GREAT LABOR CRISIS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1938, 3 September 1889, Page 1

GREAT LABOR CRISIS.

GIGANTIC STRIKE IN ENGLAND. London, August 80. The Austral has arrived at Plymouth, and been ordered to Gravesend, The Liguria is loading at Plymouth. The strikers have permitted the Fifeshire and Kaikoura to unload their mutton, and the market is consrqaently abundantly stocked for the time being,, and business is flat. 'Prices are thei same as last week.

The New Zealand Shipping Com pany’s clerks are loading the Hurunni. August 31.

The latest development of the strike is that the Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union. 60,000 strong, to come put. The dock companies have refused the offer of three thousand Belgian laborers at 4|d per hour. The men on strike are greatly elated at the sympathy expressed by the wharf laborers at Sydney and Brisbane.

The wharfingers have submitted a compromise covering the substance of the strikers’' demands, and slightly modifying the sixpenny rate of wages per hour when engaging casual workers longer than four hours. The dock companies and some of the wharfingers have, however, declined to entertain: this proposal. The men on strike to-day received £I6OO from sympathisers. It has been resolved to continue the strike. Shipowners and the leaders of the wharfinger men on strike have conferred to arrange terms on which vessels can be in the river, with the result that it has been decided to boycott the dock companies, on Monday. The meeting was, however, adjourned, until Monday, Public opinion condemns.,the action of the dock companies, and , the clergy of all sects express sympathy frith the dock laborers in their-endeavoa to obtain a higher rata of wages.: The Conservatives, Liberals, .and. Kadioals, .are subscribing to aid the strikers. The Socialists have contracted to-enter the agitation on the,, basis of the trade unionists, otherwise the strikers refused their assistance. The Fifeshire has discharged a third of her cargo, and as she has , plenty of coal her mutton remains in, good condition, Prom the Kaikouca 600; carcases have been landed, and (ha steamer has sufficient coal to last for some days yet. Brisbane, August 30. The wharf laborers here have cabled a sum of : £l50 in aid of the London.dock men. SVDNEY, August 31., The wharf laborers have cablod } £500 to the London dock strikers, Melbourne, August 31. Public subscriptions are being raised here and at Adelaide to assist the London strikers.