LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2397, 18 August 1892, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC.

London, Aug. IE On-; hundred thousand "Welsh miners art; to be reduced -I- per mudin their wages. Aug.^lo. d'lio programme for the 'Trades Union Congress, which meets on September nth includes proposals for an international congress op the eight hours’ question, legal instead of optional eight hours system, and the introduction of a decimal system. Paws. Aug. 15. Pour thousand cabmen have struck work, and dOOU omnibus men also threaten to go out. Wasuixotox, Aug 10. Two hundred cars have been burned by strikers, on the Lehcight and Erie Railways. The Tracc.y City miners have carried off a number of convict labourers despite the eifurts of the police.

New York, Aug. lu. The miners of Tracy City,Tennessee, seized a number of convict labourers, put them on board a train, and deported him from the city. The miners of Tracy City killed several of the convicts whom they seized. The Governor of the State declares that he will order the ringleaders of the outrage to be shot in the event ot their being captured. The switchmen of New York and Lake Erie, Western Leheight, and Buffalo Creek railways have struck for higher wages. The strikers fired on two trains consisting of sixty carriages and on the houses occupied by the watchmen. They also derailed a passenger train, but fortunately this act was not accompanied by loss of life. The police and soldiers are restoring order.