GREAT LABOR CRISIS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1941, 10 September 1889, Page 1

GREAT LABOR CRISIS.

THE STRIKE IN LONDON. Loudon, Sept. 5. The Amalgamated Engineers’ Union have made a levy of 3d per man on 60,000 members, in aid of the strikers. Other unions are also rendering financial assistance.

The lightermen have agreed to undertake work for the firms who have conceded to the strikers’ demands. Up to the present the strike has cost £1,500,000. The lightermen, who originally struck out of sympathy with the dockraen, are now insisting on an increase of wages for themselves to 6s for 12 hoars’work.

Fifty printers have been conceded au advance of £1 per week for tan hours a day. The tailors riot in the Bast End was quelled without difficulty; there was nothing very serious in it. Sept. 6. The dock committee report that more men are now Working at the docks than before the strike.

Burns had an interview to-day with Lord Mayor Whitehead, Cardinal Manning, Bishop Temple, of London, Sir John; Lubbock, M.P, for London University, and Lord Brassey, at the Mansion House, when ha agreed that the strikers should resume work at the old rate of wages providing that the dock companies conceded that the demands of the strikers should take effect, from and after January Ist. The, directors of the dock companies have, intimated to the strike leaders that a reply will be forwarded to-morrow. The proprietors of seventeen wharves and warehouses have conceded the laborers’ demands, but forty others still stand out. The Murrey, Commercial, and Millwall Dock Companies are parleying with the strikers. Cardinal Manning considers the. orderly conduct and heroism of the strikers unequalled since the days of the, cotton famine, Scores of minor strikes have taken place, in the majority of which the men have been victorious. Sept. 7. The dock companies and Borns, the leader of the strikes, have accepted the proposals of Lord Mayor Whitehead, and the strike has ended. Forty leading members of the Corn Exchange have warned the dock companies that they will hold them responsible for any loss they might incur owing to delay in the discharge of vessels,

Sept. 8. The strikers’ committee have refused to ratify Burns’ acceptance of Lord Mayor Whitehead’s proposals. Berlin, Sept. 7. The London dock strike is being discussed in Germay, The Emperor f William considers that the State must | protect workmen against capitalists, and announces that in the ensuing session of the Keichstag legislation will be undertaken for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the labour* ing classees. Melbourne, Sept, 7. The amount collected for the London dock strikers has reached £5400. Sydney, Sept. 8. At a mass meeting of sympathisers with the strikers £I2OO was collected. The cob! lumpers have voted £250. The Newcastle miners propose to vote £IOOO in aid of the strikers, Auckland, Sept. 8. Public subscription lists have bean opened for aggigtance (o tbs London dock

strikers, ihe workmen employed in the Shipping, receiving, etc., have also decided to establish a fund for this cause, and a committee has been appointed to make arrangements, Dunedin, Sept. 6.

A public meeting will be held next week to consider the raising of funds for the assistance of the London strikers.