THE LABOR TROUBLES.
London, Jan. 24. The action of the Bermondsey dockers in demanding payment daring meal times is upheld by the Mansion House Committee. Jan. 25. The dock companies, wharfingers, shippers and merchants, are forming an Employers’ Union, and have resolved to issue a notice on the Ist February, intimating that all laborers refusing to comply with the general agreement of September 14th, will be locked out. The employers assert that the dockers are destroying them piecemeal. The Waterside Union possess £40,00Q, and believe that they will be able to successfully resist the action of the employers above referred to. They assert that the employers have frequently broken the general agreement,
Cardinal Manning, ex-Lord Mayor Whitehead, and Mr Buxton, M,P,, approve of the stand taken by the men who are demanding payment for meal times. The dispute is creating an angry discussion, the employers asserting that the action of the men is a breach of the September agreement. The Miners’ Federation demand that colliery wages be raised I per cent.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2000, 28 January 1890, Page 1
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171THE LABOR TROUBLES. Temuka Leader, Issue 2000, 28 January 1890, Page 1
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