Trades and Labour

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 22, 7 August 1890, Page 2

Trades and Labour

WHITCOMBE and TOMBS BOYCOTT. The following telegram was received yesterday by the Secretary of the Wanganui branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants : — Chbistchubch, August 6. '* The Executive have decided to assist and act under the Maritime Council re Whitcotnbe and Tombs. Prepare for extreme measures in case required. Test case — Capital versus Uuiouiani.— W. J. Edwards."

LP'JE UNITED PBKSS ASSOCIATION..! Wellington, August 6. At the Trades aad Labour Council special meet last night, Mr D. P Fisher, Secretary, reported that all the booksellers in the city had repl.ed to the letters he had sent out, and, without exception, they con sen*ed not to offer for aale any oi Messrs Whitcombe and Tom ha' publications. It was resolved to hold a mass uioeting of Unionists on Thurs day next to consider the present aspect of the difficulty with the firm of Whitcombe and Tombs. It is calculated that, in the event of a general strike, about 50,000 men in the Colony will be called out. Ltttelton, August 6. The lumpers held a meeting tonight and decided to stand by the Maritime Council in their dispute with Whitcombe and Tombs, aud uoi to handle any of the firm's goods after to-day. Dunedin, August 6. The Maritime Council to-day nent a lengthy communication to the Hallway Commissioners asking the latter uot interfere, but to allow labour and capital to fight matters out. So long as no membor of the affiliated bodies was made to suffer through dismissal or suspension the crisis may be averted, but the first man made to suffer will be the signal for everything to atop from Auckland to the Bluff. Chbistchubch, August 5 He Whitcombe and Tombs, the feeling in Lyttelton is that if extreme measures ate taken labour will gain the day. Later. A large meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Kail way Employes unanimously pledged themselves to faithfully carry out the instructions of the Executive in regard to Whitcombe aud Tombs whenever called upon, aud to refuse to handle the goods of the firm if necessary. The Executive of the Railway Servants' Society state that nothing will be done re Whitcombe and Tombs, till they get instructions from the Maritime Council. The men will not be called out on the question of the boycott. They will simply refuse to touch Whitcombe and Tombs' goods. Thi3 Day. The Bailway Commissioners consider the term " civil commotion "' as in weightbills only applies to civil disturbance. They have not altered their decision at present. Yesterday Antony Sellar-; & Co. were served with a writ from Whitcombe and Tombs for £500 damages on account of an alleged libel in the Trades and Labour Chronicle. A TEST CASE FOR TO-MORROW. Whitcombe and Tombs are preparing a test case of goods, which they intend to send to Dunedin to-morrow, to see if any obstruction will be offered to its passage.

Sydney, August 6. The owners have declined to reinstate the firemen who were dismis sed from the steamer Corinnia and have paid off the hands, and laid the steamer up. At a conference between the recently formed Marine Officers' Association and owners, the later agreed to the proposal that sea-goiug steamers shall carry three officers, the first receiving £15 per month, the second £12, and the third £10; that there shall be three watchos, and that the officers are not to be dismissed without a fair hearing.