LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2339, 5 April 1892, Page 1

LABOUR.

London, March 31. A compromise has been effected between the employers and engineers in South Wales, and in consequence the proposed strike will not take place. Twenty thousand iron workers are thrown out of work by the strike of the Durham miners. Though a ballot of the Durham miners favors a continuance of the strike, the Miners' Federation have appealed to the masters to allow the men to resume work. All the spindles in Ashton-under-Lyne will be stopped for a month in order to reduce the quantity of stocks on hand. April 2. Evidence was given before the Committee of the House of Commons to the effect that the employees in shops in the north of England had to work 80 to 90 hours per week. The masters, however, generally expressed themselves in favor of restricting these hours. The bricklayers of London have given notice that the masters will enforce the new rules upon June Ist. A st'ike is feared. The Durham colliery-owners, in reply to the Federation, have refused to allow the men to resume work until the question of wages is settled. Two hundred vessels are idle in the Tyne, and there is much distress among seamen. The cotton-masters have decided to close their mills on the 16th instant, owing to the dispute with their workmen. Seventeen and a-half millions of spindles are affected by the decision. Much distress must necessarily ensue in Hartlepool and Newcastle. Numbers are starving owing to the miners' strike, and it is feared that the result will be a reduction of 20 per cent, in wages. New York, March 31. Four Colorado mines have been shut down owing to the cheapness of the silver. 25,000 are thrown out of work.

Wellington, April 1. Public meetings are to be held to discuss the strike and the unions in the colony will be asked for assistance. Obstacles were placed on the rails to inake the oars run off. Mr Hall states that men are offering thomselves as grooms from all parts of the colony and he will resume the full service on Monday. A public meeting, called by the Trades Council, was held to-night to ventilate the tramway employees' strike. Mr McLean, M.H.R., presided,. about 400 were present. Several prominent members of the trados unions addressed the meeting and the following resolution was carried : " That this meeting endorses the action of the tramway employees, believing their action to be justified by circumstances, and pldges it-ielf to assist the men in their endeavour to obtain jjustico," In Trouiile Again.—Joseph. Roberts, a brother of the noted Jonathan Roberts, who is already committed for trial on a charge of larceny, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Hastings last week for stealing a saddle, bridle, and other gear. The defence set up by Roberts j was that he was suffering from delirium tremens.

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