LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2071, 12 July 1890, Page 1

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, July 7

Specials are being drilled in the performance of police duty, and their services will be utilised in the eyent of a strike.

July 8

Considerable excitement was caused at the'Post-Office- by (he sorters belonging to the'union expelling blacklegs.

Under the influence of the older men the police reserves maintain their loyally and the agitation is settling down. Many rioters will be prosecuted, ineluding John Williams, the Socialist. Twenty-one constables have been suspended. The dismissed constables have petitioned the Commissioners to be reinstated.

Ihe police strike has collapsed, and the men, have resumed their duties everywhere unconditionally. 'Jhere is no disorder in the streets, and the crowd i& ; dwindling away. The military have been withdrawn. It has now transpired that the constables at Bow street refused to fall in for parade, but ultimately the majority agreed to proceed on their beats. The minority forcibly endeavored to prevent them from doing so, and several scrimmages were the result. Constables from other districts are filling the places of the men mil on strike. The mobs in the streets were dispersed by the Life The postmen will not strike provided blacklegs; are not employed. The Trades and Labor Council, will in the meantime negotiate wi h Mr Cecil Baikes, and endeavor to persuade him to recognise the right of Vhe men to hold meetings. The council will also ask that the men who have been dismissed be reinstated that the rate of wages be fixed, and that the men be allowed to form a union, July 9. Since the commencement of the strike some of the troops have been roughly handled and several were injured by stones and bottles thrown from among the crowd. The Yorkshire regiment has arrived to assist the Household Brigade in London police duties. The police complain of the meagre support extended to them by the public, and all danger of a ,Blrike has been averted. The postmen intimate that deliveries will ba refused, to-day if blacklegs are still employed, July 10. A meeting of 4000 postman was held at Curaberwel 1 , Surrey, at midnight, when complaints were mad- of blacklegs being concealed in the vau ts of the Central office. The sorters have joined the union. The unionists ejected blacklegs from the parcel depar ruent of the p >st office. Barricades were erected in the letter department, behind which a few bands worked under the protection of the police. The unionists finally resumed work. Meanwhile deliveries have been resumed, upon the Postmaster-General promising to remove the blacklegs pending the settlement of the general claims. The charge of rioting against John Williams, the Socialist, was not proved, and ha was discharged. The masters having conceded the demands of the Dublin coal potters the strike has ended. A hundred men who joined in attacking the blacklegs engaged in the parcel department of the post office have been dismissed.

The policeman who have been dismissed complain that they were deserted by. their comrades, and insist on being reinstated.

Renewed rioting occurred in Bow street tn-dsy, and sixteen arrests were effected,

Wellington, July 9

The Hon. George McLean had a meeting with all the officers in port this afternoon, and discussed the difficulty very carefully with them. The threat to strike was withdrawn,and the dispute will be submitted to the Maritime Council, which will sit in Wellington on Monday, next.