Labour Troubles at Home

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 12, 12 July 1890, Page 2

Labour Troubles at Home

(per united press association.) London, July 9The policemen who have been dismissed complain that they were deserted by their comrades, and insist on being reinstated. Benewed rioting occurred in Bow street to day, and 16 arrests were effected. Attempts were made to rescue the prisoners, which resulted in the rioters being batoned, and some amount of bloodshed. The military were held in readiness, but were not called out. It is asserted that the discontent is confined to the young men of the City Police Force. The charge of rioting against John Williams, the Socialist, was not proved and he was discharged. Considerable excitement was caused at Portsmouth by the ordering of the Inneskilling Fusiliers to London. The order was, however, countermanded. The authorities admit that the Grenadiers were over worked. Lord Salisbury, referring to the matter in the House of Lords, said it was unimportant and accidental. r July 10. The postmen are willing not to go out on strike before the 21st instant, providing that the blacklegs at present employed are dismissed They intimate that deliveries will be refused to-day if the blacklegs are still employed. A meeting of 4000 postmen was held at Camberwell (Surrey) at midnight when complaints were made of numerous blacklegs being concealed in the vaults of the Central Office. The men agreed to refrain from attendance at every office until notified that the whole of the blacklegs had been dismissed. Tbe Secretary of the Union advised the men not to injure the blacklegs in any way, but to endeavour to gain redress in a peaceful manner. The sorters have joined the Union. Mr Pearse, the war correspondent of the Daily News, was mobbed as a spy. One hundred men who joined in atattacking the blacklegs engaged in the parcel department of the Post Office have been dismissed. The masters having conceded the demands of the Dublin coal porters the strike has ended. Mail deliveries are delayed, owing to the trouble in several district offices. A hundred postmen at Leicester Square have been dismissed. The police are forming a council to advocate their demands. Bow street is qU _t is rumored that tbe Prince of Wales is interceding with the Home Secretary in favor of the force. 100 postmen of the Eastern and Northern Districts have struck, and a procession of 300 postmen will march to the W*at End with a view of gaining adherents.