LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2082, 7 August 1890, Page 3

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, August 4, The railway men in the counties ad» jacent to South Wales have signified their intention of supporting the strikers. The railway men are willing to accept Lord Braaaey and Lord Aberdare as arbitrators. If the owners do not agree a hundred thousand men will be idle on Wednesday, and a quarter of a million workmen will be affected by the strike.

August 6.

The Newcastle dockers have refused to unload six ships carrying Danish produce, nod the services of the crew aod (ho clerks of the consignees have been secured to discharge the vessels. Sydkbt, August 5.

The shearers have decided to inflict a minimum fine ot £5 and a maximum of £lO on blacklegs seeking to pin the anion. The marine officers have decided that unless the owners agree to a compromise the members will withdraw from the boats on the 15th. The threatened strike of the Lithgow miners, owing to the employment of blacklegs, has been averted by the masters agreeing to discharge the non-union men. The steamer Jaoet Nicoll h»s returned from her (rip to the Islands, but the wharf laborers refuse to discharge her on the ground that she is manned by a colored crew.

Wellington, August S

At a meeting of the Federated Wharf Laborers’ Union it was decided to stand by the Maritime Council in any action they tike with regard to Messrs Wbitoombe and Tombs’ dispute. Chbistohbboh August 5.

Re Whitcombe and Tombs, the feeling in Lyttelton is that if exrema measures are taken labour will gain the day. Latbb, Thera is little fresh about the Whitcombe aod Tombs difficulty, Mr Whilcombe was a passenger by the Wairarapa, which left for Dunedin this afternoon. It is understood that the firm are bringing an action for £SOOO damages against Anthony Sellars and Co., printers of the Trades and Labour Chronicle, for libel.

At the private meeting convened in the Chamber of Commerce room, nothing was done on account of the small attendance. large meeting of the Canterbury breach of the Railway Employes unanimously resolved amidst applause—“ That the members of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand pre* sent at this meeting pledge themselves to faithfully carry out the instructions of the Executive whenever called upon to do so re boycotting all goods consigned to or from the firm of Whitcomhe and Tombs. That they will not handle any package coming to or from that firm, and that they wifi not conduct any train or drive or fire any locomotive coupled to any train which is known to carry any goods in connection with that firm,”

Several speeches were delivered in fa\jo? of offering arbitration and exhaling all pacific means of settling the. difficulty before resorting ext ro iba measures, and of holding nut the last extremity should the matter result in a contest. It was decided to ask the executive of the Maritime Council to come to Christchurch, The Wharf Laborers Union, the Typographical Association, the Trades and Labor Co.annil, the Qamers' Union, and the Assistants Union were represented, and the representatives expressed their willingness to assist to their utmost.