HANDSOME SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM HOME.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 34, 4 September 1890, Page 2

HANDSOME SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM HOME.

£40,000 TO BE SENT TO STRIKERS EXCITEMENT IS ENGLAND. EMPLOYERS BANDING TOGETHER 4100,000,000 REPRESENTED. BIOTS IN SYDNEY. London. September 9, Trades Union delegates hare appointed a committee to eolleet fandi in aid of Australia. The engineers, laborers, gas stokers, painters, railway men, seamen, firemen, compositors, and others are represented on the committee. Mr Tillett announced tnat every trade had joined in snbsaribing, and thej were determined to send at least £40,000 to the colonies. The dockers alone would send between £16,000 and £20,000, and every docker had agreed to give at least 8d weekly, while same were contributing 9s 64. A manifesto has been issued appealing to all the Unions to collect monies for Australia. The execntira of the Union neat thrice weekly t# deal witk suk«crt»ti*nt. Five soasa meeting* hnre bean airanged in London, at which Elections will ke mod* cm behalf of the ool&nials. Mr T4 Williams, Pofce* MagiatraU Rt GbFCOiwiftk, hM p«Bse4 a s#n«eß«« «f atx

months imprisonment,, with hard labor, on several stevedores who were charged with menacing the dockers. The Shipowners' Association propose th« federation of the trade of the British Empire in dealing with the labor question iv nil parts of the world, aud to resist the tvranaous demands of the Union, and the protection of their crews and servants against intimidation. A central Council is to b* est&Uish#d in London with eoinmitteaa in the various shipping centres. The organising committee will sit daily. The representatives of five million tons have approved of the decision arrived at to-day, and other owners have yet to be consulted. The Association carried a resolu :ipij|pledging to it support Australia Association by all means at its disposal. One hundred million pounds of capital was represented at the meeting, and members said they had not a desire to force the fight, but the Unions must keep to the legitimate object for which they were established. Mr Daikin, President of the Trades Congress at Liverpool, in hi.* add Tens advocated legislation in favour of eght hours H8 a day's labor; innd nationalisa lion ; state control of railways ; nut ion nlisation of mine* ; and the using of Union f»nrU for the employment of members in certain trades. The Triides congress npprc.ved principle of payment of Members. A first trial of strength between new and old unionism resulted after a heated discus •ion is. the defeat of the socialists pro gramme by 263. A division was taken on the amend m»nt compelling the working class can didate for parliament to support the naturalisation of lnnd. Burns severely attseked the present labour members in the House of Commons. The gas workers forwaTd £1000 to Anstralia and the sailors and firemen have voted £1000. Stdnkt, This Day. The Trades and Labor Council to-day received a first instalment of the London dockers contribution amounting to £500. A serious disturbance occurred to-night when a number of free laborers were surrounded by 8000 of the men on strike and others, bricks being freely thrown. A force of 25 police were quickly on the spot, but so determined was the resistance offered by the Unionists that the police for the first time since the strike began to freely use their batons. This step had little effect on the mob until a further reinforcement of the police a 1 rived, when the crowd were beaten off and the free laborers rescued. The latter were taken to the police station, which was guarded by 100 constables. Large crowds hung about the station awaiting the re-appear-ance of the men, but as there was no sign of their coming out again to-night the mob gradually dispersed. The Government has to-night enrolled a large force of special constables. Mxlbovbhb, This Day. The crew of the Union Company 1 ! Monowai have resumed duty, the Company agreeing to take them back if they obeyed orders. It is expected, however, they will again leave the ship when she reaches Now Zealand. Brisbane, Thin Day The Maritime Officers Association held » meeting to day, but nothing official was allowed to transpire. There is reason to believe that the result \n favorable to a compromise 1 on the follow ia,' lines j The employers are to recognise the Officers' AsHoeiai on, the officers to resume as before, the question of the latter' s fcder* :ilion w th the Maritime bodies to remain in abeyance oB the understanding that no officer shall be puuished for his share in the present strike.