WORK AND WAGES.
• . ! ! [Special to Pbess Association.! £ LONDON, Sept. 3. t Owing to the strike ten thousand women and children in the Midlands f are being fed daily by charitable t bodies. In reply to a question in y the House, the Premier said he was ) aware that there were twenty thous- 1 c and artisans unemployed. He be- 1 v lieved it to be due to the recurrence [ < of depression, and did not see how * the Government could take any j action to cope with it. LONDON, Sept. 4. ( Thirty thousand miners in South t Wales have abandoned the sliding scale of pay, and decided to join the j Miners' Federation of Great Britain, j A mass meeting of miners at Ponty- ( pridd, Glamorganshire, has decided < to resume work on Tuesday. 1
SYDNEY, Sept. 5. j It is understood that the seamen's strike , will be officially declared off to-day. j The ship owners and marine engineers have arranged a Conference to disuse the rate of wages on Intercolonial steamers. The Conference will open in Melbourne on -, Thursday next. ,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4741, 5 September 1893, Page 3
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