LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2554, 12 September 1893, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC.

London, Sept. 7,

Much rioting has taken place in Leeds and district. Eight thousand colliers, many of them armed with weapons, brutally hunted off the freemen, and compelled the owners to discontinue employing them. The police are unable to cope with the rioters.

The military have maintained order in Derbyshire. Much violence was displayed in the Sheffield and Nottingham districts. Troops have reached Barnsley.

The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Railway Companies have stopped- fiftyfive, and the Midland Railway Company fourteen, additional trains owing to the want of coal.

Mr Ben Tillet, speaking at the Trades Congress, said that every year the opposition to a legal eight hours lessens. Sept. 8.

The police at Dewsbury were stoned and driven back. They afterwards armed themselves with cutlasses, charged repeatedly, and pursued the rioterJTfor miles. Safes were looted and the interior of the manager’s house utterly wrecked. Wine cellars were pillaged, and also the houses of the free labourers, women and children being driven out of them. Fifty trucks were thrown down the mouth of a pit.. At Sheffield the rioters stormed and burned the coal sheds at tfio Manchester and Sheffield railway. Ten thousand men assembled in the vicinity of Pontefract, burned the timber yards and pit shafting and looted the shops, 'Rioting went on for seven hours till a magistrate was found who read the Riot Act, The troops then fired on the mob, wounding five and killing one, and afterwards charged with the bayonet. A thousand policemen will be sent from London to Dewsbury and Prmf fifrflrvh

The Belfast Congress has resolved to ask Parliament to affirm the eight hours princjpjs, allowing auy trade so desiring to exempt itself.

Further rioting took place at Featherstone. The soldiers fired on the mob, killing on§ ajnd wounding eight. Serious rioting haa taken place at .Nottingham, and the local police force have, been strengthened by the addition oi 150 men from London.

A sljaj&eof anarchy prevails in Yorkshire* >Tlie crops have been destroyed and the public houses on the highways Backed. Troops are converging ojj the troubled centres,,

Sept. 9,

Another of those who took part in the miner's strike at Featherstone has succumbed to his injuries.

The Belfast Congress passed a resolution, expressing condolence with the families of the victims, and resolved that it was the duty of 'he she Government to provide honorable and profitable employment for the unemployed. The Daily News regrets that the Congress did not condemn the riots. Melbourne, Sept. 8.

A conference between the shipowners and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, regarding the rate of wages on intercolonial steamers, has been adjourned for a week.

Brisbane, Sept. 9.

The strike at Nerigileo station has collapsed and the strikers have dispersed over the country.

Napier, Sept. 8,

At the annual meeting of the Free Association of Employers and Workmen of Hawke's Bay, yesterday, the report stated that the working members had increased to 2084. The income was £834 and th<3 expenditure £389, the chief item Wng £IOO paid to working men. mm met with accidents during tIVJ year- # The balance in hand was £525. Situations had been found for 193 members, making a total of 450 since the formation of the Association. There was some discuaaion on a proposal to charge working members a snail membership fee, nothing now being asked from them, but no alteration was made. The utmost confidence was expressed that in the event of another maritime or wharf labourers' strike there would not be th© slightest difficulty in working the port.