WORK AND WAGES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4729, 22 August 1893, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

THE TROUBLE IN WALES. [Special to Fbbbs Association.] j LONDON, August 21. Welah strikers pillaged the bakeries lat Ferndale last night. The police ! charged the rioters at Pontypridd • several times, and many oi the former i were injured. j Special trains filled with soldiers j are being hurried down to Wales. Business is stopped in the disturbed districts. Steam coal has risen to 30s per ton. Stones were placed on the Rhondda railway, hut were discovered in time to prevent a disaster. The strikers at Dowlaia attacked the men at work, principally with staveß. The Riot Act was read and the military called out. The soldiers put an end to the riot, but not till many were injured. Batteries of Artillery occupy the public buildings. The employers have issued a manifesto, stating that nnless the men return and adhere to the scale fixed, they will insist on penalties. Mr W. Abraham, a miners' representative in the House of Commons, has appealed to the strikers to return. The miners in Ebbw Tale, Monmouthshire, are working on a sliding scale. Those in the neighbouring valleys desire to imitate this course. The presence of the military and the energy of the Magistrates prevented the proposed attack on the workers at Ebbw Tale yesterday. PAEIS, August 21. Owing to the riots at Nismes the French Press urges that a rigorous tax should be imposed on employers of foreigners. The French Government will compensate the families of the Italians killed in the southern riot. ROME, August 20. The anti - French demonstrations have been renewed in Rome and other cities, owing to the massacre of Italian labourers at Nismes, and there is an excited feeling throughout Italy. SAN FRANCISCO, August 20. The unemployed at San Joaquim, in California, turned eight hundred Chinamen out of the vineyards. Several of tbe latter were killed, and when the Sheriffs attempted to stop the fight the mob turned on them and defeated them. SYDNEY, August 22. The Seamen's TJnion has decided to take a ballot in the Colonies aa to whether the strike shall be declared off.

The steamer Wakatu, which left Lyttelton yesterday evening, took fourteen men for the Cheviot works. The men were selected by the Labour Bureau. Seven of them came from Oamaru, and the others were from Christchurch. |