LABOUR TROUBLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5194, 15 July 1891, Page 2

LABOUR TROUBLES.

I (I'jE.SJEfcBOTRIO XBLB3BAPH— OoI'YmtiriT.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 10.20 a.m., July 14th.) Pa bis, July 13. The employees of the Orleans railway, who are on strike, demanding a reduction m their hours, assert that unless tho demands are conceded by Tuesday the hands of five great railways m France will Btrike on Wednesday. (Received 11.15 a.m., July 14th.) Sydney, July 14, Sir Henry Parkeß has written to the Pastorali3ts' Association of New South Wales, suggesting ths advisablenes3 of that body holding a conference with the Shearers' Union. (Received 12.45 a.m., July 15th.) There waa great excitement at Bourke to-day. A train containing 350 free shearers was rushed by a large crowd of unionists, whom the police were powerless to keep off. The employer who had hired them, a squatter named Nutting, was badly hurt m the melee. (Special to Pbeiss Abbooiatioh. j (Received 1 1.10 a.m., Jnly 15th.) London, July 14. The employees of thirty more building firms have struck for eight hours a day, at lOd an hour. The mill sawyers and wood-cutting machinists are demanding similar cod-