AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2835, 13 September 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

OFFICERS RESUMING DUTY, DISTRIBUTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS. LARGE OUTPUT OF COAL. 111!0 KEN KILL MINERS. ( MR CHAMPION' AND SYDNEY Til AUK HALL. NOT RECOGNISED AS LABOUR DELKGATK. ||SV KLMJTItIC IKLKCBIt.M'M. —COI'VUICIIT.I Sydnhy, September 11. TIIK officers and crew (if a collier who refused duty owing to non-Unionists being allowed tn work on tlie vessel were arrested, but subsequently tliey agreed to return to return to work, and were released. Twenty-one firemen and throe seamen belonging to the British India Company a steamer Dorunda have been arrested for refusing duty. The Labour Committee intend sending delegates to London to rouse the sympathy of the dockers and members of other Unions. . The Dorunda's firemen and seamen have resumed work, and the charges of desertion have, been withdrawn. Two thousand more miners, whose 14 days' notice has expired, came out to-day, .swelling the number on strike at Newcastle to seven thousand. The strikers are greatly in need of funds. The steamer Jubilee has arrived, one wilt be discharged by Unionists. The Engineers' Conference has come to a satisfactory conclusion. The increase of wi"cs has been granted, and the question of "the right of reporting to owners was modified,"whilst the unproved accommodation fir men was conceded. The miners of Wooltonu'ong have resolved to 'request tho Maritime body toeillout the Oueenslund miners, allecintt that the fact of their supplying n ill-Union vessels , with coal weakens the cause of tho Aew ; South Wales miners. The Protection of Labourers, bill has [ been withdrawn.

September 12. The Trades and Labour Council lias passed a resolution declining' to recognise Mr Champion us the representative of Trades Unionism, and refuse to accept 1-iinas a mediator in the stni|rgle, also that the Council regards his actions during during his visit to Australia as opposed to the best interests of labour. The defence committee have no intention of calling out the Western miners so long as work is, curried "» »* at, present. The chairman of the Broken Hill J. i''>prietary Mine, disclaims any connection with the Kmployers' Union, and states that lack of a supply of I iwiher and coal was the sole cause of shuttina down the mine. Operations are to be. resumed as soon as supplies are available. Several cranes :.t Newcastle, are now bi'iiii: worked, and vessels are being loaded J \vit'h 'le'-'ii'd to the deposition of the funds received from the Unions at H,.me enquiries as t- wh, the.r the New /ea and stiiuers will iecei<.e:, share of them have elicited the fact that the organisations sent the money diiect t<> the colony where they wish<M it. to !„■ spent. AliKl.Ainr, September 12. \ number "F i.llic-'is ivh.i withdrew f:om the Adelaide. S'.eam-lup Company's steamers have returoed to work. MiaiioniM-:, September 11. Mr H. IT. Champion, the KiiL'lish labour advocite, in a further communication to the Vge 'states that although he should be glad to see the workers at home willing and able to support the workers here many just cause, he cann.it forget that the levies they are payin" are soiely needed tor the defence of Kndishmen and women who are chronically within a measurable distance of starvation. So fur as the dockers are concerned it is absolutely true that they could not subscribe were it not for the manner in which Australians of all classes came to their aid in the h >nr of need. Strike matters are quiet. Several Union stokers have returned t< the gasworks. September 12. Mr If. Champion has left lor Sydney, and will do his best to bring about an understanding probably by proposing a truce on the following lines :-" That the different bodies now on stuke agree to return to work irrespective of the question of Union and non-Uiimn men being employed ; also without the demand that all who left work should be taken back, and that the men be content to fill the present vacancies ; anil, further, that the work shall continue for three months on the same conditions as before the strike, and if, at the end of that period, parties are unable to settle the dispute, the matter should be referred to a Conciliatory Board, on which Melbourne and Sydney should be equally represented." Owing to the stoppage of the export trade the butter market is glutted, and the article is selling at sixpence per Ib. lIOUAKT, September V~. Sailed yesterday : Monowai for New Zealand. ' . ~

lJiti.sliANK, September 11. \.,w lint shipowners are iiblo to definitely rix the time nf the departure of their vessels, trade is lookinß brighter. A fuithcr contingent of othcers and stewards Irive returned to their vessels. Se|it,:mbe,r 12. The output of the I'.undano colliers is 1200 tons per day, and the. '1 lioinas mine is capable of doulilinf? this if necessary. As iin iißreuiiißiic has been made between the masters and men that neither will join a Union, the, employees decline to come out, notwithstanding that stnmtf pressure has been brought to bear to induce them to lloiiAßT, September 11. The Tasmania!! Navigation Company's cmks and stewards are veioiuinß their steamers. , ~ Lonhon, Septeuiber 11. U a Rrcat meetiiiK »t Mile Kn.i Assembly Hill -idilresses were delivered by Mann and Villott, and resolutions of sympathy with the Australian strikes were passed. It n, aniuHinced that nearly t>oo had already beeniemitted. A telepram fn.m Murphy, Secretary to the Sydney Oliicers L .mm was read amidst cheers.