LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2671, 12 June 1894, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC.

London, June 8. The Scottish miners are in favor of a strike against the reduction of wages which comes into operation on the 24th inst. \ Speaking at a meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce,Mr Inglia, member of the New South Wales Parliament, said the New Unionists in Australia were discredited and the old methods were being revived. The supporters of the latter used Parliamentary power with more wisdom. He urged merchants to combine to reduce freights to the colonies. Washington, June 8.

Twelve hundred troops have been sent to Ohio to raise the blockade of the coal trains, which is causing a coal famine. The strikers in other districts are showing a considerable amount of violence. They are seizing mines and burning railway bridges. At Preoria, in Illinois, a mob of a thousand strikers blew up a powder magazine. A fight ensued with non-unionists, in which two of the latter were killed and a number mortally wounded. New York, June 9. >

Indecisive fighting has taken place at Cripple Creek between the strikers and police. The latter used gatling guns. Collisions have occurred between the strikers and police in Cleveland and Ohio. Sydney, June 10. At a meeting of bakers it was reported that of 42 members who supported a motion boycotting emplopers, thirty were unemployed, and interested in having the motion passed. A statement was also made that a number of these had since taken work at non-union rates, consequently the Union will declare the boycott off.

At a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Amalgamated Railway Servants, several suggestions for consideration at next conference were passed. A motion that steps be taken to obtain on old age pension scheme was lost, and it was resolved that all consideration of insurance or pension schemes be deferred till the Governments’s intentions in that direction were definitely known. It was resolved to draw the Government’s attention to the necessity of permanently settling the unemployed difficulty by State farms and State factories and by a general policy providing work for the unemployed during times of depression, the necessary funds for which might be raised by a special graduated and progressive tax upon all incomes. The establishment of a labor parliament as proposed by the Wellington Trades and Labor Council was agreed to. The Minister of Lands has offered to place ten of the Oamaru unemployed on the bush farms at Gatlins, They would receive from 30a to 36a per acre for felling bush, and would be allowed to take up 50 or 100 acres on lease.