LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2670, 9 June 1894, Page 4

LABOUR, ETC.

London, June 6. The Home Secretary will act as arbiter in the cab strike.

It is expected that the strike will contine for some little time yet. The men are offering, on an average lis 6d per day, bnt the owners insist on payment of 13a lOd, and there seems very small prospect of a compromise being effected. New York, June 5. Strikers lying in ambush shot four miners in Powellton, Virginia. A number of men on strike in Farmersburg Indiana, attempted by means of dynamite to wreck a train carrying militia. The latter opened fire and killed four of the men.

The miners' strike in Cripple Creek dirtrict has been compromised on a basis of an eight hours day and three dollars wage. June 7. The strikers at McKeesport, Pittsburg, have mounted three cannon on an eminence commanding the line of railway along which the train bringing the marshals and troops must pass. Six thousand strikers are destroying property in the vicinity of the town. In Ohio the strikers have blocked the railway. The strike at Cripple Creek has been renewed, and the miners have occupied a fortified camp from which the police are preparing to forcibly eject them. The Senate will appoint a Commission to enquire as to the amount of distress prevalent throughout the United States.