TRADES AND LABOR.
THE AUSTRALIAN POSITION. (United Press Association,) Sydney, October 7, The Labor Defence Committee has issued a statement accusing the employers of evading n conference. The manifesto assorts that no settlement call be arrived ac exOopt at an Intercolonial Conference oE both sides, Tlio refusal of tho- masters oven to meet to discuss matters can only be construed in the hope that they may crush Unionism, Hence it is necessary to resist this unwarrantable attack on tho' rights of labour, and tho Committee recommend that all Unions should direct energies to tjie collection of funds, and also actively ayail them, selves of the privileges of the francliiso to sweep monopolists and class representatives from Parliament. They accuse tho opponents of tho Labor. Party of being assisted by the Governments of at least three colonies in endeavoring to provoke broaches of the peace." A mass meeting of Western minors decided to continue the strike to the end, '. ' fifty non-Unionists were despatched toYQi'l? Colliery, but tho strikers induced Ihtra all to deoline when they reajhed the spot.
detachment of free labourers wiii cO." 1 W w ® r ' c im^er a police guard. • One resuit of the strike is that the railway reveniie is seriously affected, Thoro has hoei} a tailing off of £17,0Q0 in a'fortniglit, , . j
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3634, 9 October 1890, Page 2
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216TRADES AND LABOR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3634, 9 October 1890, Page 2
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