LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2363, 31 May 1892, Page 1

LABOUR.

London, May 26. It is rumoured that the Miners’ Federation are considering the propriety of a general stoppage of work in the coal mines in order to assist the Durham miners on strike. May 27. At a meeting of the London. County Council, amotion, proposed by Mr John Burns, that the Council should pay Union wages was adopted. The Bishop of Durham urges the mineowners in Durham to allow the reduction of 10 per cent, in the men’s wages to stand as it is and to refer the 3) per cent, to arbitration.

In response to a petition to the Queen asking her intervention, a refusalhas been received.

15,000 miners have, at a meeting, decided not to register any votes for colliery proprietors at the General Election. The Durham colliery-owners, in a published manifesto, assert that the condition of the coal trade compelled them to make a reduction in the men’s wages. They promised to submit disputes to arbitration in future.

The evidence given before the Royal Labor Commission showed that railway guards were frequently on duty for eighteen hours a day. Some of the witnesses declared that the companies were hostile to unionism, and dismissed the loaders of any society which was formed for the protection of the employees’ interest.

The miners on strike in Durham are asking the London Trade Unions to assist them. Sydney, May 27. Tilery is a depression in the northern coal trade and the Young Wallsend, Great Northern, Monkwearmouth, and Maitland collieries have ceased work, causing great distress among the piinyrs,.

AMERICAN DISASTERS,

New York, May 27

A cyclone swept over Wellington, in Kansas, and caused considerable damage. Tim opera-house, four newspaper offices, a foundry, and four squares of houses, were destroyed. It is estimated that 500 persons were killed or injured, and as the debris is all ablaze it is hard to say what extent the damage may bo. The city of Arkansas is submerged by floods, which have occasioned great loss ox life. The railways are stopped. ’The rivers are still rising and the floods are increasing.