LATER PARTICULARS.

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

LATER PARTICULARS.

;f ; London, September 30. : The Scotch furnace men demand eight' hours as a day's labor. The masters refused the request, so the furnaces wilt stop on Saturday. " >, , Stjwby, October 1; A wholesale prosecution of shearers for breaches of agreement is taking place , and in a test case at Deniliquin oneof the shearer's was muloted in a fine of £10 in addition to costs. A large num- f , ber of cases hang on this decision. ',:/'' ■•■■":/ •. : ,;£:; ThisX^ The strike at Broken Hill is estimated ■' ; to have cost the men £50,000. . ; ,'. After taking a legal opinion the shearers deoided to contert the action of the squatters in refusing to pay wages to the men who struck. Many of the latter have gone to gaol in preference >to paying '..A the fines. '. „ ,y- '_ !■ '. ■/•■'.. Mblboubne, This i)ay. The action of Chief Justice Higinbottom in subscribing to the strike fund is caus- ' mg a good deal of comment, and the Argus severely, handles him, while the Age upholds him. ■•'"'■•■•• . : -i Bbisbanb, October 1. The gas workers have notified that they will no longer contribute to the strike levy, and intimate their intention of severing their connection with the . Labor Federation. •• Twelve officers and sixteen stewards who left the Australian United Steamship Company, have returned to tneV yessels unconditionally. . .