LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2270, 22 October 1891, Page 1

LABOUR.

The engineers of tugs Monday in order to assist the Five-sixths of the empl conceded the demands, made by bookbiuders for recognition of the hours a day principle. . B A meeting, attended by 20,000 laborer* was held in Victoria Parkj to urge thel revival of the Oarron wharf strike. The carpenters return to work to- 1 morrow. Dunhdxn, Oct. 19. The new statement of the Master Bootmakers’ Association was to have come into operation to-day, and a number of. operatives acting under the impression that it waa in. force left the factories as ' they finished their work under the old statemenfu_[t is understood that the new statdmbrft has been withdrawn for the present, and that those who left work will" return in .a few days to see if a conference is arranged. It is understood that if no definite nows is received about the conference being arranged a large . number of operatives will leave by the Jubilee for Sydney. : ' , Early History, —At the RM. Court Christchurch two Cases concerning the" Early history of New Zealand ” were heard, and in one judgment was given against" tha publishers on the ground that no tender of the work had been made. In the second the defendant stated the canvasser agreed to take tt\e cost out ia buggy hire and had failed to do so. - There was no, 1 proof of this. wag 1 " for the publishers in this case, '• !