LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2166, 21 February 1891, Page 1

LABOR QUESTIONS.

London, Februayr 17. Owing to the dockers refusing to discharge the steamer Matatoa from New Zealand, the butchers are discharging her meat. The dockers blbo refuse to discharge the Australian steamers Almora and Taroba. The coalheavers at Cardiff, despite the entreaties of the other raea, have determined to return to work. The railway men are calmer and the lightermen have agreed not to handle goods consigned to boycotted firm 9. The riggers, boatmeD, and others engagad io waterside pursuits at Cardiff have gone out on strike as an expression of sympathy with the dockers, seamen, and coalheav-rs. It is feared that the railway mpn will follow suit, Mr J. B. Patterson, formerly Commissioner of Trade and Customs in Mr B, Gillies' Government in Victoria, who is on a visit to England, was eniertained at a banquet at Newcastle last night. Referring '.o the labor struggle in Australia, be said the strike which had occurred amounted a'most to a revolution. The orderly instinct of the people railed to the Government, and disorder was suppressed. Amid enthusiasm he slated that Australia was determined to maintain her credit and secure personal liberty of all. There is abundance of free labor at the docks. February 18. The withdrawal of the obnoxious manifest issued by the United Labor Covncil \ of London, on December sth, calling upon the workmen represented by them to abstain from doing any work, either direct or indirect, that would conduce to the sailing of the vessels of Messrs Sbaw Savill and Co., the New Zealand Shipping Company, and the British India Steam Navigatioa Company, has produced an excellent efifot, and a compromise with the Shipping Federation is now considered probable, The strike has extended to Swansea. The block in the Thames is ingThe owners of vessels have offered the dock companies to provide shelter for.free laborers. The strike in South Wales has extended to Penarlh and Barry. February 19. Shipowners in Liverpool, with an aggregate of 750,000 tons, are joining the Shipping Federation. Brisbane, Febraary 18. Eighty armed police have been despatched to Roekampton. The sale of firearms has been forbidden in Clermont. It is expected that the Lngan Downs shearing shed will be the scene of the first attack by the Unionists. The pub'icaus at Clermont threaten to throw their houses open to Unionist shearers free of charge. The authorities have decided to dose all the ho'els in the district in the event of the trouble becoming more acute, A large tract of country in the district is now on fire, February 19. Large bodies of unionists are arriving at Clermont. They are armad principally with revoivrs and Winchesters, Nearly a thousand unionists are encamped in the vicini'y of Baroaldine. Adelaide, Feb. 19. The pastoralists and shearers have arrived at a satisfactory settlement with regard to anew shearing agreement. Wellington. Feb. 19. At a meeting of the Trades' and Labor Council this evening it was decided that the council was not in a position to send a delegate to the seventh International Trade and Labjur Uaion Congress to be held at Ballaral in April. A deputation was appointed to wait on Mr I'oDks cooncern'ng the bakers' dispute and it was decided to nnke a weekly levy of 31 per nrmber to support those called out from Mr ToDks' employ. A scheme for settling men out of employment, through the recent strike, on Crown lands was submitted, »nd it was reso'ved to place it in a more d finite and tangible form before diecusi-iug i». The letter from the Union S'.eam Ship Company, refusing to engage more seamen who are members of the union, and another from the Seam n's Union, were discussed privately, and nothing was allowed to be made public. It was decided to send furlh'r monp. tary assistance to the D nniston miners. A committee was appelated lo arrange for a series of scientific lectures in the Trades' Hall,