STRIKE SPREADING AT SYDNEY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 39, 16 September 1890, Page 2

STRIKE SPREADING AT SYDNEY.

40,000 MEN CALLED OUT. Received September 16, 10.45 a.m. London, September 15, Mr Mann states. the Dockers Union iutends to punish the leaders ofilie Southampton strike with a firm and unswerving hand. Sydney, This Day. While a body of Volunteer Artillery was proceeding on duty to the fortifications yesterday, they hooted a number of free laborers. Sir H. Parkes has written to the Commandant that the act is a disgrace to the colony, and demands a full enquiry. . The International Labour Conference has called out the shearers, rouseabouts, wool carters, and western miners, representing 40,000 men, and it is expected the remaining trades, to the number of one hundred thousand, will also be out within the -week. Wellington, This Day. Mr Levin has been elected President of the Shipmasters' Association which numbers 112 members. The crew of the Kennedy were called out because it is intended to block all steamers and not through fear of her coaling the Star of Victoria. The crew' waited on the Union authorities and requested permission to give 24 hours notice in order to obtain passages home, but were refused. The steamer expects to get away to-day with a free crew. Gbeymocth, This Day. Dundae and Waugh, the Bruuner men arrested yesterday, were charged this morning with being drunk and disorderly and resisting the police in the execution of their duty. The former was sentenced to six weeks and the other 21 days, the alternative beiag a heavy five amounting, with costs, to over fourteen pounds for both. The Court was crowded and the money was at once paid on behalf of the prisoners.