LABOUR, ETC.
New York, April 13. Ten thousand miners have been looked out in Chicago for refusing to sever their connect ion with the labour agitators. The want of harmony between the employers has prevented an additional 6000 being locked out. A thousand workmen who were marching to Washington to demand reforms in Congress, have seized a train at Wyoming. Sydney, April 13. The report of the Labor bureau shows that during the past six months 8000 men were sent into the country to fossick for gold and that the city had been nearly cleared of unemployed. About £4OOO had been refunded by the men whom the bureau had assisted. April 15. The Federal Council of the Pastoralists’ Union have given notice of the termination of their agreement with the shearers. The new agreement contains only minor and unimportant alterations. Shearing rates are practically unchanged, the principal addition being the equalisation of earnings as between hand-shears and machine-shears. Melbourne, April 14. The Melbourne Trades and Labor Council is sending, through Mr John Burns, M.F., a protest against the Imperial authorities sudsidisiug mail steamers employing coolie labor.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2647, 17 April 1894, Page 1
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186LABOUR, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2647, 17 April 1894, Page 1
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