THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 40, 18 September 1890, Page 2

THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY

THE BAILWAY TBOUBLE. COMMISSIONERS STAND FIBM. IPGtt U.SITKD PSBS3 ASSOCIATION). London. Spptetn ber 16. The dockers cable £500 to Australia to-morrow. The Southampton dockers having given way the lock-out has ended. Sybnkt, Sept. 17The Western miners are idle now. The ballot of the railway employees was largely against going out on strike. The Mayor has requested the, leaders of the labour party not to call cat all the bodies affiliated to the Trades and Labour Council, as proposed. The lat t#r have promised to give the matter their serious consideration. Sir H. Parkes has resumed duty, and the Cabinet has had the serious aspect of the strike matters under consideration ; but the result of their deliberations » not known. v Every precaution to preserve order will be taken. The owners ridicule . the idea that by calling out the affiliated trades public opinion will force them to give way. They state that as they were running at a loss before the strike, no force of public opinion would induce them to resume under the old conditions. Bather than be coersed they say they will lay up their boats altogether. . The various labor bodies have determined that the question at the next general election shall be " Unionism v nonUnionism." ' M ELBOCHNB, September 17. The intercolonial shipping trade is greatly improved, and the wharves are now displaying much activity. Wang in or, September 17. Matters connected with the labour difficulty are quiet now. A meeting of the Bail way Servants was held, but nothing decided" on. Wrcr.M ngton, September 17. Jerrard has recovered consciousness, and there appears to be some slight hope of his recovery. • The Bailway Executive telegraphed yesterday to the Commissioners, asking if the latter would receive a deputation from the Executiye to confer about the present unsatisfactory state of suspense, and, if possible, arrange for the reinstatement of the men called out. The Commissioners reply to-day that, if they agreed to reinstate the jnen there would be no guarantee they might not be called out again when it suited the Executive, and they cannot consent to such a mischievous precedent, and cannot reinstate the men. The reply wound up— " After the attempt which you have made to paralyse the public service, and introduce into it illegal and disorderly practices, the Commissioners decline to meet you, or further discuss this matter with you." The traffic on the Manawatu railway line is iarger at present than it had been for some time previously. In addition to the increased carriage of produce, the Company's trains bring large quantities of firewood to the city. Numerous applications for employment are made daily at the labour bureau established under the auspices of the Employers' Association, and the secretary states that the supply of first-class men is largely in excess of the demand. . [The above was issued as an "Extra" yesterday afternoon.]