LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2125, 15 November 1890, Page 1

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, Nov. 12. The co-operative system has been extended to the "Victoria docks. The London Association of Shipowners and Brokers, representing a million tons, have joined the Shipping Federation. They include the followiug shipping companies:—P. and 0., Orient, Currie and Company. The federatioo now numbers six and a half million tone. Mr William Morris, the poet, has abandoned the Socialistic league because of the " no rent" provision in the general strike manifesto having been adopted, and also owing to the league denouncing Mr H. H. Champion. In additiou to the sum of £14,000 already cabled to Australia, Mr G. Shipton, eocretary to the Trades and Labor Council, had intended to send a further sum of £3OOO and by votes' of the firemen's, seamen's, and dockers' unions hoped within the next six months to have remitted £50,000. Sydney, Nor. 12. .AH the Newcastle mines, except the Stockton, have resumed work. The Federated Cooks' and Stewards' Unions have advised its members to seek work whereyer they can get it. NEW ZEALAND. Wellington, Nov. IS. At a meeting of unionists f«vorable to the establishment of settlement, the proposals received from the (Government were discussed, and it was resolved to form an association to be koown bs the *' Union Special Settlement Association."