LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2036, 22 April 1890, Page 4

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, April 17. It has been agreed between bootmakers and their employers to refer the wages dispute to arbitration. After a stormy meeting between the representatives of workmen and the Chamber of Commerce, it was ultimately decided that twelve trades should bo represented on the Conciliation Com. mittee. The men assert the master bootmakers are shuffling, and insist that the question of enhrging and improving workshops shall be promptly settled, The Trade Anions have published a manifesto stating May Ist is unsuitable lor the eight hours' demonstration in Hyde Park and appointing Sunday, May 4»b, instead, Arrangements are being made to enforce order during the May demonstration. Beiilin, April 17. The Socialists declare that the lubor demonstration on Ist May will be carried out everywhere without any disorder. April 18.

The disturbance, created by the Silef ian miners still continues, Forty thousand miners are pillaging villages and menacing townsmen, and are also preventing handa engaged at various factories from going to work, thus compelling the. factories to cease operations. There have been repeated conflicts between the rioters and the military, who were called out to restore order, during which many of the strikers were killed and wounded. Vienna, April 18. The strikers in Austria are fighting. April 19, The Austrian Government have advised the masters to assist the labor demonstration on May Ist, A manifesto issued by the National Federation to the English Trades Unions insists that they should adhere to the Ist May as the day ou which to hold the labor demonstration. It is improbable that the Unions will accept this, having already chosen the 4th of May as a more convenient day. Warsaw, April 19. A conflict has taken place between the military and the miueis on strike at Wilkowilzi, Sixty were Jirrestod and three killed, At the prison tUo prisoners

attacked the sentries, ami tweniy of ibo former escaped in the excitomi'Ut. Chicago, Apiil 18. The bujlding trade in. this city is practically ot a statidsliil owing to the .strike of carpenters. Tne strike has to luiJianopo'is, where a large number of carpenters have gone out. Twenty-five thousand carpenters are going out on strike, but it is hoped that the difference will be settled by arbitration.