TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3610, 10 September 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

THE AUSTRALIAN POSITION,

A BANK RUSHED.

. • Sydney, September 0. Several officers bare offered to return to their ships unconditionally. A number of brutal assaults on free laborers aro recorded. Melbouhne, September 9,

There is» growing feeling among the Unionists that the Trade* Hall committed a grave mistake in calling the men out. Mr H. H. Champion, English labour advocate, contributes an article to the Age, in which he lays down the following principles That no trade unionist should claim the right to dictate to his employer as to whom he should employ, and should not claim the right to demand that an employer before " taking- a man on should ask if he belonqs to a Unioiij' that a non-Uriionist has' right to take work wherever : he can get it .; that no Trade Union claims:

the tight to apply force, threat or any form of persuasion any other than that permitted ty law to non-unionists. To the murine officers he girea the following connaelWrite to the Trades Hall asking that body to allow you to waive the right to combine with them, and unto your employers saying you hare done this; trust to their honour to meet you in confidence and treat yon fairly, and tell tlisrn you are willing to trust them to the extent of going back in their ships on the old terms while they consider your grievances; so givo them no chance >of delaying a settlement and tricking you, if they oare to descend tosucli taction,' Sydxey, September 9. An extraordinary run took place on the banks at Broken Hill to-dfly. For a considerable time the Banks of New South Wales and Australia were fairly besieged by depositors and others. The excitement was caused

by resolutions passed at a meeting os miners to the effect that the Mi nei Association and all kindred naaooia-

ions give the banking institutions 2

hours' notice that if they do not ul at once discontinue monetary an other support to shipowners, all syrn pathisers with labour will immediate!}

lemand gold on any notes they may

10M, and withdraw their accounts in ;old. The bank made efforts to borrow

gold from other offices which had not felt the rush so badly, but were only partly Buccesslul. The crowds kept up continual cries of " Capitalists ain't going to light us with our own money. We will hare gold, Your paper is no good, We will have gold for it." The rush ceased after a couple of hours. ' .