LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2090, 26 August 1890, Page 4

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, Aug, 21. The laborers at Tilbury docks who went out on strike demanding the expulsion of non-unionists have gained the day. Aug. 22. The dockers and others have arranged to allow Mr John Bums £3 per week. The dock laborers propose to form a company to load and unload vessels on the co-operative principle. Th - owners are favorable to the project. The lenders of the labor organisation have censured the Tilbury dock laborers for striking for the expulsion, of nonunionist men. The dockers have sullenly given way and resumed work. ; The strike among, the riveters- of Staffordshire and Worcestershire has ended. The masterst have given way and th a men have resumed work.

The, difficulty, between the Seamen’? Union and the Danish steamers,in which the former insisted on foreign sailors being paid the same rates as those in English steamers, has been settled by a compromise being effected, and the threatened boycott of the north-east ports has been averted;There is a prevalent feeling of satisfaction here that Australia is suffering from the consequences of a dock strike; as it is recognised that .colonial help stimulated many of the recent’ labor troubles in Great Britain. Brussels, Aug. 21. Eight thousand colliers have gone on strike, the men jefosing to accept a redaction in their wages. Aug. 22. The strike among the colliers is eXr tendih'g, and*l2,ooo men are now out. Berlin, Aug. 22. The Emperor William has sent delegates to Lancashire to ascertain and enquire into the working of the labor I laws there, ; M New York, Aug, 22.

The Knights of Labor threaten to call out on strike all the hands engaged on Vanderbilt’s railways in New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati!, and St. Louis.

Serious reperts are received from Governor-Illiner as to the New York Central Railway strike. The porters of the Chicago NorthWestern Railway, and the engineers ancj firemen have struck for higher wages, and the result is that the railway track is filled with meat trains. Melbourne, Aug. 22. The Shearers Union numbers 25,000 men, end the president threatens rebellion if their demands are not complied with. Two squatters have put down £SOOO each to fight the shearers. In Brisbane and Adelaide ibe employers are combining to crush the anions, and expect to do. so. Sydney, Aug. 22. Large quantities of Custom-house goods are being cleared out of bond in anticipation of a general strike,, Wharf laborers discharge perishable goods only. The weekly contributions of the labor organisations amount to £20,000 per week. 6000 men are on strike, and many more may go out yet, Th-* unemployed are being provided with board and lodgings to prevent them going to work, Employers of labor propose to prosecute the men for conspiracy. There is a fortnight’s supply of potatoes and ■ month’s supply of oats. Butter is 3s 6d per lb ; onions have risen £3, chaff 10j. ...; ■; . Aug. 23. The Broken Hill miners promise to contribute £IO,OOO per week to the strike fund. The Engineers’ Association have decided ■;that the marine members shall give twenty-four hours’ notice this morning. Aug, 24. The shipowners’ conference at Albury was concluded last night. The meeting was a thorongbly representative one, delegates from every Australian company being present. The question of a general revision of ships’ articles, the complement of men to bo carried, the rate of wages, and hours of labor were discussed and left with ' a board of experts to deal with. In the matter of the demands of the Mercantile Marine Officers’ Association it was unanimously agreed that no officer should be given command of a vessel if he was connected with any association affiliated to any labor organisation. It was also unanimously agreed that no free labor engaged during the strike be Discharged at the termination, of the struggle, provided that such Tabor was competent and was of good behaviour. A letter to the Seamen’s Union was drafted, which after traversing the whole difficulty says :—“For the owners to pay away enormous additional sums per annum simply means that the vessels are to be run at a loss, and therefore the simple alternative is,not to run the steamers at all. We may inform you that the owners are now preparing new articles under which they will be shortly ready to offer employment, and tha intended rate of wages. The hours of labor and other conditions will be revised with a view of a more eqnitable and. satisfactory adjustment of the relations between the shipowners and The employes,” Adelaide, Aug. 23. The flour mills are closing owing to shortness of fuel.

NEW ZEALAND. The Auckland tramway difficulty is settled. The 3awkes Bay Herald and the Telegraph complain ot being threatened with a boycott because they support Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs.

iheta are prospects of jseUjtpg; th)‘ Greymouth coal difficulty,- '- ! ;

Three thousand unions are affiliated with the Trades and Labor Council, and others are coming in. i

The Maritime Council are endjeayowng to exclude New Zealand boats froraijth'effects of the, boycott in Syfijney> ~ j Aug. 25. j , The men employed,by the HarJ>tjf Board in discharging the dredging punts, who are. members of the-Unioij, were, called out yesterday because board’s engineer would not agree to pay tbem.< Is. Bd-' per hour. Th» meniwerje, getting Is an hour, an 1; were :fn'l|y-satisfied,-it is said, with their pay. Eight weejis l ago there were only two, unions in Hawke’s,Bay, There-are now. six, with seveni or eight : hundred members. - : ! ;

Wellington, Aug. 24. | A, largely, attended meeting of men--chants and employers of labor was heljii last night, forrt an association’ in the interests of mil ployers of-labor, with the object df projyiding a recognised , body- to deaj with the representatives of labor in all mattery affecting ; their common Jnteresta. Ij Wfis decided (hat the: association shall b| non political, and to - so 'ici l the coj.operation, of merchants, and employers "throughout tbp colony. ! Westport, Aug. 23. j The Coal Miners’ £ asocial ion have boycotted; coal from Waimangardajcoa mine. The property is a small one, and is being developed by a party of cba mmers-who are principally interested it it. The men, threatened are preparing 10, go quietly; on with, tbeir workjvanrl the Union Company-,will . take the coal. Chrisiohurcn,. Aug. .24.

A largely attended meeting of Goj vernraent servants, held on Saturday night in the Provincial Council under the presidency of Mr J, H. Commissioner of Lands, unanimously passed the resolution proposed by Mr Beetham, RM,, for joining the Public Service Association,

A meeting, of about 80 unionists and others was-held on Saturday night, andj carried, after * long discussion, a motiorj in favor of forming a political association for'advancing the interests of the in : dustrial -classes in /Parliaments by securing the, equitable adjustment of laws * affecting wage-earners and' the retention, of the land of the colony by the people and for the people, , Dunedin, Aug. 23. j

Mr Millar, secretary to the Maritime Council, cannot give a definite pending the shipowners’ conference, as to whether the, Australian.shipping die? pate will affect New Zealand trade; He is endeavoring up to the, present to prevent the 17,8,8, Co.’s boats- being affected by the difficulty, but if a genera) strike is resolved upon it is probable the order to cease work will extend to them*