LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2488, 11 April 1893, Page 4

LABOUR, ETC.

London, April G. Delegates representing one hundred thousand miners disapprove of the legal eight hours system. The Durham strike is fizzling out. The strike at Hull is spreading, aim military assistance has been demanded by the authorities. Two hundred and fifty additional free men are proceeding from London to Hull to replace those on strike. The employers have appealed to the Home Secretary for assistance. The firemen and seamen on T. S. Wilson and Sons, S. S. Bagley’s and Edward Leetham’s line of steamer’s, trading to Hull, have also gone out on strike. Detachments of the Scots Guards and First Dragoons have been sent to Hull to assist in preserving order. Twenty of the free labourers at Hull were seized with sickness after meals, and although their illuess is attributed to colic, it is suspected thair food has been poisoned, despite the assertion of the doctors to the contrary. All the seamen, firemen, and watermen in Hull have joined the strikers, and the Union intend to extend the strike to Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, and London. Mr Wilaou the shipowner, is under police protection. Messrs Wilson and Sons are still despatching steamers from Hull, despite the Opposition of the Unionists. Washington, April 5. Seventeen hundred carpenters engaged at the Chicago Exhibition have struck work. New York, April 5. An engine-driver fined by the Federal Court of Ohio for obeying tin directions of the trades union and refusing to move a train while on strike, has been imprisoned in default of payment of the money. The unionists assert that they will fight the judgment to the bitter end. April G. Carnegie’s employees at Homestead are organ a fresh strike. bi r DNET, April G. Replying to a dentation, the Minister of Public Works stated f lvat predicted severe distress during the U’ u t Qr -. added that over 200 members of clerical staff of his Department would be dismissed shortly, in order to carry out the policy of economy adopted by the Government. Wellington, April 7. The factory inspector is about to make a tour of the city, and enforce the law regarding the employment of children. It is stated that both boys and girls below the legal age are at work in some establishments.