LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2112, 16 October 1890, Page 2

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, Oot. H. Tbe shipowners are organising free laborers prior to locking ont (he Unionists. The Allan liners are unloading at Glasgow end elsewhere. It, has transpired that the owners of this line are paying less than the ruling rates. It is thought probable that the difficulty will reoijr f bIH unless it does a lockout is doubtful, A meeting of unemployed, at St. Paul’s .was dispersed by the police, and the chairman arrested, The London owners are engaging men for their ships irrespective ©f Unionists, and ing ships. Oot. 13. I'he grave-diggers at Dublin have Birnck, owing to tbe Secretary of their pojnn haying been dismissed. Owing to fepewed trouble with H}o corn porters, tbe dockers’ committee aye engaging hundreds of permanent hands 1 at 24e p»r week,

The engineers have agreed to a weekly levy of 6d in aid of the Australian strikers.

Commenting on a letter descriptive of the strikes in Australia, ..the Times is amazed ai the magnitude of the straggle, and the power and pretensions of the leaders, also at iheestnme developments of the conflict capital and labor, Berlin, Oot, 14.

A great Socialist Congress is being held at Halle, a town of Prussian Haxony, and is chit fly attended by German delegates.

Synirar, Oct. 18.

The trollymen are returning to work. A large stack of coal at Greta mine has been sst on Are, and damage to the extent of several thousand pounds Was done.

Five hundred miners who are on strike took possession of the Goal Cliff mine at Ilitwarra, and refused to permit the free laborers to enter the mine. A detach roent of military was dispatched to the scene and dislodged the miners.

Oot. 14.

It is understood that the loan ef £20,000 for which the labor defence' committee have applied to the English unions for will be applied to the relief of the families of strikers, who are just now at a lamentably low ebb. An excited feeling prevails among Iha southern miners. ,

Strike matters are quiet in the southern coal district. '] be Goal Cliff and Mount Kemble mines are being worked by free laborer s.

Melbourne, Oct. 14. Ibe joint Employers’ Unions hate written to the committee, reiterating tbs conditions on which a conference will be granted. ■ ■ Nearly the whole- of Ibe stevedores have resumed work.

The wharf laborers are now free to unload a number of vessels which hive previously been boycotted. In the future the latter will load and unload all vessels, provided .they are not asked to work alongside free jaborfrs.

NEW ZEALAND. Gbbymouth, Oct. 14. ; The Brunnertoq coal miners have resolved to stand out until the seamen’s difficulty is settled. The Grey Valley Goal Company, who are advertising for miners, truckers, and others, notify [that applications for employment will be received to Friday next, after which all vacancies will be filled from applicavts outside the district, of whom double the number (it is alleged) are offering. ■ ~ Christchur«h, Oct. 14i The union seamen and firemen of the steamer Lawrence‘which arrived atLyttel ton with coal, and about the discharge pf whose cargo there was trouble, as'the Rail way Commissioners insisted on doing their part of the work with non-union hands, agreed to take a day's holiday, and non-unionists are discharging the cargo. v : Dunedin, Oct. 14. The Star announces that strike pay has been reduced to 13s for married, and 8s for single men. Niue seamen articled, to the New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Hurunul were charged at the Police Court to-day with disobeying a* order to discharge cargo. Mr Macdonald; who defends, raised the point whether seamen ean bo, called on to discharge cargo without being paid lumpers’ wages. Poulspn, one of the crew, was convicted, bat no sentence was passed. The other cases were remanded till Monday, and the men, it is understood, will return on board and go to work in the meantime.

Dot, 16. ' • The Union CoUnpany resume their Melbourne weekly service next week. The tiurunoi's sailors refused to discharge cargo, and have been rearrested.

The following is a copy of the form which (he dismissed employer of the railway are required to sign when applying for reinstatement :—“1 beg leave to apply, for fui ther employment in your depart-, ment.- Admitting ihat my past conduct in refusing duty in September last by order of the Hailway Union was wrong, I trust you will take into consideration the peculiar position in which t was placed at the time, and if possible give me farther employment. If engaged, I am fully prepared to implicitly obey the mbs, and also to sever my connection with Unionism as at present constituted. —Yours obedi ently.”