LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5681, 16 June 1908, Page 1

LABOUR.

WELLINGTON, J uno 1 L Severn 1 hundred (workers, the majority being wharf labourers, gathered round the Queen’s statue opposite the General Post Office at mid-day to protest, against the action of the Government., in: distraining on the furniture of the Blackball miners. : A' resolution was passed that the mooting expresses its sympathy with the miners of Blackball, whose household _ goads were seized and sold at the instigation of the Minister for Labour, in ■default of payment of the lino of -lyfo fficted upon the members of the Union for their act of striking as a pro test against the victimising of their comrades, because of their political opinions ; we, workers of 'Wellington, express our disgust that a so-ealle! Liberal Government should resort to such oppressive and coercive measures against the workers of Now Zealand, when such Government has utterly failed to provide pooper legal protection against victimisation, and call upon the working classes of New Zealand to sink all their little difleiences and combine and organise so that at the next general election they sh-dl vote solidly as a class and exclude from office the persecutors of their > comrades on the West Cobst coalfields. NEWCASTLE, June U.

The Miners’ Federation carried a resolution in favour of adopting an ei»dit hours dav from bank to bank. PARIS, Juno 13. The congress at Paris unanimously recommended the appointment of work ingmen inspectors of mines ; uko an agitation to induce all Covernimmls to submit to compulsory arbitration in any dispute that was likely to disturb the World’s peace.