LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2174, 12 March 1891, Page 1

LABOR QUESTIONS.

London, March, 7. Fonr thousand of the Marquis of Londonderry's colliers hare again struck out of sympathy with the families evicted at Sslkswor'.h. Free seamen and firemen are available beyond the requirements of owuers. The dockers are yainly offering their services, owing to their placeß being filled up. . The undecided:attitude of.the P. and O. Company towards the Shipping Federation's programmes is the cause of gome remark. lhe dockers, stevedores and coalheavers desire to buy out the tree laborers. March 9. Mr Parneli is advising the Irish working classes to join with the English working classes in seeking to obtain alterations of the labor la«s, and thus remove the oppression which exists in many iudostries. The Glasgow and Liverpool branches of the teamen's Union have refnsed to join in a general strike. March 10. the trustees of the Seamen's Union, objecting to provide fuuds for (he strike, Mr Wilson, secretary of the union, accepts the federation ticket, Beisbanb, March 9. A serious disturbance took place yesterday at Clernunt. Several members of the Pdstoralist's Executive arrived without; previovsly informing the police, and over two hundred mounted unionists attacked them. Sergeant Donneli er« deavored to proteci them, and succeeded in keeping the rioter 9 at bay until the carriage escaped down a narrow lane, but he wbb severely wounded ia the head with a a ton", March 10. A emill force of police and military succeeded in arreting four of the uaionist ringleaders concerned in the disturbance at Clermont on Sunday. The Central Council has ordered a general call tut on the I6ih ins'., but it is stated that tbe railway men and town unionists are not included in the call, In some quarters, however, it is expected that these also will ba called out.

Melbourne, March 10. An fXtrß charge of a penny a dozen for evening newspapers h*B caused the newsboys to strike. They took active "means to prevent others selling papers, and the result was that very few were sold in the streets Numbers of police armed with whips guarded the various newspaper offices,

Small Birds' Pest.—The Levels Road Board has paid for 20,455| dozen small birds' egg? and hß*da this year. An OtMgo settler is said to huve protected his crops from the ravages of suihll birds by encouraging hawks to hang about (providing food for them in the Bhape of dead jabbitß hung on poles, etc.),