LATER PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 32, 29 August 1889, Page 3

LATER PARTICULARS.

SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS. London, August 28. The Kaikoura has 32,000 and the Fifeshire 25,000 carcases of sheep on board. It is feared the latter's cargo will be destroyed unless coal can be obtained to keep the refrigerating machinery at work,, but the Kaikoura's is out of danger for. the present. The epidemic of striking is expected to extend-to the provinces. At Southampton the men are already .assuming a threatening attitudg).and the regular despatch of Australian, mails- is im» perilled.-Tt is suspected, the Socialists are planning a national labor revolt. Forty 'thousand rentsin. the East of London were not paid., on Monday, and the landlords are powerless to obtain.; their ..moaey. . . The gasmen have .threatened to strike and leave London in darkaes., but they have been .warned that they will be held criminally liable unless a week's notice be given. The lightermen, coalmen, firemen, engineers;, porters, jam and biscuit makers,. carters, and postal carmen are now all oh strike:, The scavengers, milkmen, printing laborers, and 7000 ironworkers, have joined the strikers.. .The Government f have conceded the postal carmen's demands; y^ The Kaikoura has ten days coal on board,, and it iB. hoped her cargo of frozen mutton will be saved. The strikers demand; the abolition of the middlemen and direct engagement of laborers at 6d per hour in the day time and 8d per hour ofertime. The directors of the dock companies refuse to agree to these terms. It is reported that Burns, the Socialist leader, is using his influence to prevent arson, turmoil, and pillage. The London Chamber of Commerce urges that the. dispute should be settled by arbitration, fearing that permanent injury will be done to the trade of the port. The strikers refuse to agree to arbitration. The Liguria's firemen have struck and the Ruapehu's are threatening to follow suit. Nine thousand coal bands in London have also struck. Messrs Nelson Bros, landed 180 carcases from the Fifeshire, but the strikers compelled them to desist.