LABOUR DISPUTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4823, 21 April 1890, Page 2

LABOUR DISPUTES.

(I'ku I2:.bctiuo Telegraph — Copvhhjht.) (Pen Pnitss Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m., April 19th.) Berlin, April 18. Tho disturbance croatod by tho Sileaiun miuera still continues. Forty thousand miners aio pillngiog villagoa and menacing townsmen, nnd aro alao preventing hands engaged at various fnctorios from going to work, thus compelling tho factories to c6n3O operations. There have, been ropoatoil confiiata botweon tho rioters and tho military, who wore callod out to rostora order, during which many of the aliikiMß woro killed and wounded. Ouicaoo, April 18. Tho 1 building trade m this city is practibally at a Btandstill owing to tho slriko of carpenters. The strike has spread tv

Indiunopolis, where a largo number of carpentera havo goueout. (Received 1.30 p.m., 19th April.) London, April 18. The Orient Steamship Company, Sir Donald Cnrrie, and others, nro parleying for the purchase of tho Tilbury Docks, and they alao hope, m tho event of the purchase being completed, that they will be ab;e to make special terms with the dock labourers. (Special to Press Association.) (Itecoived 12.15 p.m., {April 19th.) Vienna, April 18. The striken m Austria urn lighting. Chicaoo, April IS. Twenty-live thousand carpenters are (jo in" out on strike, but it ia hoped that tho difference veill ba settled by arbitration. ._ (Received G. 20 p.m., April 20th.) Warsaw, April 19. A.conilict has taken pUco between tha military and, tho. miners on striko at Wilkowitz'. Sixty were arrested and thrco killed. At the prison the prisoners attacked tho sentries, and twenty of tho former escaped m tho excitement. (Uy Tbleokaph.) OHnigroHURCH. atuil 20. A demonstration m Juvonr of early cl"eiug took ' place 0:1 Saturday night. A crowd, principally iacls, gathered ia tho streets cheering 'tho shops that waro elosiug at 9 o'clock, and groaning the others. The principal demonstration mis . nudo before Powell's, the bookseller's, who kept open tiil tho crowd became tired. The polieo weiv present, but thero vt&a no oeoasion to make any arrests.