THE LABOUR DIFFICULT?

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 46, 2 October 1890, Page 2

THE LABOUR DIFFICULT?

(PER TOOTED PBESS A88OOIATIOW.) London, September 30. The timber section of the London Chamber of Commerce have secured the insertion of a clause in the Timber Charter Act whereby the owners of vessels are made liable for the action of their officers. Seven thousand steel workers in the South of Wales have accepted a sliding scale of wages. The Board of Employers in the Midland Counties have decided to reduce the wages of ironworkers by 5 per cent. The appeal made by the London Trades Unions on behalf of the Australian strikers has realised £575. , _.>-, Washington October 1, " w Mr MoLean, chief officer of the Takapuna, who was the first officer in the service of the Union Company to refuse; to leave his 3fatip when the strike began, has been promoted to the command of the steamer Janet Niecol. Lyitbmon Sept. 9Or The loading of the Tongariro is progressing at a fair rate, r , I Matters in Lyttelton are at a complete standstill, and the streets present a deserted appearance, the majority of 'the men on strike keeping away from the town. A few continue to dredge for coal which the free labourers spilt OTeri • ' , • ' ' Dusbjmn, Sept, 30. A private wire Sydney states^that the' : 8.8. Jubilee has returned there, havingdisposed of her coal and refunded the passage money to those who Had booked. ,