LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2163, 14 February 1891, Page 1

LABOR QUESTIONS.

London, February 10. '1 he combined resistance of the Unions against the Shipping Federation’s labors, is likely to extend to all ports. Several vessels are blocked at Hull and Glasgow, It ! is feared that shortly 140,000 seaman, dockers, coalheavers, stevedores and lightermen will be involved, and the agitation may possibly extend to railway men and miners. February 11. > The stevedores at the Albert Docks have struck. Tom M >nn stains it is intended to block the steamers of the British.lndia, Shaw Savill, and New Zealand Shipping Companies. The position in Cardiff is acute. The railway men are hesitating. February 12. ‘ The stevedores have struck work on {all Federalioc-owned ships at the Yiojtoria, East and West India docks as a protest against the employment of free labor. I The' seamen have joined the coal beavers onstrike at Cardiff. A conference of members of the old unions at Cardiff have passed resolutions opposing the claims of the dockers to monopolise work and declaring the animosity of the firemen to be contrary to , the principles of unionism. A strike at all the ports is regarded as inevitable, : The strikers are confident that they will crush the Shipping Federation, Nbw York, February 10. The coke men in Pennsylvania hare gone out on strike,which seriously affects a large number of colliers. The Labor Union in Chicago threaten to stop the erection of the building for the World’s Fair.it free labor is employed. Melbourne, February 11. Tbe Miners’ Association have forwarded a further donation of £2OO in aid of the Denniston (New Zealand) miners, Sydney, Feb. 12. The captain sued the crew of the Seyeron tor combining to disobey lawful commands, but the case was dismissed, the captain admitting that the men’s action was justifiable. They contended that they took action only in order to clearly define the position in the eyes of the owners and charterers.