THE LABOR TROUBLES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2028, 3 April 1890, Page 1

THE LABOR TROUBLES.

London, March 29. The children of the strikers in Liverpool are starving. Men stoned the blacklegs. March 31, The strike among the Medway lightermen is extending. The Metropolitan Gas Company have refused to employ unionists, owing to the threat of the leaders to strike without notice. The Durham colliers demand improved sanitation and housing. I The London Dock Union have voted £IOOO in aid of the Liverpool strikers. Madrid, March 31. Twenty thousand Trade Unionists' in .Catalonia, a province in the N.E. of Spain, have gone out on strike. April 1. The trade unionists in Catalonia have gone out on strike, demanding a reduction in the number of working hours. Berlin, March 29. The Kaiser is hopeful of eventually bringing round the French and Swiss to the views of the Labor Conference. The latter farther recommends that the difference between mine owners and colliers should be settled by arbitration, and inspection of mines should be improved; children under twelve should not be employed in factories, and women under twentyone should not be allowed to work at night or on Sundays. All the delegates except those from France voted in favor of Sunday as a day of rest. Sir J, Gorst, speaking at the Labor « Conference, said women and children i would haye reason to bless the Ktim* j

Vienna, April 1. Fifteen thousand masons engaged in this city have gone out on strike, demanding nine hours' labour. Their action has resulted in throwing 30,000 artisans out of work. Sydney, April 1. The International Wharf Labourers' Conference have agreed to federation. The objects are to devise means of sett'ement of differences with employers by the aggregation of power, and to enforce legitimate and necessary claim's where a single union finds the task beyond its strength. It has also been decided to ask for consolidating measures respecting eight hours labour, and to take steps to secure the direct representation of labour in Parliament. The conference have also agreed that steps should ultimately be taken to establish a minimum rate of wages paid to men and women in Australia.