ANOTHER UNIONIST OOTUAGE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7232, 3 August 1891, Page 4

ANOTHER UNIONIST OOTUAGE.

SYDNEY, August 2. There was considerable excitement at Bourke yesterday on the arrival of three hundred and twenty-five free shearers, including a shipment from New Zealand. When the train was passing Byrock [on the western line from Sydney to Bourke] it was pelted with stones, and the windows were smashed ; but none of the occupants were seriously hurt. la consequence of this attack a large force of police with fixed bayonets met the train at Bourke, and, although surrounded by nearly a thousand Unionists and others, the men were safely conveyed to the steamer.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 1. The strike pay to the bootmakers has been slightly increased. The men state that the rumour as to their applying to the Unions in the south for permission to accept the statement without breaking from the Federation is unfounded. They state that they are as firm as ever in the determination to have the Federal statement.

The Committee of the Bootmakers' TJaion called a meeting of machinists and fitters at the Druids' Hall on Friday last for the purpose cf forming a Union. There was a very fair attendance, and it was unanimously agreed to form a Boot Machinists' and Fitters' Union. A Committee waß elected to draw up rules and regulations and to bring them before the next general meeting.