Trades and Labour

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 21, 5 August 1890, Page 2

Trades and Labour

I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Chkistchukch, August 4. The following telegram was sent last eyening to the Eailway Commissioners regarding Whitcombe and Tombs' difficulty: — "Instructions haye been received from the Maritime Council to boycott all their goods. The Eailway Union has decided to comply strictly with these instructions. If the railway men are suspended, we must call all hands out, and the port of Lyttelton will be practically blocked by the Council until the suspended men are reinstated. Our action is imperative, as the case is a teat one, backed by other firms. W. J. Edwards, General Secretary of the Amalgamated -ociety of Railway Servants of New Zealand." Dtjnedin, August 4, The leaders of the labour movement appear to be determined, if it comes to the worst, to block the trade of Lyttelton and Christchurch. All Unions have been warned to prepare for a genoral strike at any moment. Greymouth, August 4. It is reported on what seems t-> be pretty good author ly, that the miners intern! calling out the men who work the pumping engines keeping the miners dry, and that Mr Kennedy, when informed of the fact, said that if the pumping was stopped the mines would probably not be opened again. All practical miners agree that if once the water is allowed to rise the mines will be ruined.