TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3625, 27 September 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

THE POSITION IN ENGLAND. STRIKE OF COLLIERS, AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS. London, September 25. A labourer was sontenced to three months' imprisonment for thrashing dockers who refuaed to pay a 3d levy to assist the Australians, It is assorted that hundreds are being forced by means of threats to subscribe against their will, and that the banks aro refusing to transmit the money. The Amalgamated Society ol Engineers aro levying a contribution of 6d per member, which is expocted to yield £I4OO for the Australian strikers. • Tho Dockers will. romit£7Bo to Sydney' and the 'United Labour Council £4OO. A thousand labourers have struck at the Victoria Docks, claiming extra pay for handling special cargo, Vienna, September 26. An extensive strike of colliers has taken place at Ostrau, Moravia, Sydney, September 26. The Labor Conference have sent a further communication to the employers, stating that their representative position entitles tbemto act on behalf of the Unions, who are most anxious to see a settlement of the present difficulty effected, The proprietors of one of the largest stations in the colony have laid informations against 45 of their hands for leaving before their agreement was completed, Melbourne, September 26. ; The Trades Hall Strike Committee has recommended the various ocieties to levy a day's pays por ma n per week to help those who Lave been called out, The conference of owners and miners connected with the .Broken Hill silver industry have arrived, at a satisfactory settlement of-. the difficulty. Courts of arbitration are to be established to control future disputes, and work is to bo resumed in the mines as rapidly as circumstances will admit. Adelaide, September 26. The. strib of steyedpres''Ti*a"s"-not had the effect ofblocking all shipping and several vessels are nflw loading and unloading by means of free labour,