LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2145, 3 January 1891, Page 3

LABOR QUESTIONS.

The d*ock labourers it Hull have struck work, owing to the Shipping Federation having employed free labour to assist in working ships. The owners decUre that it Is much better to have vessels lying idle than to put up with the tyranny of the Seamen’s and Firemen’s 'Jnion.

Traffic on the Great Eastern Railway and the Scotch railway lines is increasing, and the men are slowly returning to work.

There is a feeling prevalent in Glasgow against Edinburgh in favor of the strikers.

The railway strikers at Edinburgh are obstinate, The railway strike has collapsed on the London and South-Western and Caledonian Company’s lines. Sydney, Jan, 1.

The free seamen engaged in the coastal trade are being subjected to great annoyance by the unionists working with them, In may cases the latter have destroyed all their clothes.

The Pastoraliats’ Union in Australia have decided to make a levy of 10s per tbonsmd sheep, and 15d per head on cattle, on members in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, in order that they may be fully prepared with funds to meet any difficulty that may arise with regard to labor during the coming woo! season,

He (at breakfast) “ Are you fond of fish balls ?” She (from the country) : “ Ob, I don’t know ; I never attended any.”