TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3629, 3 October 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

AUSTKALIAN COMPLI' ; CATIONS. BRITISH'AW FOREIGN. ; > ; Sydney, October 1. A wholesale prosecution of shearers for brjuches of agreement is taking* place/and in a test case at DeniliqufflJ* one of the shearers was mulcted in a fine of £10; iivaddition to costa; :.-. A; 1 large number of bases bang .on'tliis', •< deoision. " ; , v i October 2, The strike.,at. Broken .Hill is estimated to 1 have' "cost the men £50,000. v ,,. After taking legal opinion, the sbeairora have decided to contest the aotion' of the squatters refusing to pay wages 1 to the men who struok'. Manyiof the latter have gone to gaol in preference to paying the fines. Brisbane, October 1. Tlio gas workers have notified that theywill no longer contribute towards the strike levy, and intimate their intention of severing their connection from the labour federation. Twelve officers and sixtoon stewards who v left the Australian United. Steamship.. Company, have returned to their vessels uneondi* tionally, ; Melbourne, Ootobor 2. The action of Chief Justice Higiii. botham in subscribing to 1 tho i strike fund is causing a good deal of com-k ment. | Tho Argus severely - handles him, while tho. Age upholds him... ~ : London, September 80. Tho: Scotch furnacemon domanW; eight hours as a day's'labour,' The ironmasters hayo refused the request and the furnacos will stop on Saturday. Ootober 1.. The dockers at Grangemouth, a seaport town of Stirling,' Scotland, are' insisting ori a six months' agreement. Mi-Tom Mann, President, of the London Dock Labourers' Unions, has mfoi'DiGi] members that it is necessary. that those in" w,ork| should- raise the I fighting fund to i&o,'QoO,''' "