TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 2 September 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

Enropeua tniAatrloaa- ' [United Frees Association]. London, August 80. - A meeting _of delegates from the various Trades Gounoils has been - sailed to organise a national defence fund.. London" is placarded with a manifesto of. the meeting. Tbo Newcastle abipowuera have decidod to join the proposed shipping union;, A scheme is afoot to form a free labor association, members of whioh are to. be non-unionists, This movement is in. opposition to the tcheme whioh' is 'being formed to turn the Dockers' Union co-operative . guild of restrict memberß. ' ■ ' The iOaily Telegraph denonnoea John Burns for introducing coercion into the labor agitation, and in the course of the same article warns the Trades Union Congress, whioh is to meet at Liverpool, against enoourag. ing the modorn developments of labor unions. The Shipping Gazette says that London is gradually losing its position as the centre of tho world's commerce. Capital, it remarks oannot be cribbed and confined by the dock who are better paid and work shorter hours than was the case previous to. tlie great dock strikes. " "■ 'lt is unlikely that the proposal to work the' docks on the co-operative principle will come to anything, both . shipowners and .dockers being opposed to it, The British Shipowners Protection Indemnity Unipnis being organise! . BmssL9i Augast29. There is great excitement amongit tho coalmmers at lions, and, ai adisturbance is feared, the Military $ being held in- readiness to vre< Sane order. .. .The strike of the switchmtd employed in the' railway stockyards inthisoityhas:c6Uap.sed;