TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3624, 26 September 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

AUSTJRALIA.N AFFAIRS, . ARBITRATION CONSENTED TO. ' HEATED PARLIAMENTARY | DISCUSSION, ' (United Press Association.) 5 Sydney, September 24. [ Rapid progress is being made with ' the carting of wool down to the ships, ' and there has been no further disturbance. 1 Only a portion of tho shearers are out, and it is expected that many ' will refuse to leave work. | Melbourne, September 24. Offing to tho dearness of the coal the price of gas has risen. 1 Brisbane, 'September 24. The Central Queensland carriers have refused to strike. Adelaide, September 24. The Trades Council has notified tho Mayor that they are willing to submit the present dispute to arbitration, t London, September 23. t The Shipping Federation .is prepared to prevent the blocking ol Australian ships, 1 September 24. r The London Trade 3 Councils have d issued a manifesto declaring that the I failure of the strike in- Australia will t be the herald of the disaster al 1 Home, The Yorkshire miners vote £2OC n for Australia. 0 Adelaide, September 25. 1 ' AH the stevedores at Port Adelaide .1 have ceased work, and this has had the effect of blocking all vessels. Melbourne, September 25. The Legislative Council has passed a resolution expressing (he opinion that there is urgent necessity for a 3 speedy settlement of the labour 11 dispute. Sydney, September 25. 'i On amotion fcr the adjournment a of the House the 'labour dispute wbb '• again considered, Several discreditable scenes occurred, and the debate resolved itself into a series oi h personalities, Sir Henry Parkes ' denied the slatcmeut of the London 0 Star that he was a Chartist Trade Unionist. The trolly and draymen have n relaxed boycotting to the extent of II permitting the parcel dolivory men to 0 return to work. e The Labour Conference has written )' to the Employers' Association making 3 one more effort to obtain n conference >• and intimate that if it is not granted within a day or so tho conference t will disperse. The stage hands of Sydney and 1 Melbourne theatres have formed a Union, and affiliated with the Trades • Hall, London, September 24, John Burns says the sooner the d struggle with the combined matters begins the better, The men must win. t Firemen are being imported from e Hamburg to replace the mon who t went out at Southampton.