TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3604, 3 September 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

THE POSITION IN AUSTRALIA, MEETING OFEMPLOYERS, . MONETARYASSISTANCE, [United Presß Association]. 1 Melbourne, September 2. The Seamen's Union have decided not to call the sailors out of the llonowai, but to leave this to be done upon the return of the vessel to New Zealand if necessary. Fourteen hundred special constables have been sworn in. The lawyers and clerks have offered their services iu a body. The legal profession lias subscribed £BOOO to the Empleyers' Fund, Dalgety & Co., of London, have cabled, sending £IO,OOO to tho same fund, Sydney, September 2, The Orient Company's mailsteamer Oruba left up to time. The Mararoa is discharging by the help ef free labour. Fully 100 men are employed on the 1 Union Company's wharf, The stevedores hfwe formed an association whioh has the full support 1 of the southern' collieries and the 1 Steamship Ownevß' Association. After Bth September tho Gas Com- ; pauy will cut off the supply between ; sunrise and sunset, and the directors • st»te that tlipy may'liaTe to' call on , the public to forego the use of gas . altogether in order to maintain,street 1 lighting during the strike,' ~ I A restriction has been placed on 1 thelllawarra miners in order to j prevent the intended supply of coal to ships manned with free crews. Four strikers were to-day charged 1 with breaking contracts by leaving 1 the employ of Lamb's wool store, ! and were fined £lO each and costs, or in default fourteen days' imprisonI ment, The men had been receiving ! £8 5s per week, and Is 9d per , hour I overtime. In defence the men said ' they dared not refuse the mandate 1 of tho Union, , 'At a se,esij» of the Assqojation , of colliers itwas deoitjed tq close the , mines indefinitely. 1 Messrs Dalgety and Co' have enI gaged sufficient free laborers at £8 •' 5s per week to carry/on their wool . exportation, , , -At a meeting attended-by 1500 ) employers* ajid leading business men , this affernobi)'this- fpllgwipg resoluI tiong wer§ pasged unammg'ttsly with 1 marked eottawsmi—' " That,the time had arrived when ! it j§' ajsolpely . necessary that all I o.therd(ireotly or indirectly intereblC- ; themselves into an • association for mutual defence,'' 1 " That this. meeting approves of the formation : of an Employers' Defence Comniittee of Australasia, | and' that' a committee bo,appointed to draft a scheme and'invite co--1 operation jn all colonies." i "That it is .desirable, that all ' employers noli members of the Union 1 at ence join, " and. all -interested | directly or indirectly o.alled upon to expres3 sympathy m a practical mper." y-'-'