WORE AND WAGES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6831, 19 April 1890, Page 3

WORE AND WAGES.

Strikers Fighting. 25,000 Carpenters Going y Out. >f . e Silesian Minors. e I Strike Spreading. •' \BT vi.tcwiHW TELEGRAPH.— COPJRIQHT: a L [Special to Press Association.] or ' 3 ' [Eeceived April 19, at 12 15 p.m.] I VIENNA, April 18, e The strikers in Austria are fighting t CHICAGO, A run, 18. 1 T-wenty-five thousand carpenters B are going out on strike, but it is i hoped that their differences will b« '• settled by arbitration. [Received April 19, at 12,30 p.m.] t BERLIN, April 18. j The disturbance created by the ) Silesian miners still continues. Forty [ thousand miners are pillaging the vill lages and menacing the townsmen, 1 and are also preventing the hands . engaged at the various factories from * going to work, thus compelling the ; factories to cease operations. There . |! have been repeated conflicts between i the rioters and the military who were t called out to restore order, during which many of the strikers were killed ; and wounded. CHICAGO, Aphil 18. The building trade in this city is ; practically at a standstill, owing to the strike of tbe carpenters. The strike has spread to Indianapolis, where a large number of carpenters have gone out.