MORE LABOR TROUBLES.
(P«B PEKSS .ASSOCIATION.)
London o Janaary 4, Pickets are inducing firemen and sailers to desert vessels bringing cargoes of coal for the Metropolitan Gas Company. Steps will be taken to test the legality of their action. ( Strikers are willing to accept engage- 1 meats for three months on condition they are granted equality cf voting with the Company's employees, and they profess their readiness to assist in making the profit-sharing system a success, and will guarantee that there shall be no "strike for at least a year. The resolution of the Company to stand by the hands they have engaged in place of the strikers is, however, the obstacle in tbe way of settlement The Strike Committee threaten to bring on a general gas aad coal strike. Railway men demand that the hours shall be limited to ten, platelayers nine, and signalmen eight. They request an answer from the companies by January , 15^. ' c " '.. .• .x- 1 London. January 6. ; The Gas Strikers are appealing to the Trades Unions for assistance. The pickets have succeeded in inducing the crews of two colliers to leave their vessels at Greenwich,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2323, 8 January 1890, Page 2
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190MORE LABOR TROUBLES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2323, 8 January 1890, Page 2
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