LABOUR ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5515, 17 September 1892, Page 2

LABOUR ITEMS.

. ». (FBB EISOTEIO TELEGRAPH -COPYRIGHT.) [PER PRKSB aBSOOHTIOM ] (Receives soon, Sept. 16th.) Sydney, Sept. IG. The Labour Defence Committee are charged with unlawful oonapiraoy. With the exception of Sleath and Ferguson tko members were arrested while deliberating. A quantity of books and papers were seized. Upon the nows becoming known the miners immediately held a meeting and elected a nuw committee. The Magistrate refined to grant bail. Brisbane, Sept. 10. The Export Company have replaced the butch era who struck. (Boooived 9 p.m., Soptewbor 16th,) Newcastle, Sept. 16. At the end of the present year, the general agreement under which collieries have been working since the strike, terminates. Theaoaociated colliery proprietors have decided to give their men three months' notice. It is feared that difficulties are looraiDg ahead. [Special to Press Association.] (Received 8 a.m., Sept. lGth.) London, Sept. 15. The Djckers Congress is sitting at Swansea. An address by Mr T. Mann, the retiring president, dented that Unionism inevitably meant war with capital. Its objects wore social and national. Mr John Burns aaid the word ntrike had become blunted, and they must resort to the State for help. They had resolved to demand from the Stato work for the unemployed, aud a direct veto on liquor licenses. The press regrets that Mr Manu is retiring. Lord Kothschild asserts that the labouring classes as a whole are contented, and that it is only the idle and incapable who are clamouring for eight hours.