THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 61, 8 November 1890, Page 2

THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY

T* (PEBP^BESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 6. A stevedore at Bristol has recovered i?sft damages thf .Secretary of the Dockers* II nioni for 'lid vising the men to cease unloading; vessels. The masters have" defeated the coal porters who struck at Plymouth. The dockers baye cabled a further sum ■'/•' of .£SOO to Australia. Melbourne, Nov. 7. The strike is virtually over here, and • members of the various trades ared ax- A ranging to return to work. ; Sydney, November 7 A* ' •• . ■ The wharf labourers have decided to continue the strike, and refused to enter- ; tain the. proposal to refer the question toC ballot. There ia a great deal of .distress prevailing among the families ofthe strikers.,, y Food, in the shape of bread and meat, is beiDg distributed to wives and families of the strikers. All Unionists who can obtain work are* returning. : . , * .' Government have appointed a Board to> administer relief to strikers' families. ' Mr Thomas Play fair, M.P. for Sydney % West, has generously decided to distribute 60001bs of meat and 1000, loaves of bread to deserving cases.' The Mayor of . Sydney will distribute vegetables in & like proportion to-morrow. This Day. : It is estimated the strike has cost the> , men half a million of money, and that the ship owners have lost £100,000. The Labor Defence Committee are preparing* , a balance-sheet. It was understood that ,a sum of £36,000 was received from the -Trade Unions, and that, the expenditure* . was i' 78,000. -The men take their defeat y .with good grace, and^ state ; the ground ; lost instead of depressing, has strengthened them in their, desire to return to th&. ; charge when the time:, is ripe. ATheir leaders sjate, the reason ) of their defeat lies in the fact that ythfy were competing: against di^i^gtuiJßed; labor, but as sooni> as matters have, resumed their normal condition they, will commence; to- furnish; for a fresh struggle, aad t in $he. meantime* _ efforts, are to be,, made to> induce! thej freelaborers to join unions. : y: ;.■■ .j, .'[{ '<y^ ■ .:, Wellington, November? Owing %o ; the* action -takeri ' 'by th* f Typographical Society ■•■fir- regard tothestrifctf levy, Mr D. P; ; Fisher/Seci&ary,A has resigned. ■_, •' ■'' ;