THE LABOR TROUBLES.
IHE STRIKE BALANCE-SHEET. u London, Nov. 7. | The official balance-sheet of the dock strike has been At length published. It > shows that the Australian subscriptions! amounted fo £29,000. Among the; payments made occur the following : Tradesmen for fpod relief, £21,675 ;, bands; £900; banners, pickets, and: delegates, £1550 ; blacklegs, £950 ;| law expenses, ,£460; assistance ; to| Silvertown and tailor strikers, £850; charitable relief, East End, £250; wages to box collectors, £120; repay-' bent to different unions of assistance, advanced to the strikers, £11,000; mis-i cellaneous, includfog cabs, £BOO, The: balance in hand is shown as £7OOO, There is no cessation in The general; movement towards Wages, Burns is leading ,’tbe... lightermen in their resistance to Lord Brasaey’s award, j but it is hoped that Cardinal Manning and the Lord Mayor wilt be able to settle Abe difficulty to-day. The boycott of the masters begins to-morrow unless matters are satisfactorily arranged by’ them. The dock labourers of South London have struck for payment during meal: times. The dockers’ executive have declined to subsidise the strike of the dock labourers, threatened on Monday, unless , all the employes are unionists. Nov. 8, The day labpurers intend to petition the dock companies and wharfingers requesting payment during meal times. Nov. 9. The strikers committee have allotted £IOOO to aid the wharf labourers at Wapping, who are out on strike owing to the wharfingers resisting the compromise decided upon by the Mansion House Committee. Lord Mayor Whitehead has informed the strike committee that be kept no account of Australian moneys received and disbursed at the Mansion House, except that £IOOO was banded to Mr Buxton, M.P., and small accounts paid to East End clergymen for the purpose of providing food for thousands of strikers’ families. Under the pressure of the Dockers’ Union the clerks of the dock companies and foremen of docks have formed a union.
Ten thousand bakers in London go out on strike on the 16th, demanding 60 hours as a week’s work, and any time beyond that to be charged as overtime.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1968, 12 November 1889, Page 1
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341THE LABOR TROUBLES. Temuka Leader, Issue 1968, 12 November 1889, Page 1
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