the wharys. 4500 men are on strike, affecting 15,000, souls, and 500 gasmen are on the point of striking. Slaughtermen refuse to kill non-union shorn-sheep, and butchers are boycotting stockaellers who sympathise (With the anti-union party. Clerks arid > merchants. 1 are working at \h~i vessel*. The fqaattprs are pbstponirig ehei-fingf, »ud it will be impossible to Btore all 'ihe woo', »s there is only accommodation for 100,000 bales. Newcastle, Aug. 21. i ..,- Freights,to.Melbourne- have advanced from 4s to 255, and to Adelaide from 10s to 35s per ton. The Trades and Labor Council are negotiating to charter vessels. Brisbane, Aug. 21.

Merchants, barristers>nd many leading men in ihe" city era assiscing the clerks in unloading various vessels at the wharves. It is estimated that the wages withdrawn from circulation by the stoppage of the Australian United Company's stoamTS amount to £IOO,OOO per monih for seamen and wharf laborers alone. It has been cabled to jLoudon tn blockade "the' British 'lndia Company's ehfpsl" , NEW ZEALAND. Auckland, Aug. 20.. A dispute hiia been caused by the dis. charge of six of th*ir mm by the Aockland Tramway Company. The step was taken, it is said, because the men formed a union. Wellington, Aug. 20.

. The Premier has declined to accde to the rquest of the West Coast mioers' delegates that the Hoos* be «sked to suspend the .royalties pending the report of the Commission. The Premier wished the men to resume work under theCrm pany's terras pending the report, but the delegates would not accept this. The delegates intervi wed th" representative of the Company, and rffered to submit the wages question to arbitration, on the basis of the rotes ruling at other cosi mines on the West Coast, but the c-ffer was declined. It is stated here that the Maritime Council hav decided to call out the bookbinders employed by Whitcombe and Tombs. Greymouth, Aug. 20. All hands on the tug Westland, from the'captain 1 down, have received separate written notices that their services-will 1 be dispensed with at the. end of September, owing to an insufficiency of work to keep fhetug goiLg. The Grafton took away about 30 outward passengers Ihis '' morning, a number 6f thera' coal miners. Other miners keep going away overland for the East Coast.

Oamaku, Aug. 21. A Trades and Labor' Council bas been formed in Oamaru, Intergaßoill, Aug. 20. The grain merchants this afternoon agreed to the demands, of the intermittent laborers for 151 an hour. Bevetal'uleh went out on strike oh Monday beoauselß dem«nd wai not conceded, 'The Brunnerton lock-out is a loss of £7OOO to the town, and'many business places are shut up. >ave offered to open the mine again it the miners take a reduction of 20 per cent., pending investigation by a JRoyal Commission. _ . There is a dispute over the dismissal of some men by the .Christcburch Gas Company. The trades and Labor Council demand an explanation.