LABOR QUESTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2172, 7 March 1891, Page 4

LABOR QUESTION.

London, March 3. The Unions threaten to call on' 30,000 seamen and and fireman if the feiuration ticket L made <ompu'sory. ; Thejibipping Fedemtinn f-xperience no difficulty in working thirteen ships at the Albert Docks which were blocked by waterside Unions. Owing (o the difficulty with the Onions a Cardiff shipping firm with a capital of £60,000 has resolved to remove to Antwerp. March 4. The dockers are returning to work. They have withdrawn their delegates from the joint labor committee and refuse to join the gen°ral strike. The s'rifcers at,Cardiff are appealing to the Shipping Federation to arrange a settlement of the dispute. Fifteen out of sixty blast furnaces have been relighted, Mr J, B. Patterson, ex-Commiasioner of Customs in Victoria, in addressing a gathering of workmen at Alnwick, declared that a universal strike meant universal starvation. Tbs shipping strike is spreading northward, and the port of Aberdeen is now blocked. Efforts have been made to induce Mr Gosohen to act as chairman of the Labor Commission, Berlin, March 4. ■"'l he Emperor states that he is determined to find a remedy for lh« crying injustice under which the laboring classes suffer, but he dispprovea of irresponsible agitators. Brisbane, March 5. A large force of Unionists have left ftr Logan Downs to intercept free laborers. The Rockhampton Labor Council has issued a general appeal for assistance for the shearers, Dunedin, March 2. The Operative Tailors’ Hociely have voted £lO to the Denniaton miners, and the Tai'oresses Union have made • gift of the £3O which they gave as a loan a short lime ago.