WORK AND WAGES.
[Special to Paiss Association. j r WASHINGTON, Fbsb,, 23. A strike of switchmen for increased wages is paralysing trade at Chicago.
[Fbb Pbbss Association.! . WELLINGTON, Fbb. 24. Mr Tregear, the head of the Labour Department, who has been visiting the north, speaks well of the condition of things, which have improved ' since last . year. , The only place in the Colony where : there appears to be unemployed at present is Westport ; and Mr Lomax visits it next 1 week to see what can be done. Mr Tregear ! found that the feeling at Auckland was in favour of the compulsory closing of shops, i large and small, on half-holidays. i j The Hon A. J. Cadman explains that the reference, in his Thames speech, to the ] I more profitable employment of prisoners, ,i did not allude to generally recognised i public works, bnt to such avenneß of labour \ '■. as tree planting on wastes like Kaingaroa j ; Plains, in tha pumice country, straighten- ' - ing eharp curves on railway lines, &o.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4578, 24 February 1893, Page 3
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170WORK AND WAGES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4578, 24 February 1893, Page 3
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