The Labor Troubles
' (PKB PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) '> Melbourne. October 10. • The Engineers' Society has called out > the engineers on the steamers Cloncarry and Eddystone owing to the refusal of the owners to continue the agreement ' respecting wages. New men are being shipped, aud the strike is likely to spread. : London, October 10. The mine owners and the men have agreed to hold another conference, when ! a"proposal to return to the former rate of ' wa"es will be considered, conditional on tho°railway and gas companies raising the price of their existing contracts. Belief committees at Sheffield distributed bread among the distressed people. Miners' wives fought for admittance to schoolhouses, which were used for the purpose, and several fainted. The Mayors advise that the miners should resume work at the old rate of wages, submitting to a reduction of 10 per cent early in December.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 88, 11 October 1893, Page 2
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