LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2119, 1 November 1890, Page 2

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, Oct. 28. At a conference of dockers’ delegates representing 250,000 man, resolutions iu favor of the federation of labor were c*nied. The sailors and firemen are insisting on the shipowners re-mgaging their old 6 crews. Messrs Shaw, Saville and Albion £ Company decline • to re-engage the Tainui’s crew, add are engaging fresh bands. The Bristol shipowners have agreed to lay up their vessels if ordered to de so by the Shipping Federation. i'he subscription lists in aid of the Australian strikers, which were distributed amongst the various unions, are made returnable before the 7ih November. .Sydney, Oct. 29.. The miners in the. Waijeeud,. Glebe, Stopkton, and Ferndaie mines have re- • solved not to ranine work until their position is clearly defined, Oct. 80. 1 Something like a split has occurred * in the labor camp, through the president of the 'Trades Hall and other leaders a>1 tending the farewell banquet given by , colonists to Lord Carrington. A deputation from the strikers waited | on Sir Henry Parkes to-day, requesting that the chairman of the Labor Defence . Committee be heard at the bar of the Hons<” f The Premier in reply said; that | he thought Parliament would not allow ( anyone to appear to state the views of 0 on?* party,on a great question concerning the public as a whole. 1 In the Douse of Assembly the Speaker ruled against hearing.a labor delegate at the bay of the House. , MpbBOURIfE, Oct. 30. ihe Strike Committee have accused employers of bribing the Press, and the latter have decided not to receive any further communications from the committee until a full retraction is made. NEW ZEALAND. Auckland, Oct. 31. The saddlers have decided to discontinue the strike levy, op the ground that the strike is practically at an end. Wellington, Got. 31. The Trades and L-bor Council have passed the following resolution. “ That this Council, whTs f as a Council avoiding action or anticipation in politics, deplore and condemn any l interference with ,ot disturbance^at,political meeting- 1 , and hereby calls upon all unionists under the banner of the Federated Trades Union Council to loyally assist in (ifie pjaiptenancp of order at all slid) gatherings, apd thereby k ae P secure the right of freedom of speech for political friend or foe alike.’' Oamaru, Get. 29, A strike took p'aca in a boot factory to-day, the hands objecting to work with . ana who had woiking on one of the Union Co.’s steamers. Dunedin, Oct. 29, The Manapouii, which left to-day, had on board sixty r one non-union men for the Q r eytpoutfi miups, A.npther eontisgont p joins ilia Wellington they will be j miijl hy a npm her from Auckland apd kb v/i:i he Stmt to Qreywiouih (ogeihef. Christohui ch, Get. 36. 1 t The following are beitev-d o ba the I o circumstances connected with tue mgotia- 1 v

'ions for a settlement of the strike. The shipping committee appointed Messrs L. Harper, Stead, Lambie, and A. H. Turnbud, a committee to endeavour to arrange a general conference. The sub-committee yesterday waited rn the Employers’ Association’s committee, . who passed a resolution refusing to confer with any trades not d'rec'ly i terested in the strike, refusing to negotiate with the Maritime Council, on the ground that it wrb a body wiih interests outside the colony, and refusing to meet Mr Millar as a delegate. The shipping subcommittee met repre- , sentatives of the lumpers, miners, and seamen, this afternoon, aed read the resolution of the Employers’ Association. The 1 boar rcpresen'atives maintained the right of the seaman to elect whom they thought fit to’ represent them, and declined to go on with the conference on the terms prop sed. Mr Millar declines to make a public statement, but it is under stood that the unionists were willing to work with non-unionists. They have telegraphed throughout the colony for the men to resume unconditionally, but will not recognise the Eoap'oyers’ Association, dealing only with employers individually. Gkexmouth, Oct. SO. At Denniston a free labourer was fined £5 and costs yesterday, for disorderly behaviour in challenging nnionsts to 6ght.

The miners he’d another meeting to-day, a'e in the afternoon. They agreed to accept the company’s tsrrns noconditiocally. About two huadered made application individually for work and their names were taken down. Possibly seventy or eighty will be taken on, but all free labourers who previously applied are cerlain to get work.