LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2072, 15 July 1890, Page 4

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, duly 10

The mail deliveries due have been delayed owing to the (rouble in the several dis'rict offices. A hundred postmen at Leicester Square have been dismissed. Jhe po'ice are forming a council jto advocate their demands. Bow streetsis quiet. It is rumored (hat the Prince |of Wales is interceding with the Hoipe Secretary in favor of (he force, A hundred postmen belonging to the parcels department at Mount Pleasant were dismissed for attacking blacklegs!. A meeting of two thousand postmpn at Clerkenwell resolved to strike before the first delivery to-day unless the blacklegs ate withdrawn. The departments willing to do so if the men will promise not to strike, but they decline. July 11.' Sir Arthur Blackwood, secretary to the Post Office, personally discharged ibe riotous bands at Mount Pleasant, and afterwards proceeded to the central office, where the blacklegs were working alongside the regular postmen, guarded by policemen, ‘“'wing to his influence with the men they succumbed ani delivered the mails. At. a meeting of a thousand sorters a resolution was passed condemning any concession on the part, of the union unless the contingent demands were con ceded as well as the majn points in the dispute. In accordance with a resol'i-ion passed at a meeting of unionists 100 postmpn of the eastern and northern districts have struck, and a procession comprising 300 postmen will march to the West lind with a view of gaining adherents,! Melbourne, July H i The associated steamship owners are organising mutual support in view of possible troub e with the Marine Officers’ Association, Sydney, July 13. . The Shearers Union have notified the squatters that they have arranged with all the waterside unions to combine to prevent the shipment of wool sheared by non-onion labor, Auckland, July 12, The difficulty between tbs Tramway Company and their employes has been settled by the negotiations of the Knights of Labor, and the company have signed an agreement that no employe shall have to work more than tfen hours a day. 1 A Saddlers Union has been formed. Those in the Trade complain of T the excess of floy labor. Westfort, July 12. There is some fear of a difficulty at the Denoiston coal mine, Jbe manager has discharged a man, and the union demand his reinstatement or they wilt cease work on Monday. Grbyjcouth, July 13. The difficulty between the miners and the Grey Valley Coal Company is still unadjusted, but it has been n solved to meet the demands of the miners by granting them another week to enable them to examine the books of the company at Dnnedin, It appears that no expert was appointed last week, unless it was done on Friday or Saturday Hie men consider that the surface staff of the three mines is altogether too costly, and out of proportion to the number of coal hewers employed in the mines, and that if reductions must be' made they should be m ule all round ; that it is too much to ask the hewers to submit to a2O per cent, reduction. The advocates of the company, on the other hand, contend that the coal hewers do not perform the amount of work they should do in the time they are supposed to work, and th.i consequently the cost of the output is increased so much per ton, the result being • serious loss to the company, who are compelled to maintain a large permanent staff for each mine besides, truckers and those who have to maintain the roads. Alog-ther the question is v>ry complicated. In the meantime work will go on uninterruptedly for ano hrr week. According to presen 1 appearances there seems to be little probability of either the men or the company giving in.