LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2251, 8 September 1891, Page 1

LABOUR.

London, Sept. 3. Mr Mann is urging upon the trade unionists that it is a waste of energy to send their best organisers to Parliament, and that the movement is premature.

The strike of engineers in the Thames ironworks has ended in the directors conceding their demands. Sept. 5.

There is a renewed agitation among the employes of the omnibus companies, and a strike is threatened. It is alleged that the companies are infringing the agreement arrived at at the last strike.

The Tyne shipholders have decided to reduce in October the wages of 10,000 men b'y 5 per cent. The situation in the manufacturing districts and on the Continent is ve,ry bad.

The Congress p| eolliery managers have raiT}e,4resoiutions,strongry opposing statutory eight hour's work in mines. Sept. 6.

Five hundred delegates, representing 2,000,000 workers, will attend the congress at Newcastle.

The Tpadea Union Congress, Bitting at Ijondon, gives a solid vote on the question of a legal eight hours, Pakis, Sept. 6. A laborr dispute is occuring in woollen factories in the north of France.

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