LABOUR, ETC.
London, April 30. The Hull dockers are depressed, and many of them are famishing. Three thousand London dockers have resolved to go out on strike to-day unless the Shipping Federation men at the Victoiia Docks are withdrawn. Burns is averse to the proposed national strike, which he regards as madne3s, but Keir Hardie and H. Wilson are in favour of the proposal being cabled out, May 1. The dockers' strike iu London has fizzled out.
The Ist of May labour processions on the Continent have passed off quietly. It is rumoured that a conph'acy has been discovered to dynamite the ships at Hull which are manned and worked by nqn-Unionists. Tea thousand m' ' workers in Dundee have stmck as a protest against a reduction ?*i their wages.
Welunoton, May 2
The Painters' Sopiety have struck off their rqll those members who took cooperative contracts to paint the Supreme Comt and Police Station. This was done at the instance of the maiter painters, who declared that the action of the men was ai infringement of the rule prohibiting members from taking up contracts, and if it was not stopped they wou'd run their business on non-union principles.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2498, 4 May 1893, Page 1
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198LABOUR, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2498, 4 May 1893, Page 1
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