TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3617, 18 September 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR DIS PUTES. FIRM STAND TAKEN BY OWNERS. UNIONISM V NON-UMONISM Londok, September 16, Messrs Burt and Pickavd are arranging for a Congress in Belgium to secure the general adoption and legislation of the eight hours system, It is proposed that all the collieries in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany,'and Austria shall be laid idle if necessary to gain this end. The lock out of the P and 0 men by the Albert Dock Company is denied. Tho dockers cable .£6OO to Australia to-morrow,

Sydney, September 16. The Standard asserts that the extreme courses now being adopted by the Sydney strikers indicate that they are losing ground, The western miners are idle now.

The ballot of the railway employes was largely against going out on strike,* .

The Mayor has requested, the leaders; of tho labor party not to call out all tho .bodies,'.affiliated to the Trades apd liahoju' Council, aa proposed, The latter havo promised to givo the matter their earnest consideration,

Burns announces that the unionists will accord a hearty welcome to Fitzgerald, the delegate who is visiting England to rouse tho sympathy of the Dockers' and other unions with tho Australian strikers, . The Chronicle condemns the manifesto put out by Australian employers,

Sydney, September 15, • The Cabinet has had the serious aspeptof the strike matters under consideration, bi)t|he resujt pj their deliberations, ip. not known, Fjverv precaution to preserve order will be taken,

The owners ridicule the idea that

by calling out the affiliated trades public opinion will force thorn to give way, They state that as they were running at a loss before the strike rjq force of publio jipinlbn would induce

lemto resume under the old con-

ditions,;' Rather than bo coerced they say, they wi|l lay up their boftts, altogetherj Me various local bodies have determined that the question at next general elections shall bo unionism y! noiMiniomsra, •■■•.••

Mbmoubnh, September 17. •Tho intercolonial shipping.trado is [reatly improved, the wharves no* iisplaying much activity, : Brisbane, September 17. The Colac has arrived, and is being lischarged by free labour.