The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1890.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8869, 30 August 1890, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1890.

The Labour Question is beginning to assume- an aspect" which is much to bo deplored. Ono . after tho other the manufactories and mills are being closed, and employers of labour are either 'putting 'their hands on half- time or giving them a week's notice. It is a curious state of affairs, the likp of which has never before been experienced ,in the world. It is, in fact, a social revolution —a' revolution carried on with deliberation and in cold blood. Those wh& belong to* any of the organised bodies are finding they are forced to leave their good employment without any cause for doing so, and their places are being filled by outside labour. We cannot believe that all who have joined these Unions agree with the position taken up .by their leaders, for in everyone's breast there iB a desire for freedom of action, which those who belong to the federated 'bodies are denied. The whole affair which now is disturbing the trade and commerce of Australasia has arisen out of \ dispute between the flock owners of New South Wales and a, Shearers' Union there. It is not a question of-yvages or hours of work, but merely as ta whether the station owners shall have .^their work conducted Recording to "thei't own wishes, or be controlled by the Shearers' Union. The station masters have to pay the money, arid* as they can get • plenty, of free , labour to shear their sheep, they naturally ignore and! ref use to be dictated to by an irresponsible body. The Shearers' Union. 1 accordingly say that the " non-Union wool" shall not be shipped Home, and being affiliated with the Seamen's and Wharf Laborers' Unions, the whole trade of the port is temporarily suspended when the " non-Union wool " is taken to Sydney for shipment. The shipowners employ free and independent labor outside the Federated Unions to put the wool on board ship. This has <caused "boycotting" to extend itself, and we now find that the whole of tho mercantile and manufacturing interests are being seriouely affected by the strike. Free and"' independent labor, we are told, is freely offering itself, and as fast as the Onion men leave -their, situations there are men to take their places. It will therefore be a change of hands on board the vessels. If this continues, the Federated Unions taunt break down, for as all the past .jc.ooMbutprs will .becom^ receivers, the accumulated funds ,will quickly decrease? rM Airthiß is miich to be regretted; but as both sides in the dispute have declared their determination to fight " the matter out to the bitter end," the public will have- :> t6< put' up with the inconvenience the strike entails until one side admits it is beaten.

The preliminary woi-k' at the Waitara .Freezing Works will be .completed in about, a week. The annual meeting of the Poultry Association, will be held on Monday evening next. The Land Board have plans out for 3354 acres of- land, 6± miles eastward of Midhirst, which is open for selection. The arrival of tho s.s. Penguin here is indefinite on account of her crew going out at Wellington on Friday evening. Mr Liardet met with a very painful accident on Wednesday, e'ays the. Eg wont Settler. He took hold of the wheel of a dray that was delivering 'produce at his warehouse, to assisj;.. in vbacking->it}'. and caught his hand between the wheel and the body of the dray, the result being that he gofit very badly crushed. Dr. Cockerton 16 attending to it. At the Caulfield meeting, held on Saturday, August 16, the two-year-old She, by Nordenfeldt out of Steppe, won the Sapling Stakes, three furlongs; from a large field. This daughter of Bteppe will make a good racer, according to AmtralUn •portipg writers,