Labour Difficulties.
(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION!. London, January ">. The Home Secretary has informed Mr John Burns, M.P., that the Government next session hope to legislate against unreasonably long hours of labour, and that he trusts that the employers of labour iv dangerous trades will adopt eight-hour shifts. Washington, January 5. The Federation Labour Bureau declares that there are three million wageearners, including trade unionists, unemployed in the United States. Sydney. I his Day. The owners of the Metropolitan Colliery, tlje largest of the southern collieries, have giyen fourteen days' notice of their intention to reduce the hewing rate by 4d per ton. Men employed in the mine do not want to strike if it can be avoided, and they will endeavour to arrange for a conference with the owners to effect a compromise.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 208, 6 January 1894, Page 3
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