TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3589, 16 August 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

London, August 18. Signal boxes have been burned by tho strikers to prevent the. lines being worked. The Royal Engineers have been asked 10 work the railways. August 14. The military bavo been despatched to Birmingham.

The Btrikes in South Wales affect 70,000 people, Tho prospects of accommodation boing arrived at are improving. Rioting, followed by a'strike, has occurred among the workmen at tho quarries on Mr Parnell's estate, The Postmaster-General has reinstated 60 postmen.. Tho Dublin and Wexford Railway strike has-collapsed, Tho losses by tho Cardiff strikes are estimated already at a quarter of a million.

Sydney, August 15. At iioou to-day the officers of tho BteamsUipa give the owners 21 hours' notico of their intention to leave the vessels/and tho seamen will shortly follow.' Newcastle, August 15. Owing to threatened strikes a great deal of impetus lias been given to the coal trade, and heavy freights have been secured. Melbourne, August 15.

The shearers' Union are making preparation to prevent the shipping of non-union shorn wool,: and a systematic boycott has been established. Oii the other hand, shoepownors and employers, of labor are completing arrangements to resist tie attack of tho unionists,

• Fearing a strike, the Eailway Commisioners have secured a fortnight's supply of coal, and have arranged fof further supplies to run trains in the event of the strike being a protracted one.