LABOUR, ETC.
London, Oot. 9. The Mayors advise that the miners should resume work at the old rate of wages, submitting to a reduction of 10 per cent, early iu December. The mine-owners and men have agreed to hold another conference, when a proposal to return to the former rate of wages will be considered, conditional on the railway and gas companies raising the price of existing contracts. lielief committees at Sheffield distributed bread among the distressed people. The miners’ wives fought for admittance to the schoolhouses which were used for the purpose, an I several fainted. Melbourne, Oct. 10.
The Engineers' Society have called out the engineers owing to the refusal of the owners to continue the agreement respecting wages. New men are being shipped. The strike is likely to spread. Sydney, Oct. 9.
Owing, to a slackness in trade, unequalled in the history of Newcastle, the services of several hundred miners have been dispensed with, and other collieries are only working a fraction of time.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2567, 12 October 1893, Page 1
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167LABOUR, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2567, 12 October 1893, Page 1
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