LABOUR QUESTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8871, 2 September 1890, Page 2

LABOUR QUESTION.

COLONIAL STRIKES.

MARAROA DISCHARGED BY FREE LABOUR. [PBB PBKSfI AHKOOIATION.I Sydnet, September 2. — The Orient mail steamer left up to tiVne. The Mararoa is discharging by the help of free labour. Fully a hundred men are employed on the Union Company's wharf. , The stevedores have formed an association which has the full support of the southern colleries and steamship owners. GAS COMPANY STOPPING SUPPLIES. After September Bth the Gas Company will cut off tbe supply between sunrise and aunaet, and the directors state they may have to call on the public to forego tbe use 'of gas altogether, in order to maintain street lighting daring the strike. MONOWAI'S SEAMEN NOT CALLED OUT. Melbourne, August 2.— The Seamen's Union have decided not to call the sailors out of the Monowai, but to leave this to be done upon the return of tbe vessel to New Zealand, if necessary. HELP TO SHIP OWNERS. Fourteen hundred special constables have been sworn in. The lawyers clerks have offered tbeir services in a body. LARGE SUMS FOR -EMPLOYERS' FUND. The legal profession has subscribed £3000 to the employers' fund. Messrs Dalgetty and Co., of London, have cabled, sending £10,000 to the same fund. CONFERENCE ASKED FOR BY UNIONISTS. ..The employers, pastoralists, steamship owners, and colliery proprietors, will next week consider the proposals emanating from the Trades Hall for a conference. MELBOURNE AGAIN LIGHTED WITH GAS. Ihe city was again lighted by Gas last night. _i__