LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2109, 9 October 1890, Page 2

LABOR DISPUTES.

LoHDoir, Oet,' 6. j 'The strike rednces the output of pig iron by 20,000 tons per week, / Two thousand lightermen have struck at Hall, and at Newport two thousand miners and boilermakers have beta locked out. A federation of unskilled labor anions is projected, embracing 1,250,000 workers, as va counterblast to the Shipowners' Society. ; lhe dockers assert that the resolution not to block vessels in the Australian trade refers to the present period only, and that blocking may still possibly be resorted to if the strike is prolonged. The Dockers' Congress have closed their sittings, A resolution was passed that il would be impossible to enforos so eight hoars' limit. Oct. 7. The owners of the Allan line of steamers complain that their trade is paralysed by the extortions, IszineßS, and dishonesty of the dockers. , Mblbourkb, Oct. 6. The Strike Committee has decided that to be perfectly satisfactory any conference for the settlement of the difficulty must be perfectly nntrammelled by conditions. They decine to accept the Sydney minute until it has been fully discussed by the Conference. Oct. 7, The Gas Company have a supply of coal that will enable them to continue until Christmas. Private stocks in the city are practically exli»us»ed. Sydney, Oct. 6. The Labor Committee has now decided to allow the shearers to enter into new con Tacts. A general holiday was observed today, and for the time being strike matters were overshadowed by the great eight hours' demonstration. A procession in which fully 80,000 people took part marched through the streets. . Oct. 7. The Marine Service Association, which was formed in opposition to the Marine Officers' Society, has been disbanded.

Home of the western miners bare resumed work without the consent of the Labor Defence Committee, A mass meeting is to be held to-morrow. ' ',

' NEW ZEALAND/. Auckland, Oct, 7. The master printers have come, to- terms with the Auckland Typographical Association under the regulations recently passed by that body. The Kawakawa coal miners started work again this morning. The strike at the Bay of Islands ia practically at an end, Wellington, Oct. 6. It is stated that on Saturday £732 waa divided among those on strike.

October 7. A erowdad meeting of unionists waa addressed at the Theatre Royal to-night by the delegates, who spoke at some length on the burning questions of the hour. Resolutions were carried, approving the action of the delegates in refusing to agree to unionists working with non-unionists, deprecating the refusal of the Employers' Association to attend the conference, en the grounds of discourtesy and a tendency to widen the breach between the employers and the working class, anr? endorsing the recommendation of the conference to establish a National Trades and Labor Council for Nevr Zealand ; also " that aa the only condition of compromise offered by capital, naroelj, the indiscriminate mingling of union and non-union labor, amoiiqta tq the unconditional surrender of

the unionists, this meeting is of opinion that the levy of 10 per cent, on those earning wages should be continued by ail unions for the purpose of supporting those men wh<> are directly engaged in the struggle." Dunewn, .Oct. 7. At the city court, before Mr Carew, R.M., George Ryan and Thomas Dillon were charged with maltreating a man returning from free labor work on the Tekapo on Saturday. Ryan was fined *5 or 1* days, cumulative, on each charge for threatening behaviour and assault, and Dillon £L on each case, or three days. Among those-discharged from Hillside is RobertßOß, one of the oldest railway hands in the district. The Aorangi was discharged at Port Chtlmerß to-day by non-unionists.

THE CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, Oct. 7. Tha conference resumed this morning bul Mr McLean was absent, having gone South yesterday. The chairman Baid th»t since they had last met the labor pary bad flked matters over, an* come lo the conclusion that >t would not bewise to c'os- the conference, but simply adjourn sine die in the bepe that something arise to bring about a settlement of the dispute. Mr Millar sail tbat before an adjournment was made he had one subject te bring forward, andtfiH was the queeM.on of establishing a National Trades Council for the-', whole of New Zealand. He thought in he interests of labour that there , should be*doe controlling body and that a National Gonnoil could be worked he had not the slightest doubt. If a lj«t»nal Council -were estab ished the Mantira.J Oeunoil a* it at ?r«seot exists would _ atiU continue.bat two delegates from each of . the Trades »nd Labour Councils weuld have a Beat on the National Council, it' was also proposed to set up a permanent j executive. The soherae was not yet fully deoided on, snd be suggested that each of the Trades Councils should send any suegesiioßS as to the National Council as acen .s possible, so that they might be considered at a meeting of the. Maritime Council at Auckland in November. He proposed that this meeting* of delegates affirms the nesirablenea* of establishing a Maritl.ne Council of New Zealand.' The ißotiom was carried unanimously. Mr Millar next referred to the action of the Commissioners in dismissing rhe four' men at Daßteliri, and tbe opinion tbat the CommissioßeTß *eie singling out the officers of the society for dismissal. Ha felt stroagly th»t this was nothing more nor less toenail attempt to crush the society out of wisteoce, but he was determined that this afeouln not ba doue if h« could help it, *n-\ an his way south he would lay the matter before eyery trade, •▼en if it took a mouth to accomplish the journey. If tbe men did not obtam justice it would not be h'lß fault. After aame di»c«Bsicß Mr Sandford Moved—" That this conference regrets Very much the aotien of the Commissioners ■ in oiathargiag Newton, an emplo}* at Hillside workshop, who is also president of the 'oc«l branch nf the Railway Servant*' Society, such discharge being •uggosliva of a desire on ibe pa.t of the Cominiasiiibers to disorganise the socuty, »nd being contrary to a pledge given that no man should be marked for taking a prominent -part in the working of the ksociety ; and that a deputation, consisting of Mesßrs Lomap, Fisher, Winter, and Sandford, be appoin'ei U interview tha Commisssiotiers on the subject, and failing that, to lay tbe mutter before the Pre-

miftr." .:."■ ". ... . , tf The chairman, in supporting the motion ■«id it was ,only: : neht that soma action be taken, but it aiight be found on enquiry that tbe wrong construction had been put onthe Commissioners', action. The motion was carried unanimously.. The conference thea adjourned «m« die. i. • . . \ u The Railway V Cooitmsflienefs hava rep'ied to the Übbr party hat they decline to receive, a deputation,, as they o*onot allow any person to interfere between then* v»od their employ**. -

Mr John Hornsby,. at Sydney, has receotly been: strongly advocating the system of profi'-ihariog as a ready way of setting rid of labor trouble*. After giving • number of cases of the remarkable success of this plan, he said :-In America during the last, few years, while capital bad eained by £400.000,000 labor hid only benefited to the extent of fiIwJOO.OOO. The reason for ad this was that a wrong principle underlay what had been done in the paHl—in regarding labour as o eommodity, each as car a,-flour, etc., to be bought in tbe ; ch«*pest and sold in- the dearest market. Now that principle must die. It was' at the root of • everything that was bad in connection with tbe«e labor troubl-B.; It led the way to sweating and the direct p'reverty! Trade's unionism was aaexiYtinfe fact which must be reeognised; A.great deal had been heard about boards of conciliation and arbitration, but the beßt-thing to adopt was the scheme he fa*4 shadowed forth—profitsharing. ;