Labour Troubles at Home

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 10, 8 July 1890, Page 2

Labour Troubles at Home

(per press association.) London, July 6. The Leeds Corporation has given way to all the demands of the gasmen, and will dismiss all blacklegs, paying them £5000 instead of the usual notice. The strike of the gasmen cost the Leeds Corporation £30,000. It is probable that a compromise will be arranged in connection with the telegraph oprators, but they refuse to withdraw the threat that they will cease work on the 12th inst. unless overtime is abolished. The country postmen demand an increase of wages to £1 Is per week, and the city postmen to LI 4s. A further number of men have been suspended by the Postmaster-General for attending a meeting, and the Union threatens to paralyse the postal business of London unless the men are reinstated. The exoitement among the members of the police force is decreasing, but the officers are now agitating for an increase of pay. The police have threatened a general strike, unless the constable who was disrated for the part he had taken in the present agitation is reinstated and all de mands conceded, by Tuesday. Received July 8, 12.15 p.m. London, July 7. I Hitherto the police strike has only been : averted by the advice of the elder men in the force. Government is pressing on the Police Pensions Bill in the House of Commons. The public are indignant at the intimidation employed by the men, and plenty of special constables are ready to volunteer. Over thirty oonstables who were suspended have been dismissed for hesitating to proceed on duty when ord- ! ered. There is considerable excitement, | and many messages of sympathy have been received from the other divisions. ! The Star states that 3500 men are pledged ! to strike to-night. The quarrel with the postmen has ' reached an acute stage, and an important decision will be arrived at to-night.