TRADE AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3632, 7 October 1890, Page 2

TRADE AND LABOR.

THE ENGLISH POSITION, LATEST AUSTRALIAN. London, October i. There is a'generalcessation pf work in thp fjofttoji iron trade owing to the roasters declining to accede to the request of tho men for eight hours per day, October 5, The Dockers Congress has resolved to. urge Pflrljamem-'tQ prevent the passage of the Foreign Contract Labor Bill, and has decided that the eight hours system is unsuitable to dock labor, though where possible it should be enforced. sYj>siiY, October 0. 'Jjhe Labor Defence Committee has now. decided to allow shearers to enter into new contracts.

The Strike Committee has decided that to be perfectly satisfactory any conference for a settlement of the (liffiflulty must be perfectly outran, njelled by conditions'.' Tj'iey decline to accept the Sydney minute until it lias" been .fully discussed by the conference,

A leading firm Ins cabled Home to ascertain- whether in view ot the difficulties in the wiy of shearing and loading wcol, arrivals after the opening of the next series of sales Will be" included. A reply has been received to the effect that there is no prospect of this being done, but if tho supply proves sma|| t])Q first series of 1891 will probacy opep earlier tlinn pa},